Phil had even mentioned the coincidence before, to Techno, joking that he better dye his hair before someone mistook him for the Blood God. Pink hair wasn't exactly grounds for arrest, but they had similar body types, and underneath the teasing, there had been a true streak of anxiety about Techno's safety.
God- he'd been worried about Techno-
He shouldn't have come home. He really, really shouldn't have-
He should've gone straight to Captain Puffy when he recognised the tattoo on the Blood God's back, after Ender had managed to slice through part of it. She would know what to do - more than a twenty two year old college dropout would, anyway - she would've helped.
And now it was just him and the guy who tried to kill him twice a week, putting away groceries in silence.
aaaand that folks, is back to your regularly scheduled block men!
I recently read your post about Skizz being hard to make a Villan and would love to hear your oppinion on my personal twist in an superhero AU.
Skizz wantes to be a Hero when he was young, its his biggest dream. So, he trains with Impulse so they can become Heros together.
Sadly though he doesn't have a power they necessarly want, with some very minor healing that seems to weaken him everytime he uses it.
So when he applies, now Impulses fiance, he gets rejected, but catches wind of the goverments plans to pull the superpowers from Villans after using a certain drug on them. That prozess would very much so kill whoever goes through it. Expacally those who only gain a power after using said drug.
When he comes home that day, not knowing what to do- the "cleaning squad" of the goverment (state sponsored assassins) attack his and Impulses flat with the intentions to kill him.
Thing is, Skizz's powers aren't only simple healing. They work a lot like Morias kit from overwatch, in the sense that he can steal energy from himself, objects or people and use it to heal himself, objects or people. He cant give or take to much because both would end in death for him.
So technically a trade of (life)energy.
With the assassins burning down the building, the Heros only manage to safe Impulse from their flat. Who is, suprisingly entierly unharmed! (Cause skizz healed him with his own and the energie of the fire)
Impy then becomes a hero to honor Skizz, thinking the other us dead- while Skizz heals up and becomes a vigilante.
:3
I like it! get weird with it, see where it goes. There's all sorts of things you can do with 'one thinks the other is dead' and the energy leeching/transferrence has such potential.
Superhero/supervillain AU where Jeremy’s power is shapeshitfing something along the lines of Mystique.
Pair that with his incredible ability to mislead/lie/etc., and there’s an amazing AU of superhero!Jeremy who is recruited by government agencies/superhero teams for undercover work and so on.
Spends 99% of his adult career in the superhero field as someone else - guy has henchpersoned for the most vile superheros on Earth (and other worlds, because why not) and all that?
Maybe his bosses take advantage of his skills/abilities - God knows younger Jeremy wasn’t super bright - and maybe he’s responsible for a few injustices. (Wrongfully convicted people that begged him to think about what he was doing and he just thought they were trying to flip him?)
And you know at some point one of his bosses is sekritly a baddie and frames Jeremy for some horrendous incident.
A bus of nuns chaperoning orphans on their way to adopt kittens and puppies rescued from breeding mills that featured in a news segment with Sarah McLachlan in the background because someone on the news crew forgot to put their phone on silent and it’s their ringtone because they love sadness or some shit, idk, but it makes Jeremy look awful, okay?
He has to go on the run and the only one he can turn to is, you know, this supervillain type in Ryan?
Former superhero0ish government agent/whatever Jeremy was who got burned the same way and fakes his death to come back as a masked supervillain.
He was supposed to be Jeremy’s next assignment but Ryan got a new head henchperson in Gavin instead, and just.
Yes.
The three of them working together to expose the baddie who framed Jeremy because common enemy/goals?
And Jeremy realizing how he’s been used all this time.
Ryan is like.
Obviously doesn’t trust Jeremy, but he knows what it’s like to be in his position? But he can’t go easy on Jeremy so he and Gavin basically haze him?
Send him off to do the grunt work when something like that needs doing. (Lol at him over the cameras they’ve got watching him as he has to slog through the sewers looking for an entrance to some facility or other they plan to infiltrate. One not on the blueprints - and doesn’t actually exist because someone gave them bad intel and the knew that? But they don’t let Jeremy in on it until he returns to the base/lair and is like no success, guys.
AND.
Sparring sessions with Gavin on the sidelines on his laptop or whatever and Jeremy and Ryan really going at it?
Ryan intentionally provoking Jeremy, needling him about all his past missions and how many times did he do the baddie’s dirty work for him? How many lives has he ruined and so on until Jeremy mcfreaking snaps.
Has been trying not to think about that until they stop the baddie and he can wallow all he wants? But Ryan won’t let him.
Ryan totally lets Jeremy pin him, this close to actually killing him in his anger?
But then Gavin’s there, calm and cold and ruthless with this knife or what have you at Jeremy’s throat and a polite, “Perhaps you should rethink things, Jeremy,” or “I don’t think so,” or something else super cool sounding my brain won’t cough up right now, but like.
The first time Jeremy sees Gavin as the threat he is and not just this somewhat bumbling henchperson?
Also.
He looks at Ryan and the isn’t gloating like he thought he would be? Hes just. Got this look on his face that’s a bit satisfied because you know the same thing happened to Ryan before, something that made him take a good long look at his life and the things he’d done thinking he was in the right and just, idk.
Then that whole sequence of Jeremy really re-evaluating his life up to that point. All the shit he did as a government agent/superhero/??? and how everything went wrong when he was framed.
Even the way he’d been looking at Ryan and Jeremy as temporary allies, useful in the moment but no real reason to give a fuck about them once everything was over? (Except there was this part of him that had grown to like them, even if they were bastards to him at first?)
While this is going on one of his old bosses finds him and offers him a deal - help them put a stop to the baddie and they can clear his name. Reinstate him, promote him, whatever, because they’re desperate and think Jeremy’s just going to fall in line that easily now. (Oh, and when Jeremy mentions Ryan and Gavin he’s told they have to be stopped as well because supervillains??? Duh, Jeremy.)
Anyway, Jeremy tells them he’ll think about it and goes back to the base/lair.
Ryan has this look on his face like he knows something happened, but he doesn’t mention it. Turns back to Gavin who’s briefing him - and other henchpersons - about some new intel they got while Jeremy was gone.
Gavin glances at him, and Jeremy has the feeling he knows something is up too, but like Ryan doesn’t bring it up.
This intel that will help them get the baddie for sure this time and everyone works on some plan to that end.
Jeremy feeling guilty as hell the whole time because on one hand he could have his life back, get a damn promotion he should have gotten ages ago in the bargain and all that?
And all he has to do is betray Ryan and Gavin and the others who took him in when his life got all fucked up.
He keeps getting these looks from Ryan and Gavin - and like. Other henchpersons, but no one says anything.
The sparring sessions and whatnot continue and one day Jeremy’s like oh, fuck me, because Ryan and Gavin are going at it in the training room, right?
All Ryan’s power and strength up against Gavin’s speed and agility and it’s the cliche of it looking like they’re dancing rather than fighting?
Because, look.
There’s probably some history between them too, you know?
Former agent/superhero Ryan and this absolutel fucking bastard in Gavin who’s some internationally renowned thief/assassin and their flirty/sexual tension-filled encounters over the years?
Gavin being the one to help Ryan when he was betrayed by his bosses/whatever and all this trust and the whatnot, and of course they know one another’s fighting style forwards and backwards and all that.
Anyway.
They’re having a fucking blast, trading quips and pithy one-liners and it’s like. Jeremy doesn’t even know because it goes so far beyond the oh, no, he/they’re hot thing into something completely else.
And then!
The day of the Final Battle and the three of them at the forefront and Jeremy being forced to choose between getting his old life back, or....not.
Baddie’s been stopped/killed by his own hand because of course, and now it’s this one last choice on Jeremy’s part.
Ryan took a bad hit in the fight and Gavin protecting him with his body and -
He’s not even giving Jeremy a pleading look, with Jeremy standing there and choice to save them or destroy them in the pal of his hand (to be all fricking poetic about it), no.
He’s just watching Jeremy like hey, no, he gets it, he does, and also after all this, what’s your decision gong be, hmm? like he’s expecting Jeremy to betray them.
So of course Jeremy gets angry, fucking pissed, because he didn’t do all this personal growth shit for nothing, you know?
Turns his back on the people who went to him for help, expected him to fall in line like a good little sheep or whatever and tells them to fuck off.
Causes a distraction and calls in some of the henchpersons for a emergency exctraction and they hightail it to a sekrit bunker or whatever Ryan ha set up somewhere.
Jeremy sticks around long enough to make sure everyone’s going to be okay and then gets the hell out of there. (Guilty as hell and thinking he’s more than worn out his his welcome with Ryan and Gavin and it’s just better this way?)
Roams aimlessly around for a bit, does acts of superheroism and whatnot when he runs into a bad situation and then moves on.
And then, of course, there’s this time he superheroes his little heart out abd gets abducted by these henchpersons?
Doesn’t know who they work for because nondescript clothing/armor, and gets taken to some base/lair and put into your standard interrogation scene?
Uncooperative as hell with the asshole using the voice modulator asking him all these questions? (Kind of thinks this is it, this is how he dies in some assholes hidden base/lair/bunker like a loser.)
But then!
One of Jeremy’s answers is just an incredibly creative way to tell someone to fuck off an die? And the asshole with the voice modulator fucking loses it, starts laughing like an asshole and the modulator gets turned off or something because after a moment Jeremy recognizes the laughter.
Fucking Gavin.
Wheezing and squeaking until he turns the PA or whatever off, and the enforce type in the room with Jeremy sighs.
Looks up at the observation window that goes does cool high-tech shit to go from foggy white/reflective mirror to see-through glass and Gavin waves down at them, stupid grin on his face and still laughing.
The enforcer type sighs again and reaches up to pull off the mask/helmet/whatever and of fucking course it’s Ryan.
Him and Gavin looking all over the damn place for Jeremy all this time.
Well, okay. They gave him a few months to get his shit together, but when he just went on with his moping and it stopped being productive/whatever, they decided enough was enough.
Which is how they got to this little point in time.
Ryan sits down across from Jeremy and just. Looks at him.
Jeremy who hasn’t been taking the best care of himself and all that and just.
“You’re an idiot.”
Which Jeremy knows full well?
Doesn’t get the feeling Ryan and Gavin are going to kill him, because nah, but. There’s probably some yelling in his future.
Which, yes?
But also smooches.
First though, long involved talk. Awkward flirting with Jeremy - fucking finally - realizing Ryan and Gavin are all oh, no, he’s hot about him and have been for a while. Didn’t do anything about it before now, because no way to know if he’d turn on them or not, and best not to complicate things further?
Once Jeremy picked them/their side over getting his old life back they thought it might be okay to test the waters and see if he was likewise interested in them?
But then he ran, and they were like, well okay, thinking that was as good as an answer? (And then they found out he was just. Getting himself in deeper and deeper in all the moping and going nowhere good, and just. Yeah.)
But now!
Awkward flirting and awkward dates and someone being daring enough to kiss someone goodnight on the cheek and all the dumb idiots in love shit I love.
And then the smooches and the whatnot.
Also the three of them being ~supervillains and the whatnot, because yes.
My fic sweet spots for this trope/AU: protective or reserved Dean/Jensen + vulnerable or open-hearted Sam/Jared. Also them just bein’ bamfs together
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✧Category: Jared/Jensen RPS✧
The Extraordinary Experiences of an Unusual Sidekick In the City by truelyesoteric. Rated NC-17, Jared/Jensen, 44k words. Summary: Jared Padalecki, Class Two Superhero, has lived his entire life in his small town. Another disappointing Superboyfriend is the kick that he needs to get out. He arrives in the City, expecting to be overwhelmed, instead it seems that he finds everything that he has always been looking for.
ao3.org/works/855969
my thoughts: I remember talking to friends about this story and especially its charming and totally-unique-for-superhero-tropes premise. Sometimes it really blows my mind how in mainstream tv & film, love is always thrown in to apocalypse & superhero action like an afterthought when the story could be so much better if the creators could shamelessly acknowledge the action and adventure’s to showcase love. I could go on forever about this but this fic in particular really had me thinking about this. That is to say I read this story and thought it was easily better than most mainstream action superhero stories on film & tv.
Superheroes Suck, or, The Unfortunately Extraordinary Life of Jensen Ackles by cleflink. NC-17, Jared/Jensen, 33k words. Summary: Jensen hates superheroes. Having grown up with not one, but two of them in the family, he’s more than aware of just how much having a spandex-clad alter ego can cock up the rest of your life. Luckily, his own powers tend towards the more passive, hippie florist side of things which - while embarrassing - means that all that superhero crap is someone else’s problem. Or it would, if not for the frequent interference of superhero-obsessed friends, hostage situations, hotshot new superheroes and irritating relatives. Not to mention a boyfriend who has the uncanny ability to go missing whenever bad things are going down somewhere else in the city. Sometimes, Jensen’s life is kind of bullshit.
ao3.org/works/468711
my thoughts: Such a fun and brilliant read. Cleflink never fails, honestly. The woman’s got a fantastic imagination.
Hecate's Children by paleogymnast. Rated R, Jensen/Jared, 50k words. Summary: In the early 2020s, in a world already filled with turmoil and uncertainty, Homo sapiens variens emerged on the scene. Denoted by their distinctive markings, these telepaths, telekinetics, truthsayers, timewinders and other mutants exhibited powers that seemed straight out of comic books, and had the potential to do both great and terrible things. Unfortunately, they became a universal target for fear and hatred. Fifty years later, mutants are hunted, persecuted across a fractured, post-apocalyptic landscape. A decade ago, the last mutant safe haven in North America was wiped out by the Variant Affairs Commission. Now Jared Padalecki, newly promoted VAC agent, and Jensen Ackles, former mutant freedom fighter, must work together to unravel the mystery of what happened to Haven before VAC exercises a final strike to end mutants for good.
ao3.org/works/24931969
my thoughts: This story was so exciting. The world-build and scope absolutely tremendous. In the beginning, I adored all the undercover work and subterfuge. I ate up all that revealed-identities drama, oh boy. I also adored the imagery of the mutants’ true selves. The mystery about Haven unfolded with such fantastic pace that proved so relevant to the rest of the story. The connection that developed between Jared and Jensen was great. Man, what a suspenseful, action-packed story!
Into the Light of the Dark Black Night by dugindeep (hotsauce). Rated NC-17, Jared/Jensen, 31k words. Summary : In the twenty-second century, Chicago still stands as the Second City, but much of it has crumbled under the weight of a changed world. Failed industries and a changing climate have led to ruin, and half the city—and Earth—is not what was once promised: a strong, sustainable future. Jared has been consumed with knowing all he could about the Black Falcon for years, and is fascinated by the winged creature that once stood as the city’s saving grace. On a stormy night, Jared is spared from death by who he swears is the Black Falcon, and is spurred to track him down. There’s more to the Falcon’s story, and Jared finds himself in greater trouble than a tragic car wreck. Jared’s modern fairytale unravels on a dark and dirty backdrop, but there’s still a damsel in distress and a (super)hero who will need saving.
ao3.org/works/1914321
my thoughts: This story kept reeling me in. I loved the dark tone and the mutual and equal need for each other in different ways that develops between the characters.
The Frozen Ocean by kelleigh (girlfromcarolina) (AO3). Rated NC-17, Jared/Jensen, 50k. Summary: Three years ago, the world lost one of its heroes. Jensen Ackles, known to most as ‘Reactor,’ gave his life to save thousands, perhaps even to save our way of life. Jared Padalecki was there that day, amidst the ruin and rubble of battle, holding Jensen in his arms as he died. In the aftermath, as society mourned the loss of their superhero, Jared buried his husband on a quiet Texas hillside. Now, Jared’s living as a shadow of his former self, unable to move beyond his loss, when the arrival of a strange object from deep in outer space sets in motion a series of events that challenges everything Jared thought he knew about Jensen’s past and hoped for their future. From old friends showing up at his door in Vancouver to a secret military base in the middle of Texas, Jared will go and risk everything, including his own sanity, to get Jensen back. But is Jensen still the same man he loved for so long, or will Jared lose him all over again? This time, the battle isn’t about saving the world - it’s about saving what they had. Featuring art by Quickreaver. Written for the 2018 Round of SPN J2 Big Bang.
ao3.org/works/15282537
my thoughts: This fic has so much fic in it! Oh my gosh, the suspense to get a reunion scene is unbeatable and then the sex scenes are soooo expertly written. I don’t even like most sex scenes - often I skip them - but these ones are so loving and yet hot at the same time. A+++
The Last Light I See by pennydrdful. Rated R, Jared/Jensen, 26k words. Summary: When Jensen wakes up in the hospital, he wakes up confused and alone. There's no family or friends worrying over his bedside, no cards or flowers. The doctor quietly informs him of three things: his name, that he was beaten and mugged, and that he's tested positive for Super. On the long road of recovery from a brutal attack, Jensen slowly starts to piece together what kind of man he was, the kind he wants to be, and why the tall, ridiculously gorgeous gardener seems to hate his guts.
ao3.org/works/5007877
my thoughts: The summary alone is so eye-catching, right? Amnesiac super with an angry gardener?! What?! Well newsflash: it’s 100% worth finding out.
The Gifted by morrezela (AO3). Rated R, Jared/Jensen, 17k words. Summary: Jensen is one of the ‘gifted.’ Most of the world doesn’t know that his kind exists because the government hunts them down and takes them to a training facility. He’s treated well, but even a gilded cage is still a cage. Just ask the feral murderer that lives at the edge of the compound.
ao3.org/works/1173909
my thoughts: I distinctly remember feeling for poor “feral" Jared, lol. This was a great story, definitely worth a read!
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Lover AU Submitted by: cmoon-rabbit4
AU/Prompt? Meh. Superhero / Villain AU/Prompt.
A crazed new Big Bad (lol, kudos if you know reference) arrives to the (town/city), stirring up trouble. This Big Bad is a villain that preys on both their opposite side and their own, using the power of love! The (town/city)’s resident villain doesn’t like this newcomer much, despises them, really. What a marvelous coincidence that, just as well, this newcomer knows the (town/city)’s hero that tends to foil the villain’s schemes every other week day (and on some weekends, too)! Both despise this crazed matchmaker villain(ess), and want them gone. Working together, do they also find they work well as a team, but they choose to not acknowledge that for multiple reasons. The Matchmaker uses their power on 1) the hero, causing them to fall in “love” with the villain, slowly turning the hero negative as the hero’s heart can’t take loving a person they both can’t have and knows is more likely to reject them than anything else, or 2) the villain, causing the villain to fall in “love” with the hero, making the villain borderline yandere-ish, violent to those that threaten their desire (so, bad for Matchmaking villain(ess)), and making the villain protective over the hero, too. In the end, either choice, the hero and villain both overcome the matchmaking villain(ess)’s power and put them into lock up with their power to manipulate a person’s love repressed.
Ending 1: the hero and villain contemplate their working together and how they were with one another when the (hero/villain) went under the Matchmaker’s power. They decide to see how it would go without a psychotic romantic interfering, having some difficulties along the way but ultimately both ending up happy with one another.
Ending 2: the hero and villain choose never to speak of their working together again, and especially, of what the Matchmaker did to them. So, sexual tension runs high up until somebody points it out that they should just get it done with one another or else the hero’s likely to lose their mind and the villain is likely to gone sane since they must have already lost theirs a long time ago in order to come up with the schemes that they do.
Can I request AUs for teenagers with powers/magic who band together to become superheroes? Thank you.
sure!! :D ((just to let everyone know, most of these can probably easily be turned into ot+ prompts as well))
I know we’re all a team to save this place but I swEAR TO GOD STOP QUOTING/COMPARING US TO THE AVENGERS
no. we’re not calling ourselves the x-men. just no, okay? it’s probably copyrighted.
same for justice league, don’t even try buddy. no, league of justice doesn’t count!!!!
okay so we all got our powers from that big accident, and obviously so did the villains. does anybody remember who else was there so we can figure out who and/or how many we’re dealing with?
bonus if one or more of the villains gets included into the otp/ot+
woah woah woah I thought we were the GOOD GUYS I didn’t sign up for this
so each of us has an element? that’s pretty coo- DONT YOU DARE START QUOTING AVATAR. IM WATCHING YOU
“even if we find a boy trapped in an iceball?” EVEN IF WE FIND A BOY TRAPPED IN AN ICEBALL
“that’s modern zuko” I SWEAR TO GOD
you know what? I quit. I’m done. I have finals coming up, I don’t have time for this. Do whatever you want, I don’t care anymore
“why does it feel like you’re purposefully trying to lose” I DONT WANNA TAKE MY EXAMS OKAY JUST K I L L ME ALREADY you don’t even have to kill me just like, put me in a temporary coma or SOMETHING
I don’t even know how to drive yet!!!!! Why am I flying!?!?!?!?!?????
“Why don’t you just tell him again?” Jason asked calmly, theglare of the computer screen shinning on his glasses. Will had the primordialurge to rip them off his face and throw them against the wall. The heat growingin his clenched hands kept him from throwing any punches though, insteadforcing him to stop his pacing and take a deep breath to try and calm himself.Jason swiveled his chair around the same time Will reached ten in his mind,counting to try and dissipate his anger. This was why he was the sidekick andnot the hero. He had quick emotions. “You’re blowing this way out of proportion.Just tell him. Nico’s not going to hate you.”
“Yeah?” Will asked, suddenly feeling defensive. Who wasJason to lecture him about telling Nico something when he wouldn’t even tellWill why Nico wouldn’t talk about Jason? “When are you going to stop dancingaround the truth of what happened between you and Nico?”
Jason frowned, and Will could tell he was reaching the endof the candle wick that was Jason’s patience. It didn’t happen often, but whenit sparked, it was enough to burn down the whole house. Will shuddered at thememory of the last time Jason had lost his patience with someone.
“How can you beperfectly calm about this?!” Jason was shouting. That was indicator enough forWill to not enter the kitchen for the piece of cake he had been craving. Still,he was interested in what had caused Jason to blow his lid. It didn’t happenoften. “Because of you, his sister is dead!”
“What do you want meto do, Jason? I couldn’t tell her not to go. You knew Bianca, no one could stopher from doing what she wanted.”
“She was twelve! And nowyou’ve left her brother alone. He has no powers. We can’t keep him here. What doyou suggest we do with him?” Jason had been fighting with Percy, anotherSuper that lived in the house with them. Percy was the oldest and the mostskilled, though Jason could give him a run for his money. It was fascinating towatch the two of them work together, and horrifying to watch them go at eachother.
“Send him to hisfather.” Percy had protested.
“You, of all people! Iexpect you to understand-”
That was when Annabeth had found him and given him a sourlook until Will slinked off back to his bedroom, his mind reeling with what hehad just heard.
“You know that we can’t just go around spilling other’ssecrets for them.” Jason’s voice brought Will back to the present. He soundedtired as he rubbed his face, and in that moment he looked so much older thantwenty-four. Will felt himself deflating.
“I know. I’m sorry. I just- I really like Nico, but I don’t wanthis past to stop our future. I know that sounds selfish, but if you two havebad blood with each other, that’s going to make it hard for us.” Will knew hesounded whiny, but he was being honest, and that was how he honestly felt.
Jason laughed, but it was without humor. “It’s not me thathe has bad blood with.” Will got a feeling that Jason was going to tell himsomething that would help him unravel the whole mess that he was in. BetweenNico’s secrets and Jason’s secrets and his own, someone could weave a whole webfrom the red strings. “I know you remember that fight I got into with Percy allthose years ago,” Will nodded, watching Jason closely. He didn’t want to missanything. “That was because,” he paused for a moment, “Percy killed Nico’ssister.”
