Writing a Thavma and Billy are separate entities au and can’t stop laughing at the thought of them hunched over a table filling out tax forms and both of them are stressing
Thavma: You know, before your time, we used to kill tax collectors when they got too much
Billy, ten years old and doing taxes with elementary school math, pencil clutched in one hand: We are not doing that
So we have all seen ideas where Captain marvel gets hit by an age reversing thing right?
What if he gets hit and it just unwinds Billy
Like cap is still there, living lightning had been around forever, but Billy? The spell sent them back like 20 years, and Billy’s like 14, he didn’t exist before then!
I’m kind of just imagining this version of cap desperately trying to find a way at to reverse the effects while the league is confused at his new behaviors
Marylyn married CC when she was already pregnant, CC knew and was okay with it, they really love each other and Bruce was just an accident? I don't know.
A few years later, Ebezener tries to sell this information, someone from the Waynes or Kanes, I don't know about that side of the lore… Are the Kanes still alive? Sorry, I'm ignorant in that area. SOMEONE is going to pay him to shut up. So they sell Billy again to a bunch of bad guys who are going to sell him AGAIN to somewhere, I don't know, far away from Gotham.
Well, but Billy is kind of like "oh my Gods, why this is my life", so he uses his powers, leaves the place as Cap and, as a bonus, he even gets Ebezener's money, the one the Kanes give him to shut up.
Kate, Batwoman, finds out, tells Bruce about this whole crap situation and now Batman is opening an operation to find this secret biological son, who was apparently sold to someone, but a mysterious magical person came there and saved him and the other children who were also being trafficked, but who???
This is a very secret operation, of course, only Wonder Woman, Superman and the Batfam are there to really know the details.
Well, but one day, like, YEARS after all this suffering, because Bruce never managed to locate this secret child that he now thinks is DEAD, boom, a child shows up on a mission, 15, 16 years old maybe, the age his secret son would be… blue eyes, dark hair, pale as paper, skinny, but yeah, it's pretty obvious. It's something immediate, but before he can say anything, someone else shows up, hugging the kid and saying that he was really worried.
Yeah, guys, Cap and Billy got separate cliche, but well, the JL, needed help, so they went to help them like this.
Billy is Billy, 16 year old Billy, and Marvel doesn't look like CC Batson, but rather like an adult version of Billy. Bodytpe less like Superman and more like Nightwing.
And then they introduce themselves as CAPTAIN MARVEL'S ADOPTED CHILDREN. Yes, we have Recruit (Billy) and Lightning (Thavma).
And so yes, they are helping the League, guiding them out of that evil, magical cave, and the League keeps asking questions.
Recruit, sitting on Lightning's shoulder: Uh… yeah, so, actually I… was going to… get taken by a metahuman taffricking ring, Lightning saved me and after that we really didn't want to be apart, he convinces Cap to adopt me too, and now he helps me with my magic training and everything. But I'm Lightning's… sidekick. Not Marvel's, that's why you guys and I have never really met.
Flash: Yeah, but like, even if we never met you since your hero job its not Marvel related, how come we never met Lightning? It feels like he's been a hero for a few years or more.
Lightning: I don't really like being seen. Im more of an underground hero? I want to help, but I honestly don't know how to deal with the public like Cap does. So I help in the shadows. I help, and then I'm gone. Maybe I'm more of a vigilante..? Not a hero.
And Batman's like, "I want to adopt you two now," but he's also like, "My baby found a good, powerful family, what right do I have to tell him about our kinship? What if this ruins everything for him? He's fine. He doesn't need me," but it destroys him.
He sees the way Recruit fights, remembers him of little Dick, jumping around and doing silly stunts. And his smile, so bright, so hopeful, so happy.
He hears his laugh and it calms something inside him.
"He's fine. He's happy, that's enough for me."
Billy and Cap actually take a long time to undo the magic spell that separated them, so they end up covering Marvel for other missions, and one day, Billy kind of spills the beans.
Kon: So, about your birth parents… Are they dead? Didn't they come after you were rescued from trafficking?
Recruit: Uh, so… My parents are dead, but my dad was not my biological father, or something… My shitty uncle sold that information to my bio "family", I guess, and they're super rich, so they probably didn't want me to ruin their image in high society as some bastard orphan, so they were the ones who cut me out of that circle from the start. From what I heard when I was in the ring, my... Progenitor, has a lot of bastards already, and the family was happy to be able to stop another one from coming to steal their fortune or something. assholes, I never wanted to meet them in the first place, even if my uncle had dropped me with them, I wouldn't stay, I'd rather live on the streets again.
And some of the batfam, who know all about this "he's the one" thing, are there, listening, and they already know that these words are breaking Bruce from the inside out.
Lightning: You're being mean. We don't even know if they sold you out. The… Big guy seems to like adopting and doesn't care about their background. I believe it was a decision by the old conservative family heads.
Recruit: Don't sugarcoat it for the rich, they already pay people to do it.
yeah, i know, maybe this is that "no he wouldn't do that" thing, but i wanted to write a sadder au with angst and misunderstandings and a sentimental bruce who longs to be a present father with a bonus of thavma and billy being brothers :D
Love when people ask if something Shazam related is actually cannon and half the time I just have to say:
“HA! No! We just lie. We’ve made our own canon, it gets discussed by a group of mostly non-American mostly under 30yr olds and we decide what we like best!”
Yeah sorry but noooo, that thing that every other fan is talking about? Yeah it’s not real / hasn’t been canon since the like 1970s
Little future snippet of a fic I plan to make, it’s quite a few years in the future(15ish years)
Billy pov:
I sat at the rock contemplating my entire existence, was it worth it? I’m 27 now, 17 years on the league. I hadn’t told anyone my identity, some like Constantine and and Vic figured it out for themselves but for the sake of my family, my job and my sanity I hadn’t told told anyone my identity. I’m set to inherit all of the whiz stations, Mr morris had expanded them into the motion picture world as well. I’m in college as it was Mr.morris’s only prerequisite to me becoming the owner. I decided to major in english, mostly for journalism, with a double minor in ancient history and business. Me and thavma also came up with a solid agreement years ago, he can’t interfere with Billy while in my body and he gets to control captain marvel. I’m the only inner circle justice leaguer that hasn’t revealed their identity, we’re having an eqnoix party. Diana insisted on us having Thai as a diversity inclusion event but we all know it’s an excuse for the inner circle to be sociable. Victor asked if I planned on tracking my identity as the best time would be, when everyone is relaxed and at the hall of justice during the eqnoix party. “Itty bitty! You here kid?” I heard the gruff and smoke heavy voice of Constantine shout. I stand up dusting off my legs and make my way to the hall of doors, the hall of doors is exactly what it sounds like. A massive hall filled with doors, lining on the walls and some floating. Most don’t have labels but there is a door for every universe, destination and planet I or any other previous champion has ever been. Jumping through the door labeled “hom-closet”, it’s the door to my room in the house of mystery. ‘Hey sorry I was at the rock, what’s up?’ Constaine looked up at me, “Chas wants to know if you’re open to eating at Ann’s diner tonight. I told him you’d be more that happy with that but he told me to ask” Constaine rolled his eyes, Chas and him bicker like a married couple sometimes. I chuckled, ‘yeah I’m more than okay with eating at Ann’s, just let me get my shoes and wallet.’ I shut the door, I lived with John and chas for quite a few years, though now I have my own place I still come back here sometimes. Though I would never say it out loud they’re like my parents sometimes, they understand that I don’t want to rely on them but I still need direction sometimes. As I grab my stuff and jumped down the stairs, I see Chas and John in front of the portal room. ‘Hey I’m ready! What’s the occasion for Ann’s? Not that I’m complaining but Ann’s is usually a special thing.’ They exchange a look “we’ll discuss it at Ann’s” they said in complete unison, making me a little anxious.
