Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
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/ Rebecca 'Dixie' Grayson - 1
For Dixie, it starts out because Batman isn’t good enough. Batman can’t give her what she truly needs-revenge. So when the Joker finds her, shivering and alone in this alley, still splattered with her parents’ blood, he sees it as a marvelous opportunity and pounces upon it. Dixie looks up from behind black bangs and into the oil-slick eyes of Jack Napier and accepts the terms and conditions.
‘I can make everything better, my sweet.’
Dixie offers him her hand, lathers her face in thick makeup and wicked scars, and adorns a newer, better personality.
‘I know you can.’ The next day, Tony Zucco and the rest of his mob are discovered dead ( ... )
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/ Willow West - 1
For Will, it starts because she isn’t good enough. And neither are her parents. When lightning strikes, it strikes fast and hard and leaves nothing behind but a girl and a sizzling, burnt house with shriveled, disgusting corpses staining the charcoal colored carpet. She is lucky-Zoom finds her before Barry ever can, so she is safe, and warm, and protected.
‘You’re safe now, beautiful. No one will ever hurt you again.’
She dons the costume on the Thursday and never takes it off again, not really. Inertia runs around Central City with Professor Zoom for the first time and Will thinks that the saddest thing of this whole story is that her own uncle does not recognize her.
It hurts, but Zoom says it will go away. The feelings, he says, will fade. They always do.
‘I don’t want to kill him.’
She has nightmares about it more often than not-of her parents’ cadavers, with their black skin and black blood (stained with ash, her mind tells her), and of the smell (soot and ( ... )
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It would be nice to know where you plan to finish this fill though (this thread or the old one) since I have to record it?
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/ Kalda’ahm - 1
Black Manta finds his daughter, his precious baby girl, floating around, unconscious and left for dead. He takes her in and rises her up, makes her better. More like him. He erases the silly things, of course, like disobedience and morals and she is perfect. He is so proud.
Kalda is a wonderful warrior, all elegance and grace on the field, taking down her opponents with the quick flick of a wrist. She never second-guesses him, never once dreams about a better way of living, and he loves her for it.
She is flawless and delightful, so Manta allows her one wish of going to the surface and being a warrior-a true warrior-there.
In his bedroom, beside his beautiful wife, King Orin feels guilt tingle up his spine, travel up to his neck and shock his eyes open. He breathes heavily and wonders,
‘What have I done?’
But does not know why.
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/ Apollo Crock - 1
Huntress flits through the streets of Star City, keeping a close eye on her younger son as he takes out the target. He is almost exactly like his father-strong, swift, dangerous-but also like his brother-seductive, snarky, delicate-and she loves him for it. Loves him far more than she could ever love Lawrence or Jade.
Of course, that doesn’t stop her from ignoring the quiet whimpers at night, the telltale sound of Sportsmaster’s whip swishing through the air and cracking, sharp and awful, on Apollo’s broken skin.
She disregards the gentle groans as Sportsmaster slides in and out, in and out, punishing and rewarding all at once, making poor Apollo loathe himself. But, as much as it kills her, Paula simply listens, pretending it’s a nightmare (or a dream, Lawrence whispers in her ear), because Jade went through the same thing and came out so strongShe’s only looking out for her little boy, after all ( ... )
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/ M’rgann M’orzz - 1
M’rgann is on Earth now, so he adopts an Earth name-Morgan, because it sound right, because it tastes so good on his tongue-and an Earthly form-a male, because males are stronger and more useful, because he saw one on that television show that his uncle sent him, and because he could be something as a male. He follows his uncle around for a while, going unnoticed in light of other, more important events, but grows bored.
Morgan is so lonely here (like he was on Mars, though, how is this any different? Even with twelve brothers, you can be so alone…) without anyone in his mind, and it drives him madmadmad. He wants to let go. So he does.
He releases his mind with a terrible scream in the middle of a desert, and collapses because no one is answering. That is how Psimon finds him, writhing in the dust and dirt, shuddering between his awful Martian form and his ( ... )
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Rae Harper is a good girl. Sportsmaster finds her, 14 years old (still older than Apollo, Paula reminds herself), picking out of Oliver Queen’s trash. He thinks that is so funny that he takes the tough redheaded girl home right away and tests her. Rae Harper passes all the tests, much to Apollo’s dismay. Now Sportsmaster has someone else to dote upon. Jade, in all of his usual weird creepiness, asks his father if he can have Rae, and, of course, Lawrence says yes.
Jade takes her into his room that night and Paula sleeps soundly because Lawrence is in the bed next to her and Apollo is locked safely in his room.
Rae Harper becomes a permanent part of their family, donning the name Red Arrow and abandoning the one ‘Speedy,’ which she claims Green Arrow gave her when they last fought. Sportsmaster approves.
So does Jade.
Rae hates herself-hates her stupid adoptive father who couldn’t deal with her heroin addiction, hates her fucking skills with the bow and arrow, but most of all hates her own vulnerability that ( ... )
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I love this AU.
Just saying.
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/ Willow West - 2
It is by chance that Will (Inertia.WillowWest.Inertia) comes across Giggles. They hit it off right away.
In order to escape the police, and possibly the Flash (Uncle Barry?), she races to Gotham, purposely getting lost in the winding alleys. Shadows leap at her,
They smell
but she is not scared because she knows that the shadows are the safest place to hide. Even in her bright costume, she knows that. Will stumbles once, and stutters to a stop, a gaze pricking the back of her head like
of summertime
a needle. Inertia glances around, perpetually smiling in the wake of a superb sprint across cities, across states. She does not notice the perpetrator until she reveals herself.
Will has heard of Giggles. Giggles has heard of Inertia. They stare at each other.
“Um,” Will starts, awkwardly tugging on a strand of bright red hair, “Hi?”
Giggles is still looking at her, face masked under layers of makeup, the ( ... )
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I know I said it before, but I love this AU. You have no idea how much I love this AU, and now I love it even more because I love these two and... I don't remember the last time I was unable to write anything at all. Oh man. I'm sorry for being so incoherent. This is amazing.
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