Captain Marvel in Superman: The Man of Steel #10
The fanfics are coming. The fanfics are coming.
And the fanarts too.
I can feel it.
it’s very interesting to me that even in billys peak years mingling in teams during postcrisis he doesn’t necessarily have much strong reoccurring bonds with characters outside fawcett. like aside from the trinity who do crop up once in a while - not often bruce and diana even less - I think a lot of writing back then unconsciously or consciously wrote him out to be The Outlier in whatever team he’d be in. jla was that culmination of him being team friendly, where everybody listened to him but only because he brought things to the table that were clearly different from what others were experiencing. and jsa was a step deeper and further at the same time bc of courtney and adam’s role in the team. he was the one set aside there too, something clearly temporary like a bodyguard/limited time role, and even the courtney arc didn’t ground him like how that normally would for a char. jli, like the og jli, he was … well if we took that spot for him seriously he also wasn’t ever fully dissolved into that team either, seemingly of his own rejection of assimilating.
cap marvel was in every event and crisis. everybody knows him, likes him. he’s been on nearly every team. it’s just very noticeable and telling to me that after all this, ALL of it, there’s no ties that bind him to really any dc char as strongly as many established characters have with each other a la teen titans or trinity or even just basic “x hero is known to be best friends/relies on with y hero for a period in their comic history”. I don’t think i can name even one outstanding, consistent relationship like that? and obvs aside from clark bc dc’s inevitable comparison games w them complicates how organic their bond can get to me. just. ok. even if cap marvel has his family freddy for most of his appearances in postcrisis was actively establishing his own existence as an individual hero in other teams and outside of their own comics you never saw mary and billy teaming up during many crises. in this case and maybe all of it is a writing gap at best.
but altogether the full read is just. cap marvel/billy is meant to be unable to really connect fully with other people on this plane, possibly because he’s been relegated to this “bridge between worlds” role which also means he’s 50% here and 50% gone, which notoriously is a bad sign for fully integrating into a single world. rmr in kingdom come when supes said “More than anyone who ever existed, you know what it’s like to live in both worlds.” @ billy? i feel that comes at the cost of being able to connect with anyone fully and wholly then, in either of his forms. which hurts im sure, since connections are all he ever wants. he’ll just never get it the way he imagines.
As promised, here goes another take on what would happen if Captain Marvel took Superboy under his wing when Superman chickened out in the first season of Young Justice.
A little sentimental gap before starting with the events of the series. Because, oh yeah, there's so much to come for these two and how they will deal with their heroic lives while dealing with domestic stuff as a weird little family.
His vision blurred, and something wet rolled down his cheeks. Surprised, he brought one of his hands to his face and could feel more of those drops coming out of his eyes.
"Wha–..what is this stuff?" his voice began to tremble. He rubbed his face with the back of his hand, but more drops kept falling, wetting his cheeks. 'Tears,' his brain informed him. 'He is crying.' "W-Why didn't it stop?" he managed to articulate; they needed to stop.
The new Superman can't cry; he can't cry.
I love @helps-the-writing-brain-go Captain Marvel adopts Superboy AU and seems as nobody wrote something about it I jump to the challenge!
Hope you like it!
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Justice League (1987) #2
Sometimes I forget that these bitches can jump like 50ft in the air.
Because of all you want it, here it is!
A call from a Justice League colleague brought Batman to find a new family member. A raven blue-eyed orphan kid with the surname Batson.
Like, what are the chances right?
Meanwhile, forced to abandon his superhero career due to severe injuries, Billy Batson is drawn into a family drama that needs his intervention to heal before it's too late.
What madness!
Continuation of "Train Wreck"
Hamilton (with Fenton’s face): Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
Gyro: .....
Ammmm. I think I have to explain this. Is an Au I’m working on lately.
Ok, this Au is based on the “Timephoon!” Episode.
I don’t want to spoil so many things so, sorry if I am being vague on the description but I really want to do this and that you have intrigue on this one. Xd