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hummingbirdsalt · 2 years

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Batfam as Borrowers

Because I'm always down to combine my favorite pieces of fiction with the concept of borrowers 😌 This'll just be a mess of ideas so... buckle up lol

Borrower!Bruce, like his canon counterpart, lost his parents at a young age.

There's no shortage of danger when you're only inches tall, and I kinda sway towards their death having something to do with a human. Not a deliberate act, but something unintentional and mundane, like rearranging furniture. The human doesn't even know such tiny people exist, let alone that they're in just the right spot to be crushed.

Bruce is traumatized, and left with an even greater fear of humans than his kind already has. Seeing the damage they can cause, even unintentionally, sticks with him.

Borrower!Alfred is here, too, 'cause I said so. He's been something of a neighbor, living in a different section of the house but visiting frequently. He takes Bruce under his wing after Thomas and Martha's death, and teaches him how to borrow.

The thing is, I want Bruce to be a loner for a while... we're certainly not gonna kill off Alfred, so let's just say they get separated. That's sad enough already, though it does leave a glimmer of hope that they'll see each other again.

Now alone, Bruce doesn't like to stay in one place for too long. When it comes to making a secret space for himself inside a wall/under a floorboard, it's a hideout, not a home. With his frequent moves, meeting other borrowers isn't too uncommon. He usually keeps interactions to a minimum, just giving or receiving basic info about the house and its humans.

But things change when he meets Dick. The young borrower is alone, and hurting in a way Bruce finds all too familiar. There's no way he can leave him.

The next time he goes in search of a new hideout, Dick comes along. Bruce tells himself that eventually, he'll find someone better-suited to take care of the kid. But every time they cross paths with another borrower, that initial feeling persists... he can't leave him.

He can't leave the next one either. Or the next. Or the... well, it's not like he went looking for all these kids.

I just love the idea of Tiny Tired Dad Bruce ❤️ And I'm very open to hearing thoughts about the various batkids as borrowers, because I don't claim to have in depth knowledge. Of course, there's a lot of freedom with this AU, but it's nice to integrate things from canon!

Off the top of my head, I like the idea that Dick is still something of an acrobat. For whatever reason, it's how his parents taught him to move about, and he is constantly climbing things or jumping around in such needlessly dangerous ways. Bruce gains several gray hairs just watching him.

For Jason, maybe they meet him when he tries to steal food from their stash? It's nothing malicious, just desperation from a kid who barely knows how to take from humans.

Cass is just... the Best Borrower. All of them are baffled by how well she can evade detection even in the most high-pressure, human-is-literally-one-move-from-seeing-you situations.

I realize that not every batfam member has a child/parent dynamic with Bruce, and I don't wanna change that, but it does complicate things. Like... am I gonna kill off Jim just so I can include Barbara??

Maybe 😏

sjsjdndkfgj NO. But we need the lonliness, we need the Angst. So at the very least, they've all been separated like Bruce and Alfred, and may see their loved ones again. Or you can imagine death, if you want that extra shot of pain lol

For Barbara, all I know for sure is I don't want to erase her disability. It'd be cool to see her design and create her own tools for mobility in a uniquely borrower way.

Also... Damian. Is borrower!Brutalia a thing?? Or is he adopted in this 'verse?

Either way, Damian is absolutely that borrower who carries a sewing needle/pin/whatever tiny sharp weapon is available. He is ready to stab.

Admittedly, I'm running out of steam, and my brain has yet to conjure anything specific about Duke, Steph, or Tim 😔

But no matter the specifics, or how the character dynamics exist in this world, they're undoubtedly a family. A dysfunctional, ever-growing family that Bruce does his best to lead. Sometimes he fucks up, of course, but he's fiercely protective, and all of them know that their safety is his top priority.

As the family grows, the moving becomes less frequent. It's difficult enough getting everyone to agree on finding a new place, nevermind the nightmare of packing. Plus, Bruce is pretty sure the kids are trying to wear him down.

So when they make what is likely to be their final move, they decide it ought to be a big one. In fact, they end up all the way over in Metropolis 👀

I'm gonna write a follow-up to this post some other other time, and we can talk about Clark's role in all this!

(also don't ask me how a bunch of teeny people can logically travel that far... just know my brain is rotating scenes from Mouse Movies like The Rescuers or American Tail where mice stow away on human transportation 😂)

#batman #batfam #borrowers #borrower au

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lostinfantasyworlds · 2 years

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🍁 How is your current WIP going, and can we have a sneak peek?

Aww thank you for the ask @neutronstarchild!! 🥰

So the only WIP that I'm currently working on is the epilogue for UTNL! But I don't really want to give away any spoilers for that😏, so instead I'll share a snippet from the birthday fic I wrote for @goshinote back in October, that is still very rough but will eventually be finished and posted!

It's titled The Girl at the Rock Show and the snippet is below the cut😌

Thanks again for the ask!

From the Fanfiction Ask Game

That was when Inuyasha finally turned around, only to be met with the sight of his dream girl. Pretty much every fantasy he’d ever dreamed up throughout his emo teenage years had been manifested in this one woman before him. She had long, shiny, jet-black hair that was tied up in a high ponytail, leaving choppy bangs that framed her contrastingly bright blue eyes. Her ears were lined with piercings, she wore smudgy black eyeliner, and he could see the hint of several tattoos peeking out from under her sleeves and where she had tied her black staff t-shirt at her midriff. She was not only hot as all hell, but also radiated beauty in a very specific type of way, like it came from somewhere deep inside her.

Although at that moment, she was radiating anger just as strongly.

Anger at him.

Oh, right, because he was being a dick.

“Oh, so you finally have the decency to at least look at the person you're being a jerk to?” she snapped.

Sass was just pouring off of her, and although Inuyasha briefly thought that it was an adorable look on her, he was still too pissed at the world to let that actually soften his demeanor any.

“I’m tryin' to do my job, which is to stop stupid kids from sneaking backstage and harassing the band. So if you could leave me the hell alone so that I can actually do that, that would be great.”

“Oh yeah...clearly you’re so busy," she said with a roll of her eyes. "I guess I'll just find someone else to help me...even though you’re right here. ” She stomped off, muttering, "Thanks for nothing."

“Whatever.” Inuyasha turned back.

He felt a little guilty, and almost ran after her to at least explain that he was just having the world's shittiest day, but a moment later he spotted one of the delinquent kids he had been watching out for, forcing him to step in.

Inuyasha had almost forgotten all about her by the time that Paramore took the stage several hours later. That was, until he caught sight of her hovering at the side of the stage, clearly enjoying the show as much as he was, mouthing along to the words of Misery Business with a huge grin on her face. She seemed to be trying to resist the urge to headbang, and he thought about how much of an idiot he was for fucking everything up earlier.

Feeling another shitty pang in his chest for the millionth time that day, he decided to just focus on his job and the music to try and put her out of his mind.

Unfortunately, that was not his last run-in with Kagome. Apparently, she had been hired on as some kind of event or brand coordinator or some shit. Which meant that she had to work closely with almost every aspect that went into putting a show together, including security.

He had clearly offended her so thoroughly that although she was one of the nicest people he had ever witnessed to everyone else, she immediately got a scowl on her face whenever she had to address him directly.

Inuyasha knew he should have just apologized, but secretly grew to enjoy her sassiness so much that he kept being somewhat of an asshole whenever he saw her, just to get that adorable little crinkle between her brows to form.

He knew it was wrong.

He knew he was being immature, acting like a dumb little boy pulling on a girl’s pigtail because they like them. But he never seemed to be able to help himself around her. He was used to people running in fear whenever he acted even a little bit aggressive, so the fact that she gave him as good as she got was...intriguing.

#ask #ask game #wip #girl at the rock show

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