DPP: Pilots As Superheroes!
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no_takebacksWe've imagined pilots a ton of different ways in AUs, but today I want us to try out a new way (or maybe not even that new, but certainly worth revisiting): Pilots as Superheroes!
I mean, don't they look iconic and superheroic here:
So what would they be like as superheroes, Shipper Nation? Any theories about what superpowers they'd have? Or how they came by them/origin stories? Or how they ended up working together in the first place (cause the only thing better than a superhero is a superhero team)
(And of course, the evils they'd have to face/conquer, because what is a superhero without those? The same goes for their costumes - what would you have them wear when they're in save-the-world mode? Catsuits? Capes?)
Any ideas, people? Put them in the comments! (along with fic, fic recs, gifs, manips, what have you)
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rachelindeed has written this AWESOME pilots crossover with the Batman 'verse in the comments here, everyone should read it!)
I mean, don't they look iconic and superheroic here:
So what would they be like as superheroes, Shipper Nation? Any theories about what superpowers they'd have? Or how they came by them/origin stories? Or how they ended up working together in the first place (cause the only thing better than a superhero is a superhero team)
(And of course, the evils they'd have to face/conquer, because what is a superhero without those? The same goes for their costumes - what would you have them wear when they're in save-the-world mode? Catsuits? Capes?)
Any ideas, people? Put them in the comments! (along with fic, fic recs, gifs, manips, what have you)
(edit:
rachelindeed has written this AWESOME pilots crossover with the Batman 'verse in the comments here, everyone should read it!)
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Batman fic amnesty: background
Date: 2012-09-26 06:23 pm (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty: background
Date: 2012-09-26 07:19 pm (UTC)Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-26 06:26 pm (UTC)He remembered when Lee’s hands had been so small.
Lee’s head drifted slowly to one side, his mouth contorting a bit. His forehead contracted, pain lines marking the return of consciousness. He let out a low groan.
“You’re all right, son,” Batman said, raising his head and looking down to meet Lee’s eyes as they opened.
Lee blinked groggily at him. “Son?” he echoed. “I must have cut it close this time.”
The pocked, scarred jaw under Batman’s mask tightened. “You’re always asking more of me, Lee. But whenever I try to give, you won’t take.” He pulled back and started to stand.
With an uncoordinated swipe, Lee fumbled to catch his arm. “I’m sorry.”
“Not sorry enough. I told you to stay out of this town and out of that batsuit.”
“I don’t take orders from you anymore.”
“You don’t belong on the streets, and I was a fool ever to have put you there. Next time you decide to get yourself killed, I might not be around to save you.”
“I didn’t need you to save me, The Huntress was doing just fine. So don’t do me any favors…”
“Shut your yaps, the both of you!” Tigh swept in from the Batcave’s stairwell, his tie and jacket missing, spots of blood edging his shirt cuff. “I swear, I can’t leave you alone for two minutes. Bill, go get out of that costume right now, I’m not gonna deal with you until you look like a human being. Lee, lie down and calm down, because I’ve patched you up for the last time tonight. If you do any more damage to yourself you can bloody well sit there and suffer, ‘cause I’m done with pampering your ass. Move!”
Tigh checked Lee’s IV while Bill disappeared up the stairs, then wordlessly reached out to rest a hand on Lee’s pillow, a good five inches away from any touch.
“Hey, it’s okay.” Lee murmured. “It’s okay.”
“Shut up,” Tigh said. “And you, get over here and make yourself useful.”
Lee blinked in surprise as The Huntress emerged from the cave’s shadows.
“Hey,” he greeted. “You made it.”
“Surprise, surprise.”
“Kara.”
“Lee.”
He winced. “Mm. One of these days I’ll learn not to give out sensitive personal information during near-death experiences. Always comes back to bite me. But still, nice to finally have a name to go with your face.”
“Likewise. So…your Dad’s a piece of work.”
“He’s not my Dad.”
She raised an eyebrow.
“Not biologically, anyway. I’m an orphan – he took me in.” Lee sighed. “Took me in, trained me up, threw me out. The classic, heartwarming story.”
“Seems like he cares about you.”
“Oh, we’re fine whenever I’m dying. It’s living with me he can’t deal with.”
“I’m not totally up on the hero code, but shouldn’t he be proud of you?”
“He wants a good soldier who follows orders without question. I’ve been giving him trouble in that department for awhile.”
“So, basically you were raised by a control freak, and now you’re getting your own back. No offense, but I could have guessed that much after knowing you for five minutes.”
“Control’s not a bad thing. There are a lot of maniacs out there. A lot of chances to die.” He looked up with a wicked light in his eyes. “A lot of morally-compromised, seductive women out to lure us from the path of righteousness.”
“Misogyny’s not a good look for you.”
“I was only teasing. You’re the opposite of seductive, actually.”
“Oh, thanks.”
“No, I mean it. You make people care without trying to. That’s not seduction, it’s…well, whatever it is, it’s in a whole different league.”
Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-27 02:55 am (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-28 03:31 am (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-28 03:51 am (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-28 04:04 am (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-28 05:04 am (UTC)P.S. -- you might like the little prequel (http://rachelindeed.livejournal.com/13488.html), if you haven't run across it already :)
Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-28 05:13 am (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 1
Date: 2012-09-28 04:36 pm (UTC)Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-26 06:26 pm (UTC)He answered the silent question. “I wasn’t always so good at getting out of hostage situations.”
“You still aren’t.”
He shot her a slightly resentful glare. “Yeah, well.” He waved a hand in the direction Bill had vanished. “That was the last mistake he ever let me make – he sent me away as soon as I healed, and warned me not to come back.” Lee’s face tightened. “He said I’d never been good enough. We both said a lot of things we’ve never really taken back. It was years ago, but…when I’m around him I still feel sixteen.”
“You’ve been doing this since you were sixteen?”
“Since I was twelve, actually.”
“That’s insane!”
“Not really. Look at you, you’ve spent your whole life fighting and you did it all on your own.”
“I don’t know how to do anything else. Zarek killed my parents. Call it revenge if you want, but I have to keep fighting.”
“So do I. I watched my parents die, cut down for the sake of a two-bit protection racket. Batman took me in because he saw a kindred soul in me. The same I see in you. And he taught me something about revenge.” He propped himself up so he could look her in the eye. “The best revenge is living well.” He nudged her elbow. “That’s what I think, anyway.”
She poked his arm. “You should probably save the inspirational speeches until the morphine wears off.”
“Yeah.” He lay back, grunting. “This may be the drugs talking.”
“Speaking of drugs,” Bill said, walking back down the darkened stairs in one of the pristine suits that defined the Wayne image, “you may want to sit down, Miss Thrace. I’m afraid I took the liberty of slipping an amnesia pill into the coffee Tigh gave you just after you arrived. I’m sure you’ll understand that while I appreciate your concern for my…for Nightwing, we can’t allow anyone to know the details of our base of operations.”
“Oh, sorry,” Lee interrupted before Kara could raise her crossbow, “but I neutralized your drug stockpiles when I stopped by for the fundraising gala last week. They’re completely unethical – I’ve been telling you that for years.”
“You’re bluffing.”
But Kara still remembered the access code to the cycle, the route out from the side entrance, and the color of Lee’s eyes.
As she hit the gas, she heard Lee shouting out a random ten-digit sequence, even as Bill leapt toward the computers to engage the cave’s lock-down measures.
“What’s the code for?” she yelled over one shoulder, gunning across the retracting bridge. She flicked a switch and the cycle’s wings extended. She took off and soared for the camouflaged exit.
“It’s my number!” Lee yelled. “Call me!”
Her cackle was cut off by a huge slab of rock slamming down across the cave’s threshold an instant after she swooped past it.
She turned into the night wind and flew.
Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-26 07:16 pm (UTC)I LOVE THIS, it makes so much sense for Bill and Lee's respective methods of working to clash (and puts them back on familiar footing) and pilots getting to know each other over post-battle medical care is awesome beyond belief. As is the mid-exit flirting, and this line that gives me endless giggle and squee:
But Kara still remembered the access code to the cycle, the route out from the side entrance, and the color of Lee’s eyes.
You are fantastic, bb
*bows*
Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-26 07:45 pm (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-26 09:29 pm (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-27 07:39 pm (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-26 10:46 pm (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-27 07:40 pm (UTC)Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-27 03:00 am (UTC)Anyways...really liked the ending and Lee's 'oh, by the way, your forget-all drugs don't work cuz that's WRONG'! *snort*
Re: Batman fic amnesty scene: part 2
Date: 2012-09-27 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-26 06:28 pm (UTC)The little bit of story that went along with it (and has yet to be written) goes: Kara would have to be the daughter of one of Black Widow's handlers, who got second hand awful until Natasha killed her mom. And then DRAMA. :)
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Date: 2012-09-26 06:59 pm (UTC)(omg even just imagining the DRAMA is making me excited)
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Date: 2012-09-26 09:21 pm (UTC)re: costumes
Date: 2012-09-26 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-27 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-27 03:24 pm (UTC)OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I AM DYING
THIS IS SUCH PERFECTION, I NEED THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN TOWEL AND THE PIGEON IN MY LIFE RIGHT FRAKKING NOW