DPP: Pilots As Superheroes!

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We'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)

(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

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I wrote a Batman ficlet (http://rachelindeed.livejournal.com/13488.html) a while ago with Lee as the original Robin to Bill's Batman and Tigh's Alfred. I had thought I might wind up telling a longer story about how Lee met The Huntress (Kara), a fighter on the wrong side of the law who has spent much of her life hunting down the crooks who killed her parents and whose view of ethics is a lot more flexible than the Batclan's. I don't think I'm ever going to write that adventure, but as it happens I already wrote the ending, which I can share just for fun. All you need to know is that Lee and Kara were working together against the maniacal Two-Face (Romo Lampkin, once a good lawyer who lost his mind when he lost the woman he loved and now acts as a supervillain, killing people with his trademark silver pen, fondling his imaginary cat and flipping a coin to decide the fate of his victims). Lee almost dies in the fight, but between Kara and Batman (Bill), he is saved, and is now in the Batcave, recovering...

Re: Batman fic amnesty: background

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I've read those two, and they were awesome - and Romo is just the right degree of potentially diabolical for this idea to be equally great :)