Thia Wen

DC Fic Idea -

So I’ve seen a few fics where the real reason Bruce doesn’t kill the Joker after Jason’s death is because he knows it wouldn’t stick. The Joker has died before and he just comes back. He can’t die permanently so there’s no point. And often Jason is horrified and/or heartbroken that he’ll never get proper vengeance and that Joker will haunt them forever etc.

Respectfully, I would like to offer an alternative.

Jason finds out that the Joker doesn’t stay dead and instead of being terrified by this news like the rest of Gotham he is absolutely delighted.

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Batman: You can’t kill the Joker.

Jason: The hell I can’t.

Batman: No. I mean it’s not possible. Not permanently. He just comes back.

Jason: And? That just means I get to kill him again. And again and again and again. This is the best thing ever.

…

Jason had a whole damn journal full of revenge ideas and trying to pick just one was honestly the hardest decision in his life. He’d ended up having to number them all and then drew the winning number out of a hat. Now? He get’s to do them all. Hell, he gets to come up with even more ideas! All his previous ones were mostly painful or poetic. He starts a whole new journal. 1001 ways for Joker to die a stupid death.

Jason has never been so happy and well adjusted. Who needs therapy when you can just go blow Joker the fuck up? And he starts recording them all to share because he figures it would be therapeutic for the rest of the city too. Gothamites are delighted. Someone makes a compilation of their favorites that looks like something straight out of Loony Tunes.

One time Jason decides to raise money for charity by letting people pay for votes on how he next kills Joker. Whichever method raises the most money wins. It’s the most successful event in Gotham’s history.

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Batman: What are you doing?!

Jason: An experiment. How many tick bites does it take for a person to die from blood loss?

Batman: We don’t kill!

Jason: Does he look dead to you?

Batman:…

Jason: If it’s not permanent, it doesn’t count.

Batman: This is murder.

Jason: I’m recording the results. So, actually, it’s science. I’ve already got a publishing deal with Gotham University.

DC Prompt

Jason does his research before he goes back to Gotham and finds out that Batman revived the Joker.

Obviously there is no confrontation needed. Bruce had already made his choice.

So now Jason never wants to step in Gotham ever again. He won’t share a city with his murderer. Hell, he would prefer not to share a country. Jason is going to move on with his life and the Bats and all those affiliated can just go fuck themselves.

If the corrupt of Gotham want to keep Joker alive then they can just keep him.

The problem is that Batman couldn’t actually keep the Joker in Gotham. He left all the time and became the rest of the world’s problem. And Jason’s already ran into that fucker in the middle of nowhere before and he would rather not do it again. So Jason calls up Deathstroke and puts him on retainer. If the Joker steps a toe out of Gotham, the contract activates and Deathstroke hunts him down. Jason won’t ask him to go into Gotham to kill him and get on the Bat’s radar. Gotham is Batman’s territory but anywhere else is free game.

So for years Bruce has no clue that Jason is alive and that Joker’s death certificate is already pre-signed.

But then one day Joker tries to make trouble in Metropolis, so now it’s time for Deathstroke to swoop in and fuck over Batman and get paid to do it.

DC Prompt

Fanon often likes to give Jason a close relationship with Diana. So imagine a world where that’s true. Diana loves him like a son, proclaims herself godmother, and is 200% there for Jason. (Bruce is absolutely not jealous)

Why wasn’t she there when the mess went down with Garzonas and then the Joker? Maybe she was off-world.

Needless to say, she is absolutely heartbroken and furious when she finds out what happened. Major fallout with Bruce maybe? Especially when she goes to her mother with the news and the Kingdom of Themyscira officially requests the Joker for extradition and execution for the murder of the godson of their Princess.

My main point - Diana refuses to accept Jason’s death. She pleads to the gods to give him back, promises to complete any required quest or tasks necessary. Whatever the price is, she succeeds. But Jason can’t just come back like he was. They can ensure his soul is returned to her but he will have to be reborn as her son. For mystical reasons, maybe the father has to be a god? Maybe they can’t return his soul unless it becomes divinity? Who could be the father in that case? Lots of options -

Hermes - Sometimes is a psychopomp and is the god of thieves among other things.

Apollo - God of healing and sometimes justice

Hades - Death and the underworld

Ares - Because Jason is a warrior and died violently

Dionysus - Sometimes associated with resurrection, also god of madness so maybe there’s a connection since Jason was killed by a madman

Hephaestus - Myths say he created Pandora so he can obviously forge humans too, also the fire association

Poseidon - Can’t think of a reason there

Zeus - No. He’s Diana’s father

Not sure about a minor god, maybe Zagreus or Thanatos

Or the “father” could be a goddess. Totally within their power.

Hera - family, motherhood

Hestia - fire and home

Artemis - Because Jason hunted men who harmed women

Demeter - Because of the deal with Persephone, she gets it

Aphrodite - Diana is doing this because she loves Jason so much

Athena - Liked Jason’s love of learning while also being a warrior?

Anyway - nine months later Prince Jason of Themyscira is born. Does Diana tell Bruce it’s his Jason? She doesn’t trust him with her son and he’s not getting Jason back.

Just would love to see baby Jason getting a second chance and growing up with an awesome Wonder Woman Mom and a literal army of doting aunts and Grandma Hippolyta.

Classic Billy Batson worked at a radio station. Has anyone else thought that a modern interpretation of that could be that Billy has his own podcast?

You can make good money off that, too. Enough to survive on if Billy still ends up on his own.

DC idea

New heroes get a bingo card of the bullshit scenarios that only superheroes seem to deal with. Anyone who gets bingo becomes a senior member of the league. If you fill the card you get a gift from the league and mandatory therapy.

Possible squares - Time Travel, Reality Travel, Cloned, Evil Alternate Self, Mind Control, Arch Nemesis, Villain Hookup, Transformation, Gender Changed, Demons, Magic, Meet An Alien, Alien Invasion, Space Travel, Resurrection, Zombies, Supernatural Creatures, Superhero Team Up, Villain Team Up, Bombs, Biological Attack, Chemical Attack, Suicide Prevention, Civilian Loss, Tortured, Drug Bust, Crime Ring, etc.