ALTERNATE WORLDS
๐ฆ PROFILE TIME
Welcome to
THE BAT-FAMILY (aka BatFam), a pan-fandom PSL that is based off of the
DC EXTENDED UNIVERSE, most particularly the Snyderverse. Set in the time where Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince are attempting to put together a league of heroes to fight off the oncoming threat, BatFam focuses on character plots, relationships, drama, and an impending future that all will want to avoid when it comes true.
๐ฆ AU WRITE UPS
Have a character that has been done up for an alternate universe for the PSL, regardless of other canon or DC continuity? Fear not, citizen! Here is a quick place where you can write up the alternate information. This is made for quick sum up bullet points of information. If you have extended details, please feel free to link them to another post you've made!
โผ JESSE FADEN (EXAMPLE)
ORIGINAL CANON: Control (Remedy-verse)
CANON POINT: Post-Foundations DLC
AGE: 23 (aged down from 28)
AFFILIATION: Director of the Federal Bureau of Control, ally to the Titans
LINK TO FULL INFO: TO BE CONTINUED
QUICK 101:
- JESSE FADEN was born in Ordinary, Wisconsin. She has a younger brother named Dylan. An event in her hometown caused the Federal Bureau of Control to come in and cover the whole dimensional event up, claiming it to be an industrial accident. Jesse has spent her whole life (since age 11) looking for them and her missing brother Dylan.
- She has become the Director of the FBC (the youngest one ever), and is working on reforming the way it operates. While they st ill investigate spooky dimensional things, she is more open about making alliances and letting the world know what is going on. ESPECIALLY WITH the DC Universe now being aware of aliens thanks to Superman vs Zodd. The FBC remains out of public knowledge but can be known by the heroes/villain groups.
- She is involved in the FUTURE RESISTANCE and has a working relationship with Nightwing.
- She has a crazy amount of powers, please refer to THIS POST.
๐ค LAUREL LANCE
ORIGINAL CANON: Arrow
CANON POINT: Canon? Where we're going we don't need canon.
AGE: 30
AFFILIATION: Justice League
LINK TO FULL INFO: witty text
QUICK 101:
- Much of Laurel's life will be the same as it is on
FailrrowArrow, especially in the first few seasons. But in this AU Laurel is actually a metahuman. Laurel's powers activate for the first time when her younger sister, Sara, dies (in season 3). This time though, while holding Sara's body Laurel doesn't just cry - she screams. And her grief activates her sonic scream - her canary cry. Despite her newfound abilitiesno name brand BatmanOliver refuses to train her, thinking her powers are too dangerous.- Laurel starts to train on her own and later ends up hospitalized because she can't control her power and loses a fight against the abusive boyfriend of someone in her alcoholics' anonymous group. Despite that and everyone telling her no, Laurel continues to train. eventually getting her own suit and adopting the name Black Canary.
- She eventually starts fighting alongside the rest of Oliver's team but never feels at home with them. she's the only one with abilities and there is no one who understands or can help her. Everyone else on the team constantly belittles her and tells her she isn't Sara and her abilities don't make her a hero.
- But Laurel starts to make a name for herself and soon everyone in the city is speaking about the Black Canary. She also starts to get attention from outside the city, more so than even Oliver.
- When the position of district attorney opens up following the death of Harvey Dent, Laurel decides to go for it. Realizing that as much as loves her city and wants to help protect it she can do more good somewhere else. And when she gets the position she leaves Starling City with no ties or regrets.
- A few months after she started to work in Gotham City the Black Canary makes her first appearance. And not long after that she meets Bruce Wayne and joins the Justice League.
- Other Notes: Sara is still dead. And Oliver sucks and Laurel is very much over him.
DICK GRAYSON
ORIGINAL CANON: Titans TV
CANON POINT: uh
AGE: 24
AFFILIATION: Titans, Batman
LINK TO FULL INFO: working on this ahem
QUICK 101:
- 1993: born to John and Mary Grayson, Dick spent his childhood with his parents as The Flying Graysons, a trapeze act in Halyโs Circus
- 2005: at 12, his parents fall to their deaths, killed by Tony Zucco, who burned their ropes with acid to get back at Halyโs Circus, after which heโs adopted by Bruce Wayne
- 2007: bruce recognizes Dickโs grief, anger, loneliness, and resentment, and offers a position at his side, fighting crime as Robin to channel away the darkness. Dick becomes a part of the wayne family, making friends with the kids of other influential families (Jon, Dutch, Lulu) and likeminded vigilantes
- 2012: fearing his own vengeance and anger, Dick leaves Bruce, disillusioned with the vigilante life. he joins the detroit police department as a detective, yet reluctantly dons the Robin identity when the law proves inadequate to him. Dick establishes the Titans with Donna Troy.
- 2013: Bruce adopts a second Robin: Jason Todd. Events of Titans (TV) happens. Titans reband and Dick becomes Nightwing, continuing to work with alliances that heโs built, including with Jesse Faden.
- 2014: Jason gets Joker'd :c Dick's resentment for Bruce only grows.
- 2015: events of BvS take place; Dick watches from afar, torn from watching Bruce take on Superman
- 2017: Bruce reaches out to Dick and Dick goes to the Lake House to visit, determined to let go of the blame he's pushed onto Bruce and reunite with the rest of the adopted family.
- Oops, Jane falls from the sky.
MARGAERY TYRELL
ORIGINAL CANON: Game of Thrones
CANON POINT: N/A
AGE: 24 (present time)
AFFILIATION: D-Darkseid...?
LINK TO FULL INFO: you just do what needs to be done.
QUICK 101: Confirmed so far - heiress to Tyrell Corp who was also taken under Wallace's wing to be Love's replacement + his eventual successor; has a genuine love for her company's replicants and desires to see the world become their paradise. Ends up siding with Superman + Darkseid as her ambition aligns with theirs.
DANNI QUEE | future timeline
ORIGINAL CANON: Star Wars EU
CANON POINT: early NJO but we're already deviating so much so lmao
AGE: 27 by 2022
AFFILIATION: Westeros/Tyrell/Wallace, later defects to the Resistance
LINK TO FULL INFO: this one is a scientist. this one didn't use to know how to kill.
QUICK 101:
โ 1995: born Jeyne Westerling to Gawen Westerling and Sybell Spicer
โ 2015: begins working for the Westeros Group through her mother's machinations
โ 2016: is reassigned to one of the Tyrell divisions after the Westeros-Tyrell Corporation merger because of her research specialization; meets and romances Robb Stark (
โ 2018: Robb is killed
โ 2021: defects to the Resistance under the alias Danni Quee
โ 2022: programs Jane (
JON STARK
SnowStarkORIGINAL CANON: Game of Thrones
CANON POINT: early S6 after quitting the Night's Watch
AGE: 22 (present timeline), 27 (future timeline)
AFFILIATION: House Wayne (present timeline), Titans/Resistance (future timeline)
LINK TO FULL INFO: madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin
QUICK 101:
โ 1995: Born Jon Stark, illegitimate son of Minnesota governor Eddard "Ned" Stark.
โ 2012: Enlists in the Army.
โ 2013: During Man of Steel, Jon's unit is among those present during Superman's surrender, and later on deployed to Metropolis to help evacuate the citizens.
โ 2016: Returns to Minneapolis after being discharged from the military. Starts taking all sorts of odd jobs to make ends meet. Reunites with his old pal Dick Grayson (
โ 2017: Ned is reported to have committed suicide while awaiting the conclusion of his trial. Jon is afterwards contacted by Bruce Wayne (
โ 2018, future timeline only: Robb Stark (
โ 2019, future timeline only: Dick is killed by Superman. Jon reorganizes the fragmented Titans into the Nightโs Watch, in Dickโs memory.
โ 2020, future timeline only: The government mobilizes the replicant army it commissioned via the Westeros/Tyrell Group, however the replicants turn against their side theyโre supposedly fighting for and follow Superman. A nuclear response is launched in turn and a full-scale war erupts on Earth. Batman is killed by Superman along the way, and Jon finds out that he is Bruce just before he dies.
โ 2021, future timeline only: The Resistance is established by Jon, Wanda and Barry, and joined by the surviving members of the Nightโs Watch. Jon saves K (
โ 2022, future timeline only: Jon and K lead a mission to infiltrate one of the replicant labs to steal a unit Danni Quee (
JANE SOLO
ORIGINAL CANON: Star Wars EU
CANON POINT: I guess this is pre-capture pre-torture 100% annoying idealist Jane >:3 so early NJO, lmao
AGE: ??
AFFILIATION: Resistance
LINK TO FULL INFO: everything everybody tells you is a lie.
QUICK 101:
โ 2022: Replicant unit stolen from one of the Wallace labs and programmed by Danni Quee (
โ 2017: FALLS FROM THE SKY, on the very shiny
spinnerPorsche belonging to Robb Stark (CLEOPATRA SELENE
ORIGINAL CANON: The Shards of Heaven
CANON POINT: Gates of Hell era
AGE: 20
AFFILIATION: Margaery Tyrell RIDE OR DIE BABY
LINK TO FULL INFO: she's so obscure this is the best you'll get, fam
QUICK 101:
โ 1997: Born in Alexandria, Egypt. The Ptolemies are an old money family in Alexandria, Egypt and are strong advocates of history and cultural preservation, and knowledge as a whole. They acquired the Great Library of Alexandria and modernized it, eventually transforming it into a private library and tech company and moving its headquarters to the renovated Lighthouse.
โ 2007: After a string of lawsuits and exposรฉs that thoroughly destroy the Ptolemies, Cleopatra commits suicide and the Lannisters take control of the Library. Selene is brought to the States and raised alongside Tywin's grandchildren. Her brothers all fall ill or mysteriously disappear.
โ Along the way she meets Margaery (
โ 2015: Made to marry Tyrion since she's already of legal age.
โ 2016: Margaery marries Joffrey.
โ 2017: Helps Margaery take over the Westeros/Tyrell Group by poisoning Joffrey, then chases the media away from Margaery's trail by coming out and revealing the abuse she's suffered while under the care of the Lannisters. After an equally grueling media circus coverage like the one during her mother's time, she manages to reclaim ownership of the Library, moving back to Alexandria to run it.
โ future timeline: Ambiguously runs a division of Wallace under the cover of the Library, which creates and tests experimental replicant models. Magic-wielding replicants, anyone?
KARA DANVERS
ORIGINAL CANON: Supergirl
CANON POINT: Technically Pre-Supergirl canon.
AGE: 21 - kind of...(actually 51 if you count her years in the phantom zone)
AFFILIATION: House Wayne/Titans
LINK TO FULL INFO: How everything went when it was puppies and rainbows
QUICK 101:
โ 1966: Born on Krypton.
โ 1987: Put in a space ship after Kal-El and sent to Earth to be his protector. The planet explodes behind her and she gets knocked off course and into the phantom zone.
โ 2016: Her ship is kicked out of the phantom zone and she lands at the edges of the Wayne estate. With her growing powers, Bruce sends her to the Kent farm and Martha because Martha knows how to help and Gotham is no place to learn how to use her powers. Dick is around at least enough to know about Kara and talk to her some before she's off to the farm.
โ 2017: She texts Dick that she wants to come home now that she's in control of her powers.
โ Future Timeline: At some point after Bruce and Dick's death, Clark kidnaps her, enraged that she's siding with Bruce, the Titans, and the resistance. Thinking that she should be sided with him, her blood, he tries to turn her against them. She's tortured as they try to turn her against the people she's come to know as family. She's not rescued before the timeline is reset.
DUTCH
ORIGINAL CANON: Killjoys
CANON POINT: Completely AU of the series/Season 2 ish
AGE: 25
AFFILIATION: Wildcard - Dick Grayson Loyal
LINK TO FULL INFO: "I have a Headache, a Badge, and a Gun. Behave."
QUICK 101:
โ 1992: Born to Yalena and Khlyen Kin Rit, royalty from a small country that no one has ever heard of, Arkyn. The couple were visiting the States for diplomatic reasons when she was born, so she has duel citizenship. Her father was a fighter, despite being a King, and trained her in hand to hand combat, weapons, and guns proficiently enough to be an assassin growing up.
โ 2007: She meets Dick Grayson at various functions while he settles into becoming part of the Wayne House.
โ 2009: Her parents die in an assumed car accident, but she's also ousted from her position as Princess of Arkyn. Leaving her homeless, though she's able to keep the family fortune. She permanently moves to the states and hunts down the man who tampered with the car and killed her parents.
โ 2010: She gets her bounty hunter license so she can put her skills to use, not that she needs the job. Being a trained assassin, she also does light vigilante work on the side. At some point she runs into Dick in his suite and helps him, patches him up and learns his identify.
โ 2017: She's still working as a bounty hunter part time, still runs as a vigilante occasionally, and is always available when the one person she considers a friend calls needing help.
Lulu Villareal
ORIGINAL CANON: Original!
CANON POINT: before her origin novel
AGE: 18
AFFILIATION: Unknown
LINK TO FULL INFO: ... I will have to write it down at some point, lmao.
QUICK 101:
โ 1999: born in Tagaytay City, Philippines and spent her early childhood in her father's summer house overlooking Lake Taal
โ 2007: migrates to the USA, meets and befriends Dick (
โ travels the world with her ex-military bodyguard Jonas Archuleta (
โ 2017: arrives in Gotham City with Jonas, chasing down a lead (mom box? maybe?)