Ear(late)ly Birds: Midlife Crisis
Fics in which events divert/de-rail mid-canon, usually due to a combination of whump & parental instincts:
- OC children (mostly acquired by Hood or Buck)
- Robin being vulnerable (mostly Tim (& Hood)
- Adults being (better) adults
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AtLA/K / B(M)HA / DP / RR(PJ):
- Zuko gets (injured &) adopted/mentored (mid-quest)
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- Izuku is rescued/mentored by someone other than All Might
(- Himiko Toga gets adopted (by a non-villain)
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(- Danny runs away (to Gotham) post explosion)
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DC / Marvel:
- Jason never goes to Ethiopia
- Jason is found by someone other than the Al Ghuls
(- Hood never (fully debuts)/is more protective than vengeful)
- (Hood!)Jason adopts Tim (via Bruce)
- (Hood!) Jason adopts OCs
(- Bruce is (still) Lost in Time)
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- Peter needs adopting...
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NCIS/Criminal Minds/Numb3rs/H-50/911:
- Lawsuit(/Tsunami) baby (- Buck(/Eddie) has a(n unknown) child)
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(The) Sentinel / Stargate / TM7:
(- Blair gets a child/parent)
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Other:
- KARR returns
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“Your dad,” Sokka starts, then swallows hard. “Your dad dueled you, burned half of your face off, and then banished you because you spoke when you shouldn’t have?”
Guilt festers and bubbles like black tar in Zuko’s chest. “I didn’t just speak. I questioned and insulted one of his highest-ranking generals—but the man was planning a massacre! He shouldn’t have—” Zuko clamps his mouth shut, his teeth clicking together, and swallows thickly. “I mean. I found the tactic he proposed very startling, but it wasn’t my place to question such things. I’m sure he had his reasons.”
“Tui and La what the absolute fuck,” Sokka whispers.
[Zuko gets imprisoned with Sokka and Katara during the winter solstice, and some very unfortunate things come to light. Alternatively: the gaang
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The Best Laid Plans Of Tim Drake Oft' Go Fucking Awry by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
26 Sep 2024
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Wow, what doesn't happen in this fic?
There are Amazon Prime packages delivered to Batman from Red Hood in the form of a bloody and beaten Robin. This makes Bruce, Dick, Barbara and Alfred SAD. Tim sees that it makes them SAD and decides that he does not like them being SAD and he needs to get Jason back in the family and cure him of his Lazarus Pit Menty Bs (mental breakdowns).
So he comes to the only logical solution: meet Talia Al Ghul.
But Good Dad Bruce Batman does not like that so Tim does the only other logical thing: quit being Robin (by accident).
Then he goes to meet with Talia Al Ghul.
And he comes out with an assassin son.
So now Tim has to raise a homicidal bratty 10-year-old Damian along with running and hiding from the Bats while trying to cure Jason of his green eggs and ham rages and get the family back together.
Oh hey! What's that there in the distance! *zooms camera*
"J0ker waz HeRe 🤡"
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Two Nickels: Tim & Talia (adoption) chaos
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To Voyage in a Concrete Jungle by ChickadeeChickadoo
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Mar 2024
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Clark Kent moves to Gotham as a teenager after an unfortunate event at school. There he meets Jason Todd. And then, several months after that, Clark hears Jason screaming.
Apparently a Joker with no Kryptonite can't win against a Kryptonian. Who knew.
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When Michael goes missing, Kitt is left to find him, argue with the Foundation about a replacement, and reunite with a former enemy turned family member – as for Michael, all he has to do is adopt said new family member and escape captivity with his brain intact.Knight Rider
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Danny had failed the C.A.T.’s and he failed to save his family. In an effort to rewrite his doomed timeline to prevent another Dan, he managed to get CPS to look into literally anyone else besides Vlad. Danny finds himself in Gotham, New Jersey with his moms cousin, Jim Gordon and his daughter, Barbara Gordon.
Danny just feels lost.