In my twenties. In my prime. In my insanity.
Fandoms: Batman/TDKR, Man of Steel, Young Justice, Arrow, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Elementary, Hunger Games, Avengers, Community, Legend of Korra, Avatar: tLA and various other TV shows. I am also an old school fandom lover of Star Wars, The X Files and BtVS/Angel.
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Armature Studio’s Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita is set three months after the events of Warner Bros. Montreal’s Batman: Arkham Origins, and will feature Batman’s first encounter with Catwoman.
The spokesperson said that no story beats will be repeated from the console version of the game because Blackgate focuses on a brand new chapter in Batman’s career. Throughout the course of the game he will develop his relationship with a young Captain Gordon and have his first meeting with Catwoman in the Arkham Universe.
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is due to release globally on Oct. 25, 2013.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Oceans 11
Relationships: Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Artemis Crock/Wally West, M’gann/Superboy
Characters: Dick Grayson, Wally West, Artemis Crock, Barbara Gordon, Kaldur’ahm, Conner Kent, M’gann M’orzz, Zatanna Zatara, Raquel Ervin, Jamie Reyes, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Cassie Sandsmark, Bart Allen, Black Manta, Lex Luthor, Vandal Savage, Selina Kyle, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Bard, Jason Todd, Roy Harper, Cheshire, Team
Ocean’s Eleven AU: After being released from prison, Dick Grayson meets up with his former partner in crime and close friend Wally West to propose a take down of some of the most notorious, corrupt individuals in the country. But to do what they have to do, it’ll take more than just the two of them: Barbara Gordon, a hacker and electronics expert; Artemis Crock, a young and talented thief; Kaldur, a reformed con man; Conner, an intimidating boxer; Raquel Ervin, an explosives expert; Zatanna, a professional Magician; M’gann, a gifted identity forger, and a few more. Traveling from Gotham to Metropolis, and breaking more than a few rules along the way, they’ll assemble a group the likes of which have never come together before. Vigilante justice just got a new brand of con artists and criminals.
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A/N: So sorry for the angst. I shall make up for it later with fluff and humor, promise.
A TDKR-based Batman/Catwoman fic, that’s a crossover with Wonder Woman? All three badass characters interacting? Plot? Romance and Drama? WHAT ARE YOU GUYS WAITING FOR. GO READ THIS FIC!
Oh, god, I forgot about these meme responses! Okay, the summary would go:
BatCat as Thomas Crown Affair: Selina Kyle is a talented con artist who aches for a challenge. Despite all of her success in burglary (and with men), she feels bored. In order to cure her boredom, she orchestrates an elaborate heist and steals a Monet from the Gotham Museum of Arts. What she doesn’t know, a matter of some complication, is that the painting had been on loan from the local playboy billionaire, Bruce Wayne – who’s not at all like his reputation may imply. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues, giving both exactly what they seek: a worthy adversary. But with her sincerity and loyalty in question, can these two truly be together?
Her alarm buzzes at six o’clock in the morning, but Selina is already wide awake. She reaches over to the nightstand without even glancing in its direction, silencing the noise and climbing out of bed within a few heartbeats. By the time her roommate Holly has started moving around in the other room, Selina has already been exercising for a full hour, moving through an increasingly rigorous workout regimen that ends in a series of sit ups and pulls ups with sweat pouring off her.
Holly isn’t a bad roommate, but Selina likes living alone better. She’s used to living alone, but there’s rent to pay. She doesn’t remember much of her parents. Her mother was sixteen when Selina was born, and her father was never in the picture. By the time she was twelve, it was regular for Selina to come home and take care of a drunken mother and, on more than a few occasions, a woman so high she didn’t even recognize her own daughter. Selina became self-reliant before she even hit puberty, but at some point the social services were notified; then it was foster homes and group homes, strangers who kept her for the monthly check in the mail, and when she’d split from one place, where the guy was a particular brand of asshole, no one ever reported it. She lived on the streets after that, but she still went to school everyday. Stole, for her clothes and her food. Slept in abandoned buildings and run-down hotels, and when she found them, foreclosed properties that had all the windows boarded up and a for-sale sign in the yard. She thought about prostitution, but she never quite went there. Besides, her skills with breaking and entering never made her that desperate.
Years passed, and not many people bothered to notice the slight young girl with pretty brunette hair and a sweet, innocent smile. It was a look she practiced a lot in the mirror. Selina was used to slipping into oblivion, only garnering attention when she sought it out.
Now, at age nineteen, she goes to UC Gotham on an academic scholarship supplemented by Wayne Enterprises. She majors in Art History – not Art, like people always assume, like she’s a painter or something. They tell her she’ll never find a post-grad job with that type of major, but she always shrugs it off and smiles, like she knows something they don’t. (She knows plenty they don’t.)
“You coming to the party tonight?” Holly asks her, from the doorway. “It’s going to be epic.”
Selina rolls her eyes. “I’ll think about it.”
“Oh, c’mon. It’s at the old mansion in the Palisades. That Wayne kid is throwing it.”
She lifts an eyebrow. “Bruce Wayne?”
“Yeah. He transferred to Gotham when he got kicked out of, like, every other university on the east coast. He’s having a kegger to kick off the semester.”
“Pass,” Selina says. “If I want the king of tabloids throwing up all over me after hitting on me half the night, I’ll use my vivid imagination.”
“He’s really cute,” Holly offers. “Please, Selina? Y’know how I hate to go to these things alone.”
She pauses, because it isn’t so much a preference as it is a matter of safety. Holly doesn’t have the best sort of judgment when it comes to parties and booze, and Selina’s had to knock out of a few overzealous fraternity boys and drag Holly out of some messy situations.
Selina sighs. “Fine. But if I want to leave early, we leave early. No arguments or complaints.”
Holly squeals. “Deal! Oh, we’re going to have so much fun!”
By the time the day passes and they arrive at the manor, greeted at the door by a (shit-you-not) butler, Selina has a headache. She spent the last hour fighting traffic and trying to find adequate parking, which, given the sheer size of the Wayne Estate, shouldn’t have been that difficult – and yet. It’s closer to ten before they even make it inside. The place is just as glamorous and obnoxiously opulent as she suspected, and Selina resigns herself to standing stiffly at the sides while Holly flirts with any guy within a ten foot radius. A few guys make the mistake of trying to strike up a conversation with Selina, but she quickly disabuses them of that idea, one time rather pointedly, when a guy with no sense of personal boundaries got a little too physical with her and she had to use a serrated utensil near his groin in order to demonstrate her frustration with his lack of consideration.
She eventually escapes into one of the quiet rooms upstairs, just for a breather. It hadn’t been her intention to snoop, honestly. She was just tired of the noise and the crowd, and despite her revulsion with the rich, she likes pretty things. There’s a Rembrandt in the Regency Room, and a grand vase from the Han dynasty, circa 200 BC. What’s more enticing, of course, is the safe in the back wall behind the painting. It’s… tempting. A little too much, for Selina’s tastes. It hadn’t been her intention to rob the place, but some chances are just too fortuitous to ignore.
A few minutes later, just for shits and giggles, she tries her hand at the combination. A few minutes after that, she’s staring at a pretty little diamond tennis bracelet, no less than 20 carats.
A noise alerts her to some company, and she has just enough time to close the safe and move to the other end of the room before a voice calls out, “You’re not supposed to be here.”
Selina flinches, rather dramatically. She whirls around with her hand over her heart, gasping, and finds a familiar face; it’s the same one plastered on every tabloid this side of the Atlantic. Bruce Wayne is as handsome as expected, and maybe even a little taller, but Selina doesn’t find petty rich boys to be anything other than self-aggrandizing idiots.
“Sorry!” she exclaims, doe-eyed, breathless and jumpy. “Got lost. Was looking for the little girl’s room.”
He glances around the place pointedly, the long, clean room full of esoteric trinkets and priceless art. “I could see how you’d get confused.”
“I’ll be on my way,” she says, smiling bashfully.
She’s halfway to the door before he stops her. “That’s a pretty bracelet that you have,” he says.
And she thinks, busted, in the same breath as she turns around to find a curiously amused smirk on his face.
End of the year reflection on fic! (Previous years.)
✖ The Devil is in the Details: The Dark Knight Rises; Bruce/Selina, M. She’s a girl with a lot of regret, especially for one with not nearly enough conscience, but of the things she does feel remorse for, she thinks that Bruce Wayne might be at the top of that list. (10.5k)
✖ Assess and Recommend: Avengers/The Dark Knight Rises; Natasha, Bruce/Selina. PG-13. Six months after the reign of Bane over Gotham City has come to an end, Natasha Romanov has been given a new recruitment detail for the Avengers Initiative. (6.6K)
✖ Queen of Hearts: Batman/Young Justice; Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson. R. Post-ep 2.10: Before the Dawn. Dick has been hiding something for months and it’s time Barbara finds out what it is. For a person used to secrets, her world is about to be turned upside down by the revelation of one more. (40K)
✖ The One Universal Constant: Young Justice, Artemis/Wally. M. Eight years later, everything is changed. The Light is playing their endgame. In order to save countless lives, Artemis is forced to work with the team she long ago left behind, but facing the challenges of the Justice League is only part of the battle. A checkered past, an unraveling conspiracy, and of course, Wally West. It’s time Artemis stopped running. (57k.)
✖ War-King Wounded: The Bourne Legacy/The Bourne Ultimatum. Aaron Cross/Marta Shearing. M. In Aaron’s way of thinking, it’s a simple enough strategy. He and Marta can’t breathe until they figure out the scope of the problem, and in order to do that, they have no choice but to go the source: Jason Bourne. (8K)
✖ A Game of Equals: Doctor Who. River/Doctor. PG-13. AU. He’s a seasoned double-o with a penchant for deep blue aston martins and high-tech screwdrivers. She’s a former jewel thief imprisoned for a murder she says she didn’t commit. When she escapes from prison to help him track down the stolen crown jewels, they’ll find they have a lot more in common than expected. (94k)
✖ Five Ways the Ninth Doctor Met River: Doctor Who. River/Ninth Doctor. Includes Jack, Rose and Mickey, mentions of Eleventh Doctor. (PG) (2.5k)
✖ River’s Closet: Doctor Who. River/Doctor. PG. Five Things The Doctor Has Found In River’s Wardrobe, And One Thing He Hasn’t. (2K)
✖ Athena and Hermes: Doctor Who. River/Doctor. PG. AU. Whatever you’ve heard about them? About the Greek Gods? Forget it entirely. It’s all more wrong than right. (2k)
✖ A Very Palpable Hit: Sherlock (BBC), Irene/Sherlock, NC-17. Post-“Scandal in Belgravia.” “So, amaze me,” Irene said, inching closer to him as he drove down the empty road through stark blackness. There was nothing around for miles. “How did you manage to find me?” (6k)
✖ The Past is Prologue: Avatar: The Legend of Korra; Korra/Mako, Mature. In the months following Amon’s defeat, life changes. Korra struggles to navigate her way through Aang’s spiritual guidance, her evolving relationship with Mako and her friends, the constant struggle against adversaries both old and new, and a journey towards a destiny that has only just begun. It won’t be happily ever after, but since when has that ever been the Avatar’s story? (28k)
✖ The Free Fall: Avatar: The Legend of Korra; Mako/Korra, PG-13. He should have recognized her immediately, but even after the acknowledgment hits, it’s still some time before the true appreciation of it lands home. The journey of their first year in Republic City together, as seen through Mako’s eyes. (8.8k)
And now, questions and reflections….
—Gotham Knights
Finally finished up my career as a student so honoring that with this fantastic moment from Babs
The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of… right and wrong
