John Constantine - Blog Posts
So, there’s this idea that Captain Marvel is the idealized form of Billy Batson, right? Like, the version of himself he aspires to be. The hero he wants to become. The face he wants the world to see-- strong, bright, safe, inspiring.
And, well… Captain Marvel looks a lot like C.C. Batson. His father. That’s Billy’s hero. That’s the face that makes him believe in good. The smile that gives him hope and faith in his dreams. With a few traces of his mom, like her eyelashes, her ears, nose
But… that can change. Right?
Billy’s going to meet new people. He’s going to have new heroes in his life. New people to look up to. New versions of “who I want to be like.”
So one day, Marvel looks like a perfect blend of C.C. and Marilyn. And then, after a particularly emotional moment with John Constantine, he shows up at the Watchtower… with a different jawline.
His bone structure is slightly off. You wouldn’t notice unless you were really paying attention. But Bruce was. Bruce always is. He doesn’t say anything, just quietly writes it down with some suspicion of a possible shapeshifter.
And then, boom-- WHERE THE HELL ARE MARVEL’S DIMPLES?! They’re gone. Just gone. When he smiles, it’s a completely different smile. No dimples. There’s… are those canines? Slightly unhuman teeth and-- wait, Is that SUPERMAN’S smile? A perfect, radiant replica??
The next day, the dimples are back. Because Marvel caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and he missed them. Not consciously. He didn’t even realize it. But they’re back anyway.
It all happens unconsciously. And it changes from time to time.
One day he’s got feline eyes and sharp little teeth, a goofy yet oddly charming (and a little predatory) grin. That’s Tawky Tawny’s influence.
Another day, his eyes aren’t blue anymore, they’re green. Sharp. Focused. But also warm. You feel seen, and still, oddly… safe. (Catwoman likes Cap. She’s been nice to him ever since he introduced her to Tawny.)
Then-- No freaking way he’s BLONDE. (Thanks, Constantine.)
One day, his eyes are still blue, but now they’re icy. Almost crystal. Batman nearly has a heart attack because it’s his father’s eyes. His father’s eyebrows too. (Billy was just really happy with Bruce Waynbe since he donated a massive bunch of money to Fawcett’s homeless shelters.)
And then.. pointy ears. A different nose. (Kon.)
J’onn shares his special cookies with him one afternoon and now Marvel’s got a little green tint in his cheeks instead of red.
He never hides it. If someone asks, he just shrugs and goes, “Oh yeah, my features kinda shift based on people I admire? I guess. I don’t really notice until you guys point it out. I can’t control it.”
A lot of people think his tall, muscular body comes from Superman. But nope. It’s from Diana.
Billy sees her: tall, powerful, graceful, hair always a little wild but somehow perfect. Elegant. Commanding. He thinks she’s incredible. So he becomes tall, powerful, elegant. Hair that never moves out of place (but still has a charmingly messy style). All that’s missing is a little more confidence and posture.
And Flash? Flash nearly dies of happiness when Marvel shows up one day— with his awkward little half-smile.
“I feel like I’ve had my share of bad craziness for a while. But like they say: You shouldn’t join if you can’t take a joke.”
Yes.
I have the dumbest idea. Fully grown up adult Danny ends up having a fling with Constantine when he comes through Amity to study ghosts. It's kinda hot and heavy, but also casual. John leaves and goes on.
A year later something happens where something he's hunting has severely pissed off the Ghost King. At first, John's like "oh shit, Pariah Dark is awake?" And only finds out when this tall, buff stud shows up that King Pariah Dark is out, King Phantom is in, and also, the new King finds John as hot as John finds him.
A year after that, John gets called to a JL HQ to greet a new hero who's joining the Justice League because he also does paranormal stuff and Supes wants all the magic heroes to meet or something. So he shows up and there's Danny Fenton, being all tall broad shoulders and goofy smiles. John doesn't even question why he's there. He does sneak off with Danny to make out in a coat closet until Batman finds them.
Danny's super sheepish and John kinda feels bad enough to not make smartass comments as they walk back to the group. He stands out with the others while Supes makes the introduction. John's suddenly wondering *why* Danny is there and *where* the new guy is.
Then this happens.
Superman: I'm honored to introduce the Justice League's newest member, Phantom.
Danny transforms into Phantom, who doesn't have the glowing crown, and who doesn't glow so much, but he doesn have those sexy sharp teeth, and is clearly King Phantom.
John Constantine, realizing what's happened: oh, fuck me!
Danny, with that big shit eating grin of his: I'm pretty sure I've already done that about a dozen times, love. But I wouldn't mind another go.
John might love him a little bit.
John Constantine is seventeen, angry and entirely ready to lose himself in the occult.
The open book in front of him details a particularly nasty ritual, but not one he’s unwilling to pay the price for. He bought the book from the shop on Eaton street, ‘Occult Exposition’. It’s not a nice shop. The clientele tend to be even dodgier than John and the owner always goes out of his way to make him as uncomfortable as possible.
John supposes that that’s just the price of authenticity.
The book is authentic. He knows that. One of the first things John learned was that the fakes always do well when it comes to flair but never quite catch the essence of a true ritual.
Fully set up in the back garden, John begins his ritual.
He chants and moves and shifts his thoughts in all the right directions. He slits the throat of a rabbit and cuts out the eye of the hawk that caught it. He spins a web of spider silk around the remains and watches it turn into a spun glass cage that contains something entirely different.
John lifts the same knife he used to cut out the hawks eyes and slit the rabbits throat, ready to plunge it into the beating heart the glass now contains.
“Are you sure you want to do that?” a voice calls out from behind him.
John spins around with his knife at the ready to defend himself. Instead if someone attacking him all John sees is a beautiful girl leaning against the dirty wall of his garden shed.
“Are you sure you want to stick around until the police come arrest you for trespassing?” he snarls, caught off guard.
The girl has the gall to roll her eyes. “As if you would call the police.” Considering the garden stinks of weed John supposes that the girl may have a point. “And anyway, I’m just giving you some sound advice. Nothing malicious about me at all.”
John narrows his eyes. “There aren’t many people who offer advice for free.”
“Well maybe I’m just feeling generous today.” the girl says with a grin. The smile drops promptly. “The blood rune won’t work, so you’re just going to be compelled to rip your heart out and eat it. Do you want to rip your heart out and eat it?”
John scoffs even as he sends the blood rune an uncertain look. “The rune is fine.”
The girl shoots him a withering look. “It has to be virgin's blood.”
“It is vir-“ John pauses. Resets. “Oh shit.”
“What? Are you still feeling lucky?”
“Fuck off.” John says on reflex. Then, “Thanks for telling me though. That could’ve been nasty.”
The girl finally smiles properly. Broad and shining and even John is forced to admit to himself that it’s a beautiful smile. “You’re very welcome. My name's Zatanna.” she says, sticking her hand out for him to shake.
“John.”
“I know,” she says with a wink as they clasp hands. “If you ever want a little more sound advice then just give me a call. Promise I’m a better option than you ever you got that book from.”
John raises an eyebrow. “Not that I don’t appreciate the offer, but what’s put you in such a sharing mood?”
“I said I was feeling generous.” Her expression softens. “I think you’re going to be powerful. The kind of powerful that’s going to get people killed if you don’t know how to handle it. Call me when you’re in trouble.”
When she finishes speaking a wind summons itself up around her. Twisting and twirling until she’s stood in the centre of a spinning tornado. The speed of the wind reaches a climax and dissipates all of a sudden, leaving behind no sign of Zatanna.
John takes a step towards the space she used to occupy and spots something on the ground. It’s a business card. Pristine white with edges sharp enough to cut through flesh. On the card is a name, ‘Zatanna Zatara’, and a phone number.
There are two ‘x’s handwritten below the number and they make John feel oddly warm.
“Fuck.” he says to empty air. “Fuck.”
He turns back to his aborted ritual and starts cleaning up the blood.
I don't care. That this is not c!Constantine. It's like au where John has a childhood. That's always a YES in my book.
PRETTY BOY. HE IS SO PRETTY IN THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL. Genuinely the prettiest version of John Constantine. I am in love 😍 😍 😍
was watching this video and found this golden comment:
does this apply to john, billy (he was a kinda (???) a troublemaker in the comics,,), chas, zatanna and tawny respectively???
Billy and John play father and son out in public so Billy just starts calling him dad regularly and it becomes an inside joke. it slips out once when theyre around the league and everyone is like ????? bonus: Billy got tired of saying House Of Mystery every single time so he started just staying HOM and it eventually just turned into home so everyone is convinced theyre related
AWW YEAHHHHH (i didn't know if this was a fic request or not so i put this ask into a plot idea)
the league's got a disguise/infiltration mission one day, and john and cap are like, "we'll take care of this," and the league is like "alright," thinking that john will be with cap's civilian identity
the mission day comes, and the league is gaping at john having a kid/bruce wayne look-alike. john comes up with an excuse that cap's sick and he's gotta stay at the HOM to heal. billy's done with everything (specifically when diana or clark argue that a child is on a dangerous mission).
they do the mission, succeed, and everyone goes home. except the leaguers have a crisis whenever or not billy is john’s child, batman’s child, both, or cap’s. next day they probably have another crisis because john’s dating/married cap but why does their child look like bruce???? and isn’t john in a relationship with zatanna????
im also sure that some league members will come up with a poly relationship chart to decipher what kind of relationship john, billy, zatanna, captain marvel, that pet tiger they have (for some reason, the leaguers are terrified), the taxi driver and the HOM have.
they now think john’s got a poly relationship with john, cap, zatanna and (possibly) the weird taxi driver, adopted a tiger and an accident of one of bruce wayne’s affairs and bought a funky house.
this is everything i got ig
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BONUS (sorry for the low quality):
(i am very funny)
this was going to be deleted but i kept it for some reason
i’d like to imagine billy being friends with some of the good street rat kids.
one day, billy’s just chilling in the watchtower until he remembers that fuck, its jimmy’s birthday today what do i get him (he gets him the flash figurine that barry gives to the JL like every tuesday or something)
or fawcett’s got a street problem so billy (in his child/true form) goes with his friends, deal with the street problem, maybe call the JL, go back home and feed his apartment rats.
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black mask or someone has an alliance with fawcett’s underground bosses? no problem! just get information from the boys and give the information to the JL!
superman wants to interrogate you because you gave captain marvel information about the local mafia? run into an allyway and hide in the shadows! he will never find you!
got a suspicous hobo british man that swears a lot? talks about billy and captain marvel? call in the hood! they’ll take care of it!
Constantine finding out Billy smoked once (Like once in his entire life) and starts playing random anti-smoking ads everytime their in a room together.
John: (pulling out a cigarette) Now lad, this is a great time to remind you of the “do as I say, not as I do” rule.
Billy: (sweating) about that.
John: You better be yanking my chain-
Billy: well… 👀
John: (spiraling) Oh fuck. Zee was right. The second hand smoke bullshit is real. I made you into a bloody smoker.
Billy: No! I smoked years before I even met you-
John: Years!? You’re eleven-
Billy: uh gotta go bye! SHAZAM
~later~
Billy: (walks into house of mystery) Hey John, sorry about earli-errr
John, Zatanna, Chas, Black Adam, and Tawny: (all sitting in a circle, wearing anti-smoking shirts)
Tawny: This is an intervention.
john telling billy to get beer for him from the local liquor (forgetting that billy is a minor in the process) is something that i think he’d do
what about the 10 year old’s pet tiger and the taxi driver to the mean bisexual lol
Sometimes a friend group is a hot wizard, a 10 year old boy and a mean bisexual
The Shazam fandom just unanimously decided John Constantine and Billy Batson would be friends. Like there are barely any proper cannon interactions, but we kinda just grabbed both of them by the collar and said “Now HUG” and that’s kinda beautiful.
Billy Batson memes bc im in the mood-
I will always find solace in the fact that Billy Batson is too poor to be an iPad kid.
The JL (specifically Bruce) kept sending notifications whenever Billy was at someone’s house and was about to sleep in. Billy got more house invites and with the house invites because the JL wanted him to sleep over at their places badly. And because of this, Billy got more nonsense calls/emergencies/missions. The JL (unintentionally) created a problem for the boy.
I feel like John won by accident because Billy was just tired from all the nonsense notifs that came everytime he was at someone’s house. Once John (unknowing of the rule) invited Billy over to the House of Mystery/his house/or something, Billy was like “fuck manners, im fucking tired from JL shit” and slept
(or billy knew and he wanted john to win,,, who knows)
Due to the amount of League members who wanted to adopt/foster Billy Batson, A rule was created. Whoever gets Billy to fall asleep and spend the night at their house, gets to keep him.
Bruce thought he won when Billy fell asleep on one of his many couches. However, Dick bursted in saying how ‘he had to see his new baby brother’; prompting Billy to wake up and leave. Afterwards, Bruce would not talk to Dick for 3 days.
Clark came close when Jon and Billy were about to have a sleepover, but urgent JL notification came in. Meaning both Clark and Billy had to leave. Clark still thinks the notification was a set up by Bruce. (It was)
Diana claimed to win, but after some investigation it was found that Billy had spent the night at Themyscira, not Diana’s actual house.
Almost every member of the JL has tried. None has succeed.
John: let me see what you have!
Billy: A knife! ( Turn his attention to a demon or something)
John: Good, aim for the stomach
Billy: (covered in blood) That was fun.
John: (also covered in blood) You did good, I say this calls for ice cream
(Cut to Billy and John eating ice cream, while a horrified shopkeeper watches)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31835872/chapters/78818827
have this (and cringe at my attempt at humor)
(mmm adventures of tired+bitchass DILF constantine and a swearing sunshine 12 year old kid) this is a horribly long list im sorry; im adding to the "john and shazam are dating misunderstanding" hc i saw when browsing
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due to billy's reaction at canary telling him that john kissed zantanna, word gets around that john is lowkey polyamorous
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the engagement party is somewhat awkward cuz john and billy are like: ??? what????
billy, as he sees john being congratulated on his "engagement" by the members of the jl: is john getting married to zantanna?
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i said this before but when the league sees john with billy (without him being shazam/chilling in his true form), everyone assumes that billy’s john and shazam’s adopted kid
green arrow: how's life with your dads?
billy, in his true form, confused: don't you mean dad?
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when billy (as shazam) accidentally stubs his toe onto something hard, the jl hears the loudest "FUCK!" from him and thinks that he's gotten into john's swearing habits
superman: i see you have gotten some...habits
billy, who swears like a sailor all the time and thinks superman is mentioning his lessons with john: okay???
This is fantastic and cursed, I love it.
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Captain Marvel: (Injured)
Superman: (panicking) You’re husband is coming soon, just hang in there.
Captain Marvel, who is too injured to understand what was just said to him: k
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John: He’s a handful to put to bed.
Captain Marvel: Hey, it’s not my fault I want to keep playing!
The entire league, not knowing Cap was talking about animal crossing: 😶
reblogging this because this is going to be inspiration for a fic
(mmm adventures of tired+bitchass DILF constantine and a swearing sunshine 12 year old kid) this is a horribly long list im sorry; im adding to the "john and shazam are dating misunderstanding" hc i saw when browsing
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due to billy's reaction at canary telling him that john kissed zantanna, word gets around that john is lowkey polyamorous
~
the engagement party is somewhat awkward cuz john and billy are like: ??? what????
billy, as he sees john being congratulated on his "engagement" by the members of the jl: is john getting married to zantanna?
~
i said this before but when the league sees john with billy (without him being shazam/chilling in his true form), everyone assumes that billy’s john and shazam’s adopted kid
green arrow: how's life with your dads?
billy, in his true form, confused: don't you mean dad?
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when billy (as shazam) accidentally stubs his toe onto something hard, the jl hears the loudest "FUCK!" from him and thinks that he's gotten into john's swearing habits
superman: i see you have gotten some...habits
billy, who swears like a sailor all the time and thinks superman is mentioning his lessons with john: okay???
This is fantastic and cursed, I love it.
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Captain Marvel: (Injured)
Superman: (panicking) You’re husband is coming soon, just hang in there.
Captain Marvel, who is too injured to understand what was just said to him: k
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John: He’s a handful to put to bed.
Captain Marvel: Hey, it’s not my fault I want to keep playing!
The entire league, not knowing Cap was talking about animal crossing: 😶
I Took It As A Taunt Series
Anyways, idk how much fics are going to be created for this series, but we’ll see. Updates are slow because of school. I’ve got three (I Took It as a Taunt, Remember Way Back in School? and Isn’t Life so Fucking Inconsistent?) planned rn. Titles are inspired by Lovejoy’s songs.
It’s plain old Dadstantine content with Billy Batson.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Billy Batson & John Constantine, Billy Batson & Chas Chandler Characters: Billy Batson, John Constantine, Chas Chandler, Clark Kent Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, I mean it kinda is, not studying hahaha, Crack, just a little bit, Not Beta Read Series: Part 1 of I Took It as a Taunt Summary:
Billy Batson, current (child) Champion of Magic, spectacularly misunderstands when Superman gives him an invitation to the Justice League.
He joins anyway.
(mmm adventures of tired+bitchass DILF constantine and a swearing sunshine 12 year old kid) this is a horribly long list im sorry; im adding to the "john and shazam are dating misunderstanding" hc i saw when browsing
~
due to billy's reaction at canary telling him that john kissed zantanna, word gets around that john is lowkey polyamorous
~
the engagement party is somewhat awkward cuz john and billy are like: ??? what????
billy, as he sees john being congratulated on his "engagement" by the members of the jl: is john getting married to zantanna?
~
i said this before but when the league sees john with billy (without him being shazam/chilling in his true form), everyone assumes that billy’s john and shazam’s adopted kid
green arrow: how's life with your dads?
billy, in his true form, confused: don't you mean dad?
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when billy (as shazam) accidentally stubs his toe onto something hard, the jl hears the loudest "FUCK!" from him and thinks that he's gotten into john's swearing habits
superman: i see you have gotten some...habits
billy, who swears like a sailor all the time and thinks superman is mentioning his lessons with john: okay???
This is fantastic and cursed, I love it.
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Captain Marvel: (Injured)
Superman: (panicking) You’re husband is coming soon, just hang in there.
Captain Marvel, who is too injured to understand what was just said to him: k
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John: He’s a handful to put to bed.
Captain Marvel: Hey, it’s not my fault I want to keep playing!
The entire league, not knowing Cap was talking about animal crossing: 😶
when the league sees john with billy (without him being shazam/chilling in his true form), everyone assumes that billy’s john and shazam’s adopted kid
Okay, but imagine everyone thinking Cap. Marvel/Shazam and John is dating because Billy follow John around like a puppy and sometimes he like to bring lunch for his dad in full hero get up. Sure John calls Cap. his son but everyone assume it's a kink thing
That’s a horrific misunderstanding, and justifiably hilarious.
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Imagine a league member sees John kissing Zatanna and they think he’s cheating on Cap. The whole League goes apeshit because how dare he cheat on our sunshine man.
Meanwhile Billy’s just wondering why Canary sat him down and was like, “I’m sorry to tell you this but I saw John kissing Zatanna.”
And Billy’s like: “Uhh yeah so??????”
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Someone asks Cap how long he’s been with John, and Billy misinterprets it and says, “I’ve know him for 2 years, but I’ve only been staying with him for the past few months”
“Oh so are you getting rings soon? Or are you waiting on John? Or is that not your style?”
Billy, wondering how they knew about the magic rings he and John were tracking down, “actually we are getting them together”
(Cue JL throwing an engagement party)
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John talking about Billy: He’s had some issues with fathers in the past.
The Leaguer who now thinks Captain Marvel has a daddy kink: 👁👄👁
it is OOC but this has SO MUCH GOOD POTENTIAL
they also give off the vibes of “i lost my bitchass dog again” meme but the owner/creator of the poster is billy and the dog is constantine because billy unknowingly keeps constantine in check.
constantine has to cut half of the shady shit he’s doing because hes in charge of a magic child now
For gods sake, let John Constantine adopt Billy Batson. Do they have much cannon interactions? No. Are their personalities foils of each-others? YES.
Its literally the trope of ‘bitter badass adopts sunshine child.’
Think of the goddamn shenanigans! (Slams table)
(sorry to my beloved wife for saying this again but.) DILF CONSTANTINE
It’s out of character, you say. It doesn’t make sense, you say. Yeah you’re right, but let me have this.
Selenic + Khonsic Solidarity
I love bi ppl so much it’s unreal
This made me wanna draw my silly sona hugging John
Can you please draw John in a big cuddle pile of anons and your sona? He needs to be snuggled.. ily <3
he's not sure how to feel about all this affection
More John Constantine content…
I had to draw this meme with Zatanna and John
Thank you Ratblazer, may this give me luck and give me a good grade 😌
How do you feel about the poster I made for English Class?
This is super cool!! Whether or not it's being graded, I give it an A+++
John Constantine with this image? Lmao
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Ready for your colonoscopy exam?
I’m not sure how big the John Constantine fandom is on here, but I brought some food