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my injustice mary burnt the cookies bc she was grieving a bit too long (haha do you see what i did with the burnt cookie)

I like to think after so many years trapped in time, the people of Fawcett slowly put the pieces together and learn Captain Marvel’s identity. And this is where they completely deviate from “normal” people. Because living the way they do, with people who don’t age and shapeshifters and whatnot, they aren’t all that righteously angry for him. Especially when they’re trapped in suspendium bubble. Obviously they’re going to get good at keeping secrets.

Cue decades of Fawcett turning a blind eye to the Cap being a kid. After a fight between Cap and Sivana, a teacher trots over to him and gives him his homework, telling him she extended the due date to next Monday. An old lady gives him a juice box for when he turns back.

On the bright side for Billy, now he doesn’t have to keep explaining why no one’s ever seen Cap and his supposed best friend in the same room.

Fawcett makes sure to never document the events leading up to the reveal, or videos during transformation, or anything that someone could read and learn for themselves. This is good, because later, the bubble drops, and the rest of the world would apparently froth at the mouth at the mere mention of a kid being a hero(not even a sidekick!)

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.

This is insane, I genuinely had not a clue. Like in no way does it make sense to me that Captain Marvel is that old, he really does just seem that modern. 

Absolutely wild that captain marvel (dc) is mere months younger than THE BATMAN.

Notably, he's also one of the first heroes to have an villain team featuring RECURRING VILLANS as opposed to the previous 'villain of the week' style.

Batman is one of the WORLD LEADING fictional heroes, he's one of the first too. This man has been roaming the streets of Gotham since BEFORE WORLD WAR 2. To hear that shazam was created and debuted mere months later is insane.

The local Batdad is preemptively getting grey hairs

Au where Billy doesn’t get his demigod form but just a shit ton of magic instead.

(can kinda be read as a continuation of this)

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Zatanna has been hopping around Europe for months now. She’s been finding her father’s old teachers and new ones that are all her own and getting them to tell her everything they can. Since she left the mountain she’s been wringing every drop of knowledge she can from the world and practising it until she falls asleep with all her magic spent.

It feels a little like healing.

Sometimes it feels like something else though. When Zatanna thinks about how the only real connections she’s made on this journey have been with her teachers. Those connections aren’t like the one she shared with her father. Not like the connections she still shares with the Team. She makes the effort to go and visit the mountain on occasion but it’s not enough. The feeling of other people being close and loving her doesn’t fill her up like it used to.

She decides that this probably is healing. This whole thing she’s doing. But it’s a lonely breed of it.

Then a boy with black hair and blue eyes and far too much power, just like her, comes tumbling into her room one day.

“Uh. Hi. I’m Billy.” he says, uncertain. His aura crackles with lightning and Zatanna doesn’t think she’s ever seen someone with so much raw magic running through their veins.”You’re Zatanna right? I was hoping that you could help me? I want- I need to learn magic.” He pauses. “It’s important. A wizard told me so.”

Zatanna hasn’t thought about helping anyone in a long time. She’s been too focused on saving herself to have room for other worries. She realises that she misses it.

She must hesitate for too long because Billy looks far more worried than a kid that age should have any right to. “Please?” he says.

Zatanna smiles, because healing takes many forms and she thinks that this might be one she prefers. “Okay.” she says.

Billy smiles and it lights the room up so much that Zatanna thinks he might actually be doing magic on accident.

They’ll work on it.

While I do agree with the Justice League being very concerned about this, I also think they deal with bs like this on the daily, so it could go something like this.

Bruce: I think it’s important for everyone here to know, Billy is with with Talia at Nanda Parbat right now.

Clark: Well, that’s not good. Is he okay?

Bruce: … Yes. Currently, Talia is training him in sword fighting. He has also seen some tigers.

Diana: GREAT! Talia is a skilled sword fighter. He’s lucky to be fighting alongside her.

Oliver: Diana no

Diana: Diana yes

Billy showing up to Nanda Parbat: Hey, I got told to meet my grandmother? What's that about-

Talia, picking Billy up and tucking him under her arm: Perfect, Jason has finally given me a grandson. Do you like swords and tigers?

Billy, about to be Spoiled™ for the next two weeks: Boy, do I!

I can’t resist:

I’ve come to a realization about the fine line that separates superheroes and magical girls, that being that most magical girls share these traits:

The way they come into their powers is typically out of their control

They are a “chosen one,” unique among their peers

They aren’t the ones who initially decide to fight evil, rather the ones bestowing their powers onto them tell them they need to fight evil

They are typically quite young, none exceeding the age of 20

They have animal/mascot companions

They have a transformation sequence into their more magical form, typically activated by a catchphrase

From these observations, I have concluded

Shazam spoilers without context

billy (as captain marvel) has to give a speech at a gallery opening and the gods are arguing over something silly. billy, annoyed, accidentally responds to it mid speech, getting into the argument himself. unfortunately the event is being broadcasted

it quickly goes viral

random internet user: LMAO WHO IS CAP ARGUING WITH DID HE FORGET HES ON LIVESTREAM [1:45 PM] other internet user: nevermind that did he forget he was mid speech?! [1:46 PM]

clark kent, one of the reporters covering the opening, looks on in disbelief

need more… injustice billy content…

im drying up out here like its not even bc of the angst that i need it, its just because its so so SO interesting as a somewhat psychological horror type thing.

like tell me you’re not interested about what is going on in supes head when he kills billy, or what billy is thinking, or EVEN what mary is thinking and she isn’t even there.

like you could even throw in sunny for good measure, how would he react when he learns that his old friend billy has died? it was already a shock hearing that fawcett’s local hero joined the regime, even more to find out that it was one of sunny’s friends.

how does freddy react after billy died because of supes after freddy said he was against it in the first place? would he regret not convincing billy enough? or would he think that it was billy’s own choice that caused his death and not feel guilty, just grief that billy had died in the first place? (reference to that one panel where freddy is captured by regime because he was protesting against it, which i think is a thing but i forgot so dont take my word for it)

does superman genuinely think that he was in the right for killing billy, or was it the heat of the moment? in the chance that it was in the heat of the moment, does he convince himself that he is right, that billy was a casualty of war to avoid the regret that came along from his actions?

and dont EVEN get me started on mary’s reaction, imagine the long lost brother that you’ve been missing for your whole life is taken away from you just a few months/years after you found him. did mary already know that it was going to end badly by seeing how much worse the regime got, or did she just trust billy to handle everything?

i really just wanna pick at their minds lowkey

Shazam, a supposedly magic immortal being of unknown origin: kinda pops off ngl

Batman, a father of 6: (narrows eyes in suspicion) yes…indeed it does..

how the FUCK am i only now finding out about the scene after the credits on shazam where freddy and billy see if billy can talk to fish. WHY DID YOU HIDE THIS FROM ME.

POV: the whole justice league is revealing their secret identities to each other and it's Shazam's turn, and he's been hiding that he's a kid.

S = Shazam

Green Lantern: Ok your turn Shazam, who are you?

S: Umm before I take off my costume, there's something you should know. If you're Shazam, then when you're Shazam you're the same age, no matter what. Whatever age you usually are. And- um. So- oh, I'll just show you. Shazam!

Wonder Woman: You are a child!

S: Debatable.

Superman: How old are you?

S: Shazam! Now I'm like 24.

Green Lantern: Doesn't even know how old he is as Shazam...

S: Shazam!

Flash, walking in: Wait are we revealing identities? Why was I not invited? Who's the kid?

Divine Twitch Chat come through 🤺

Also B/W version cause they kinda slap

My fave little guy

Billy telling them his identity when he hits 18 🙏

A bunch of the Justice League’s villains work together to capture the league and when someone asks where Captain Marvel is, his villains point over at Billy Batson, a scrawny underfed 10 year old child, and so everyone is like, “Bro what the fuck that is very clearly not Captain Marvel” and his villains are like, “Trust me it is” and then try to get Billy to show everyone but Billy starts panicking because he doesn’t know what to do in this situation and ends up just doing what any 10 year old would do when they’ve been kidnapped by their arch-nemeses and can’t fight them off without revealing that they’re a child to their superhero coworkers, and bursts out into tears while trying to act like a completely normal 10 year old and so now everyone is just glaring at his villains like, “What the fuck guys" while they’re desperately trying to get Billy to Shazam

My favorite version of tawny tawky is when he’s just a stuffed animal, and then boom! Magical tiger.

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???

i searched for copper...instead, i found gold

LETS GOOOOOOOO

at this point, the whole magic community is just one clusterfuck for the JL

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)

It’s inconceivable how many instances there are of Captain Marvel’s kiddish tendencies being used in conjunction with blind obedience towards authority or in making rash split-second decisions when in reality there should be way more moments of him being a rightfully stupid preteen. Billy should get to stop and play with a dog while a villain recites a melodramatic speech in the background and he needs to laugh so hard that he cries over fart jokes. Bringing balance to his mythos by making him fry open watermelons with his thunderbolts.

THANK YOU COMRADE

idk even know what this is i just found this in my draft at 4 am

another crack(ish) prompt but do you think that billy would solve things peacefully/casually??? ppl expect him to be flashy or punch a lot because of his personality, powers or something but NOPE

like think about it

-he’s having a fight with a villain and he just wants to talk instead of fight

-a god/dess shows up, wanting to destroy something/the world and billy’s like: “sup, want some burgers?” 

-“what are burgers?” (cue the JL, billy and the deity eating burgers in mcdonalds)

-another take on the burgers one: “do you want burgers?” “champion of magic, what the fuck” 

-*villian goes on a rant about how their life sucked* 

billy: do you need a hug,,, wanna get a milkshake,,,,

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-