lightning_child
Fandoms
- DCU (76)
- The Flash (Comics) (33)
- The Flash - All Media Types (21)
- Young Justice (Cartoon) (12)
- Batman - All Media Types (12)
Recent works
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Down By The River by lightning_child
Fandoms: DCU, The Flash (Comics), Superman - All Media Types
28 Mar 2026
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Jay Garrick goes to sleep in his house in Central City on June 14, 2024, age 106 and not looking a day over sixty.
Barry Allen trips on a rock at high speeds on June 14, 2024, age 49 and making their way home from a night patrol.
Jay Garrick wakes up on November 11th, 1965, in a Smallville farmstead he only vaguely remembers purchasing in 1945, age 47 and not looking a day over twenty-five.
Barry Garrick wakes up nestled against their twin brother Eobard on May 15th, 1983, age 8 and best friends with Clark Kent, who lives just down the road.
This is an ordinary occurrence, just as it has been for most of the last two million or so times this sort of thing happened.
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- Part 8 of HalBarryIris Loops
- Part 1 of Flashfam Loops
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It occurs to Barry- would anyone actually notice if they stopped slowing themself down, got up and left and spent a few weeks in speedtime actually doing something productive?
They look around the room. There is no sound, not when sound is currently travelling slower than they are. Clark is intently focused on Bruce’s words, hands folded on the table. Diana is blinking, hands sitting neatly in her lap. Bruce is mid-word, one hand gesturing in front of him. Arthur is staring out the window. Hal has his phone out on the table, the pixels halfway through loading the next frame of what looks like a Google search.
Barry very gently stands up, pushes their chair back and pushes it back in. No one so much as glances in their direction. Bruce is still on the same syllable. Diana is still in the middle of blinking. Hal’s phone is still refreshing the same frame, and not a single pixel has moved.
The answer, very clearly, is no.
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Systemic (In)Justice by lightning_child
Fandoms: DCU, Injustice: Gods Among Us, The Flash (Comics)
28 Feb 2026
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Five years ago, Barry woke up in the past, alone in a world already under the rule of a dictatorial Superman unwilling to tolerate dissent, with Wally’s unborn core nestled into his belly, Yellow Lantern already out the door.
Faced with the impossible choice between Regime and Insurgency, Barry took the path of Bureaucracy.
(After all, when you’ve been in a time loop for millions of years, you know how to play the long game and wear a smile on your face even when you want to scream.)Series
- Part 7 of HalBarryIris Loops
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Outside-Context Problem by lightning_child
Fandoms: DCU, Parahumans Series - Wildbow, The Flash (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics)
14 Jan 2026
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Hal is stuck in the Wormverse with an unconscious Barry, and he’s going to make that everyone else’s problem.
The Wormverse is not prepared. At all.Series
- Part 1 of Parahumans/DCU Crossovers
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Barry Breaks DC vs Vampires by lightning_child
Fandoms: DCU, DC vs. Vampires (DC Comics), The Flash (Comics)
26 Oct 2025
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DC vs Vampires is so poorly written and executed that most of the plot would crumble to ash with a rudimentary application of simple logic by almost anyone involved.
Unfortunately for this continuity, Barry Allen is an immortal billennia-old time traveller who's mostly interested in saving Hal, not dying at the scripted time and having fun along the way.
Featuring: Boredom-induced chaos, ridiculous outfits, Barry pretending to be a vampire older than agriculture, cute HalBarry stuff, speedsters being eldritch horrors that only superficially resemble humans, and my attempts to salvage some kind of internal logic from the whole mess.
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- Part 11 of HalBarryIris Loops
Recent series
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The Emerald Empire by Ikibli (lightning_child)
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Green Lantern (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, The Flash (Comics), The Flash - All Media Types
01 Sep 2024
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It has been thirty-four centuries since the High Emperor and High Empress(may they reign forevermore) ascended their thrones, destroying Terra’s old and backwards nations with a single pronouncement and raising them into a glorious interstellar empire under the wise and venerable guidance of the Imperial Council and its associated Ministries. In that time, the Emerald Empire has prospered, with its citizens, culture and holdings flourishing and-
Okay, let’s cut the propaganda. The Ministers spend more time messing around, arguing with each other and pursuing pet projects than actually running their Ministries, the High Empress spends more time vetoing the Council’s stupider ideas and reigning in the High Emperor than actually ruling the Empire, the Subministries are full of nepotism and cutthroat politics, the common citizen is fully aware that they’re either constantly being spied upon or completely forgotten about by the Empire as a whole and the Empire is constantly at war.
When Red Hood is the voice of reason, you know it’s bad.- Words:
- 3,545
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 2
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Shifting Shadows(Old) by Appleeatinggoat, Ikibli (lightning_child)
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Green Lantern (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Rain World (Video Game), The Flash (Comics), The Flash - All Media Types, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Dec 2024
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Each fic can be read as a standalone, though the reference guide may be required for some to make sense. Fics are listed in chronological order.
- Words:
- 62,283
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 12
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RWVAU by Appleeatinggoat, Ikibli (lightning_child), lightning_child
Fandom DCU, Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Rain World (Video Game), The Flash - All Media Types
27 Jul 2025
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This series is written by Appleeatinggoat- Shifting Rains is the only fic that Ikibli had real any influence on.
Inspired by the Shifting Shadows series, by Ikibli.
Fics between the two info-only fics are either non-canon or could be at any point in the timeline. After, fics are sorted by chronological order.- Words:
- 26,561
- Works:
- 13
- Bookmarks:
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Homicide Is Fun(Dark/Crack Todoroki Fam) by Ikibli (lightning_child)
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Sep 2023
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The Todoroki family has never been the most...sane, even in canon. What if you took that a little further?
That's Homicide is Fun, where the Todorokis are assassins, murderers and serial killers with a completely genial demeanor.- Words:
- 1,668
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 13
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Boku No Hero Academia Outside Perspectives by Ikibli (lightning_child)
Fandom Beast: The Primordial, Changeling: The Lost, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
05 Feb 2024
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Unexpected things happen all the time. Sometimes those unexpected things are small, like your cat getting loose due to a loose screw in your door.
Sometimes the universe throws you a curveball from Pluto instead. And it's your job to deal with it, because the curveball was thrown 60 years ago.
(A Boku No Hero Academia compilation, focusing on Out of Context Problems, POV Outsider and weird occurences.)
- Words:
- 18,505
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 11
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Feeling It Out by defying3reason
Fandoms: The Flash (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
17 Apr 2026
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Running down the side of a building after your buddy comes out to you can be easily misconstrued. Once Piper and Wally get a chance to really talk after their teamup, Wally reveals that he's not homophobic in the least, just really prone to shiny-yellow-boot-in-mouth syndrome. In fact, while they're chatting Wally reveals that he has a few other gay friends, and one of them is single...
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- Part 2 of Night Music
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The Things That Stay by Underscoreryan_wears_all_black
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Titans (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
22 Apr 2026
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If Dick had known that was the last moment, he would’ve pulled Wally back into bed and given him something to remember. Made it a goodbye for the ages. He wouldn’t have let him leave at all.
Because he hadn’t said goodbye.
A chaste kiss wasn’t goodbye. It was see you later.
I should’ve said goodbye.
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Grief doesn’t arrive all at once.
Sometimes it waits. Sometimes it lingers. Sometimes it rewrites the rules of your body before you’re ready to face them.
After losing Wally West, Dick Grayson struggles to hold himself together under Bruce’s watchful eye- until a routine investigation, a delayed truth, and a choice that can’t be made cleanly force everything into the open.*Updated every Tuesday and Friday
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Petunia may suffer the boy to live under her roof and come into her care, but she will not let him ruin everything she’s built. She is a normal woman with a normal family and a very normal life.
It is, she defends as she clears out the cupboard under the stairs and puts together a little bedroom for the boy there, a good protection for the boy too.
She doesn’t trust whatever magic has been put over him to actually protect them.
What better protection is there for both the boy and for her family than for no one to know he’s even here. Not the neighbours, not the freaks trying to hunt down a baby, and not anyone else who might come looking for him either.
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A Father's Son by dnky
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse)
10 May 2021
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JARVIS wakes up during infinity war.
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Dr Strange was looking at the wrong thing when he examined those millions of futures. It wasn't about strategies. It was about stories.