#dchqs.intro

prior  to  the  equation:

most  of  jason’s  comic  backstory  is  canon.  he  tried  to  jack  the  tires  off  the  batmobile,  got  taken  in  by  bruce,  became  robin,  died  at  the  hands  of  the  joker,  and  was  resurrected  in  the  lazarus  pit.  he  took  on  the  mantle  of  ‘  red  hood  ’  and  is  one  of  gotham’s  notable  anti-heroes.  he’s  worked  alone,  alongside  the  batfam,  and  with  the  outlaws  among  others.  primarily,  however,  he  works  alone.

what  have  then  been  doing  in  the  last  three  years?

after  finding  dick’s  body  in  the  batcave,  and  burying  him,  jason  took  the  batmobile  to  round  up  the  rest  of  the  batfam  that  was  still  alive.  or  at  least  the  ones  he  could  find.  he  made  it  to  damian  before  the  arks  left  for  earth-2,  sending  ace  with  him,  before  heading  back  to  the  green  with  some  of  the  other  villains  /  anti-heroes.  

he  protects  their  little  corner  of  the  earth  with  the  others  in  order  to  ensure  that  they  stay  safe.  survival’s  always  been  his  top  priority  and  he  won’t  let  anyone,  or  anything,  get  in  the  way  of  that.   with  bruce  infected,  and  dick  dead,  he  stayed  close  to  other  batfam  members  like  stephanie  when  barbara  disappeared.  he  might  not  have  always  wanted  them  but  there  was  no  denying  they  needed  each  other.  he’s  also  been  ruthless  when  it  comes  to  killing  the  infected,  even  the  people  he  might  have  known.  they’re  as  good  as  dead,  he  figures,  and  putting them  out  of  their  misery  is  a  kindness.   that  said,  if  he  was  ever  face  to  face  with  bruce,  i  don’t  think  he’d  be  able  to  pull  the  trigger.  

how  will  they  react  to  having  the  others  come  back  from  earth-2?

Background ;;

Harry was born to Norman and Emily Osborn and had a relatively happy childhood until his mother died. He absolutely adored her and stuck close to her as soon as he was old enough to do so, and losing her was not only incredibly hard for him but left him incredibly lonely

With Norman being such a busy distant, borderline abusive father, Harry largely grew alone until he began at school. Fortunately he became close friends with Peter Parker when he was younger and eventually the rest of the future Spidey Gang. They remained friends through their childhood and teen years

Both his friends and their families - namely Peter’s aunt - helped Harry feel that gap that had been left by his father’s negligence, giving him the love and care and support he needed most of the time, but he still grew up effectively without parents.

Unfortunately, Harry inherited the same genetic illness that took his mother’s life - Oshtoran Syndrome. The complications began in his teen years, but Harry did his best to hide them from his friends to save them from the pain he’d felt watching his mother be claimed by the same illness when he was a child

He used easy excuses like being busy with school, college, and eventually his Oscorp work, or claiming hangovers from partying to avoid suspicion when he was unwell

During his work with Oscorp he was determined to carry on his mother’s work, hoping to become an environmental attorney. He used his time, resources, and intelligence to try and better the city via Oscorp

Eventually his condition became critical and Harry couldn’t continue on without deteriorating rapidly as his mother had. Norman suggested they attempt an experimental treatment to which Harry agreed and, planting the cover story that Harry would be managing Oscorp’s European operations, he was put into a type of stasis to undergo the treatment. None of his friends knew at this point that he was sick, or where he was really going.

After deriving a treatment from Devil’s Breath failed, Norman made a last-ditch effort to preserve his son, a temporary solution until they found a permanent cure. He attempted to isolate the healing factor from the spider-venom and have it to Harry to try and treat him, but the isolation didn’t quite work and while the venom did cure him, it also gave him similar powers to Peter’s. That’s right, after hating Spider-Man for years, Harry came out of stasis with spider-powers.

At first, it wasn’t easy to cope with and Harry spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find a way to survive without the venom, to find a way to strip it out of his body without killing him in the process, to no avail. And once the anti-life equation hit there was no way to continue researching, and Harry found himself in a position he never expected. His father became infected almost instantly, and it was only thanks to his spider-sense and some crash course help from Peter that he was able to escape.

Knowing he would be no use on a technology-free world, Harry made the difficult decision to leave his Earth behind and travel to Earth-2 on the arks, knowing he could do much more good there to help people start over.

Where has he been these past 3 years? ;;

Harry has been on Earth-2, helping the remains of humanity settle on a new world. After seeing the anti-life equation rip through their world so quickly via technology, he’s been working to try and product equipment that’s less susceptible to network-wide issues, but it’s hard given how ingrained that was on their own home.

He’s also been Spider-Man, much to his frustration. It was a difficult mantle to take on at first, given how long Harry spent hating the vigilante. But the appearance of a suit tucked in with the belongings he took with him, and a heartfelt note from his best friend, managed to convince him that he could do some good there. And whatever issues Harry once had about Spider-Man had begun to dissipate when he found out who the vigilante was back home. This was a chance to start over, and.. despite his own feelings, people needed as much hope as they could get. And Sipder-Man can give them that, even if he’s not quite the same Spider-Man they remember.

What they've been doing/working on/focusing on for the past 3 years:

A combination of things, really. Harry had to learn fast, how to be Spider-Man. It’s not like he had time for heaps of training and tips back home. It’s been eye-opening really, to go through what Pete went through when he first got bitten, trying to figure things out on his own.

He’s also been working on shoring up any technology they may have gained on Earth-2, and creating new tech that’s just as useful but not network-linked or susceptible to widespread viruses of any kind, deadly or otherwise. Watching the anti-life equation tear through their home so quickly purely because of the convenience technology had begun to develop had been terrifying for him, given how much tech Oscorp created, and Harry doesn’t want to repeat the same mistakes.

He’s also been trying to research a cure, given biochem was a big part of Oscorp, but it’s been hard without a source of the equation to work on so he hadn’t made much headway.

How does he feel about coming back to Earth after so long?

Nervous, terrified they’re going to fuck something up, uncertain if earth can be saved - but relieved to be coming back, and incredibly glad that there’s been some confirmation that a cure could exist somewhere. That there could be a way to save all the people they left behind, infected or not. He’s confident if he can find Cyborg he can find the cure in his system somewhere, and he’s determined to do so. Not in the least because his own father is infected.

History

the son of a forest ranger, roy never knew his mother and lost his father to a forest fire at the age of 2. his father ended up perishing as he was saving members of a navajo reservation during the fire

brave bow, the shaman of the reservation, decided to take roy in as thanks to the sacrifice his father had made for them and raised roy as his own

at an early age brave bow recognized the talent that roy had with a bow and began to train him, his talent only growing more over the years. he eventually developed the skill better than someone twice his age

the day that green arrow debuted first in public, roy began to hero worship him and watched everything that he could of the archer. he was absolutely in awe

the day then came that green arrow was coming to the reservation to judge an archery competition and roy did everything in his ability to succeed and show the hero what he could do. while he managed to make it to the last round, he was given a magnetized arrow and missed the shot. however, he managed to stop a thief and it was then that green arrow realized that roy was speedier than even him

roy was taken in by the other, learning his secret identity, and roy became known as speedy

he joined the teen titans eventually, though things began to take a darker turn. various reasons led roy down a pit of despair. he became incredibly depressed and hopeless, eventually becoming addicted to heroin.

in telling oliver, someone he considered a mentor, he was hit and kicked out and their relationship was severed. eventually, however, the relationship was slowly mended. roy still has some mild resentment but oliver is still like a father to him

it took time but eventually roy managed to quit cold turkey with the help of hal and dinah. it was the most painful thing he’d ever gone through but he survived it and became stronger from it

fast forward a few years and roy falls into something with cheshire, and the eventual outrcome betwen the two of them resulted in a daughter of their own – lian harper

there was a time in his life where he was a member of the justice league, something that he had been wanting for a long time. around this time a super villain known as promethesus was planning a massive attack on the world’s superheroes. upon going to call mia and lian to wish them goodnight, roy was viciously attacked and beaten by prometheus and ended up losing his right arm. everything else about that arc we ignore because lian is alive and well and fuck dc for taking his daughter away

in recovery, he was given a bionic arm and had to relearn and retrain everything he knew prior

this happened just 6 months before the anti-life equation hit and everything went to shit. so many lives were lost, and it was all roy could do to protect as many people as he could from what was happening. once the arks were built, roy made the choice to send lian off to earth-2 for her safety while he stayed behind to fight for their world

Present

the past three years, roy has remained back on earth and done his part as best as he could to keep as many people safe as possible

tends to stay in wonder city, helping where he can with any weapons that need built or bringing people from the outside into the city. 

still has a tendency to be pretty reckless, often going out to try and save as many people as possible who need help or who may be trapped but he just wants to do everything he can

Abilities 

Archery: Roy is a marksman of incredible accuracy. He is extremely adept at the use of the bow and arrow.

Martial Arts: Roy has been trained by Black Canary and Oliver Queen, both masters of a variety of martial arts, the former being one of the most skilled martial artists on the planet. Red Arrow has also been tutored throughout his life by Hal Jordan, a skilled boxer and regularly sparred with Nightwing

Moo Gi Gong

Throwing: Roy is highly skilled in the use of throwing weapons, and has used bolas, balls, knives and other various weapons and hurled them with amazing accuracy.

Weaponry: Master of Moo Gi Gong. Roy is extremely proficient with a wide array of weaponry. He can take virtually any object and use it in combat as an effective weapon.He's a master of all manner of weapons in his own right.

Leadership: Despite his occasional goofy nature, Roy has a serious side that has allowed him to lead teams in the past, including both the New Titans and the Outsiders.

Don’t patronize me or I’ll break your face.

History

the son of bruce wayne and talia al ghul, damian was raised for ten years in the league of assassins. he became an incredibly skilled and deadly assassin at a very young age, growing in skills and intelligence as he was meant to be the heir of the league

however, when his mother introduced him and his father, it was under the assumption bruce would join them. damian chose to defect from the league and join his father in gotham instead

with bruce gone, dick took up the mantle of batman and chose damian to be his robin. it was during this time he began to learn the ropes of heroism and gained an understanding of how to use his skills to help people

upon his father’s resurrection, damian began working with him as robin and was taught that life was not meant to be taken

sometime down the line, his mother resurfaced as the head of the levithan. with a hit out on his head thanks to his mother, attempts were made to kill him, though talia eventually had a clone of damian made, known as the heretic

faking his death and forced to stay hidden, damian refused to allow his family to fight while he did not. he chose to disobey and joined the fight. it was then that the heretic made his appearance, and in order to protect dick’s life, damian fought him and was impaled through the chest

after a year or so, he was finally resurrected. fuck dc for saying damian went to hell

he began to get back into his old life as robin, though he remained haunted by his death and everything that had come with it.

is a vegetarian and an animal lover. will find him collecting pets

has a lot of scars on his body. like. a lot

still has nightmares about dying

when the anti-life equation hit, damian lost so much in his life. losing people he loved and cared for really hit him harder than it normally would because he never had an opportunity to be open about how much he cared.

taking on the mantle of batman at 15 was one of the hardest things he had to do in his life, and the weight on his shoulders was beyond heavy

Present 

for the last 3 years damian has been on eart-2 helping everyone that came over on the arks settle into their new life and helping with the new justice league 

still carries the weight of the cowl very heavily on his shoulders but he’s trying his best to live up to the legacy that was left behind by his father

once the SOS was sent out by cyborg, of course he jumped to help and figure out what was happening, so he was one of the ones to come back to their earth in order to figure out what was going on 

Abilities

Genius Level Intellect: Damian has inherited a genius IQ from his father.

Intimidation

Investigation: Damian, having been trained under the "World's Greatest Detective", has been able to deduce people's actions as well as solve mysteries with few amounts of data.

Martial Arts: Trained by the League of Assassins, Damian has stated he knows just as many martial arts as Batman and can use them more effectively. This may be a largely overstated comment but one should not ask for verification. Damian may not be physically tough but he knows how to control his weight and has stated that he knows, "one thousand ways to kill a man." Damian's training has made him a formidable hand-to-hand combatant able to defeat or hold his own against multiple opponents, armed opponents or skilled hand-to-hand combatants.

Stealth: Damian was able to sneak into Gotham City and furthermore into the Batcave virtually undetected until he felt necessary. Of all the Robins, Damian may be the one that is the most silent

Swordsmanship: Damian assaulted both Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne on separate occasions with his sword, apparently the same sword used by Ra's al Ghul. Although Damian no longer uses his sword he may be unmatched with one if armed correctly.

History ;;

we all know diana so i won’t make this too long, i will mainly be using dceu for her as it’s what i know best but i’m more than happy to incorporate comics events into backgrounds to line up with other characters!

diana was born on themyscira to the queen, hippolyta. for a long time it was hidden from her that she’s the daughter of hippolyta and zeus, and has the ability to slay a god

her mother wanted to keep her safe from the dangers of the world, both man and god, and so she never told her, even trying to keep diana from training and learning to fight and defend herself

diana was determined to learn, though, and prompted her aunt, antiope, to train her. as she grew diana became incredibly skilled and strong, pushed by antiope and hippolyta to become the best fighter the amazons had

she left man’s world with steve trevor to help end WW1, convinced it had been caused by ares and that it was her duty as an amazon to defeat him. this is how she learned the truth of her conception and, despite losing steve, was able to defeat ares

she’s stayed in man’s world ever since, mostly working in the shadows to defend people and help humanity where she can, until bruce wayne stubbornly came into her life and convinced her to take a more public role as wonder woman, and as part of the justice league

Key personality traits ;;

diana’s compassion knows no bounds, and she will go to any length she can to help and protect people. as hesitant as she had been to take on more of a public role, or a leadership sort of role in the world, she’s risen wonderfully to the occasion

despite this compassion, diana has little patience for those who are evil or have chosen a life of crime and cruelty. she would take a much harsher stance with them than either bruce or clark thanks to her nature as a warrior, where they would be much more likely to give second chances

she has a very strong conviction and will always fight for what’s right, despite what anyone else might say or think. she’s not above reason, though, knowing when she needs to pull back and trust in others

Where they were when the anti-life equation hit, and what they’ve been doing over the past 3 years ;;

diana was safe on themyscira with her mother when the anti-life equation hit. while she received bruce’s emergency signal, it was lois’ call that brought her back to help find a way to fight the equation spreading through the human race faster than any plague they’d ever seen.

there’s a deviation from comic events here, clark didn’t infect diana and she didn’t turn into one of the fallen

fortunate to escape with her life and her mind as the arks were built and the survivors were gathered, diana made a decision. she couldn’t abandon earth, the planet that had housed both of her homes her entire life. even though themyscira had been largely lost as the arks escaped earth, diana couldn’t abandon those left behind. the arks had enough heroes to defend them, and she knew cassie would do well in her place.

no, diana chose to stay. after losing bruce and so much of his family, she knew she couldn’t abandon gotham, and with the batcave’s supplies and bruce’s habit of setting up as many contingencies as possible, diana knew it was a good base. besides, beneath the city lay wonder city. ever since the arks disappeared, diana has been helping survivors find their way to wonder city where they can live in safety and without fear of the equation reaching them.

the past three years have been a process of making the underground city as habitable as possible, and developing a network of underground transport tunnels to be able to reach other survivors such as ivy and those who sought refuge above ground in the green, and those who have managed to find save havens throughout the country.

james  buchanan  barnes  was  born  in  1917.  he  was  a  good  student  and  fairly  athletic,  though  his  school  record  probably  wasn’t  great.  when  he  befriended  steve  rogers  as  children,  beating  up  bullies  that  tried  to  mess  with  him  became  a  pastime.   steve  was  a  scrapper,  always  ‘had  ‘em  on  the  ropes’  but  james  —  better  known  to  friends  and  family  as  bucky  —  was  the  kind  of  person  who  couldn’t  sit  back  and  watch  the  people  he  loved  hurt.  they  were  inseparable  and  the  majority  of  bucky’s  happy  memories  all  include  steve.  the  unhappy  ones too  probably,  considering  steve’s  health  wasn’t  great  when  they  were  young  and  he  probably  worried  about  him  24/7.  

he  was  idealistic  when  he  enlisted  and  was  assigned  to  the  107th  in  1943.   he  was  young,  all  smiles  and  charm, and  really  believed  in  the  cause.  or  believed  that  he  believed,  which  rounds  out  the  same  in  the  end.  he  was  a  waterweight  champion  prior  to  enlisting  and  was  given  sniper  training  shortly  after  he  got  his  papers.  from  there,  everything  went  from  sort  of  good  to  bad.   his  regiment  were  kidnapped  by  hydra  and  he  was  experimented  on  by  a  scientist  named  zola.  they  injected  him  with  a  walmart  brand  supersoldier  serum,  trying  to  replicate  the  success  that  they  had  with  captain  america,  but  his  regiment  was  rescued  and  he  vowed  to  fight  against  hydra  by  steve’s  side.  

on  a  mission,  fighting  alongside  steve  —  newly  super  serum’d  up  and  way  buffer  than  he  remembered  —  he  was  blasted  from  a  train  car.   he  was  clinging  to  the  railing  that  gave  way  moments  before  steve  could  grab  his  hand.   he  was  assumed  dead  as  he  fell  a  significant  drop.  the  serum  is  probably  what  saved  him  and  gave  hydra  the  perfect  opportunity  to  grab  him.   he  was  experimented  on  extensively  and  technologically  upgraded  with  a  cybernetic  arm  to  make  him  even  more  deadly.  hydra  brainwashed  him,  implanted  code  words  and  conditioning  with  triggers,  so  they  could  control  him  and  make  him  the  perfect  weapon.  

in  his  past,  in  and  out  of  cryo,  he  trained  natasha  romanoff  in  the  red  room.  there  were  a  number  of  super  soliders,  other  projects  that  were  deemed  failures  or  too  unstable  to  function,  but  the  black  widows  were  the  soviet’s  baby  so  to  speak.   up  until  recently,  he  didn’t  remember  anything  about  his  time  in  the  red  room.   or  the  time  he  shot  a  mark  through  natasha.   awko.  

over  the  next  70  years,  they’d  pull  him  in  and  out  of  cryofreeze,  wiping  his  memory  between  missions,  to  have  complete  a  series  of  prolific  assassinations  and  missions.  he  became  a  ghost  story,  referred  to  in  whispers  in  the  intelligence  community  as  the  winter  solider,  and  was  known  to  be  extremely  deadly.    

bucky  continued  to  operate  as  an  hydra  asset  until  the  fall  of  hydra  within  s.h.i.e.l.d.  in  2013.   his  programming  was  starting  to  fail,  triggers  from  his  former  life  waking  up  parts  of  him  that  he’d  thought  were  long  gone,  and  he  was  starting  to  remember  things.   the  man  on  the  bridge.  i  remember  him.   he  pulls  steve  out  of  the  river  after  the  helicarrier  crashes,   visits  the  exhibit  at  the  smithsonian,  and  then  disappears.   it  takes  years  for  him  to  sort  through  his  memories,  writing  things  down  frantically  in  notebooks  as  quickly  as  they  appear  in  case  they  disappear  again.  on  top  of  the  horrific  memories  of  the  things  he’s  done,  the  people  he’s  hurt,  he  has  blanks  and  gaps  that  he  doesn’t  know  how  to  quantify.   so  he  hides,  he  stays  off  shield  and  the  governments  radar,  and  he  tries  to  figure  out  who  and  what  he  is.    that  is,  until  his  picture’s  on  the  news,  steve’s  crashing  back  into  his  life,  and  there’s  another  fight  to  be  fought.   except  this  time,  it’s  over  him.   and  he’s  not  sure  he  deserves  it.

this  is  getting  really  sad  so  i’m  moving  on.  anyways.  after  the  events  of  civil  war,  when  nemo  used  his  conditioning  to  turn  him  against  the  people  he  cared  about,  he  knew  he  was  a  liability.   until  they  could  fix  him,  figure  out  a  way  to  condition  his  brain  back  to  normal,  he  went  into  cryofreeze  again  in  wakanda.   a  year,  maybe  a  little  more,  and  he’s  out.   he  has  a  new  arm,  which  he  refuses  to  wear initially,  and  his  mind’s  clearer  than  it’s  been  in  years.   the  memories  still  come  and  go,  the  journaling  never  stops,  but  at  least  now  he  has  a  clear  picture  of  what’s  real  and  what  was  implanted  by  hydra.   he  knows,  in  an  abstract  way,  who  he  is  again.    what  he  is,  however,  is  up  for  debate.  

anyways  yes  he  spent  some  time  in  wakanda  trying  to  heal,  figure  out  what  comes  next,  and  just  take  a  breather.   everyone  he  knew  before  is  dead,  the  people  he  cared  about  he  hurt,  and  there’s  so  much  blood  on  his  hands  he  practically  drowns  in  it.   (  do  i  think  he  stayed  out  in  a  hut  because  his  nightmares  prompted  violent  shouts  sometimes  and  he  was  embarrassed?  yes.   does  he  still  have  them?  sometimes. )   shortly  before  the  equation,  steve  smuggled  him  back  in  the  states  when  he  felt  confident  that  he  was  no  longer  a  danger  to  the  people  around  him....  and  after,  when  the  world  was  fracturing,  his  past  crimes  didn’t  seem  to  matter  so  much.  

what  have  they  been  doing  in  the  last  three  years?

ever  since  the  equation,  bucky’s  been  on  the  ground  in  wonder  city  and  the  surrounding  areas.  sometimes  he  helps  get  refugees  into  the  city,  or  goes  on  missions  to  find  resources;  whatever  he  can  do  to  be  helpful.  he  has  a  stockpile  of  coffee  and  is  always  happy  to  share  it  with  friends.   it  was  his  first  priority  when  the  world  started  going  to  shit  and  he  has  a  massive  stock  now.  #priorities.

his  ptsd,  however,  hasn’t  fared  so  great  in  the  apocalypse.  he  suffers  from  mild  dissociative  episodes  where  he’ll  retreat  into  himself,  disappearing  for  hours  or  even  days  at  a  time.   

oh  and  because  he  has  a  walmart  version  of  the  super  soldier  serum  pumping  through  his  veins,  he’s  semi-resistant  to  the  anti-life  equation.   he  can  be  infected  but  his  body  will  gradually  fight  it   off  within  a  few  hours.   he’s  been  infected  twice  and  thankfully  the  casualties  were  minimal.   so  while  he  takes  more  risks  than  the  average  person,  he’s  very  conscious  of  how  lethal  him  getting  infected  could  be.  

how  will  they  react  to  having  the  others  come  back  from  earth-2?