#shiftlog

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All about my Main DC-DR

My first day in my main DC-DR

I wanted to make a post similar to the one that I made about my first day in my main DC-DR, but for my separate, but also somewhat connected, Young Justice DC-DR.

Important Disclaimer: I scripted most of these events, but a lot of details came to me via channelling / downloads / realizations over the years that I've had this DR. I want to make this post fun and creative so that I also enjoy the process of it, so I'm typing this kind of in like a fanfic/diary entry format because I just love doing that.

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How this DR starts:

One moment I’m in the infinite Realms, in my office, surrounded by scrolls, maps and all sorts of magical artifacts that need to be organized at some point, and then the next moment a portal opens above me and sucks me into it forcefully. Turns out Clockwork just… decided for me that I need to experience another part of this reality from a new perspective for some reason and send me on my merry way through a dimensional rift... jeez, thanks grandpa, very helpful, lol. Anyways, I’m still a little petty about being yanked and shoved into a new version of my life, but whatever. Clockwork is Chronos, my weird soul-chosen-grandfather who loves dramatic timing and gave me this push that I apparently needed. I grumbled at him in my head the whole way down.

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After The Portal:

I landed behind a covered wooden and painted fence near the beach on a sidewalk, hidden and mumbling curses, lol. I was still in my more casual Phantom form at first, white hair, fangs, glowing purple eyes, a general glow to my existence, all those great things, but I quickly had to transformed into my more casual and mortal form, black hair, blue eyes, casual clothes. Cause I sensed and heard someone approaching. That someone, was Kaldur, Aquaboy I believe.

The island which Mount Justice was on, was exactly like how I remembered it from the show. Very pretty too, the mountain in the background was MASSIVE. The Young Justice team was having a beach day nearby where I landed. Beast Boy was making a sandcastle and then running around as a green dog. Superboy and Miss Martian were playing volleyball; she was floating above the sand a bit. Kid Flash was running around the shoreline, and Tim was sunbathing with his usual shades on like the dramatic boy that he is, and Kaldur was just standing nearby where I fell. I made a thud noise when I fell behind the fence, cursed under my breath, and immediately started the most convincing clumsy human act of my afterlife in a panic, once Kaldur came over and saw me.

There was a brick, thank the Ancients that there was a displaced brick behind me. So, I threw my phone for the drama (a bit insane, but it worked, don't judge me), and then I fumbled when Kaldur came over. He asked me if I was okay and I did my best “I-am-an absolute-disaster-but-harmless” routine. My phone screen was cracked, I acted annoyed, pretended to be new to the area. Well, I was new to the area, while in my other main DC-DR I never really went to Mount Justice.

I asked for directions to my favourite cafe called Traveler’s Stop like I’d been planning to move here forever (which was… half true? I did plan to get an apartment there eventually). Kaldur was nice and pointed me toward the electronics store across the street first on my left and then gave me directions to the cafe like it was nothing. He said to go forward, then take the first left, then the first right, and across from the anime/comic mech store is Traveler's Stop on the left. So, I quickly thanked him and rushed off towards the electronics store first while he went back to the team and Tim asked who I was.

My enhanced hearing allowed me to hear them still. Kaldur just shrugged and said, “Some stranger in the sun.” Okay... Ouch. My ice core pulsed in a way that resembled heartache. In my other main Gotham DC-DR, Tim was always just so obsessed with me and borderline chaotic in the best/worst ways, always interested to learn more about my paranormal nature. Wanting to know everything about the Realms. Here? Nothing, at least at first. It was like a fresh slate. It hurt more than I thought it would. It was like going back in time and seeing the people you grew with for years and then suddenly them not knowing who you are and you having to act normal.

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The phone store was a mess of bright white, fluorescent lights and a fake customer service experience, I could tell the guy behind the counter didn't really care much to be there, but he did fix my phone screen, it wasn't cheap either, but money is never an issue for me in my DRs anyways. I then wandered towards and into the Traveler’s Stop Cafe like I owned the place, which I very well could have, tbh. The baristas were these two fairy-elf women, disguised as humans of course, they knew me in Realm's terms as the High Ghost King, it was like they could recognize my very presence, but I quickly shut down their ramblings and told them to call me either “Mr. Crouse” or “Sir” while in the mortal realm to maintain cover. They seemed really uncomfy about it, but an order from me is an order.

I ended up ordering my fav drink and sat down in the corner at a round table with a mixed berry freezo, it was divine tbh, and summoned my laptop like it was nothing from my pocket dimension, there was no one around after all at the time. Victor, my multiversal Lifa App AI assistant, appeared on the screen and started giving me updates of things going on around me, which I was very grateful for of course. I love Victor. He categorizes all of my chaos with the patience of an immortal parent and makes everything less terrifying while I'm experiencing any new realities that I shift to. The beach was still a mile away, but my intuition was buzzing like a phone on vibrate in my very core, making me aware of a threat that was about to show up.

Eventually, after quite a few minutes of using my laptop, the Young Justice Team show up at the same cafe and hang out for a while before chaos happened. I have this ability that lets me know whenever I am perceived, and I did notice a few eyes on me, and the vibes of Kaldur thinking, 'huh, I guess he made it', and Tim seeming to study me for a moment before being distracted by his friends.

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And then the weird metal clunking started. Not the gentle hum of traffic, tbh there was none, but the off rhythm of something made by someone who’s too proud of their machinery. I felt it, a feeling yanked at my core like a fishing line. I stayed put on purpose because I wanted to see how the team would move and do things without me, how the scene would unfold mainly out of curiosity because I knew I'll be just fine.

This robot rolls in, chunky, big round body, noodle legs and arms, a speaker blaring some guy's stupid monologue, a classic villain who wanted to be flashy and gain attention. The team rushed out of the cafe as I sit back, take a sip of my freezo, and watch them do the flashy part. Good for them. I don't really care. The guy and his robot honestly remind me of the animated version of Robotnik from the sonic the hedgehog show.

Then after a while I get up and move towards the door. I step out calmly, walk under the robot while they’re all distracted. Nobody sees me. I go intangible, slide behind it, make contact with the guy inside operating the robot and turn him intangible as I pull him out through the metal, and drop him unarmed and unharmed on the pavement outside of the cafe. The robot is then quietly dismantled from the inside by me, and I vanish. I can tell Tim, as Red Robin at this point, is just like ???? the whole time afterwards too. I just flew up while both intangible and invisible and hung around in random places for a while until I figured out my living situation.

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After that, I decide on being everywhere they go. Like a bookstore, grocery aisles, cafes. My presence became a pattern they can't ignore. When they try to approach me, something always happened that makes it so they don't get to me, like an unexpected crowd, a dropped phone, a shelf collapse, something that gives me enough time to get out of sight again. My intuition guides me, and I place myself where I feel like I need to be.

I’m also sneering at Clockwork the whole time. Like, why push me into a version where the batfam doesn’t already know me still and Damian, my little brother, younger by 4 years, still believes me to be dead??? Where Gotham is in the background and not my main issue anymore??? It hurts, honestly. In my main DC-DR Tim was obsessed, he chased me all throughout the city. But there I was a stranger, and that sucked because it felt like starting a new save in a video game when you previously build up an entire world with all of these people for years and now have to start all over again. But Clockwork probably had a plan or something, so I'll play his game.

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I keep thinking about my other DC-DR, about the big shiny black Crouse Industries tower in Gotham, about Sebastian, my demon butler, waiting outside my apartment in that other life, and about the way things change depending on which reality I'm in. But here Crouse Industries exists somewhere else in another timeline, but it’s not the same that I was used to. But that’s fine. I like the experimentation of all of it, all of my multiple different realities I mean.

In this DR I don’t really want to be worshipped and be too focused on stuff happening in the infinite realms. I don’t always want the theatrics and drama of dealing with my royal court all the time like in my other DC-DR right now. I want to watch and learn a lot of new things from different Pov's in different DR's, I guess. And maybe later, I’ll go back to my office in the realms and glare at Clockwork. He’ll pretend not to notice and act like nothing happened tho, lol.

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This was a fun post to make, and it made me really miss a lot of parts of this DR of mine.