#suspendium bubble

Fawcett’s different. Always has been. The city has housed and normalized the magical/supernatural world way earlier than the rest of the world. It seems they’re more comfortable with the existence of beings beyond human comprehension, but they don’t live alongside them. Not like in Fawcett, where a walking, talking tiger can say hi to a fairy at her tiny shop. Where a man from the 1800s can fall in love with a jazzer-size dancer from the 80s.

I’m imagining a town meeting, Billy included ofc, where they lost their grievances and worries.

Btw, the city members all talking are on the city council.

City member: Let’s cut to the chase. Are they ready to accept us fully?

City member 2: For crying out loud, there are superheroes all over the world now! I’ve read up on many organizations that partner up with hero groups.

City member: Yes, but those people, those heroes, have to hide who they are in order to live normal lives. Our friends in the pixie kingdoms and sewage tribes don’t have to. I literally had lunch with Chomper yesterday. Did HE have to hide his alligator body from me in order to enjoy his food uninterrupted?

City member 3: It’s the 1700s all over again. Our settlement having to hide away all the magical creatures. I’m not keen on doing that again.

City member 2: you’re forgetting Zatanna and Xanadu——

Billy: you mean the ones most treated like entertainment more than people? At least they like it and get paid, but who can say how their gifts would be treated without that.

City member:…There’s also another issue.

Billy: What?

City member 3: Here we go…

City member 2: Right. The age peculiarity.

City member 4: I swear to god, if the UN tells me to leave my chair because I HAPPEN to look 12——

Billy: what——alright, what exactly can we do?

City member: I’ve heard…some people thinking about cutting the young age lookers from the town council.

City member 3: What the actual fuck——

Billy: Hold on, has anyone from outside governments even asked this of us? They have to know that things work differently here. That Fawcett has been cut of for many years.

City member 5: Would they even care? Thats the question. They come up in here and see a bunch of our members looking at most 16.

City member 4: Just show them your goddamn birth certificate!

Billy: Alright, let’s calm down. We…we knew this wouldn’t be easy. Accommodation is important, but we shouldn’t have to upheave our society’s ways.

City member 2: maybe we could have someone go explain that to them? Privately? With a…slightly threatening tone? In a transformed body?

They’re all staring at Billy.

Billy: See, this is why they want us off the team

I think there would be a lot of big questions and concerns about how the outside world would react to Fawcett’s peculiarities. Ofc, in the end, they’re not changing for anyone. If the rest of the world isn’t going to accept that they have their own way of life, sue them.

And boy did Whiz Kid grab people’s attention. His broadcasts were either about the adventures of Captain Marvel and his team, or whimsical Fawcett drama. Fairy dominion issues, horror stories of what lurked in the sewage tunnels, the giant red satanic circle in the middle of Binder Street that meant everyone had to reroute the rest of their trips.

There was never any proof that it was real. And some theorists “cancelled” the Whiz Kid segment and Whiz radio as a whole for continuously airing so many lies. But the older people, —the grandparents, the war veterans—they swore it was true. That Fawcett City was known as this magical place where anything could happen. Before it disappeared and was never seen again.

Only by the tail end of Fawcett’s final year in existence did Whiz Radio broadcast outside of Fawcett, meaning there were many broadcasts yet to be heard. People scrounge for anything they can get their hands on(sometimes that means family tragedies, like dead parents and a missing sister and CPS files buried under dust. Billy’s story must’ve been a tragedy to those people, going through so much only to be erased from existence).

Billy must’ve given radio stations hope that catching an audience was possible. It must’ve been jarring, all of that coming from a small kid.

I imagine that when Fawcett came back, Whiz Radio along with it, the old fans outside of Fawcett were so happy to hear from him again. Surprised that he sounded exactly the same, but with how the worlds gotten the past few years with superheroes, distant worlds, etc, a time bubble makes the most sense. To skeptics, there’s a realization that everything he talked about was in fact true, and Fawcett had been living in a magical paradise longer than any other place on earth.

Of course, coming back into the media scene has its own hurdles, as Billy needs to grapple with the fact that, despite radio still being an active form of entertainment, it was overshadowed by screen TVs(Hazbin hotel much? lol).

I have this headcanon that Billy’s in an ongoing one-sided battle with G. Gordon Goddfrey. The guy is convinced he can take down this tyke of a host from the 40s but he’s way too charismatic. Which is uh, weird. Radio hosts are just disembodied voices with no personality, right? Right Goddfrey?👀

When the bubble pops and Captain Marvel meets Superman for the first time, he’s haunted by the fact that he looks just like a younger version of Jor-El.

BUT, you can bet your whiskers that Ibac once helped sneak a bottle of priceless liquor to Billy’s place because he’s been DYING to try a sip but he and many others are slow to aging.

Beautia and Princess Taia regularly go on trips to the mall.

Minute Man trades/steals baseball cards from Sivana, who steals them right back.

The Sivana & Batson twins regularly switch clothes with the respective twin and proceed to fool everyone around them. They laugh about it together.

Oh and they have monthly picnics.

Don’t acknowledge it, they sure don’t. Not all of them are chummy and not all of them are going to leave without picking a fight(notice how I’m not specifically whether it’s just the villains who start a fight😅).

It’s more that they’ve known each other for nearly a century. That they’re all trapped in the bubble that separates them from the problems of the outside world. There are probably other villains out there, grouping up to destroy new heroes.

It’s more that they know each know things about each other. Really close, private things.

It’s more that they all have different levels of trauma when remembering their situation. They all have penpals out there, and family members who they wanted to connect with.

It’s more that, when the bubble breaks and the real world gives them a hard shove, only THEY know what it feels like. The world of heroes vs villains is so different now. They can’t put their finger on why. So many syndicates and underground plots. And so many different hero teams too.

Billy will never say it out loud, but after a long, loud day fighting the Injustice League with the JL, he’s going to detransform on the roof of Sivanna Enterprise and just lay there for a bit.

Sivana will never say it out loud, but after a long, loud day of refusing yet another invitation to join whatever idiotic scheme Lex Luthor and his followers have cooking, he’ll join his greatest nemesis on that roof.

Billy has just gotten out of the suspendium bubble and sees that colored tv is now the norm, which is great, but the radio is all but gone. He revitalizes peoples love for communication over static radios, much to the chagrin of Darkseid’s latest acolyte. Godffrey’s only heard of the Champion from Darkseid’s many speeches of Magic’s past power and absolution. It’s definitely not good that the kid is back.

But it gets extra annoying when all of GGG’s listeners are tuning out of his show and tuning into Whiz Radio tower to hear the daily musings of a little boy. Granted that little boy is pushing 80, but he acts like a brat so it fits.