LethargicShakespeare
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Stay gold by LethargicShakespeare
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
10 Oct 2025
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"Billy Batson had been protecting not just Fawcett City, but the entire world for over a year now, as Captain Marvel. The World's Mightiest Mortal. That’s what people called him.
They didn’t know that “the world’s mightiest mortal” was a thirteen-year-old kid who slept in bus stations and park benches. They didn’t know how he’d stumbled into a subway tunnel one night, chasing a voice that shouldn’t have existed, and met an ancient wizard who gave him the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury. All by uttering a single word, the name of the wizard.
Shazam.
Lightning, thunder, and suddenly he wasn’t Billy Batson anymore. He was someone bigger, stronger, faster, better. Someone who could help people. Someone who could matter.
Except… most nights Billy didn’t feel mighty at all. Especially not now..."
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OR: History repeats itself: a brooding, traumatized man with too many issues takes in a pale, black-haired, blue-eyed street rat... (who just so happens to be magic)