lightning_child
Fandoms
- DCU (76)
- The Flash - All Media Types (52)
- Green Lantern - All Media Types (20)
- Batman - All Media Types (13)
- Young Justice (Cartoon) (12)
Recent works
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An Archipelago of Time by lightning_child
Fandoms: DCU, The Flash - All Media Types, The Flash (Comics)
07 Mar 2026
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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 - All Media Types
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 - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
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 - All Media Types
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
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Blood of the Speed Force by lightning_child
Fandoms: DCU, The Flash - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
14 Oct 2025
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Fangs pierce the flesh of their wrist, opening an artery with ease. The taste of their own blood fills their mouth, sugar and minerals and the protein in half-dead cells, some of the initial spurt splattering across their face and shirt collar.
Barry presses the wound to their child’s lips and lets the blood flow- slowly, but not too slowly. Red drips over teeth and tongue, a weak, choking splutter trying to force out the life-giving fluid. That won’t do- they need to swallow.
They tilt their child's head back, the thumb of their other hand stroking their throat. “Drink.” he instructs, and, finally, they take their first swallow.
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- Part 1 of Call Down The Stars
Recent series
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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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Not Just Copies by Ikibli (lightning_child)
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
31 Aug 2023
- Words:
- 2,384
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 5
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This was written when I was a little kid. I don't recommend reading it.
- Words:
- 2,642
- Works:
- 3
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HalBarryIris Loops by lightning_child
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DC vs. Vampires (DC Comics), DCU, Green Lantern - All Media Types, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Justice League - All Media Types, Pathfinder (Roleplaying Game), The Flash - All Media Types
28 Feb 2026
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Basically Infinite Loops, with Hal, Barry and Iris as co-anchors.
Takes place in the same continuity as the Flashfam loops(Bart, Max, Eobard and Jay) the Batfam loops(Jason, Tim, Damian, Stephanie, Duke, Cass and Bruce) and the BirdFlash Loops(both Wally and Dick).
The Bluepulse Loops are a seperate continuity, though occasional mixups do occur(raising many existential crisises, since there are two seperate looping Barts).
Can be read in any order.- Words:
- 63,071
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 16
Recent bookmarks
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Spider-Ninja by WeirdScribe95
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jan 2025
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Somewhere deep in the Spider-Verse, a young Petra Parker was taken in by the kind Master Splinter after her family was killed. Since the day of her adoption, she's trained alongside her four older brothers (who just so happen to be mutant turtles) in the art of ninjutsu. As if her life isn't strange enough, one day she's bitten by a weird spider and develops incredible powers. Using their combined training and Petra's new spider-powers, the five siblings become vigilantes, fighting crime from the shadows. Unfortunately, a certain agency eventually takes notice.... (Crossposted from FanFiction.com. It is my own work (as I originally posted it on the aforementioned website)).
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- Part 1 of Spider-Ninja
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In a slightly different timeline, where the former Sarah Livsey lasted on the streets just a little bit longer, she took a different turn one fateful day in January.
It did not let her escape the clutches of Coil, or her fate as Tattletale.
But it did put her in the right place and time for a [DATA] exchange between [NEGOTIATOR] and [QUEEN ADMINISTRATOR].
One that helped a freshly Triggered Taylor Hebert gain a valuable bit of insight with far reaching consequences.
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Muggle Fairy Tales Are Mad! by Meltha
Fandoms: Fairy Tales and Related Fandoms, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Oct 2023
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During the endless camping trip in book 7, Ron asks Hermione to tell the story of that "disease sounding" fairy tale to pass the time. This becomes something of a habit, and Hermione tells the boys a series of traditional Muggle fairy tales.
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What's so hard to understand? by ShadowofFun
Fandoms: Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), Captain Marvel (2019), DCU, DCU (Comics), Kid Eternity (Comics)
10 Mar 2026
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“What’s so hard to understand?” asked Freddy, “You’re my best friend’s sister… and said best friend is pretending to be our father and his own nephew.”
Mary just sighed and buried her face in her hands.
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The Shazamily is complicated, no matter what angle you look at it at.
Bookmarked by lightning_child
13 Mar 2026
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Death Is Apparently Not The End of the Road. by SomebodyLovesSnow
Fandoms: Booster Gold (Comics), DCU, Justice League - All Media Types
10 Mar 2026
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Booster thought that he died for sure. He remembers everything that happened, but instead of staying dead he wakes up the day before with one of his watches missing. At first, he doesn’t think that anybody was trying to save him intentionally, but then it happens again.
Bookmarked by lightning_child
13 Mar 2026