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when puzzler returned to gotham and took back control of his "business" 30+ years after his absence, there were many debates in the underground whether it was the same puzzler or not. as puzzler was a rather fit man, not softer and a bit heavier as puzzler is now. of course, that could just have come with age - people change. but the old puzzler spoke with a clear american accent, this puzzler speaks with a soft english accent - which led some who did remember puzzler, to wonder if it's even the same man. due to wearing a mask, and an outfit that completely covers his body - nobody can see puzzler, or know what his age was back then or now - except that he sounds older.

the changes add to more mystery, and even though puzzler (coughcoughedsuncleedward) is a compulsive liar and will lie or put on anything - the changes are genuine. puzzler always enjoyed eating and indulging in sweets. however, when he was still living a double life as edward boucher, a young perfectionist businessman and socialite, he always watched what he ate to keep an "idealized body image." after edward's supposed death from brain cancer, puzzler felt more liberated to not worry about that, and just began to eat whatever he wants whenever he wants. he ran away with his future husband to england to live a different life. which, living there for 30+ years, he had picked up the accent a little bit.

after his husband was stricken with a terminal illness (he was 25 years older than edward) and edward knew the police had cut all ties of edward boucher to the puzzler, since edward's been long "dead" - puzzler returned to gotham to start a new game.

#( 🧩 ✧ INFERIOR PUPPETEER ✧ | OOC )#// basically the whole plot is eddie wakes up from a coma to find that gotham's been driven into a gang war #// and everything's wild -#// and eddie found out one of the driving force's is a man named puzzler - somebody he's never met nor was around while he was the r iddler #// so he decided that he's going to find out puzzler's identity and help put an end to all the madness #// (little does eddie suspect that puzzler is his own uncle - the only family member that was kind to him)#// oh yea - and puzz didn't disappear when edward did #// his best friend and coleader false face continued posing as him for a few years after to shake off any suspicion #// are you following? no? oh well

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currentfandomkick · 4 years

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Bio! Dad strange AU continued

Marinette grew up between Gotham and Paris—strange gets her every summer.

Zsasz has taken on babysitting duty with a strange glee that causes everyone to give him a few feet. Why?

Becuase a murder-happy mercenary is cooing over a tiny girl who’s response to ‘how ahould i take them out’ during a consultation was to tilt her head and say “why do that when you can make them your puppet? Find what they want, tease them with it and make it just yours to share if you want. If that doesnt work, break in and have poeple sleeping on the floor. No murder and new minion are much better, right uncle vic?”

Her other favorite babysitter is Jerome, aka the Joker, aka someone who should not be around tiny children unsupervised ever. Why? This conversation.

“Do you know how i got these?”

Tiny marinette squints, gasps, then says “you beat Koh the face stealer! How!”

Instead of correcting her, Jerome decided to tell her this. “I woke up, hunted him down and killed him for stealing my face.”

“Oh! Is that why he is t stealing faces anymore?”

Jerome rolls with it. “Yep.”

Marinette just smiles and asks about how to foght bad people since ‘maman says i need to be prepared. But she doesnt have time to teach me since she store’s busy.’

This lead to tiny little Marinette getting lessons from the goddamn joker and victor zsasz teaching her villany 101 disguised as needed Gothamite skills. Zsasz gets how to dislocate joints, hit properly, and how to break into anything with various odd ends, and how to ‘properly intimidate and threaten enemies without killing them’. Joker gets sneaking around, throwing knives, helps with her acrobatic instruction (she likes the flying bits, ok?), how to ‘inspire minions’ (she thinks he means start political movements) and how to know when the rules are not important anymore— “if they hurt you, hurt them back. They wont learn otherwise, took me forever to get that one right.” And “remember kiddo, its all about how you present yourself. Be what they cant stand when you cant stand them.” And “someone made those rules up. They could be made for very dumb reasons, like the no meta ones. Make those rules wish they were never born.”

Her favorite person is harley quinn. She wear her hair pig tails, can go on and on about her psychology research and work, thinks its fabulous. She’s part of the new Sirens dedicated to protecting victims of abuse, oh, and is a survivor of abuse from jerimah (yes, from gotham. Yes, he is Mr. J but everyone thinks he’s the joker and it pisses him off and he took it out on Harley when he was alive... he dies and revives a lot here.)

Poison Ivy’s cadmus clone, Rose, adopts Marinette. Rose loks about 10 when she meets toddler Marientte. Rose is only a few weeks old at the time, and was the practice for Superboy’s eventual cloning. She escaped by accident, ran into batman of all people, and was dumped onto a very cofused poison ivy in her green house. Little Marinette followed Rose around, gigled when the plants tossed her around and ended up with a cool plant mark that only appears in UV lighting. Rose is DoneTM woth the Justice League and Batman, often complaining to Marinette about things she notices—like her being given to a known criminal, confined to a greenhouse filled with deadly plants and unable to go to school due to the plants revolting if she tries to leave with Ivy.

Poison Ivy accepts that she is now a mother (has no idea how that happened. But then again, she did skip puberty so...) and takes having Marinette hang out as a little kid as another part of being a Mom.

Riddler and Ed Nygma are two separate personalities sharinga body. riddler is pacified from ciolence if Marinette or his son, code name Puzzler, can out riddle or maze or puzzle him. He is happy to teach them both about florensics, biology, engineering and how to make mazes and traps. He is the weird but fun uncle, who has the most effective grounding strategy—put you in a puzzle maze building. Ed is the parental one, who listens to their problems and suggests talking it out and not hitting the other person or manipulating them into revenge oswald. Ed takes the time to let the kids be kids and offers positive feedback, especially on their interests and both of their babble fits as ‘its good to see the real you without those silly little walls people keep insisting on’

Uncle penguin is a joke to little marinette. Who she keeps having to sneak out of arkham. Why? ‘Uncle penguin, you make bulls in china shops look like shadow assassins.’ She helps him becuase ‘he’s obviously dating uncle riddler, duh’ and uncle riddler and uncle ed are very nice to her and encourage her curiosity.

She hates Jerimah. Who hates her for liking Jerome.

She is terrifed of Tetch/Mad Hatter. She cant find words for it other than he feels wrong. Jerome has been quantined for beating the shit out of Tetch for getting to close to a leery Marinette and saying “she’d make a wonderful alice.”

Professor Strange is a good dad here, albeit a semi-villianous one. Mostly de-villianed. Mostly. He lets Marinette be her affectionate self, encourages her interests in everything and her love of just learning things, supplies her with her sticker treatment, and does his best to follow her love languages—touch and gift giving. He is the reason she so many things for fashion, he supplies the money for it (much to sabine’s shock the first time) and also choses to help fund and mentor the science-centered members of the RKC or Rouge Kids Club who do actively undermine the Rogues for big things like murder, joker gas, fear toxin, and have attacked medical conpanies for making bad products. He just, sometimes, sicks a Rogue on someone that tries to get his daughter’s identity. Ok?

Also for purposes of witness protection, Marinette is called “Jill” or “Jillian Smith” in Gotham.

The rogues kids or RKC call her safety net or nets. More on that later.

#maribat au #marinette strange dupain cheng #marinette strange dupain cheng part 2 #ml au #bio!dad strange #my au #my idea #my head canon

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