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🌟 The Star: What is a way that you would like to be able to change your F/O’s life for the better, or for them to change your life? for crane

Weird to talk about Crane in a context where Zacharie isn't pissing-faerself-afraid of him! A welcome change, as well.

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I feel like this answer requires some level of context from my personal batverse I've been developing since I was like 16 or so. IIRC Eddie Riddle Boy is the one who usually gets abusive PARENTS, and typically Crane's given the bullying backstory. I'm not looking at a source atm though, so I could be recalling something only true to like the cartoons? Spare me.

I decided Crane had the fucking worst little childhood when I was working with it. I did that for most of the rogues though. Except like Joker and Freeze. Joker because I have largely left his past an undecided mess (though that kind of plays into his plight when I write him,) and Freeze because I really do love the idea that he's just some dude with a wife he loves. He's probably the normal one all the other rogues have to come to for a "give me a more civilian perspective not colored by trauma" question. (Questions I'm sure do come up at least occasionally.)

His dad was shit, his mom was shit, his school-life was shit, and he just kinda grit his teeth through it. Even college was kind of shit, and I mean! That's where he met this canon's Strange! That's where they started getting high on betas of fear toxin together, entering a mutually toxic dynamic--becoming "hand in unlovable hand" whether they wanted to or not.

I really just kinda decided he couldn't catch a break!

But.

In a world where that all wasn't necessary development for how he is in current times: I'd have at least wanted to go back and let him have a childhood. It's such a unique time. You can age regress, but you can't get it back. Being small and undeveloped and untainted with whatever society is going to thrust upon you--there are so many children who do not get childhoods. Who have that taken from them by force. By society, by parents, by anything.

In a world where I wasn't the author, but I was some time traveler trying to ease the sting of current day...

I'd at least give him a better home life.

Lord knows he'll grow up weird regardless /light hearted

BUT THE FLIP SIDE TO THAT!

I think if you sat Crane down and asked what he'd do for Zacharie pre-Strange-and-faer-getting-together, he would need to actually think about it. Though he'd be tempted to say he'd give faer some way to perceive and tell time, he isn't stupid. He knows how offended by that notion Zacharie would be. Fae doesn't view that as something that needs fixing, and Crane would not overstep that. He has limits. (Albeit, they may seem odd to outside observers.)

His answer (again, before Zacharie makes faers grand escape and holes up with Strange,) would probably be that he would've wanted faer in his care a hell of a lot sooner. They have maybe a 10-ish year age gap, so that wouldn't account for a childhood of dealing with Everything--by no means. But it would mean fae would at least have some sort of psychiatry at faers fingertips to deal with that childhood sooner.

Post Zacharie's running off...

He'd probably tell you he should've killed Strange back when they were dating in college, and how that would've saved both him and Kronos a lot of grief.

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