FIC: Looking Outward Together [DC/Pacific Rim Fusion]

[mithen]

Title: Looking Outward Together
Pairing/Characters: Clark/Bruce, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Maggie Sawyer
Rating: PG-13
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Fandom: DC Animated Universe/Pacific Rim
Summary: Jaeger pilots are the only hope for the Earth--but Superman and Batman can't seem to enter the Drift together despite all their efforts.
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Comments

[queen0fcups]

I have no idea what's going on but this is awesome.

[mithen]

It was fun to finally write it--although frustrating at times, because the two universes are actually a little too similar in a lot of ways... I mean, it feels like a plot that could actually have happened in comics!

[zolac_no_miko]

OHEMGEEEEEEEEEE~!!

I'm not actually a huge fan of the movie, but I'm totally a huge fan of everyone writing ten million amazing Pacific Rim AUs. Been getting a lot of Marvel, but this is the first I've read for DC. I love that you've kept it within the normal DCU, everyone has their powers and masks. You did a great job making things fit within that context.

[mithen]

Hehe, I've been loving the fusions so much! I really struggled with whether to have this be a powered world or not--without powers it risked losing so much of what makes the characters distinctive, but with powers it got frustratingly similar to just a plain old comic book plot, lol! I'm thinking the Thorin/Bilbo idea, which crackier, might have actually worked better...

[zolac_no_miko]

Thorin/Bilbo Pacific Rim fusion A;LDSHFKJASD;FKHA IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR THAT

[mithen]

I know there are already a couple out there--I haven't looked at them because I don't want to interfere with my own vision of it, but I bet they're cool! I mean, Smaug is basically a kaiju as is, and I love the idea of the peoples of Middle Earth putting aside their differences and the elves and dwarves working together in Mithlond to build jaeger (a dwarf + elf-made giant suit of armor? I'm betting they're the most beautiful things ever!) And Thorin is a jaeger engineer who's determined to bring down the kaiju that destroyed his home, but he's never found someone drift-compatible with him...

Um, yeah, I have some Feels about a fusion between those two fandoms, lol.

[rileyc]

Eeeeee--I don't know Pacific Rim! <--runs off to look things up on Wikipedia

[mithen]

It's a fun movie, came out last summer! You really don't need to know too much about it other than it's, well, mind-melded partners fighting Godzilla in giant mecha, lol...

[navaan]

So nice to see Bruce insisting that this will work, knowing that they are compatible.

"There is no one else." Batman whirled at the door to his quarters. "I'm not letting anyone else into my head."

Aww, Bruce you charmer. :D That is really so him.

And, god, I loved that Hamilton and Hiro are the people to build the jaegers, because, hey, we know hero would totally built giant robots to throw at the problem.

[mithen]

And, god, I loved that Hamilton and Hiro are the people to build the jaegers, because, hey, we know hero would totally built giant robots to throw at the problem.

I couldn't resist giving a shout-out to my favorite Toyman and actual creator of canon jaeger! *grin*

[navaan]

I couldn't resist giving a shout-out to my favorite Toyman and actual creator of canon jaeger! *grin*

And he obviously knew who'd be the perfect drift compatible superhero combo when he built his Superman/Batman "canon jaeger". ;)

[starsandsea]

"Well I would." But Batman was stripping off his outer jumpsuit with sharp, economical motions; only someone who knew him very well would have noticed that his hands were trembling--with fury and perhaps with something else.

Superman noticed.

*pets them both* I love the little detail of him missing their capes, too!

"There is no one else." Batman whirled at the door to his quarters. "I'm not letting anyone else into my head."

*pets Bruce gently*

The wave had washed over him and dragged him into a darkness from which he had never truly emerged.

Oh, Clark! *hugs him gently*

"You and Kate are doing great."

Eeee, Maggie/Kate! :D

when a headstrong Robin had tried to pilot a jaeger to defend Vancouver and was joined by an equally headstrong hacker from Gotham to become the first jaeger team to Drift together, the final pieces fell into place.

Ahhh, Dick and Babs! *hearts them*

Batman is going to be furious, Superman thought as he felt the jaws close like a vise around him, and then the thought was crushed into blackness.

Meep!

[mithen]

*pets them both* I love the little detail of him missing their capes, too!

I love the Pacific Rim suits, but they definitely don't have capes, and I know Clark would miss his!

It was a lot of fun to think about which couples might be able to Drift together in this world--technically Kate shouldn't be here, as it's animated, but...she insisted. *grin*

I love that they can enter the drift as Bruce and Clark, but not as Batman and Superman

I could definitely see how they'd try to keep their identities secret because it's all so public, and how that might hinder their ability to be really authentic together...

You're probably not missing too much, to be honest! Sadly for PR, I kind of stripped anything distinctive from it--it was a weird challenge just because it was SO CLOSE to something that might actually happen in the DCU, which made it oddly hard to write! But it was fun, too, and I SO wanted to write them in the Drift together...