Batman Alternate Universe Dream
So I had this weird dream that was kinda a What If/Elseworlds Batman and I kinda want to get it down.
I guess the premise is sort of "What if, instead of being a respectable psychologist who got unhealthily attached to the Joker and turned into a supervillain, Harley Quinn was a street kid who was made Robin instead of Dick Grayson"
Most of this came directly from the dream itself, a few details were come up with after the fact.
Basically as I remember it starting out, this girl, who was Harley Quinn as a teenager, was leaving for school (I think she was a HS senior) and was worried because it was supposed to rain later and walking from the bus stop to home would be a long walk, which normally wasn't a problem, unless it rained. Then it got revealed that she took the bus because she didn't want people to know she lived in Bruce Wayne's mansion and treat her differently. She also had a really little sister (who I think was actually her daughter, and Batman took her in when she was a pregnant girl on the street, while trying to track down (and arrest) the father, who was an adult Biker who would eventually turn into the Joker, but he hadn't yet... it's an alternate universe, and a dream, I didn't say anything it made sense... but anyway, they called her the sister just so people at school wouldn't know). Because it was probably raining and nobody would be around to pick them up, she wanted the right to use the spaceship parked in orbit which could remotely beam them from school to home (I don't know where that came from, but the ship did have a lifesigns detector that could ensure they weren't spotted beaming in or out, so Batman's objection was more 'you shouldn't be using it for such trivial things'!).
Anyway, in this world she was just called Quinn for short instead of Harley. There was also Freida who was a genderswapped version of Alfred (I don't know why, dream!).
For some reason (dream!) Batman had access to classified reports from the Stargate program that Quinn liked to hear but it was like a reward for good behavior, particularly Rodney McKay's reports from Atlantis.
Unfortunately although I knew in a dream sense that she was also Batman's sidekick, I never got to see her as Robin (if indeed she did take that as a name, since in this scenario she was the first, it could easily be that she didn't like the name and there was no precedent for a Robin).
I'm just writing this down because there's a part of me that kinda wants to see an Elseworlds like this.
I guess the premise is sort of "What if, instead of being a respectable psychologist who got unhealthily attached to the Joker and turned into a supervillain, Harley Quinn was a street kid who was made Robin instead of Dick Grayson"
Most of this came directly from the dream itself, a few details were come up with after the fact.
Basically as I remember it starting out, this girl, who was Harley Quinn as a teenager, was leaving for school (I think she was a HS senior) and was worried because it was supposed to rain later and walking from the bus stop to home would be a long walk, which normally wasn't a problem, unless it rained. Then it got revealed that she took the bus because she didn't want people to know she lived in Bruce Wayne's mansion and treat her differently. She also had a really little sister (who I think was actually her daughter, and Batman took her in when she was a pregnant girl on the street, while trying to track down (and arrest) the father, who was an adult Biker who would eventually turn into the Joker, but he hadn't yet... it's an alternate universe, and a dream, I didn't say anything it made sense... but anyway, they called her the sister just so people at school wouldn't know). Because it was probably raining and nobody would be around to pick them up, she wanted the right to use the spaceship parked in orbit which could remotely beam them from school to home (I don't know where that came from, but the ship did have a lifesigns detector that could ensure they weren't spotted beaming in or out, so Batman's objection was more 'you shouldn't be using it for such trivial things'!).
Anyway, in this world she was just called Quinn for short instead of Harley. There was also Freida who was a genderswapped version of Alfred (I don't know why, dream!).
For some reason (dream!) Batman had access to classified reports from the Stargate program that Quinn liked to hear but it was like a reward for good behavior, particularly Rodney McKay's reports from Atlantis.
Unfortunately although I knew in a dream sense that she was also Batman's sidekick, I never got to see her as Robin (if indeed she did take that as a name, since in this scenario she was the first, it could easily be that she didn't like the name and there was no precedent for a Robin).
I'm just writing this down because there's a part of me that kinda wants to see an Elseworlds like this.