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“Hey guys, me, Batman, and Marvel are-”
“Batman, Marvel and I.” Batman grunted in that chronically smug voice of his, interrupting Barry from his quick intro to the chat, having just started the stream.
Oh-
F
Gottem
Someone clip that
Batman would lose it
if someone did that to him
F
Guys find clips of Batman
Yes
F
F
Flash has 0 grammar
DON'T INTERRUPT
What r you guys doing??
Barry rolled his eyes in good nature, getting a giggle from Marvel and a snort from Batman.
“Batman, Marvel and I-” emphasis on the I, “Will be watching video submissions from the Justice League subreddit, and boy do we have a lot to get through.”
The chat went wild, knowing that there were some…interesting submissions made, especially with the type of humor they usually tended to have along with how often at least one of them was streaming left many opportunities for jokes and videos that people thought would interest them.
“Before that though, thanks for being active on the official Justice League sub and supporting us, we appreciate you guys a lot!”
Billy clapped in excitement as Barry concluded his intro.
“Yeah, what Barry said! I love being with you guys and seeing what you think is funny and stuff, you guys always make me happy!!”
Adorable as usual
Local cinnamon roll kills chat via diabetes
So sweet
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He is baby
Minnneee
His chat always the best
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KirmyKroaks This is Flash’s chat tho??
@KirmyKroaks Marvel’s chat now
L
L
True
Bro is magic or smth
Barry groaned.
“Really Marvel, already? We haven’t been streaming for 5 minutes and my chat is already worshipping you, c’mon man!”
Billy laughed. He wasn’t streaming himself today, both him and Batman were piggy-backing off of Barry’s stream while they shared the VC.
“Who, me?” he questioned in the most innocent little-shit voice he could muster.
Batman actually exhaled, an obvious sign of amusement from those who knew him.
“Is this just a gang up on Flash day, huh?? You and Batman and chat just wanna take me down don’t you!? You're gonna take over my stream, was that your evil plan all along?”
Billy laughed at the dramatics, hand briefly leaving the mouse to cover his mouth, taking in the exaggerated accusation on his friend’s face, shaking his head even though they couldn’t see it.
“If I wanted to take over everything I wouldn’t be so obvious about it Barry, don’t be silly~”
Watching the stutter both in chat and on Barry’s face at the rare sly mischievous tone he took on with the tease was the highlight of his day so far
“Why have you yet to reveal this side to you Marvel?”
Batman sounded as delighted as he could be. He must really be in a good mood today.
Guess Barry was right about one thing. They were totally ganging up on him.
Billy giggled
Chat raced with the same shock that Barry had to shake himself loose from, bringing the back of his hand up to his forehead.
“Am I dreaming chat? Is this real… we are all fucked-”
“Language!” Billy scolded. There were probably children in his- in Barry’s chat!
“Language!? You just completely tossed my world upside down like a little gremlin and you're telling me to watch my language!?”
Barry shook his head in amused disbelief.
“Unbelievable.”
Batman grunted, tired of Flash’s dramatics.
“May we actually start now Flash?
“...” guess they were all supposed to just move on.
“You gotta greet and thank them first Bats~”
“Hn.”
“Nuh uh- you gotta do it, how will they know you don’t hate them otherwise??”
Batman grunted again.
“...”
“...”
Tell us how you really feel
C’mon Bats
Please
Plz
Ples
Arkhanoiiv You love us
Edgy
@Arkhanoiiv
He definitely loves us
Where’s our greeting??
“Hello chat…you sometimes don’t annoy me.”
That was a pretty decent compliment from Batman to be honest.
“Good enough! We can get started now.” Billy cheered even at Barry’s outraged noise.
Chat took the compliment okay though, screaming about how they’ve finally done it and that Batman actually loved them. Billy’s really not sure what Barry’s on about.
“Fine-uh.”
Barry pulled up a compilation of videos made into one really long video, the frozen frame showing a clip from some tv show tha Billy most certainly hadn’t watched.
“Okay, your submissions were chosen in a random order and we double checked that none of you freaks snuck something in here that would get us banned from twitch.”
“Thank you guys for all the videos, I know we’re gonna be here a while since you guys have a lot to share with us!”
“Hn.”
“See! Even Batman is excited!”
Batman grunted again, this time an annoyed grunt at how long they were taking.
Billy held a decent amount of pride at how he could tell the difference now. It was pretty easy to pick up the very tiny, near microscopic change in the inflections of his grunts. The day he met Batman, he was terrified that the sharp man would instantly call him out.
They had a rough start, and it all crashed and burned before it got better.
Good times.
Shaking his head, Billy zoned back in as Flash hit the start button.
In fandom fashion, the first video was a meme with the profile pictures of Batman and the real faces of Barry and Hal getting yelled at by the black and yellow icon.
The next few videos were roughly the same, all memes and jokes about the Justice League’s behaviour, some perfectly cut screams and dramatics, some clips of them being nice and cutesy and generally things like that. Of course, there were some weird videos, crackhead humor, a handful of videos with thinly veiled political messages, dirty and dark jokes, and some suggestive fanart that he nervously chuckled off.
Batman was mostly silent with a few witty comments and huffs, especially when the videos revolved around him being like the unofficial ‘leader’ or strict figure of the bunch. Barry found most of the videos funny, although he did flush when a clip of a vlog with him running face first into a wall popped up with Lantern and a mask wearing Green Arrow cackling in the background.
All that to say, it was pretty chill, and Billy was happy to see how they appeared in the eyes of their fans.
Then came this video, the one where Billy absolutely lost his shit.
“Oh my god- oh my god!?” he squealed.
A small crash and a grunt from Captain Marvel had Barry pause the video. Billy lost control of his hands in his excitement, slamming them down on his desk and causing his little Youtooz to fall to the ground.
“Cap, what was that?”
“Hn.”
Billy had never been happier to be faceless, because his eyes were shot open with sparkles while his face was flush with energy.
“Oh my god, those puppies are so cute, do you guys see them? Look, look.”
We thought you died Cap
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Freaking out over puppies
Adorable
We’ve already established that
OMG
They r pretty cute
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Bro is tweaking
The simple pleasures of life
Y’all haters
Adorable
<3
“Do you guys not see those faces? God you are such boring old farts, I would squish them till they all popped, how could you not-”
Barry choked at the excitement that actually entered Marvel’s voice.
A gasp of offense swiftly followed
Old?? He was not old, thank you very much. Just because Marvel was probably some teen that just entered his freshman year of college does not make him old.
The puppies were cute though, a set of yorkie puppies in pastel dresses, one of the puppies had its head tilted to the camera, its eyes were bright and shiny and light.
He could kinda understand Marvel’s excitement, but not that much.
A pen clicking attracted all of their attention, followed by scribbling on paper.
“Dimorphous expression in response to small, fluffy animals.”
“...”
“English please?”
“Captain Marvel, you have ‘cute aggression’.” Batman huffed out, voice still dark as if he were describing a serious disease and not the name of the reaction Billy had towards looking at puppies.
Billy hummed, not really caring because there were still puppies on his radar.
In one ear and right out the other.
“Can you start the video??”
Barry laughed at the image of Captain Marvel looking like one of the puppies, with a tiny held tilt and pupils blown up wide in his plea.
Billy’s attention immediately went back to the screen when the click of a mouse allowed for the puppies on screen to become animated. There were seven dogs in total, the colour of their dresses from left to right were blue, green, purple, red, yellow, orange, and pink.
The video itself wasn’t much of anything, the person behind the camera ordered the puppies to stay and then took a few steps backwards without another word. The puppy in yellow whined as more steps were taken, starting a symphony of warning barks and even some sassy growls as they were made to sit still.
Of course, it was the red dressed puppy that couldn’t take it anymore, it’s tiny paws slamming forward before taking off with a run, the other puppies stunned for a moment before also running towards their owner.
Billy couldn't help the childish giggles that escaped him as the owner’s laugh bubbled from them while trying to scold the pack for moving before being released.
The person fell backwards onto a couch or maybe a bed, and all the dogs hopped up, attacking them with kisses and paws before the video came to an end with a last laugh
“I could die happy if I went like that.”
Barry, and Batman too, although it was far less obvious, were happy to sit back and listen to one of the nicest people they’d ever gotten to know have fun watching the animals. Barry also got some amusement from the video, but not nearly as much as Marvel seemed to, although he did see why chat might be so endeared by him. Not that he didn’t understand before, but this display showed exactly the type of childish cheer that was contagious to everyone else.
Best video yet
Who posted it
Most relatable Leaguer
PUPPIES
Y’all know what we gotta do, right?
FLOOD THE SUB
More puppies!!
Do you have pets Cap?
He’s not gonna see that
Bro is not listening
I would be his good boy ;)
FREAK
Get out!
BATMAN
FLASH
Where the mods bro?
He has like one boundary man
Bruce grunted as he read the chat, mood dampening at the suggestive message towards Captain Marvel. The man had made his boundaries pretty clear even though he hadn't actually said anything out loud. It was a pretty known fact that the Captain hated anything sexual or suggestive towards himself whether that be speculation from the fans over who he’s been with, if he’d sleep with his fans, fanart, and suggestive language.
Luckily, Agent A was appointed as a consistent mod for all of the Justice League and followed along most streams when he wasn’t busy. Which was usually never since most of his chores were completed in the morning leaving much time to help Bruce pursue his secondary ‘job’.
It appears that chat got one thing right, Marvel was still rambling about the puppies, Barry having restarted the video, allowing Alfred to swiftly ban the user who couldn’t follow the only boundary Marvel ever seemed to have.
On one hand, the childish reaction was amusing and, disturbingly, reminded him a little bit of Dick. On the very opposite end of the hand, their subreddit was now going to be flooded with endless videos of animals.
“Thank you to whoever submitted that, I needed that!”
Marvel’s soft voice portrayed the way he was definitely smiling, even if none of them could see it. He was a very genuine person, and his gratitude was evident in his tone.
Perhaps more of those videos would be…suitable to the ‘needs’ of Marvel.
Bruce looked back down to the notebook he’d taken out earlier to record more of the Captain’s behaviors to try and understand him. He was a complete mystery that no one could figure out, with no past social media presence, no pictures of him, his age was unknown along with his name and appearance. At the very least, Bruce trusted his group of friends enough to reveal identity. But not a single soul knew anything about him.
At first, Bruce was concerned for his own safety along with his fellow friends who decided not to be publicly identified, worried that perhaps Marvel was an overzealous fan who would take advantage of them the moment he was trusted in their group.
But the more he learned about the man, however slowly, he could see that his paranoia was unwarranted.
His assumption was that the Captain was an orphan, or at least heavily neglected. There was no way all the evidence he collected said otherwise. Most of the items on the paper were not good, in fact, he would probably start having to triple his efforts to find out who Marvel was if he kept revealing-
“Batman?”
Barry’s voice cut through the storm of his thoughts.
“Hn.”
Both of his friends laughed, able to tell the way he wasn’t paying attention.
“We were asking what your favourite animal was?”
“I like cheetahs ‘cause we are totally alike and I will find a way to race one someday. Cap just said cats,” Barry shook his head in mock-disappointment, “that’s such a cheap answer bro.”
Marvel simply laughed, making a sound suggesting that he stuck his tongue out at the track-star.
“But I can’t pick a favorite-” he whined, “and there are so many cats to choose from, because now I can say that leopards are cats but so is the stray one that kinda looks like a tiger that brings me presents.”
“Disney princess~”
Marvel huffed but didn’t deny it.
“So, Batman, do you live up to your name? Are Bats your favorite animal?”
They didn’t need to know the truth. That angsty, young Bruce Wayne tried running away from the Manor through the gardens, climbing and jumping the fence, only to fall face first into a colony of bats, the vicious little mammals leaving him with scars and trauma that he’d never gotten over, even now. He wanted to use that fear he felt in his persona as Batman when he first started becoming popular, finding amusement at people reacting to his personality, not to mention the fanart that portrayed him as a giant shadowy bat of a man.
All that to say, he hated bats.
He grunted.
“..Black leopards are vicious predators that live up to their names.”
Flash scoffed while Marvel cheered, the animal fitting into his vague answer.
“Me too. Like in the Jungle Book, Bagheera!” the excitable man exclaimed.
Bruce sighed at the comparison.
“Yes, like ‘Bagheera’, Marvel.”
Yes, Bruce confirmed. Perhaps it wouldn’t be the worst thing to see more videos of a similar nature.
One day, he’ll learn the truth about the man behind Captain Marvel, and he will learn how he could help him like he did with the rest of the League.
But for now, as long as his friend seemed happy, that would be okay for now.