Post by redsycorax on Jul 16, 2022 2:50:21 GMT
Okay, so I have this idea for an AU which I'm planning named "Innocence". As to why it has that working name, the premise is that one Adolf Schickelgruber's application to join the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts was successful. Schicklgruber survived the First World War and kept on with his interrupted professional career and stayed in Vienna instead of travelling to Berlin. He never met up with the National Socialist Workers Party and while Germany turned authoritarian in the thirties, it wasn't Nazism. While the Nazis loitered on the fringe of German politics for a while, they ended up suppressed along with Thalmann's KPD communists. Mussolini was assassinated, the Spanish fascists failed to win the Spanish Civil War and consequently, no Second World War ever happened- apart from a brief, limited Polish-German War which ended with Poland returning its postwar territorial gains to Germany and little else. The British Empire still exists, as does a smaller Soviet Union, which doesn't include the Baltic republics in this AU.
How does this set up the DC universe characters as they arise? Superman lands in Kansas and travels to Metropolis, but it's a smaller city and the United States doesn't have the economic base to provide for multiple metahumans. Bruce Wayne's parents never went down Crime Alley in this universe, and Joe Chill got rehabilitated before he could have killed them anyway. In the Atlantic, Captain Steve Trevor's aircraft was never shot down and he never encountered Themiscyra. In time, Princess Diana succeeded her mother, Hippolyta. Oliver Queen never became Green Arrow. Barry Allen suffered burns in a chemical accident in his police lab, but they weren't the chemicals that conferred superspeed on him in the Earth-One timeline. Abin Sur's spacecraft passed near Earth with no mishaps and went on its way. Supergirl and Aqualad became allies as they began their crimefighting careers. Superman and Aquaman are this world's greatest heroes. There are no Teen Titans, Doom Patrol and only the Superman and Aquaman rogue galleries are active as supervillains. However, these supervillains have definite moral limits and will never kill, whatever their moral failings in other areas.
But can this AU keep its Innocence and remain a Silver Age style DC vista? Wait and see
How does this set up the DC universe characters as they arise? Superman lands in Kansas and travels to Metropolis, but it's a smaller city and the United States doesn't have the economic base to provide for multiple metahumans. Bruce Wayne's parents never went down Crime Alley in this universe, and Joe Chill got rehabilitated before he could have killed them anyway. In the Atlantic, Captain Steve Trevor's aircraft was never shot down and he never encountered Themiscyra. In time, Princess Diana succeeded her mother, Hippolyta. Oliver Queen never became Green Arrow. Barry Allen suffered burns in a chemical accident in his police lab, but they weren't the chemicals that conferred superspeed on him in the Earth-One timeline. Abin Sur's spacecraft passed near Earth with no mishaps and went on its way. Supergirl and Aqualad became allies as they began their crimefighting careers. Superman and Aquaman are this world's greatest heroes. There are no Teen Titans, Doom Patrol and only the Superman and Aquaman rogue galleries are active as supervillains. However, these supervillains have definite moral limits and will never kill, whatever their moral failings in other areas.
But can this AU keep its Innocence and remain a Silver Age style DC vista? Wait and see
