I know you will do as heroes do and fill the pages of history books with legends and epics and tragedies.

But my love, I also know that somewhere, sometime–– today, tomorrow, five years from now, after I breathe my last breath, or as soon as this poem ends–– you will find your final ruin under a darkened sky full of shattered stars.

And all the stars will fall from grace with your name engraved in the dust of their deaths.

hero is another word for damned / ( j.p. )

GHOSTLY / BARRY ALLEN.
by antigalactic.

Does the universe have fixed points? Moments in the multiverse that need to happen, that will always happen? No matter the reality or the continuum, are there points in time that the universe deems indisputable? Do such assumptions not seem almost inevitable?

Conclusions on this question vary; there is no way to decisively prove or disprove the theory. But to Maya Black, it has invariably been true. This is because she's living on borrowed time. (This is because she is running from a chiming clock.) The car crash that stole her life from her at eighteen left her hollow-chested and thick-skinned over half a decade later. She slipped through the hands of Death and landed on the Devil's doorstep. Ouroboros, a cult of monstrous misdemeanours and an obsession with obtaining immortality, makes something rotten of her innocence.

          Born to Joseph Black, billionaire entrepreneur and owner of Black Industries, Maya's life is meant to be one of luxury. Instead, at twenty-five she finds herself a ghost haunting her own bones, a shadow walker with blood stained teeth and fingertips smudged with gunpowder. The irony of such a fate is not lost on her. Her fate, she believes, was meant to be that of her brother and father before her: a CEO, a philanthropist, a pioneer, a businesswoman. Sunless days and sleepless nights, marked only by the crack of bone, were not meant to be in her cards. She gets years of vengeance driven by hate and bloodlust where she should have had a slow life, a soft one.

But the cosmos disagrees. (Isn't that how all good stories start?) There is a seed buried deep in her, a cosmic gene that defies all normalcy she would thrust upon herself. Hidden in the crevices of her DNA lies power beyond the mortal coil — something of myth and legend that has laid dormant in her ancestry for centuries. A power that leads a Dark Knight and an Amazon to her; an unlikely duo searching for allies, for a team, for someone like her.

Whether an heiress forged into a weapon, or a girl coming into godhood, she is destined for greatness and destiny always comes to collect.

So it's inevitable, is it not? Because — however you frame it — the universe looks at Maya Black, when she is starry-eyed and young-blooded, and says: you.

She is running from a chiming clock.

Barry Allen meets Maya after those seven years, and he knows what the last toll of a clock entails. That is to say, he has been running his entire life. That is to say, he wants to help her. Because something about her, about the curve of her smile and the green of her eyes, stops him in his tracks. Moments where the light shines through, and the cracks in her armour make her look a little more human. Glimpses of who she used to be — who she still can be — which lead him to an inescapable conclusion: she has a potentiality for good. He can't help it, that warmth in his chest. That pressure in his ribcage that presses against his lungs until he can barely breathe.

He knows she is neither soft nor gentle; he knows her hands are rough and her teeth are sharp, that there are shadows beneath her skin and they can make her ruthless and cruel. He knows he could be wrong, and she may very well be past redemption, or absolution, or saving.

And he knows.

He knows.

He knows.

But faith is a powerful thing and Barry Allen holds it in abundance for Maya Black. It's only natural her ascension to heroism follows. It's indisputable, inevitable.

Does destiny not carve her ending into stone right then?

MAYA BLACK / ✨.

BARRY ALLEN / ⚡.

florence pugh ...... CONSTANCE BLACK.
scarlett johansson ... MELANIE MERLYN.
adria arjona ............................ LILY LARK.
oscar isaac ............... TRISTAN BARROW.
erin moriarty ............... KIRAN HOWELL.
scott eastwood ............ ASHER HOWELL.
cate blanchett ....... ELIZABETH BLACK.
emily blunt ...................... ELLIE BLACK.
tom hardy ...................... ETHAN BLACK.
ryan gosling ...................... HAL JORDAN.
christian bale ................. BRUCE WAYNE.
charlie hunnam ............ OLIVER QUEEN.

+ ZS JUSTICE LEAGUE CAST.
+ DARK NIGHTS SERIES CAST.

#1. LONG STORY SHORT , TAYLOR SWIFT.
#2. DREAMS , THE CRANBERRIES.
#3. ABBEY , MITSKI.
#4. LABYRINTH , TAYLOR SWIFT.
#5. IRIS , GOO GOO DOLLS.
#6. SHELTER FROM THE STORM , BOB DYLAN.
#7. GOLD DUST WOMAN , FLEETWOOD MAC.
#8. NOBODY'S SOLDIER , HOZIER.
#9. THE VIEW BETWEEN VILLAGES , NOAH KAHAN.
#10. ROMEO AND JULIET , DIRE STRAITS.
#11. GOOD RIDDANCE , GREEN DAY.
#12. A BURNING HILL , MITSKI.
#13. THE ALCHEMY , TAYLOR SWIFT.
#14. FRANCESCA , HOZIER.

DARK NIGHTS SERIES / BOOK THREE.
a dceu-based series.

01.      GLORY AND GORE / bruce wayne.
02.                          IN BLOOM / clark kent.
03.                          GHOSTLY / barry allen.

04. THE LAST OLYMPIAN / diana prince.
05.                   RAISE HELL / harley quinn.
06.          KINGDOM COME / arthur curry.
07.                    ANTITHESIS / billy batson.

OTHER MAYA BLACK FICS.
THE GHOST / dctv au.
DARK WAR / dc comics au.
THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS / barry allen.
⤿ part of the RIGOR MORTIS series.
TALES FROM A DARK MULTIVERSE: INFINITY / one-shot.
WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME / barry allen & dcamu.
THE SEVENTH HOUR / barry allen.

☠️ starting 2023 off RIGHT with two of the biggest sources of my brainrots: barry and maya

☠️ when writing them down, and realising the sheer quantity of fics i have for maya / maya & barry, i am tad embarrassed. it's a little awkward. i don't know how to explain that. most of them will never leave my drafts if that's any consolation?

☠️ ANYWAY MAYA BLACK IS FINALLY HERE SOMEBODY SEDATE ME !! kinda feels unhinged that after. solid,,,,, YEARS. of only posting about her on insta and talking to friends about her that i'm finally posting one of her fics ???

☠️ dedicated to the literal loves of my life <3 bokuroos JustSav flamebirds luckyvirgo

☠️ so even tho i've titled this as a barry allen fic, the romance is like a subplot. maya is THE first oc i created, back in her original form as a flash/dctv oc in 2015 and this fic predominantly focuses on HER. i really love her and this version of her character has been in the works a while so pls excuse me if i'm a total perfectionist about this fic

☠️ in that respect, the first act of this fic will be an origin story or sorts for maya; it will cover the arrival of her powers, her facing her past & demons and the subsequent decision to atone for her sins, crossing paths / being sought out by diana and bruce and, eventually, her first steps back towards the light

☠️ these plot lines, as well as the later progression this story will take when venturing into actual DCEU films (possibly flashpoint (liv's version)? if it ever comes out?), may mean i write about sensitive, dark and potentially triggering topics. please look after yourselves. don't read on if this makes you uncomfortable!

☠️ aside from that, buckle in and enjoy. maya black is here <3

© SVPERBOY | 2024.
THE DARK NIGHTS SERIES.