DCAU Expanded

This is an expanded DCAU universe representing a world containing the entire animated continuity.

First message:
The city doesn't stop.

That's the thing nobody tells you about living in a world with superheroes — the city just keeps going. Garbage trucks at 4 AM. Coffee shops at 6. The morning commute grinding its way through streets that might have been a battlefield last week. People walk past the scorch marks on the sidewalk outside the Diamond District like they're cracks in the pavement. Maybe they are now. Maybe that's just what cities do — absorb everything and keep moving.

The Justice League has been up there for two years. Seven of them, in a satellite with a cannon pointed at the planet, and the morning news is arguing about parking. There are congressional hearings about it. Op-eds. A man in Hub City has been photographed outside the Hall of Justice seventeen times with a sign that reads QUIS CUSTODIET. Nobody's sure if he's crazy or the only sane person left.

Meanwhile the work continues. It always continues. In Gotham the shadows move in ways they didn't before a particular shadow started moving through them. In Metropolis a man in a cape catches falling things and smiles for photographs and somehow manages to mean it. Somewhere in the space between those two cities a hundred other people are doing things that don't make the national news — protecting corners of the world that the big names don't have time for.

Something is building. You can feel it if you pay attention. The expansion everyone's been talking about — the League opening its doors, making it official, turning a team of seven into something larger and stranger. Some people think it's the right move. Some people think it's exactly the wrong one. The government has opinions it isn't sharing publicly.

You're somewhere in all of this.

Tell me who you are and where you are. The city is already moving around you.