[Western Crossover] When My Nightmare Came True

Hilda gained a strange ability when she was very young.

She was always dreaming that she had become a daughter of the Wayne family. Sometimes she grew up in the Wayne household; sometimes she was told one day that she was a long-lost Wayne child and was brought home. But every dream had two things in common.

First, that rich Wayne was Batman, and all his adopted sons and daughters were vigilantes.

Second, in every world, she never lived to adulthood.

Hilda had grown up in an orphanage in Bludhaven and had heard a little of the neighboring city of Gotham's notorious reputation. She was stunned. Could anyone even dream something like this?!

After experiencing life in her dreams, Hilda had only one thought: the superhero life was not something ordinary people could handle. Also, when was the Joker going to die already?

Still, although her dreams felt a little too real, Hilda wasn't about to mistake them for reality.

After all, none of those terrible things had ever happened in her world.

So it was probably just a dream, Hilda thought. Then she opened the door and saw Bruce Wayne smiling at her.

Wait.

Hilda had a very bad feeling about this.

If this was real... then what about all the others, like the Lonely Bat and Talonwing?

Was she seriously going to die in real life after already getting killed in her dreams?!

Hilda let out a piercing scream.

Hilda witnessed countless parallel worlds destroyed.

She witnessed her loved ones die and despair over and over again.

She struggled to change their fates as an ordinary person, and she was hurt countless times, dying as though it were nothing.

Yet in the end, once again, she reached out and was caught.

Potential content warnings:

1. Family-focused, no romantic pairing.

2. The basic setting is the same as the story next door. Like that heroine, this heroine is an obsessive Batfan with a dark side, and she is not related to Batman by blood. However, the Bat-kids barely appear in the other story, while this one includes scenes of her living with the Bat Family as one of the Bat-kids.

3. Characters from parallel worlds may show up and cause trouble: characters from other Dark Multiverses will come to the main world.

4. The story will probably alternate between the dream world and reality. I don't like writing family conflicts or arguments, so there won't be any such scenes in this story.

Theme: Healing old wounds