NGC Recs Self-Reflection (Literally)
Stories where one or more characters meet their alternate self from another universe or timeline. Generally, this causes some degree of self reflection.
(Stories where the meeting is brief or a spoiler may or may not end up here. Same if it has no real significance in the narrative.)
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Time travel. That actually makes sense. It would also explain why his grace feels so weak, why his body aches so much. But Castiel can’t remember traveling through time. He wouldn’t do that without a reason, right?
The Winchesters are still looking at him, waiting for an answer.
“2008.”, Castiel answers and his eyes wander to Dean again, “September 2008.”
Dean draws in a sharp breath.
“Son of a bitch”, he hisses.
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Dean is still mourning the loss of his best friend, when something decides to drop the Castiel from 2008 right into the bunker. Now Dean is not only confronted with a pissed off angel he can barely look at, they also have to find out what brought Castiel into their timeline. And especially, what's the reason behind this?
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Straight Shooting by bewaretheboojum, Nanimok, njw, Rider_of_Spades for strawberryjei
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
29 Feb 2020
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Hood stares in dumbfounded shock as Tim Drake, his replacement and sometime enemy, snickers and reaches out one uncoordinated hand to poke at his white streak. Two things happen in that moment. He spots the scar on Tim’s throat, the one he put there way back when he was at his most fucked up—or rather, he spots the smooth, pale, unmarred skin where it should have been.
He also hears Red Robin in his ear, calmly checking in with the Bats over the comms Red Hood secretly listens in on.
“Well, fuck,” he says, looking with new eyes at the grinning, way too trusting teen—and he’s definitely a teen, at least a few years younger than the guy he knows. “Guess you’re not from around here, after all.”
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Jason doesn’t know how he got here or who that red-helmeted asshole is, but he’s not going to stand by and watch him kill people.
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Set days after the events in Shadow (1.16), Dean and Sam are trying to get as far from Chicago as they can when an unexpected and yet familiar arrival throws their world into disarray. Dean didn't ask for a glimpse into his and Sam's future, and he's still not sure he wants one, especially not when his future self starts talking about angels and miracles, like either of those things could possibly exist.
"Okay, let's say you're right. Let's say at some point I'm going to travel into the past, meet myself, and then force myself to take a cross-country road trip with myself so that I can find some dude I refuse to talk about. The hell, Sam? Does any of that make sense?"
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Final chapter added: 08/03/2026
Harry is struggling after the death of Sirius. While stomping around Grimmauld, he stumbles across a mysterious artefact that answers the question, 'What if?'
(Harry meets his alternate Slytherin self and they get to have a chat.)
Snape is not Harry's biological father, there is no slash.
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- Part 1 of The Whim of a Talking Hat