Tirfarthuan's Brightest Shadow is a pocket-size version of DC's Blackest Night and Brightest Day storyline, shorn of Lanterns beyond Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott and featuring some characters crossed over from the Naruto SI Dreaming of Sunshine. As the author himself admits in the commentary, that sounds really really niche, but it is fact a solid story on its own so as long as you have the basic idea that the DCU is a place of idealistic superheroes and the crossover characters come from a world of flashy kung-fu wizards pretending to be ninja despite only occasionally exhibiting actual stealth and having quite a lot of explosions and shouting and distinctive appearances involved, you can probably get by. If you really want to brush up on more details first, the last chapter has a paragraph or two on each character, along with commentary on the plot and world building. And, of course, if you haven't read Dreaming of Sunshine yet, that's highly recommended too, even if it's still (slowly) ongoing. It's been a rebirth of my interest in the fandom, after the later canon material utterly killed the enthusiasm I'd once felt.
Though set somewhere mid-to-late-ish in the current body of DoS material and only involving minor characters other than Shikako herself, who doesn't actually spend a lot of time in the spotlight as such, Brightest Shadow is probably a decent enough teaser if you're not sure about diving into something as long as DoS on spec, particularly given that its first few chapters are the now overdone "SI freaks out about being a baby with an adult mind" material. It's ~39k words on its own, while DoS is closer to three quarters of a million words than half and has spawned many other spinoffs (90+ in the Helicentrism FFn community) and imitators besides.
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11987353/ - Brightest Shadow
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7347955/ - Dreaming of Sunshine
https://m.fanfiction.net/community/Helio...sm/119149/ - DoS inspired fic collection on FFn
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Silver%...erse/works - a similar collection on AO3
Though set somewhere mid-to-late-ish in the current body of DoS material and only involving minor characters other than Shikako herself, who doesn't actually spend a lot of time in the spotlight as such, Brightest Shadow is probably a decent enough teaser if you're not sure about diving into something as long as DoS on spec, particularly given that its first few chapters are the now overdone "SI freaks out about being a baby with an adult mind" material. It's ~39k words on its own, while DoS is closer to three quarters of a million words than half and has spawned many other spinoffs (90+ in the Helicentrism FFn community) and imitators besides.
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11987353/ - Brightest Shadow
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7347955/ - Dreaming of Sunshine
https://m.fanfiction.net/community/Helio...sm/119149/ - DoS inspired fic collection on FFn
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Silver%...erse/works - a similar collection on AO3
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