Imagine Walking Into A City That May Or May Not Be Alive - Tumblr Posts
AU where the GIW was really pulled together to contain Amity Park, not ghosts.
Because Amity Park is alive in all the ways a city shouldn't be, and has the capability to be a world ending threat.
Well, not really, but the GIW doesn't really understand that.
When the Portal opened up, it made Amity Park a living, thriving thing. Constantly expanding, constantly evolving, constantly changing. Buildings pop up and no one knows where they came from, streets get rearranged all the time, and only the locals seem to be able to make any sense of it all.
Honestly, the GIW thinks that Jack and Maddie Fenton contained the portal, not that they opened it. The GIW think that ghosts are like the city's immune system, and need to be culled in order to prevent Amity from getting strong enough to spread.
Because without any of the residents realizing it, Amity Park tripled in size by devouring the surrounding areas. People in close by neighboring cities woke up one day to a fully urbanized area completely surrounding theirs, slowly over the course of that day forgetting that they were ever in any other city.
So to contain a living city that spreads like a disease, the GIW do what they think is needed to cut it down to size. Wanton public destruction, killing off the city's immune system, trying to sever people's connection to the city, through slightly unethical means of human experimentation.
The city responded by sending stronger and stronger "Ghosts".
The GIW petitioned the US government with evidence that the city could, potentially, overtake the entire world. That there would be no land left for farming, no rivers or oceans left to fish. A total global catastrophe.
The US government agreed.
Now, when they're worried that Amity spread out or that another city is gaining abilities like Amity, they call in the GIW to investigate.
The problem with this is that the GIW really don't understand what's happening.
Amity Park is a living city, but she only grew as much as she felt she needed to before she stopped. Ghosts are not her immune system, they are just neighbors from another Realm. People aren't "unnaturally connected" to her like a hivemind, they can just understand when she tells them to run or hide.
But the GIW don't understand this at all.
Then certain officials, ones who's job is to visit cities and check for unnatural growth like Amity's, hone in on another city.
The GIW are called in to investigate Gotham.
Gotham, alive like Amity but far more reclusive and private, Does Not Like This.