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Some best friend therapy ~ I love Pansy and Draco friendships in fanfics omph i feel like i don see them often enough. I didn't have time to finish up this sketch but please enjoy. Drawn with references

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hot take

i like bernard dowd

he's interesting if you know how to not look at him as just tim's boyfriend

he had a whole thing going on

his ass trying to be normal after suffering immense amounts of trauma (his idea of normal is making up theories about heroes and the way the world works, he's also a biology and physics major. and he wants to be a chef)

i might very well be his #1 fan idk man

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They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

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the inevitable conclusion

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what are we even saying anymore

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Mermaid Damian AU

Based on Mermay, the amazing fanart I saw and the incredible mermaid fic that was posted on ao3 recently. Also, H20! just add water.

Damian grows scales and tail when he touches saltwater. It is a strange but wonderful quirk.

He was doing survival training when it first occured.

The ten year old heir to the demon was put in the frigid ocean off the coast of the US and was expected to stay there for hours, weights strapped to his back and feet.

He was expected to stay afloat while the waves tried to bury him, and the saltwater burnt his nose. The only way he could tell time had passed was the passage of the sun through the sky.

It was so cold and so hard to keep conscious.

Eventually, Damian started to slip under. He fought to keep his head above water, but his body was so small, so exhausted from hours of struggling.

Damian slipped under again, and this time, he did not resurface.

When he opened his eyes, he was under the water, but unlike when he was fighting it earlier. His lungs no longer burn for air, and he can see clearly around him. He lies on the ocean floor among seaweed and small fish.

When he tries to move, he finds that the weight that drowned him before is easy to lift now. When he stretches his limbs, it feels different. Instead of his legs moving on his command, there is a large tail in their place.

It looks like that of a large fish, green and yellow, with black spots to mimic underwater sunlight.

The green scales gleam, he brings up his hand to touch it and he finds the scales there too. Each finger now clawed with webbing between them.

Damian reels in shock. He runs his hands up his bare chest. The scales ran up his sides to his neck, where gills now flared outwards, they hurt to touch, Even his ears and teeth have changed. His teeth pointed and ears adorned with frills.

He swam experimentally and when he broke the surface. He found himself in the centre of the endless blue.

Damian longed for his mother, longed for comfort, but he was too much of a coward to face her like this.

He was a monster now, no longer a fitting heir to the demon.

So Damian Al Ghul swam away.

He spent days in the ocean alone, and he learned to hunt fish and bury his disgust at eating them raw. He met pods of dolphins, a few seals, and even a whale once. The gentle hum of the ocean gave him peace that he had never known before in the League.

Then, one day, he came across a blond man in an orange and green suit who seemed just as surprised to see Damian at the bottom of the ocean as Damian was to see him.

The poorly dressed man, Arthur, explained that he was an Atlantean and brought Damian to the city after careful convincing. No one they spoke to seemed to know what had happened to him or why.

Damian grew to enjoy Atlantis, and Arthur took the little merman under his fin, much to Damians' consternation. He enjoyed the company of his wife Mera and ward Garth much better.

He learnt that Arthur was a hero on the surface using the name Aquaman. He thought the man was still ridiculous but respected his ability and deeds to protect the world.

Damian bonded with Aqualad pretty quickly. He appreciated the older teens' calm and confident demeanour.

Garth even convinced him to go to the surface again after months of living under the water. Where, when Damian dried out in the sun, while lounging on an isolated beach, he shifted back to humans.

Walking on two legs was a very difficult task, but Garth helped him stand and got him clothes. Apparently, they don't survive his transformation.

When Arthur showed up, he looked at Damian, now bipedal and promptly forced both boys to a Zeta tube and up to the Watchtower.

(He loves his wards, and now that they know Damian won't die outside water, they can finally try and find answers!)

Damian meets the Justice League, and after answering their questions, all those present promise to try and help the young boy. The sparse details he gives them about his past harden their determination.

Both Atlantean heroes watch the young merman protectively the entire time. Garth even takes him to Titan Tower while Arthur joins Zantanna to search for possible magical explanations.

The Teen Titans are very curious over the assassin mermaid as they dubbed him, and when he is confused about being called Ariel, they drag him into a movie night. At least Beast Boy joins him in giving out about the creepy French chef.

The next morning, Damian is once again looking for people clothes and borrows from all of the Titans as he is quite a bit smaller than all of them.

Garth glares at how Jonathan Kent Superboy seems to look at his little brother with love struck eyes. It gets worse when Damian is given his Jon sweater when he gets cold.

All in all, they spend a week at the tower.

Damian finds out that only saltwater causes his change when he enjoys a hot bath for the first time in almost a year.

Robin asks to throw salt water on him to confirm the theory, and it takes thirty minutes of awarkwardly lying on the living room floor for his tail to dissappear. Unfortunately, neither Tim nor Damian considered the clothes issue.

(Poor Jon almost passed out when Damian had to hastily grab a blanket to cover himself. Garth glared at Tim for days.)

The Justice League don't have a lot of theories when they call him back to the Watchtower. They suspect it might be something to do with Damian specifically.

Batman runs his blood and has a crisis when his DNA results come back.

Arthur and Bruce somehow end up in a custody battle that both Superman and Wonder Woman have to break up.

Damian agrees to share time. He could never ignore the constant pull he felt to the ocean, but he wanted to know his biological father.

The rest of the Bat Brood descend on the mermaid and start family bonding activities. Damian loved sparring again. Gotham Harbour is a place of nightmares though.

Years go by like this, Damian enjoys his life in the sea and on land. For a boy left alone and cold in the ocean, he now has two families that fought for his attention and plenty of friends.

Damian learns he is not a monster but a blessed soul. The transformation was the result of an old Atlantean legend and Posideans intervention apparently.

He becomes a hero and goes by the name Albatross.

He joins the Titans and strikes up many friendships, especially with Superboy and Beastboy.

When the League of Assassin's attacks Gotham, they are very surprised to find Damian had survived after all. Talia is happy her son is alive but agrees he has a better life away from the League.

When Damian gets older, he decides to become a doctor. Trains in healing in Atlantis and medicine in Gotham. He innovates marine based pharmaceuticals and therapies. Arthur and Bruce both turn up to his graduations, the two heroes almost come to blows over photos.

Jon Kent realises he likes Damian Curry Wayne the first week he met him. The pretty mermaid with green eyes and sun-kissed skin was just incredible.

Every moment he is in Albatross's company, he finds out another reason to adore him. He is smart, sarcastically funny and achingly kind, and forgiving. Especially given his past.

Damian hadn't told any of them of the Titans how he ended up drowning all those years ago, until one day Talia Al Ghul broke into the tower to administer a test for her son by trying to kill him.

The team, complete with a very pissed off Garth, walked in on her being held at Sword Point by a bleeding Damian.

The explanation given, after they left Talia in the care of a furious Batman, is a horrifying one. The training, the cruelty, and Damian dying make every Titan swear vengeance on Ras Al Ghul.

Jon Kent vows to himself he will never let anything like that happen to Damian ever again.

To heal his wounds, Aqualad submerges his adoptive brother in saltwater and as his transformation takes hold. Jon is hit once again with how beautiful Damian is in any form.

Jon tries harder after that to get closer to his crush, they've been friends since Damian came out of the ocean the first time but Jon starts touching him more, inviting him to hang out one on one and it starts to work, going by the way Damian turns red whenever Jon hugs him. The sight makes something possessive and smug settle in his chest.

The rest of the Titans notice his behaviour and make up excuses for Jon to get closer to his mermaid while distracting Damian's small army of overprotective big brothers.

Damian kisses him for the first time on the same beach he and Garth visited the first time he became human again, and Jon imprints the memory of his soft lips into his very soul. Damian tells him Jon makes him feel the same kind of wonder as he did then, the same unexpected peace.

Jon just drags his mermaid back into his arms for many more kisses.

When Aquaman and Batman find out about their relationship, any petty parenting rivalry is put aside in order to terrify the boy of steel.

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This panel means so much to me

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Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry

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Let’s read Sun Tzu with mama

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batman villains are funny bc they all end up in arkham over and over so its just like

killer croc, painting a beautiful and sensitive portrait representing his inner turmoil: i had no idea (insert plant) was an invasive species in gotham

poison ivy, painting a photorealistic fern: they are! they’re so widespread that its almost impossible to contain, and it really hurts my heart

joker trying so fucking hard not to call them homophobic slurs because the therapist told him he’d get extra joker mush if he behaved for once in his fucking life:

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oh, not even. according to nightwing: year one, it was a matter of days (maybe a week at most) after dick got fired and kicked out before jason made his debut as robin. it's also canon that bruce mostly took jay in because he missed dick, which tracks; the empty nest syndrome goes absolutely insane for bruce.

similarly, according to a lonely place of dying, it was only a month or two (iirc) after jay's death that tim asserted himself into the role of robin (much to bruce and dick's chagrin), and he made his first appearance in that same day that he met dick for the first time. bruce, after being caught up, basically went "ugh, goddammit. alright kid, one strike and you're out." and just went along with it because neither he nor dick could convince tim otherwise, and dick was already starting to get endeared to this smartass little thirteen-year-old boy. obviously, old lore from the late 80's, but still largely canon.

do you ever think Dick has to listen to Jason angrily rant about how fucked up it is that the second he left Bruce took in another kid and gave them his mantle of Robin and just kinda. sighs real loud.

Jason: why are you looking at me like that?

Dick: no reason, Robin the second.

Jason:

Jason: i don’t like the words you’re speaking there, Dickie.