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[elenauaurs]

"Not so scary"

[my-life-is-a-bad-sitcom]

@batsandbirdbrains thought you might find this interesting

AU where some new villain made a truth serum formula and captures Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Robin. This villain somehow knows they’ve all been Robin at one point and decides to use the truth serum to try and drive a wedge between them all so that they stop working together. He starts with Robin, asking him who he thinks was the best Robin (Nightwing), who he thinks is the worst (Red Robin) and why he thinks that (Red Robin is annoying and arrogant). He does the same with Red Robin and Red Hood and gets varying answers that, while somewhat mean, are not enough to break the dynamic between them. Then he gets to Nightwing, who claims (truthfully) that he doesn’t have a favorite or least favorite Robin. The villain is displeased with this so they start to come up different questions to try and start an argument between the boys.

Eventually the villain asks “Which Robin is closest to the original? Closest to your Robin? Which one reminds you the most of yourself?”. Dick tries to fight the serum for a while, before finally biting out “The fourth one.” They all turn to look at Damian, and the villain scrunches up his brows, asking “Him? Really?” It was somewhat of a rhetorical question but Dick is forced to answer anyways. “No, not him. He’s the fifth Robin.” It takes a second before it clicks into place. “The girl Robin? Seriously?? I heard she didn’t even last a week!” Before anything else can be said, Batman busts into the villain’s lair and manages to take him down.

When they get back to the cave, the boys try to question Dick about it, slightly offended by the fact that he considered Stephanie’s Robin to be the most accurate to his. Dick, however, manages to evade them until the serum wears off. Dick himself isn’t quite sure how he can explain it to them. He’s not sure how to tell them that while he’s proud of all the work they’ve done as Robin, he never shared their reasoning for becoming Robin. He’s not sure how to point out the fact that the main reason they got into the vigilante game was for Bruce, not for themselves. He’s not sure how to explain that Robin might’ve been given to them for them to find light and happiness in, but that initially Robin was born from his darkness.

He’s not sure how to tell them that when Bruce told him about Steph, about Spoiler, about how she designed her own suit and went out to stop the man she has a vendetta against, he was so violently reminded of himself that he hung up immediately and didn’t speak to anyone for two days. He’s not sure how to tell them that when Bruce came calling a little while later, telling him about Steph being in-over her head, about him firing her, about her going off on her own only to end up tortured and dead, it was like staring in a mirror of his own relationship with Bruce, and that he’d punched Bruce so hard he’d nearly broken a finger. He’s not sure how to tell them about the quiet nights he stayed up talking with Steph, when Bruce was lost in time and it was just her, Damian, and Alfred around. He’s not sure how to tell them about how when Steph had told him about her relationship with Dean, he’d been reminded of his relationship with Liu so much he’d nearly thrown up. He’s not sure how to tell them that when Dick had opened up about his guilt about what happened in Blüd, Steph hadn’t given him any false placations, and talked about the guilt she felt over her role in the gang wars instead.

He’s not sure how to tell them that while all of them have felt like failures to Bruce, none of them had felt the harsh sting of Bruce ripping Robin away from them, the pain of Bruce telling them how incompetent and unworthy they were as Bruce fires them. He’s not sure how to tell them that while he may their older brother, he was only ever Bruce’s ward. Bruce never adopted him, and despite how far they’ve all come to work as a family, Dick still feels like an outsider sometimes. He knows Steph gets it. She feels like an outsider too.

[thedeerus]

[javaxzun]

doodle dump i guess while i mourn the fact i cant draw rn so im using a finger

[mlarayoukai]

[alteroreoz]

shadow milk with ears GO

-opi >:)

OPI UR GONNA MAKE ME TURN OFF ANON ASKS. /J

heres a random one thay i made

my doodles have been so shit nowadays sorry vro 💔

[havockingboo]

I have to steal him away, he’s too good for this world

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

I don't hate Cillian Muprhy, but BOOOOY do I loathe when Cillian Murphy photoshoot posts that have nothing to do with his role in the Batman movies get tagged "jonathan crane"

He's not Jonathan, tumblr babies. He's not. Pls stop. I beg of you.

[ashyblondwaves]

"I'll never get the Peeta over Gale thing."

Just say you have no reading comprehension. It's ok. 😘

[overgore]

🦷

[aesopsbaby]

My results just got released and I'm not even sure if I can get into the school and course I want anymore because I did so fucking bad oh my LORDDDDD

[eizneckam]

I find it funny how both works that popularized "Nihilist Joker" explicitly proved him wrong.

Batman (The Killing Joke): "Maybe ordinary people don't always crack! Maybe there isn't any need to crawl under a rock with all the other slimy things when trouble hits. Maybe it was just you, all the time!"

Batman (The Dark Knight): "What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone's as ugly as you? You're alone!"

Joker doesn't drive Gordon insane. The people on the boats don't blow each other up. The whole point is that Joker, despite all his posturing, is just an ordinary, sad, sick man who wants to hurt people. And yet every Joker story since has him be like an unstoppable nihilism god who no one can stop or refute :/

[red-d4mage]

haha

[whatdoessunshinetastelike]

[bells-shrink]

my thoughts