#sometimes dick and jason or damian and jason

[catscraftsandcommentary]

Source material is comics, which a) there's a lot of them b) a bunch of different people wrote them c) plotlines keep getting rewritten/edited/etc, so as far as I can tell, it's like if you took the top 50 AO3 fics in a given fandom and declared them canon.

That said, here are the major characters in Batman/Bat-family: if anyone who's actually READ the comics wants to correct me, feel free

Bruce Wayne (Batman): a megabillionaire who was orphaned as a child, raised by his parents' butler, and eventually chose to study lots of different fighting techniques so he could fight crime. Usually has A Thing against using guns and killing people. Also has A Thing about bat puns/names and adopting/mentoring every orphan or sad looking child he meets.

Thomas and Martha Wayne: Bruce's parents. They're killed by a mugger in front of Bruce when he's a kid, and after their death, their hometown of Gotham goes through a SERIOUS decline.

Alfred Pennyworth: the Phil Coulson of DCU. Looks like just a mild-mannered British butler...until you threaten his family. Then you realize that he's actually the badass who taught Batman everything he knows. Including high society manners and deflecting unwanted attention. When in doubt? Listen to Alfred.

Richard "Dick" Grayson (1st Robin, Nightwing): the first orphan that Bruce brought home, Dick's parents were circus acrobats. He's the 1st Robin (child sidekick) to Batman, and when he grows up, he moves to Gotham's sister city Bludhaven to rehab that, using the new name Nightwing.

Jason Todd (2nd Robin, Red Hood): an orphan from the streets, he gets adopted while...trying to steal the tires off the Batmobile (Batman's fancy ass car-tank hybrid). I think. Eventually he is captured and killed by the Joker (Batman's most important enemy), but because it's comics, he doesn't stay dead. Afaik, he has an on-again, off-again relationship with the Batfamily after his resurrection.

Tim Drake (3rd Robin, Red Robin): a child prodigy and the son of absent socialite parents, Tim becomes Robin #3 after Jason's death when Tim tells the Batfam that Batman *needs* a Robin.

Damian Wayne (5th Robin): son of Bruce/Batman and Talia al Ghul (daughter of R'as al Ghul, who leads the League of Assassins). He's hidden and raised by his mother to be the heir of both Batman and R'as. He's half spoiled brat, half bloodthirsty child assassin, and all headache.

James Gordon (detective, police commissioner): Batman's ally/contact in Gotham's police department; his daughter Stephanie becomes the first Batgirl

Stephanie Gordon (Batgirl, Oracle): works with Batman as Batgirl, but is eventually shot and paralyzed by the Joker (NOT while working). Went on to become the IT expert (info gathering, hacking, mission coordinating, etc) under the name Oracle. Sometimes dates Dick Grayson and/or recovers from paralysis after surgery.

Cassandra Cain (2nd Batgirl): daughter of two assassins, SEVERELY neglected childhood, she was raised without language and learned to interpret body language as almost a superpower. But she's mute and has very poor social skills. Evetually adopted by Batman as his only daughter.

Stephanie Brown (Spoiler, 4th Robin, Batgirl): daughter of a minor villain, she dons a costume to "spoil" his plots and discovers a taste for heroing. Briefly works as Robin after Tim Drake...gets injured? Dies? Idk.

Lucius Fox: Bruce's master inventor/tech devemoper at Wayne Interprises

Clark Kent (Superman): an alien from the planet Krypton, he's adopted as a baby by Ma and Pa Kent (small town farm couple) and becomes a reporter for the Daily Planet newspaper in Metropolis. He marries Lois Lane (a coworker) and has son Jon (Superboy). He's Batman's ally and a founding member of the Justice League.

Diana of Themyscira (Wonder Woman): princess of the Amazons, she's an ambassador of her people to the wider world and a founding member of the Justice League.

...I relied heavily on wikipedia for this. It seems like everytime I run into a new name, I look up just enough to get a working understanding "who is this, how do they connect," and then I keep reading.

AU where the Justice League forms like usual, except Batman maintained his “totally a myth” status and has in fact been active for years before the JL forms. He’s very cautious about trusting them, but still joins, and the others sort of accepts that as long as they trust that Batman has a really hard time with trust, it will all work out in its own weird way

Then, one day, in the middle of a JL mission, the League gets in a tight spot. Out of nowhere, this blue and black blur swoops in and saves everyone’s ass. Maybe breaking some shackles that were proving very difficult, maybe disarm a bomb that the League was just a hair’s breadth too slow to reach without help, but whatever happens, the shadowy figure pauses just long enough to say, “Hey, Batman, you know you there are these things called cellphones now and you can just call sometimes, it doesn’t have to be this dramatic?” and bounds away after shouting ‘let’s do brunch! Bring your new friends!’

Batman is mortified.

No one lets it go.

The entire rest of the mission, the whole League is asking so many questions. Who was that? Do you know him? How do you know him? What’s going on? I didn’t know there was a vigilante in this area?? They don’t let up until he talks.

“That was Nightwing.” Batman is mumbling. The JL forces him to bring them to the Brunch. Brunch happens to be in a run-down apartment on the edge of a bad neighborhood, at five in the morning, in costume. Nightwing introduces himself as Batman’s lovechild with justice.

“I did not realize Batman had a child,” Martian Manhunter says, calmly enough that no one’s sure if he’s accidentally plucking a really loud thought out of the air or if he’s trying to make a joke.

Nightwing stares for a moment falling over laughing. He doesn’t get up. Batman starts trying to apply anti-Joker venom but Nightwing just kicks him and laughs until he cries. He keeps trying to wipe his eyes and his mask keeps getting in the way, so he asks everyone to leave so he can please get a hold of himself

He is still laughing when they leave. Everyone is confused. Batman is furious.  Nightwing manages to breathe long enough to say, “We’re just so glad you’re socializing now, Batman.”

Superman turns to look at Batman very slowly. “…’we’?”

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[batsandbirdbrains]

I need Bruce trying to gentle parent Dick as a child. Like maybe Bruce isn’t exactly a good parent but tries. When Dick starts throwing massive tantrums, he just puts Dick in an empty room for time out. This does not stop Dick as he ends up destroying the room despite nothing being in it. When Dick does something Bruce doesn’t approve of, Bruce just says softly “Don’t do that.” Dick does it again. Like I need him trying and failing. Nothing he does works. Then Dick decides to turn that gentle parenting back on Bruce. No whenever Bruce makes him mad, he puts Bruce in a time-out room. Whenever Bruce is being dumb, he just gives him a pout and says “Don’t do that.” Bruce actually does his best to listen to Dick because he thinks it might foster trust or encourage Dick to follow along when Bruce does it to him. It doesn’t really work. Dick still doesn’t listen and now Bruce is being parented by the child he’s supposed to be raising. The only plus is that it calms down Dick’s more violent urges because instead of destroying shit he just sends Bruce away.

Then Dick gets shot, and something in Bruce snaps. There is no more gentle parenting, no more kind words or soft punishments. He needs to make Dick listen, and if that means hurting him, then so be it. He loses sight of the fact that Dick is still a kid, an incredibly traumatized one at that. He still lets Dick parent him, although he’s more snappy about it. Dick stops being soft with him, too, instead telling him harshly to get to bed, threatening to sic Alfred on him, or screaming in his face about how he’s the worst. Somehow they’ve fallen into this horrible dynamic and neither of them know how to get out of it. Dick blames himself for being such a troubled kid, and though Bruce never says it, Dick knows he blames him too. So Dick leaves.

Eventually, over the years their family grows, but Bruce’s softness never really comes back. He’s meaner, more controlling, even downright cruel at times. And one day when the entire batfam is arguing with him over how unreasonable he is, one them snaps and says “Jesus, B, who turned you into such a fucking asshole?” and before Bruce can even think about it, he responds “Dick did.” He closes his mouth in shock, face going ashen while everyone else freezes. The words cut straight into Dick’s heart. He replies with the only words he can think of at the moment “Don’t do that.” He meant for the words to be cold, confident. Instead they came out soft, chiding and pained. Before anyone can say anything else, Bruce turns on his heel and leaves. They all try to follow him to argue more but then stare, confused, as he walks into an empty room, locking the door behind him. He doesn’t come out for a long time.

🥺 rip out my fucking heart why don’t you, damn.

But now I’m just thinking of the scenario with Bruce saying Dick turned him into an asshole, and the whole room freezes.

Jason didn’t expect an actual answer. Tim and Damian thought Bruce would have just chided Jason for his language. Dick thought a Bruce was just going to keep yelling.

But then the way he says, “Dick did” without even thinking about it, without hesitation, it shocks everyone.

And Dick feels like he wants to cry, because sure, he knew he was a pretty fucked up kid. He was troubled. Traumatized. A problem child. But Bruce for the most part had been so patient when he was little. And when Bruce started being an asshole after Dick got shot, it wasn’t like Dick couldn’t fight right back. It was almost like a game, sometimes. But Dick has always felt so guilty about it, because Bruce had been so soft spoken and patient and nice, and then Dick went and fucked him up. Dick ruined him. It’s all Dick’s fault.

Dick has always had that thought in the back of his mind. But he’s never had any real proof that Bruce felt the same.

Now he does. And Dick’s chest feels hollow as he stares at a horrified looking Bruce.

All Dick can manage to say is a soft, desperate, “Don’t do that,” just like Bruce always tried to use with him, before he started using yelling as his go-to response.

Then Bruce turns without saying anything and walks right into an empty room, and Dick feels like he’s going to throw up. He turns too, towards his bike, and he ignores the way his siblings are calling after him. He turns off his comms and rides home, going way too fast, feeling the wind whip around him, and tears blurring his vision until he blinks them away.

When he gets back to his Blüdhaven apartment, he slides in through the window and doesn’t even change out of his costume before he’s puking in the bathroom.

He silences his phone, turns in his security system, and then spends the next hour sitting under the water in his shower, spacing out until the water goes ice cold and he has to get out. Then he crawls into bed, pulls out Zitka from under the pillows to hug to his chest, and buries his head under his pillows. If he doesn’t pay attention to it, he can pretend he’s not still crying because of the guilt.

He stays like that for a long time, not moving. He falls asleep for a while, wakes up in a panic, rinse and repeat.

He doesn’t know how long it’s been, but the next thing he knows, someone is sitting down on his bed next to him, laying a hesitant hand in his back. And he knows it’s Bruce, and it just makes him feel even worse.

“Go away,” he begs, the words muffled under his pillows.

“I didn’t mean it,” Bruce tries to tell him.

“Yes you did,” Dick says miserably. “And it’s true. I know it’s true, you don’t have to pretend it’s not.”

“It wasn’t you who made me an asshole,” Bruce says. “The situation-”

“Caused by me,” Dick argues.

“You were just a child, Dick.” Bruce sighs.

“A horrible, no good, rotten child!”

“Don’t say that about yourself,” Bruce says firmly. “It’s not true, Dick. I don’t care what anyone says, you were not a rotten child. You were just a little boy. I was the adult, and I should have found other solutions that worked for you.”

Dick doesn’t say anything, but he eventually moves out from under the pillows to curl up with his head in Bruce’s lap. Bruce plays with his hair, and the two of them stay quiet for a long time. Neither of them really knows what to say. They’re both still upset. And they’re both awful at dealing with their feelings.

The sadness and anger and guilt they’re feeling from this fight won’t be resolved. They won’t really talk about it. It won’t be talked about without someone else bringing it up, and that won’t happen for a while.

But for now, Bruce is going to comfort his son. And for now, Dick will let him.

[s74rm4n]

Currently thinking about Batfamily x Teen Mom!Neglected! Reader

Let me cook rn -

Mother dropped you off at 12 years old sometime right after Jason ‘died’ (Rip). So Bruce was too busy sulking and hanging out with Tim rather than you. At least Dick was sweet, but he wasn’t around the house much at this time. Therefore you got okay with being alone and nobody bothering you. You tried to build a life for yourself, working at A.R.G.U.S. Part time as a spy.

Eventually you meet someone on a mission, (Idk who yet). You two dance around each other for a while, one bad thing leads to another—oops! You’re pregnant!

You end up trying to cover for yourself, but when you live with the world’s greatest detectives, it’s hard. Bruce is slowly catching on, Tim and Damian just think something’s wrong medically, Dick and Jason? Oh they KNOW something’s up. Only a matter of time before Alfred spills the tea on your baby daddy…

I’ll finish it if it blows up but…This is just a thought…

P.s please comment on who the father is, OCs are welcome😝

[l0singsdogs]

batfam fics by l0singsdogs.

I recently uploaded my Dickkory fics. Now I'm making a small recommendation for my Bat Family fics. The following stand out: mentions of Timkon, Batcat as a couple, Alfred Pennyworth's death, mention of Jayrena, Jason Todd's good older brother, and especially a healing Bat Family. Inspiration from comics and series is highlighted. Trigger warnings in tags.

don't worry im alive. by l0singsdogs. language: english words: 3,482 chapters: 1/1 

Bruce Wayne always knew letting Jason go was the right thing to do — especially when his boy seemed to carry pain on his shoulders and the past in his smile. But like any father, he asked for one small thing: a single text message every year, just to let him know he was alive.

Letting Jason go had been one of the hardest things Bruce had ever done.

But he was a father — and even the worst of them make sacrifices.

Do you want to play with me, B? by l0singsdogs. language: english words: 1,897 chapters: 1/1

Bruce Wayne hallucinates Jason sometimes. It happens in his worst moments — when fear toxin rushes through his veins, when battle overwhelms his senses, when the weight of the world feels too heavy on his shoulders. But he never expected to hallucinate Jason in his office, not when he thought his mind had stopped playing those cruel tricks. Yet, there Jason was, or at least the version Bruce's broken mind conjured. And Bruce couldn’t help but feel that familiar ache in his chest — a pain etched deep into his very soul. "Do you want to play with me, B?" his son asked. Bruce simply nodded, watching his little boy stand beside him, if only for a minute.

tears in heaven. by l0singsdogs. language: english words: 4,010 chapters: 1/1

There was a time when Bruce Wayne had been a fun father. He used to take Jason and Dick to baseball games, go trick-or-treating with them, and just be the kind of dad most kids could only dream of. But after what happened to Jason, that version of him slowly faded, slipping further into the shadows.

Or perhaps it’s just Damian and Tim, watching old photographs and videos of a father they never truly got to know. Maybe, deep down, they both wish they had the chance to meet Bruce Wayne—the one who hadn’t yet been consumed by grief and darkness.

domestic meeting. by l0singsdogs language: english words: 4,053 chapters: 1/1

Bruce Wayne has always been a reserved man—or at least as reserved as he can be, especially with the press constantly on his heels. But when it comes to Batman, he is even more elusive, operating from the shadows. The moments when he reveals himself to his allies—his family—are rare, but when they do happen, they are nothing short of remarkable.

Still, seeing Batman as a father, or even in a more mundane light, is a sight few have the privilege to witness.

Perhaps this is one of those moments.

Or maybe, during an online meeting, the Justice League gets an unexpected glimpse—not just of Batman as a father, but of his vigilantes as siblings. A side of them the world rarely ever sees.

haunted by the past. by l0singsdogs. Language: English Words: 2,236 Chapters: 1/1 

Damian Wayne knows that he has brothers and a sister at the end of the day. He knows his family is complicated, that his father has his issues, and that it's not the typical kind of family he sees elsewhere—but he understands that too.

But he also knows the mansion hides secrets, that the rooms feel haunted and heavy with history. And yet, there is one room he rarely enters, almost as if it’s forbidden.

Still, Damian Wayne is a teenager, and curiosity often runs in their blood.

(Or simply—a quiet moment of Damian visiting the room of his not-quite-dead brother, Jason Todd. Seeing, perhaps for the first time, how often his father still lives in the pain of the past.)

time in a bottle. by l0singsdogs. Language: English Words: 6,829 Chapters: 1/1

Bruce Wayne has children, but he never got to hold them in his arms as babies. He never saw them grow from infancy, never spoiled them in his own subtle way. He didn’t get to sing them lullabies or teach them from the moment they opened their eyes to the world. Damian came into his life at eight years old, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd arrived already knowing the harshness of life, Tim Drake showed up when the situation demanded it, and Cassandra Cain appeared when it was necessary. But when Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Cassandra Cain are magically turned into toddlers — for a fleeting moment — Bruce Wayne allows himself to dream. Even if time is short, even if reality will soon crash down on him, he holds his children in his arms, if only for a little while.

one quiet day a year. by l0singsdogs. Language: English Words: 2,781 Chapters: 1/1

Jason Todd is twenty-six when he finally receives the gift of his sixteenth birthday. It took Bruce Wayne ten years to give it to him— a gift he always wanted to give one of his children—a moment shared between father and son, and also within the family.

a gift worth keeping. by l0singsdogs. Language: English Words: 3,976 Chapters: 1/1

Bruce Wayne has many reasons to survive every Justice League mission. But above all, he always comes back for his children. With each return, he brings something with him—a small gift, a quiet treasure, a simple reminder of where he’s been. He stays alive to see their faces, to be their father, to live just one more ordinary day with them. Maybe it's just a token. Maybe it’s become a quiet tradition. But it’s always for them.

like him. by l0singsdogs. Language: English Words: 3,001 Chapters: 1/1}

Everyone knows Jason Todd and Dick Grayson are adopted brothers — they may not share DNA, but they definitely share something else: Bruce Wayne's mannerisms. Maybe Bruce isn't their biological father, but when the eldest two speak, move, or fight, it's as if they've inherited far more than just his training.

This is a story about the quiet, undeniable truth: Jason Todd-Wayne and Dick Grayson-Wayne are living reflections of their father, not just in the way they carry themselves but in the legacy they uphold. Bruce Wayne may die, return, and die again,

but as long as Jason and Dick live, so will his shadow, whether they want it or not.

Moments, soft and sharp, where others can’t help but see it: Jason and Dick, more like Bruce than they’ll ever admit.

[jtophat]

The Batkids as kids at a summer camp (with the grade they just finished):

Dick (5th): Way too competitive at games and once made a kid cry because of how hard he threw a ball at them during dodgeball. Always in the drama and has a new ‘girlfriend’ every week (he gave them hugs). He was the problem child of his age group and got in multiple fights

Jason (3rd): In the beginning of the summer he mainly just sat by himself and read a book. All of the counselors thought he was a perfect little angel but then he got comfortable and started making friends and learned that he’d play dirty during all of the games. He also had the worse mouth would hear him loudly cursing at least once a day. The counselors decided to turn a blind eye to that since he was always perfectly sweet and polite while talking to them

Cass (3rd): The kid who quietly sits with the counselors the entire day. Sometimes she’d hang out with Jason but she usually preferred to be on her own. However, there were a few times she’s hang out with a group of girls that liked doing handstands and cartwheels in the corner of the room. She stopped talking to them when Dick broke up with one of the older girls in the group (it was his messiest relationship there). The counselors thought she was the most well behaved kid there until she saw a boy push Damian and they saw her calmly walk over to the boy and punch him in the face

Tim (2nd): Constantly bordering on breaking the rules. It’s very annoying to the counselors but he never does anything that can actually get him in trouble. Is the most likely kid to wander off and once got lost during a field trip. He wasn’t actually lost at though. He knew exactly where he was but just didn’t feel like staying with everyone else. He also ran an Pokémon card trading ring and treated it as if he was a mafia boss

Damian (Kindergarten): The brattiest kid in his age group and constantly tattles on other kids. Eventually the counselors learn that he’s better with animals than people and they’d let him chase lizards in his own corner of the playground. If he sees Dick he will immediately become Dick’s shadow and follow him around until he isn’t allowed to anymore. Dick will hug and hold him as if he is the most precious child in the world

[leoruby-draws]

What's your timeline of the hero kiddos teams? Like which one was the first to be formed to which one is the lastest currently?

Sorry for the long wait anon! Feel bad but I'll try and answer now.

Ok, concerning the timeline of kid hero teams isn't totally solid or set but here's the basic outline:

Teen Titans (Dick) is first, obv. I'm debating whether to have the team debut when Dick is 8/9 or when he's a teen.

Kid Outlaws (Jason) is second. The team debuts when Jason is 9/10 (Dick would be 16/17 btw).

Steph's team is third. The team debuts when Steph is 8 (Jason is 10, Dick is 17).

Cass's team is fourth. It starts when Cass is 10/11 (Steph is 8/9, Jason is 10 and Dick is 17/18.)

Young Justice is fifth, when Tim is 10. Cass is 13, Steph is 11, Jason is 12/13 and Dick is 19/20. Jason and Cass are Robin and Batgirl at this point. I kinda wanted YJ to debut earlier but it didn't really work with all their ages tbh.

Should I make more teams, then Duke would be next, then a few years later Damian's team appears. I'm not sure when the Birds of Prey start, but they definitely exist when Cass is Batgirl, or at least a prototype version of it. The Justice League is established before all of this starts too. Here's a doodle concerning my Outlaw team for more specific info on them:

Now I wonder who are those guys at the end there...well another time. Got some rambling under the read more, got too long.

You know when it comes to timelines for my au, I just wanna say that I play very loosey-goosey with dates, ages and all that. Not only it is it way too hard to get any sort of canon timeline from the comics, I prefer the freedom that I get from a less rigid world. So the TrWh timeline only vaguely resembles the post-crisis one as its foundation, but I mix in pre-crisis, post-flashpoint, or even other media like Young Justice. Whatever I personally find to my liking. This universe basic premise is "everyone becomes heroes(or villains) earlier so I work from that.

But if you feel that the ages of a character is off or just plain wrong let me know, I'm not good at tracking numbers and dates. I do sometimes 'scrunch' up ages to keep some characters closer to a certain age group, only by a few years tho.

It would pretty useful if I had a big over arching timeline for the entirely of this universe but that is way too much work for me lol. I don't know how comic writers (or fans) do all that, too much info to sift through. I do have a small timeline for the batfam tho! Here, if you wanna check it out:

I made this like 2 years ago I think, and honestly a couple of details got changed at this point. Notice how the timeline got split at the end there, I prefer to keep my TrWh future in the air, who know what the real future is.

A slightly older batfam, a potential stop-gap name for Cass (Myotis) before she becomes Batman. A Robin Steph with Duke and Tim, along with Dax Chill and Riko Sheridan below. Tim becoming Robin as well, with Steph being the 'main' mentor Robin. With Damian finally joining the others as a kid vigilante. And a little doodle of an older Duke, maybe dealing with a TrWh version of We Are Robin?

And here's an adult Steph and Jason with their own sidekicks years in the future, don't know their exact ages. Steph with Nell Little as Starling II, and Jason with Sasha as Scarlet? and Tyler as Blue Jay II. Don't know if Jason's a hero, anti-hero or even anti-villain, or what his adult name is.

Well, that was a lot, sorry I took so long anon, I just got swamped with Life I guess. Hope you liked all that!

[prefersthedead]

A few stories where Damian is a huge weeb but only Tim knows understand:

One day Tim walks past Damian's room, hearing a well-known melody. He shudds slightly but leaves to look for Dick. But instead of him, he finds Jason.

Tim: Do you know where Dick is?

Jason: He's in Damian's room, they haven't been out for hours. When I wanted to enter, I almost got a shiriken in the head.

Then Tim doesn't know what to say, he's frozen in place and doesn't know whether to laugh or worry. One thing is certain. Dick won't survive Evangelion

*

For his eleventh birthday, Damian received a manga from Dick. Everything seemed to be normal, but if you came, Damian seemed to be smiling. Tim was passing by, raised an eyebrow looking at Dick.

Tim: Berserk?

Dick tilted his head not knowing what was going on, he was completely clueless.

Dick: Yeah, aaaand?

Tim just gives up. Telling him why it was a bad idea was risky, his reputation could have suffered. After that, Damian saw worse things anyway. That's how he explained it, but when Damian was at school, he replaced Berserk with Given. After all, Tim was an IT genius, and Damian forgot to turn off the computer once.

*

A few days after the release of the second season of jjk, Alfred was not at home. Bruce ordered kfc. He gave a vegetarian burger for Damian, and he will only flinch. Tim didn't eat anything then either, they both didn't even look at each other, leaving Bruce thinking he did something wrong.

*

Not many people know, but Damian's favorite anime is Blue Period. He himself doesn't know why, maybe because it's about art, or for the plot, maybe a little for the characters. Or maybe because his least favorite brother bought him a Blue Period manga collection. Seeing that Damian sometimes had painted paint on his hands, his purchases began with an art store, and he made a window in his room for better light. Well, in the beginning it was just a giant hole in the wall.

[mikakuna]

Hey! This is the music anon again! I was wondering if you had any jayroy fic recs? Or, given your latest post lol, only child Jay fic recs (or even JUST Jay and dick as Bruce’s kids fic recs) and if not that, then, an au where Jason didn’t pick up the mantle/was convinced not too, and is living his civilian life. I’ve read rara Avis by zoeleo already lol, Idk if you read that one?

omg hey!! i have a few fic recs for what you'd like to see but honestly i'm lacking a bit in jayroy! i'll link the ones that i rlly enjoyed tho <3 and alsooo the only-child jason fics are all set during his childhood sadly, so i don't have any where he's an adult and still bruce's only child :(

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/48627046/chapters/122658637

When Batman rescues a twelve-year-old boy from a sex-trafficking ring, he ultimately makes the decision to look after him for a few days, feeling responsible for his current condition. Revealing his identity to the boy is the logical next step. Building trust was important, and Bruce needed Jason to trust him. There’s one slight problem with Bruce’s plan. Due to the effects of the Joker Venom, Jason doesn’t remember anything about meeting Batman, let alone Bruce Wayne. In Jason’s eyes, he’s been trafficked. And the man who brought him is none other than Bruce himself.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29237001/chapters/71790027

Jason’s background as a victim of abuse and childhood homelessness means it’s hard for him to trust, and to ask for things. After only a couple months in the manor, he still isn’t sure about Bruce Wayne.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/575182

When Bruce brings a new child home to the manor, Dick has a few choice words for Bruce about making him Robin. Convinced that Jason needs a stable loving family more than he needs a crime-fighting outlet, Bruce, Dick, and Alfred take on the challenge of bringing Jason up as civilian while still keeping their caped careers a secret.

Or: Bruce Wayne is a Good Dad, Dick Grayson is a Great Brother, Alfred is the Best Grandpa, and Jason is smol. Tooth-rotting fluff ahoy. (i'm linking this even though you read it for people who haven't yet! also i never read the ones with tim in it but those are a lot later in the series so don't worry, it's still jason and bruce centric)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26730145/chapters/65210116

Jason Todd was kidnapped at nine-years-old and given two options. Work for his keep, or be forced to to work for his keep.

His life was not pleasant, but Jason was nothing if not a fighter, and dammit if was he going to let the hell around him kill who he was as a person. Or his dreams of growing up and going to college.

Those dreams suddenly came a little more into focus, when his idiot of a pimp accidentally tried to rent him to Bruce Wayne. Poor bastard could have never guessed he was the Batman himself. Heck, not even Jason figured that out, at first. And Batman had practically adopted him. (i loved this so much)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49876537

Jason doesn't die at the hands of the Joker. There are a couple of things he and Bruce might need to work through.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55020211

“You will fix this,” Alfred corrects him. “You will fix this, and let Master Jason know that you don’t care about his sexual orientation, that it changes nothing. That you were mistaken in what you said to him. That you certainly didn’t mean to imply that you thought any less of him for his choice in reading.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22637476/chapters/54102781

Batman makes it in time to save Robin from the bomb. He doesn't make it in time to save Jason from the Joker.

Or Batman is too late in every universe, but Bruce Wayne doesn't have to be.

+ jayroy:

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1328723

i've linked this one in a previous rec list but basically, this is an au series where jason escapes an abusive relationship and meets roy!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30004014

It was just dinner with family. A family large enough to be an independent militia, but that was all. Nothing serious.

Lian disagreed. (one of my fav crack fics!!)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52945642

a fic where the bats find out, one by one, that jason and roy are dating!

i really don't have much for jayroy since i'm pretty picky when it comes to jason fics and ship fics in general, but i'll reblog this if i find any others that i enjoy! in the meantime, hopefully these are some new fics for you to read!!

[lili-home-to-embraces-and-hugs]

The Batkids play a game called “Guess Who Bruce Is Disappointed In Today” and it is a bloodsport.

It started as a joke. It is no longer a joke.

Every morning, without fail, one of them walks into the kitchen and says:

“Guess who Bruce is disappointed in today?”

And they all take turns guessing based on crime alerts, nightly patrol rotations, and vibes.

It’s become a system.

It went like:

Jason: “I knocked out a senator by accident. My odds are high.”

Tim: “I drank seventeen Red Bulls and fell asleep on top of the Batcomputer.”

Damian: “I released three bats into Gotham General Hospital as enrichment. They were bored.”

Steph: “I called him ‘Brucie’ in front of a senator.”

Cass: Just raises a finger and shrugs.

Then Bruce walks in, dead silent, pours his coffee, looks at no one, and walks away.

Tim: “It’s Jason.”

Jason: “DAMN IT.

Rules:

If you guess wrong, you have to do patrol with Damian and listen to him rant about the superiority of traditional swordsmanship for two hours.

If you guess right, you get to choose the movie on family movie night.

If Bruce is disappointed in himself, everyone gets ice cream. That’s the law.

It got so serious they made a whiteboard. Labeled it: “DISAPPOINTMENT LEADERBOARD.”

Top scores:

Tim (17 correct guesses, possible mind reader)

Cass (14, reads vibes better than Google Translate reads Latin)

Steph (11, mostly via chaos intuition)

Jason (2. constantly thinks it’s him. It often is. But not always.)

Damian (0. refuses to acknowledge he is ever the cause)

One time Dick guessed correctly for the first time in 3 months and everyone clapped.

He cried.

Alt. Version: Guess Who Bruce Is Proud Of Today.

Game cancelled due to lack of data.

[batsandbirdbrains]

ok but give me bruce holding all of the kids to dick’s standard but not as robin, just as a normal kid. like bruce has always been a weird guy even as a kid and while he has a public persona he’s incredibly awkward underneath and does not interact with many people. alfred ‘let me help train my little orphan friend in martial arts and let him loose’ pennyworth is not much better. then they get dick who, by most means, did not have a normal childhood either. his new caretakers do not have any idea what normal children are like. so when dick gets excited and does 10 back flips in a row, they think “ahhh children must do that to show their happiness”. when dick is angry and throws massive hysterical fits where he bites people, destroys shit, and climbs onto chandeliers to sulk, not once do they consider that his reaction may be a bit disproportionate. when dick has depressive episodes where he can’t get out of bed, they think that this must be what other people mean when they talk about teenage hormones. when dick makes friends with almost everyone in the entire universe and then some, they think “well who doesn’t like children?”

but then comes along jason, and jason also did not have the most normal childhood, but it was closer to normal than what dick and bruce had. bruce starts worry that he’s completely fucking up while trying to parent jason, because jason isn’t reacting like dick does. to bruce, jason hardly ever emotes around him. bruce buys him ice cream and the kid doesn’t do a single flip. bruce upsets jason and doesn’t even know it until jason starts ranting about how he’s tired of giving bruce the silent treatment. bruce starts to worry because jason doesn’t have many friends but jason yells at him that he doesn’t need to socialize all the time (bruce considers looking into therapy - surely such little socialization isn’t healthy?) at least jason does flips sometimes as robin, which must mean that it makes him happy, right?

then jason dies and bruce is alone for a long time. tim comes along and bruce is still so stuck in his grief that he’s not really paying attention to tim’s behavior. when he finally manages to get better he realizes that tim doesn’t do ‘normal’ kid things either, but bruce just settles on tim having a weird childhood and being a weirdo in the same way bruce is.

over time his family grows more and more, and yet none of them act like normal kids. bruce starts to get a little concerned - the only besides dick that emoted was damian, when he was angry, and even that went away over time. he tries to nudge them in the right direction time and time again with little anecdotes about dick but it doesn’t seem to work. he’s met with eye rolls and scowls when he talks about how dick used to do flips all the time, when he talks about dick swinging from the chandeliers, when talks about all of dick’s friends, when talks about dick diving off a roof to knee a goon in the face. bruce is just trying to give his children suggestions on how to be normal, dammit!

eventually he brings up his concerns to clark, who makes a considering noise and says “i had that same issue at first. i was waiting for jon to do flips when he got older but he never did. then i realized nobody taught him. now he does them all the time.” because while clark did have a normal childhood, he’s also an alien and did not spend much time with children as an adult (beyond saving them) until dick came along as robin. lois sighs exasperatedly from the background. bruce is incredibly horrified and sad at the thought that he had been waiting forever for children to flip for him and they didn’t know how (mind you, they all definitely know how to flip, he’s seen them all do it at least once). bruce wonders how he can broach the topic without messing up the conversation and decides to enlist the other JL founders for help. diana wants her nephews to be happy, clark was always on board, barry remembers all the weird shit wally did as a kid and doesn’t question it, oliver doesn’t really care, and hal is too scared of everyone’s wrath to tell them all that dick is just a weirdo.

Dude the last line fucking killed me “and Hal is too scared of everyone’s wrath to tell them that Dick is just a weirdo” beautiful, wonderful, excellent. Hal always thought Robin/Dick was a fucking weirdo little kid/teenager/adult but could never say it bc somehow everyone loves the kid.

And all the other Batkids feeling like Dick is just an impossible standard to live up to is so accurate. But would Dick even know about it? I feel like they wouldn’t blame Dick necessarily, but he absolutely grates on their nerves after a long lecture from Bruce about how they need to be more like Dick and now Dick is at the manor hanging out acting like nothing is out of the ordinary

[spocks-husband]

In Bruce's phone, he keeps the contact photos for all his kids as their baby pictures (or the closest approximation that he has).

Dick's is a photo of him when he'd first designed his Robin costumes, smiling ear to ear as he proudly showed off his first hand-sewn prototype.

Jason's is a picture Alfred got of the boy sitting on Bruce's shoulders while they went over a case.

Tim is him fast asleep in the middle of taking notes on his first real mission (he wanted to impress Bruce really bad).

Damian is a polaroid he got from Talia of him when he was about a year old, teething on a mango seed as he sat on the floor of his mother's room.

Cass is entirely blacked out except for her big bright eyes that can be seen in the darkness-- Bruce thinks it's the cutest photo ever.

Even Babs has hers set to a photo of her with her first computer, grinning happy as she probably hacked into a federal database somewhere. He got that photo from Jim.

Likewise, of course, Alfred's (very bareboned) smartphone that he barely uses has Bruce's contact set with a photo of him playing in the snow as a little boy.

[anima89]

A Wayne family trip to Metropolis <3

Of course, they will wear their own merch ^^

Inspired by this! V

Heheheheh.

[redsray]

I love the idea of the Wayne kids dropping extremely vague and disturbing comments during galas. Especially when in uncomfortable situations or if they're just bored. They pull out things from their nightlife too. Other times they just make shit up.

Socialite: Oh, dear, your cheeks look so sullen! Who sucked the life out of you?

Tim, dead serious: An old man with a goatee.

Socialite: Uh... what?

Dick: Once I broke my knee so badly that I swear I could see part of the bone sticking out.

Socialite: Good lord. How on earth did that happen?

Dick: Just clumsy gymnast things ^^

Socialite: The white streak is certainly a bold fashion choice.

Jason: I saw someone get decapitated once, so I could be doing worse in terms of what's on my head, yknow? At least I have one.

Socialite: What's your favourite colour, sweetie?

Damian: Red.

Socialite: Oh that's lovely!

Damian: Like the blood of my enemies.

Socialite: Oh.

Socialite: You must be new to these kind of events.

Duke: Uh, yeah, they're kind of scary. But I've had worse.

Socialite: Worse.

Duke: Well I've been left on top of a skyscraper before with no way down just to 'get over my fear of heights' so, yes.

Socialite: You don't talk very loud, do you? I can barely hear you.

Cass, with a straight face: If I spoke any louder every glass in the room would shatter.

Tim, behind her: I can vouch.

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[superbat-lmao]

The Waynes having a youtube channel (Tim) where they’re occasionally tagged in challenge videos or different things. It began with the ice bucket challenge and they did it to donate money. Now it’s for laughs.

One of their top viewed videos is: My Siblings Buy Me Outfits. The second ranked video is: I Buy My Siblings Outfits.

The first one is each of the Batkids buying Tim different clothes. Their preferred method of trolling is getting hero merch. Steph puts him in heels as payback for dragging her to a gala. Cass gets him a ballet outfit so they can dance together. Duke gets him wildly political t-shirts and a bunny suit for lab work.

The second video is Tim buying 2-3 outfits for each of his siblings. Dick can’t be trolled, he unironically looks good in everything. Alfred paid Tim in cookies to get Jason a suit for the next gala. Steph and Cass get crazy halloween costumes. Damian gets kakis and polos because it makes him look awkward. Duke gets an astronaut outfit. Like, the genuine article that is cleared to be used in the shuttle missions.

Overall it’s the fashion show for Bruce that sells each of the videos. They do a runway look and pose for him while he’s drinking a glass of champagne, wearing sunglasses indoors, and clapping.

[batfam-stuff-posts-0]

Bruce: *sees idiots in the distance*

Bruce: ha, look at those idiots

Bruce: *realizes those idiots are Dick, Jason, Steph, Cass, Tim, Duke, and Damian*

Bruce: Hold on, those are my idiots