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Batman #42

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Planning out my own personal reverse robins AU and I love them muchly!! There’s already a boatload of new lore here and a few things that might be recognizable from some elseworlds

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Haven’t been posting on here much the last few weeks but I promise I’m working on some things lol

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Tbh I genuinely love rebirth superbat bc of like. The problems they’re clearly having. Like “oh my version of you died and you’re still him but you’re also not, and I don’t quite know where we stand. Things get better after our kids become friends and we realize just how similar things can be between us, but there’s still that small rift”. I really really love it. That constant tension they have in the early years of Jon’s life is so important to me and I love reading those comics where jon clearly doesn’t like. *get it* and what’s going on with them. Rebirth superfam and Batfam is so important to me

new 52 superman: best friends with batman, much smaller age difference between them, are basically brothers by the end of the n52

rebirth/pre-flashpoint superman: batman is a nerd, jon. make fun of him lol

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jason todd unique second child privileges

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YOU!!!!! YOU GET IT!!!!!!

One day, I am gonna grow wings

“Let down” by Radiohead lives in my brain when it comes to him

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Hey would it be crazy if I released the first chapter of another fic tomorrow morning/in a few hours orrrrrr

Yeah the superbat goes crazy ok

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64269838

I forgot to share this here Omg!

Posted my first proper dc fic based on the fortress ai bodyhorror AU on @frownyalfred ‘s blog!!! Had a super super fun time writing this and have been loving the feedback so far. This AU completely took over my mind, but definitely heed the tags!

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I love people looking at that red hood and jaybin piece and not registering that rh Jay is. Uh. Dead lol. Sorry guys this is actually right after Bruce killed him with the batarang btw lol. Oops. Sorry

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One day, I am gonna grow wings

“Let down” by Radiohead lives in my brain when it comes to him

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My personal favourites! Overall these are just some of my favourite comics in general. Is it obvious that I really like damian and his struggling relationships as he grows up? Yeah

what’s everyone’s fav comic cover of all time…. curious

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It actually makes a lot of sense that Bruce was one of the few people left standing in the crowd at Haly’s Circus when Dick’s parents died.

Watching two innocent people plummet to their deaths is gruesome. It’s shocking. It can be horribly traumatic, depending on the blunt force trauma of hitting the ground. They might not have died right away. They might have bled and made awful noises that were heard even above the sounds of the crowd.

But Bruce is Batman. Bruce saw his parents get murdered right in front of him. And he knows the sounds and sights of someone dying. He’s hardened himself to stay calm in a situation like that, both through trauma and practice.

I think the image of a young Dick Grayson making eye contact with the one unshaken person in the crowd is chilling. A man standing resolute when everyone else is screaming, sadness etched across his face. But not panic. Not confusion. Resignation, maybe.

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Hi there! I saw you made a post where you mentioned Dick's "very canon though not explicitly stated BPD"! I'm a very very big fan of characters with bpd and fictional diagnosing but I haven't read enough Dick runs and I don't have the bandwidth to diagnose several characters as one so could please elaborate on that pretty pretty please? I'm so curious 😭🙇🙇🙇🙇

oh yes of course!!! i love talking about comics and about dick especially!

first i have to say that im newer to reading comics as of the last few months, and have been working through things in a very strange order, so i am lacking a lot in terms of direct examples i can provide for my seeing him this way. overall, its simply something ive picked up about him through reading hundreds of comics from the 60's up to now.

one of the biggest, most clear examples of dicks emotional struggles would probably be some of the older teen titans stuff, specifically i think the "new teen titans" issues that took place around 1988, in the years after jasons death. of course, he was having a hard time at that point, but most of the comics feature him acting completely erratically, and struggling to understand why people are concerned about his actions and wellbeing.

for example- after struggles in dicks relationship with kory, he stalks her at one of her dates with another guy to try to apologize to her, and then appears at her apartment to beg her to come back to him and to marry him. when she says yes, he jumps to planning this wedding within only a few days, and when there's certain family members (such as bruce) he cannot reach to have attend the wedding, he cannot see this as anything other than them refusing to support him and his marriage. multiple people including kory herself worry that dick is making rash decisions because hes not doing well emotionally, but nobody knows how to help him. any sign of something not going "perfect" in his eyes becomes people not being supportive, to the point where he's even a little rude to lian when shes just being a kid, which ive never seen him do when hes in the right mental state.

another two examples that come soon after this are really similar, and are with donna and roy- both of them are concerned about him at separate points, and have noticed him making extremely rash choices and pushing himself much further than he usually does, in ways that arent like him. when donna tries to express her worry, he takes it as an insult, and turns it into a huge argument, because he feels that anybody being concerned about him means hes simply not good enough. when roy has to take over the titans due to dicks rash actions and disappearances, dick again takes this as a major insult, and believes this is roys way of saying the titans dont love him, never loved him, and that they dont want him there. he simply doesnt understand that they are concerned about him, and that his actions are having a negative affect on himself and the team, and that they arent rejecting him- they were simply trying to ask him to take a break.

theres other examples like this over the years- though most are a lot more "lowkey" as things get closer to present day. dick is still the kind of person to be smart and caring towards others, but time and time again we see him make rash decisions based on his feelings and worries without considering the consequences of those feelings. i think over time its either been an aspect of the writers not wanting to go too far, or not quite seeing this aspect of dick in the same way i do, but its clear to me in every comic i read that dick is in this constant state of flux with his feelings and worries, and that the slightest word of concern from those he cares about scares him. because them being worried for him means hes not doing enough to STOP them from worrying about them, which must mean he's not good enough. which must mean they dont care about him anymore if they'd even say that. his mind consistently goes down these spirals about him not being good enough, even if he doesnt outwardly say them as much anymore.

i still have to go through the batman 2016 run, but i know dick was considering adopting damian while batman was gone, and decided not to because he saw himself as "too untethered" at the time, which is a really specific way for him to refer to things. its a direct acknowledgement of his own emotional state and that he would not be in the right space to be a dad to damian.

sorry for the rant i love answering asks about my pookies

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Wait did I make that really sad post about dicks mental state right before his birthday oh god I’m so sorry dick

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Batman & Robin: Year One (2024) #6