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What a bunch of weebs RIP to Bruce's Yacht tho it did not make it home

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Steph: the main reason I don’t want to die in somebody’s arms is because my last words would haunt them for the rest of their life and that’s too much pressure to come up with something good to say

Tim: that’s the main reason?

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Batman gives each of his Robins a different code to use when they’re in trouble and need immediate extraction. He promises that when they call, he’ll drop everything just to get to them, come hell or high water.

Jason, during his time with the League, shares his code with Damian, to be used “only in the direst of circumstances, when you have exhausted all other options.” He doesn’t know if Bruce will answer, given how fractured their relationship was before he died, but it is better than nothing. Every tool counts when they live such dangerous lives.

Damian uses it exactly once, and Bruce, who still feels the loss of his son like a yawning chasm in his chest, responds to it even though he knows it can’t be Jason because Jason’s dead. What he finds, instead of Jason, is a boy in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-small feet, with a face that Bruce sees himself and Talia in, requesting asylum from a grandfather who wishes to possess his body. Bruce doesn’t question how this boy who is so clearly his son knew the code. Talia al Ghul is resourceful and places family above all; the code is not beyond her abilities to discover, and she is not above using Bruce’s desperate love for his dead son to ensure that hers does not meet the same fate.

Bruce takes Damian in, because of course he does, and since Jason is dead he allows Damian to keep using the code. After all, it’s not like Jason is alive to use it, right? If someone uses the code, there’s no one it could be but Damian, right?

The next time the code is used, Bruce traces the location to Gotham even though Damian was supposed to be in Bludhaven visiting Dick. But whatever happened that resulted in Damian being in Gotham can wait, because he has already failed one son and he will not fail another, his son is in trouble and he needs to get to him, he needs to—

What he finds, instead of Damian, is a boy (just eighteen, too young, but also too old, but also he will always be a boy to him) in League garbs, drenched in blood from the tips of his midnight-black hair to his too-large feet (when had he gotten so big), wearing the face of his dead son.

(Who, maybe, just maybe, may no longer be so dead.)

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yeehaw, baby!

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In the early days of Batman and Robin, around the time of Robin joining his own teen superhero team, Robin finally convinced Batman that he “can’t just ride around in the Batmobile forever, he needs his own ride! His own way to drive around and carry people if Batman isn’t there.”

Bruce, of course, is quietly devastated at the reminder that his son is growing up (he nearly started crying when Dick outgrew his booster seat in the Batmobile, they still have a little spot for it in the Batcave), but agrees that Robin has a point. This is how Robin gets his first motorcycle, under the agreement that he will be extremely careful and always wear the appropriate helmet while riding.

Of course the first thing Robin does is turn around and teach himself how to do the Akira slide on his bike.

And of course Nightwing makes sure this is one of first things he teaches Robin when he and Jason are bonding for the first time. It’s one of their best memories, messing around on an empty lot, burning tires and picking up scrapes. Dick has never seen Jason grin so widely before.

But then Jason dies. And suddenly the little silly things like bike tricks don’t feel like enough anymore. Not when one of the only other people who would have understood that reference is so devastated by his failures that he’s putting people in urgent care every night and close to ending up there himself.

So when Tim comes around, stubbornly shoving his way under Batman’s cape, for his own damn good, Dick hesitates to teach him the little things that he taught Jason. But he gives in anyways, because Robin needs to feel supported and cared about, and in a silly way, that’s what the Akira slide is about. That was why Bruce gave Dick his first motorcycle in the first place.

A few years pass, a new few players join the scene. A new crime lord starts rising through the ranks, he also whips through the streets on a motorcycle (honestly, there’s no other way to blow through the static Gotham traffic).

And then, the Red Hood does it. Right in front of Nightwing, on a midnight chase through the city. The mother-fucking Akira slide.

“Jason?”

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Been thinking about Harley lately… heart

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I can tell u want to so, go ahead and tell us all about ur audhd tim and autistic damian headcanon.

OMG this is possibly the best ask anyone has ever sent me!

ok ok so i made ven diagrams

this one is for stims

and this one is for hyperfixations/special interest

additional info

before damian is diagnosed, the fact that tim gets ‘special treatment’ for stuff while damian gets disappointed looks is the cause of most of their conflicts. until tim realises why damian is so upset and brings it up with everyone else.

most of damian’s first stims were ones he developed off tim

they make special interest powerpoints together

tim loves that damian has the ability to mimic any sounds he hears

both of their masking is pretty impenetrable but tim’s doesn’t last for super long periods of time but is perfect for social situations while damian spent most of his life masking and can do it for ages but his is a more for masking his symptoms rather than making himself ‘presentable’

feel free to comment ur own!

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i havent died yet, have some baby/toddler damian

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Headcanon that the batfam has a Samsung smart refrigerator or whatever it's called, and it is used entirely for doing work while in the kitchen. There has been justice league meetings held on that motherfucker and nuclear threats disengaged.

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my most controversial batman opinion to date

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“how long have you been 17” i age when the dancing queen ages.

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do you think that bc there’s been plenty of heroes using the same name/mantle that when jon returns to earth after being aged up people assume he’s a completely different superboy and the “former” one (child jon) died like so many other child heroes have

even if the situation is cleared up eventually (even if it’s cleared up as fast as possible) do you think there’s a few weeks when people are holding candlelight vigils and making memorial posts on social media and giving gifts to all the supers

there’s mothers who’s children have been saved by jon or have lost their children to supervillain catastrophes handing flowers and food and handmade gifts to superman saying “pass them on to superboys mother. send her our empathy”

fathers who’ve endured the same stopping superman on the street to shake his hand and tell him they understand bc being superhuman wouldnt make him immune to feeling alone in his grief

robin is handed art and photos of the supersons and string bracelets in super colors from kids and pretends not to notice adults slipping grief support pamphlets to batman or batgirl or nightwing or whoever he’s patrolling with that night

superboy is given homemade action figures of two superboys both him and the little kid he shared a mantle with older siblings and older cousins and aunts and uncles all look at him with understanding

supergirl won’t except anything just flinches and flies away people get it they stop approaching her

do you think they keep anything civilians gave them?? bc they are grieving someone, just not in the way civilians assumed

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Headcanon that Batburger was sued when they added the Red Robin Meal to their menu.

In court it lead to the arguement that it was clearly not a violation of trademark since it was obviously named after the Gotham Vigilante, whose name was registered on several team roasters.

This leads to a massive lawsuit against Red Robin and any teams he’s on. Except it’s almost impossible to serve him papers.

Tim doesn’t find out until he’s dropping off Two Face at Arkham- where he’s served papers while waiting to get Harvey re-admitted.

He ends up taking Harvey’s legal advice. He wins the suit (After Two Face breaks out, specifically to represent him. The Red Robin Lawyers argue against this, but the judge simply says “what did you expect when you sued a vigilante?”), and when news gets out he changed his name to Drake a year later, Harvey breaks out just to threaten him if he doesn’t change it back.

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such a young boy shouldn't have so much sugar!!!

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auDHD tim drake who only makes eye contact while masking vs autistic damian wayne who makes the most unsettling eye contact at all times