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@vi-reads I can IMAGINE the whole batfam and vetoing his idea and him being so defensive about it. And he is *NOT* taking any shit from Bruce. This has caused WARS.

Bruce:

Dick: : D

Bruce: .. you- you can’t do that

Dick: : (

Bruce: No not because it’s not fun it’s cuz they’re light up.. and it won’t be very good for blending into the dark

Dick:

Bruce:

Dick:

Bruce *realising what’s about to happen* Now wait a second-

Dick: YOU LET ME PARADE THE STREETS IN RED, YELLOW AND GREEN. AND YOU’RE GETTING ON *MY* CASE???

Tim and Damian *who’ve been listening to this for the past month*

Jason *secretly loving it but feels like he should be concerned as to the extent the matter is being taken*

Batkids all missed out on their childhoods, Bruce included. Give me them trying normal kid things for the first time in their lives and going crazy

Like Jason seeing a kid have one of those fake phones where you have to press buttons and water pushes the rings floating on the screen onto the poles, and he can’t get it out of his head for the next few days until Bruce gifts it to him one day. He doesn’t know how the old man knew, Jason’s still not used to Bruce’s I don’t know how to express affection here’s a gift for you but hey, he wasn’t complaining. Jason picks up the phone, and he’s hooked. He carries it around with him everywhere and it’s now become his comfort thing.

Or when the whole family went out to a night tour and saw the light up sticks. They all spent hours fencing with each other and just enjoying how bright the lights flashed. And when someone showed them the lights could flash and change colours? They. Lost. Their. Damn. Minds.

Jason gets Dick a pair of light up sneakers as a joke, but somehow the older boy fell in love with it. He didn’t know they lit up at first, wondering why Jason had a smug grin on his face when he put then on. But the look on his face when he saw the colors, the lights all flashing was one that Jason would never forget. It was a look of surprise, followed by an expression of such pure joy and excitement Jason could’ve sworn he felt his heart melt. Dick refused to get his shoes dirty, only wearing them on special occasions or when he was genuinely happy and showing them off to everyone, constantly stomping and jumping around to see them flash.

Stephanie? Stephanie accidentally walked over one of those roll up pianos and jumped back when she heard the music play. It’s now her favourite accessory in her home and she has many more instruments and customised musical rugs in her home (courtesy of Barbara). It’s one of her favourite things in life.

Damian somehow got addicted to Club Penguin after Tim introduced him to it. He spent hours hooked on that game, saving every puffle he could and collecting them. After the game vanished for the internet, he was so distraught he refused to eat his meal for four days straight. This ended after a new version somehow made its way onto Damian’s laptop. Tim will never admit till his dying breath that he brought the game back just for Damian.

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An arc that should’ve been added in Merlin was just how downright terrified Merlin was of him.

Especially with the whole magic thing. He was scared of Arthur. Scared of him as a warrior. Scared that everytime he wielded a sword Merlin thought it was meant for him. Scared that every glare just a little too harsh, every comeback just a little too snippy and suddenly he’d be staring at Arthur from the guillotine.

Arthur was his executioner. Arthur was his grim reaper, waiting for an opening so he could swoop in. But most of all, Merlin was scared of him as a friend. As someone he trusted. Because if he let magic slip around him, even just one flicker that’s the last time he would see Arthur smile at him.

And Arthur notices. He doesn’t know why Merlin flinches a bit too hard when Arthur mock draws his sword in a show of anger, he can’t place his finger on how if he added even a little heat behind those words his friend would stiffen.

Until one day Merlin has to accompany him to face a magic kight who he’s clearly nervous about. And it’s only when Merlin flinches do the pieces slide together for him. That it clicks why Merlin’s face looked so familiar whenever Arthur accidentally overstepped a boundary he never knew existed.

I want to see the look on his face as he stared at his best friend, and realised that he was afraid of him.

And obviously the Angsty arc following Arthur trying to redeem himself and be better towards Merlin without changing their dynamic too much and Merlin is getting more and more tense because with how soft Arthur’s acting it’s like he’s winning Merlin’s trust, and maybe Merlin wants to tell him if the man keeps this up.

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Batkids all missed out on their childhoods, Bruce included. Give me them trying normal kid things for the first time in their lives and going crazy

Like Jason seeing a kid have one of those fake phones where you have to press buttons and water pushes the rings floating on the screen onto the poles, and he can’t get it out of his head for the next few days until Bruce gifts it to him one day. He doesn’t know how the old man knew, Jason’s still not used to Bruce’s I don’t know how to express affection here’s a gift for you but hey, he wasn’t complaining. Jason picks up the phone, and he’s hooked. He carries it around with him everywhere and it’s now become his comfort thing.

Or when the whole family went out to a night tour and saw the light up sticks. They all spent hours fencing with each other and just enjoying how bright the lights flashed. And when someone showed them the lights could flash and change colours? They. Lost. Their. Damn. Minds.

Jason gets Dick a pair of light up sneakers as a joke, but somehow the older boy fell in love with it. He didn’t know they lit up at first, wondering why Jason had a smug grin on his face when he put then on. But the look on his face when he saw the colors, the lights all flashing was one that Jason would never forget. It was a look of surprise, followed by an expression of such pure joy and excitement Jason could’ve sworn he felt his heart melt. Dick refused to get his shoes dirty, only wearing them on special occasions or when he was genuinely happy and showing them off to everyone, constantly stomping and jumping around to see them flash.

Stephanie? Stephanie accidentally walked over one of those roll up pianos and jumped back when she heard the music play. It’s now her favourite accessory in her home and she has many more instruments and customised musical rugs in her home (courtesy of Barbara). It’s one of her favourite things in life.

Damian somehow got addicted to Club Penguin after Tim introduced him to it. He spent hours hooked on that game, saving every puffle he could and collecting them. After the game vanished for the internet, he was so distraught he refused to eat his meal for four days straight. This ended after a new version somehow made its way onto Damian’s laptop. Tim will never admit till his dying breath that he brought the game back just for Damian.

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Dicks the reason more than half of the villains check themselves back into Arkham and break down crying in therapy.

Absolutely no one else believes this

I think we’re not fully utilising Dick’s potential for fuckery. This mean was raised in a circus. Surrounded by trapeze artists. And wild animals. What makes you think he has any regard for safety or self preservation?

So I like to think that sometimes, just sometimes there’s a switch that flips inside him and instead of being mature and practical about the system he lets his intrusive feral child win.

Two-face: Heads or tails little bird. Heads, I kill you. Tails, I surrender.

*flips coin*

Nightwing *throws his escrema stick and it hits the coin which lands in his palm*

Nightwing: Hey Harvey. If I flip it around in my hands I can change the outcome of this

Two-face: .. wait-

Nightwing *flipping his hand around with the coin inside* : Say why don’t we make it more interesting?

*takes out three more coins and puts them all in his palm before switching them around a bit*

Two-face: oh.. no..

*Red Hood and Red Robin watching in horror*

Red robin: .. should we.. should we stop him

Red hood *remembering when a villain knocked away Dick’s weapons and told him if he could draw blood without landing a hit on him he’d tell his army to stop and Dick didn’t wait a second before biting the fucker’s neck and taking a good chunk out of it*

Red hood: he’ll be fine.

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THIS-

And I also kinda feel like maybe all of his siblings had different talents that were more recognised as “social”. Johnny was good at math, could outdo anyone hand to god but his siblings could play the piano. They could sing, they were more well-liked and since Johnny went to the same school they did, the same family gatherings everyone sort of.. well forgot he was there in their shadow. It’s easy to be small when you’re younger, even more when your siblings shadow swallows every step you try to take.

Soap’s given up trying to impress anyone a long time ago. He’s more or less accepted he’s the black sheep, and now when any of his family ever does ask him what he’s good at or his talents, he just shrugs, lies and jokes someone had to be ordinary in the family.

So when he joins his military, it’s hard not to see the unwritten disappointment and judgement in everyone that he could’ve done something better. Something more.. legacy worthy. Something that gained him money and fame.

The Taskforce doesn’t know Soap still thinks he’s always the least valuable, the least talented. What’s worse is it’s so ingrained into him he becomes immensely self-conscious when he becomes aware other people are watching him perform his talents. He was Soap. God knows how he conned them into believing he was good at anything. But whelp- he was here anyhow. He might as well try his best to play his part so they don’t leave him in their shadow too.

Is the reason soap is the least favourite child because he’s genuinely a nice and caring person and the rest of his family view it as a weakness? I think he would have joined the military as a way to protect others (and escape). When it comes to people who despise weakeness/kindness there’s really nothing you can do to change there perception without becoming like them or worse and a part of soap has to realise that and fear his own capacity to hurt those around him.

I left it kind of ambiguous because I wanted people to be able to see it how they wanted

......that being said I did also make my own ideas about it.

And they way I see it, soap grew up in a large family, with one house of multiple generations, aunts, and uncles that feel more like secondary parents. Cousins and neices and nephews that feel more like siblings. And in my head he was the middle-est child out of him and his cousins and siblings. Meaning all the new stuff has already been claimed, attentions spread thing across some dozen or so children, and more on the way. There was just no chance of him ever getting as much attention as the older or younger kids.

That being said I do like your perception of it too, it simply would take the idea in a seperate direction (and I love it)

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After Jason came back, he’d catch glimpses of the Waynes on tv.

One day he’s changing, half heartedly tuning into the voice of Dick on camera as he’s happily talking to a child, ignoring the pang of hurt that he barely talked to Jason like that.

“…- Jason.”

That catches his attention. He freezes, keeping his helmet on the stand which he was about to put on, years of habit and familiarity itching for him to answer.

He looks to the screen, Dicks look of shock and guilt matching his own before it’s quickly gone. He’d called the child Jason. By accident. And there’s this heavy cloud of silence that settles over Dick, his eyes far away as his fingers, outstretched towards the child suddenly flinch as if muscle memory of the past had evaporated once reality settled in.

The channel pauses, everything in the room goes silent and Jason’s head is buzzing with dread, and a hint of longingness to hear Dick say his name again with such fondness.

The feeling lasts only a split second, the same amount of time it takes the facade of social charmer Dick Grayson to slide back into place. The channel flickers, and when it returns the host drones on and in about the new Wayne Foundation shelter for children living on the streets. But Dick, Jason noticed, is nowhere to be seen.

And when a couple weeks later he runs onto Nightwing’s territory , he hears his henchmen mocking the man from the other side of the warehouse.

“Where’s the little robin aye? Poof! You lost him!”

He doesn’t hear from them again, and they all don’t stop shaking after Nightwing done with them. They haven’t spoken since, but they all scream in terror and vomit every time they see a bird.

Or more specifically, when a robin sings.

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TW: mentions of touch-starvation, brief mention of thoughts of suicide (just one line, nobody actually dies)

Hug me

Cass was new. New to life, new to everything. But she was fluent in the langue of the body, and could always hear it whispering away their secrets to anyone that could hear them. And that was only Cass.

Now she’s in front of a child whose posture screams for comfort, on the verge of a breakdown. It screams for warmth. It screams two words:

HUG ME

Cass doesn’t move - simply stares at him from a distance, watching and waiting. But then Steph is behind her, and nudges Cass aside before crouching in front of the child and opening her arms up. The child shrinks, flinching and folding into himself with choked sobs, and Cass listens to Steph kindly asking the kid for permission to let her in, telling him he’ll be safe and warm and she’ll listen to him. She tells him he’ll be safe, and whispers to his heart to trust her.

Cass watches this all happen without a single word being spoken. Afterwards, Steph asks Cass why she didn’t do anything. Cass can hear the question that she never says though:

You’ve stayed with us, you’ve seen our family comfort people in distress, and you know this kid needed it. So why didn’t you do anything?

Unfortunately, Steph couldn’t notice the silent question Cass is begging her to answer.

Why was this kid different from their family?

The family where Nightwing tries to hide by hugging himself, fingers closing around whatever he was sitting on to prevent himself from launching himself at a family member. How Jason refuses to be close to them, because every step he takes towards them Cass can hear him screaming that he desperately wants a hug. That he wants someone to offer, and he wants them to hug him even when he half-heartedly threatens to shoot them if they don’t let go. Cass is convinced he’d then turn the trigger onto himself if they did.

The way Bruce suddenly curls in on himself like a child, arms tightening around each other in a desperate attempt to console himself. And Tim does the same. As does Damian. As does Stephanie, as does Barbara, and the list goes on and on. They were all in pain too. But nobody ever did anything, and Cass thought that that was how you dealt with pain.

But the longer Stephanie tries to explain to her how one must help those in pain, the longer she sees Nightwing refuse to leave a single family member struggling if he notices, the longer she sees Jason spend nights in alleys so the kids can rest easy knowing they’re safe, the longer she sees Tim hesitantly stay with a teen so she won’t be alone, or Damian always making sure all the strays he’s collected never have a wound untreated, she realises something that sends a chill down her spine.

Her family was eerily good with words. With languages they’d been taught over the years. But they still did not know each other’s language of pain. They weren’t ignorant, Cass realises. They were deaf.

And so nobody could ever hear each other’s heart break. Nobody could hear the deafening noise of each other’s body chattering from the coldness of loneliness.

Nobody, except Cass.

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What would you do if you had ten million dollars?

This question is not even a hypothetical for the batfam, but they loved asking each other this question.

Would you spend it on making a flashier batman just to piss Bruce off? On making ridiculous gadgets that could piss the villains off? Would you buy Riddler’s childhood house just to fuck with him? Make a ring that could mimic Green Lantern’s power to gaslight Hal into believing they’d all been chosen to replace him?

When Stephanie asked Jason the first time they’d hung out on a mission, she hadn’t expected him to respond. She definitely hadn’t expected him to say what he did.

“You couldn’t pay off a judge to make the wrong ruling if he has my protection. Couldn’t convince others to look away from evidence by enticing them because I would have them outbid.”

Jason said he would use it to buy law enforcement, authorities and all. He would be the top of the chain, and pick off corruption slowly by first introducing himself into the system and then burning it down from within.

That’s the only reply she got before they had the go for takedown. And they never talked about it later. He was joking, Stephanie had no doubt he’d said that just to humour her.

Still, it somehow remains the strangest answer anyone’s ever come up with.

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Do you ever think Nightwing can sniff out candies like a bloodhound?

The batfam doesn’t like to admit they all stole Bruce’s ideas of having lollipops and snacks for children. So they try and hide it as much as they can. But when Nightwing drops by, it doesn’t even take a second before he’s confidently striding upto them, taking a candy out and popping it in his mouth while walking away in one swift motion, as if this whole act was so casual it was basically mocking the painstaking efforts everyone went through trying to hide their empathy.

Dick Grayson always did have a habit of knowing exactly where they all hid their hearts.

That fucking asshole.

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i hate when the teacher’s like “write about a bad time in your life” like i ain’t tryna get a social worker up my ass, thanks tho fam

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Batman: I’m *not* petty.

Green arrow:

Batman:

Green arrow: So that’s why there’s a bat-zooka aimed at Hal.

The justice league goes for training without powers just to see how they’d cope in that situation.

Bruce and Oliver are so ready for this moment, and no one likes the way the two are teaming up.

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Lmao when Red Hood and Nightwing team up, ESPECIALLY without telling anyone then that’s a sign all hells gonna break loose.

Tim was about to head to bed. He really was. But then he checked everyone’s locations just in case, saw Jason and Dick’s location a little too close for comfort, and fucking sprinted for the bat cave.

I put way too much effort into something this dumb 😂 but I have no regrets

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I swear I get sad if I wake up and one is on the floor

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Ghostsoap AU where Soap is a strong swimmer, one of the best Scuba divers out there and Ghost is a marine biologist investigating the ecosystem and the deep ocean.

Ghost who’s had intense trauma with cliffs and just generally being near the edge of things at huge heights, something Johnny would occasionally tease him about but always lightly, with never any venom in them. And although to everyone, including the Scot who just started closely working with Ghost a few months ago, it seems like Ghost doesn’t care much for Soap, everything shifts one day when stuff goes terribly wrong.

Soap had dove farther than he had in a while, exploring a new area near a cliff after an intense natural disaster (maybe an earthquake that unearthed a closed off area?) and his oxygen tank bursts.

Meanwhile the team gets his distress signal, and Ghost, despite his trauma with cliffs, doesn’t hesitate to jump off the tallest one in order to get to Soap.

His Johnny. His oxygen.

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All of the taskforce having to shave off their facial hair for a mission but Price forgot these guys are dumbasses.

Soap almost shot his own reflection cuz he couldn’t recognise himself.

Gaz is sobbing in the corner because he looked like a teenager without it and was barred from the liquor store.

And Ghost keeps reflexively decking Price everytime he walks by because he’s so not used to seeing Price without a beard that he automatically assumes it’s stranger danger and hence on sight whenever they cross paths.

Even Price refuses to admit he sometimes doesn’t register these kids standing in front of them as his men because they look so much different, so much younger.

They’re not his men anymore.

They’re his boys.