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I see a lot of posts about the Titans seeing Dick as this serious leader at his core, while the Batfam know him for his jokes and easy-going attitude. And I love this, this is great, but I like to headcanon that it kinda goes the other way.

Like, on missions, Dick is straight to the point. Serious. Their leader, but the team knows that, ultimately, that's just a front. He's still their friend. He still lounges around the tower, plays video games with Cyborg and Beast Boy, lets Starfire paint his nails. He fills the role that he needs to, when he needs to, but the Titans have always known that it doesn't exactly come naturally.

Then they see him actually work with Batman, and he smiles... more. Almost manically. He fills the dead silences with quips, he hangs upside down, taunts villains and Batman alike. But that's not his smile, that's not his laugh, that's not him. It's an imperative. Rehearsed to perfection, but they've known him long enough that they can see cracks. He may be filling a role as their leader, but this is a performance. And it's terrifying, because they can't quite parse out the why, just that it is, and they can tell that, behind the performance, there is a creature that is far more serious - far more dangerous - than they ever thought their friend could be.

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since summer is late this year, i'm in an autumn-winter mood

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Get their asses, Alfred.

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I need to put together a proper PSA for professional Batman comic writers at some point to explain that "ward" is a very out-of-date and obsolete legal term in the US that hasn't existed since realistically the early 1980s and at latest 1997.

If you're a child actively interacting with the foster care+adoption system you're either an adoptive child, foster child, or ward of the state/court. If you're not a ward of the court (in which case the state is your legal guardian and you're probably being represented by a guardian ad litem or designated social worker), the adult who has legal custody of you and legal/financial responsibility for you is either your adoptive parent, your foster parent, or your temporary legal guardian. You can't really be a 'ward' of an individual anymore; that hasn't been a thing since again, the 80s/90s-era foster care system reforms.

this is all to day: Batman writers stop calling Dick and Jason Bruce's wards challenge. Even if you want to continue the mental gymnastics to ignore their adoptions, he is at minimum their permanent foster father and legal guardian. That's how the system works. Do your research for once in your lives, I am begging

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Stupid silly bastard I miss him sm...

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ghostbat week 2023 day 6 - singapore @ghostbatweek

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Gonna cry, he said Khoa come meet my kids

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they need to be far apart as far as possible or they will start making out

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ghostbat ideas please please please you are so funny you get them

Khoa needs to get that stepdad disrespect and I mean it in the funniest way possible.

“That’s our mama’s lil boyfriend. We let him sleep inside if he’s good.” Type thing.

Steph is Khoa’s favorite. For the funnies.

Claims he got Bruce pregnant with Damian at every opportunity. “First of all: You reminded me I couldn’t biologically give birth to them. Which angers me. Secondly: You’re sleeping on the couch.”

Khoa to me is the dad who comes over MAYBE once a month. They have no idea what he does when he’s not there. They’re very happy with that.

Jason’s mission in life is to be that man’s number one hater and it’s hilarious to see.

Khoa only calls Bruce Brucie. He knows he hates that name with every inch of his heart. Either that, or just Princess.

Consequently, Bruce calls Khoa his nightmare. But like. In a very endearing way.

“First date ideas: hand to hand combat”

They’re kinda like Hades and Persephone if they met every 6 months to fight.

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Batman #105

This is still insane behavior to me

They’re standing in the rain, screaming at each other, throwing accusations around—it’s a whole ass divorce

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i wonder how that went...

he def does this just to piss him off

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I still can't stress enough over how underrated Ghostmaker in this fandom is.

You want to say that my man, Minhkhoa Khan, dragged Slade's ass and called him out ("But what should be expected from a guy who usually goes after the kids?") as if Super Bowl depended on him, almost kissed the shit out of Bruce in Moscow, fucks pretty men and women in his penthouse, is immune to fear toxin, and despite all break-ups and reinconcilation, total different morals, got Bruce Wayne asking him to join him in Gotham after years of divorce, AND YOU STILL SLEEP ON HIS CHARACTER?

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GhostBat scenario, where almost none of Bruce's kids want Minhkhoa anywhere near Bruce, and so they keep trying to sabotage his life in the Manor. Unluckily for them, Minhkhoa Khan is one hell of a bastard, so none of that works, and now they totally stuck in a wicked cycle.

Cassandra: Here. Drink for your friend. Tea.

Bruce: Oh, Cass, that's so sweet of you. I am glad you starting getting along with Khoa.

Cassandra: *persistently staring at Minhkhoa as he sips tea*

Minhkhoa, who is tolerant to all poisons and dgaf about twenty spoons of salt AND pepper that Cassandra smacked inside the cup just now, slurping with a shit-eating grin: Oh, what an angel your daughter is.

Dick with a fake smile: Oh my God, man, SO sorry for locking you up for two days in this awful huge fridge.

Minhkhoa, who could escape any time now, but since two can play a game: It is fine, kid. Shit happens.

Bruce: Are you okay???

Minhkhoa, dramatically stumbling in Bruce's arms: Just fine, darling. Freezing, though.

Dick, seething through his teeth: Aren't you guys sweet.

Tim, all misty-eyed: Oh. I think I accidentally had shattered your five million worth statue from Ancient Greece, mister Khan.

Minhkhoa, smirking, because his psychopath ass doesn't really care about things THAT much: Oh, aren't you a clumsy thing?

Bruce, frowning: What is that with you, breaking half of Khoa things recently? First tech, now this...

Minhkhoa: Don't you worry, princess. Kids, am I right?

Bruce: Hm...

Bruce: Tim, come on, at least, apologise. That's now what I taught you to behave.

Tim, with his eye twitching: You didn't teach me anything at all.

Bruce: Timothy Jackson--

Minhkhoa: I guess, I admire their persistence in a way.

Damian, drawing on the couch: Mother said that back in her time, Grayson did the same rituals, when she tried to date Father.

Minhkhoa, humming: Poor Talia.

Jason, sitting on the counter, while cleaning guns: Her and you, deciding to suffer for B is the most unrealistic shit ever for me. He cannot be all THAT

Damian, nodding: Mother says he, in fact, is not all that

Minhkhoa: Nonsense. Bruce is a darling boy.

Jason and Damian: *subtle exchange of disgusted stares*

Minhkhoa: Anyway, shrimps. Do you want to grab slushies and hear out the genius story from that one time, when your father massively fucked up?

Jason and Damian: *instant smile*

Bruce, sneezing somewhere in the Batcave: Why do I feel like someone discusses me right now...

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