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Can I borrow $60?

i dont... have any money...

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I want that man ON my doorstep, BLEEDING. OUT. In the rain. And I was the FIRST person he thought to go to.

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THATS HIS MAMA CAT!!!! HIS MAMA CAT YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!!

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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Duke and Jason need to be paired up more.

Not even just in the comics, in fanon too. They're dynamic as siblings and as people in the batfamily is so important and interesting.

Jason is something of a black sheep in the family, an outwardly rockier relationship with Bruce then the other kids and the first Robin to die. Duke on the other hand, is new. Maybe to the Batfamily, but not to Gotham. Before he even went up against villains he knew the Narrows by heart.

They're both head-strong and surprisingly emotionally aware- and both of them understand Gotham and the community better then Bruce ever will.

They're incredibly similar, from their sarcastic remarks to their tendency to cursing. The Batfamily is their home but Gotham is their heart.

And I need people to understand how much Jason would relish and love another street rat to be apart of the family. He hates how similar they both are, but he loves Duke like the little brother he is.

Duke is 16-17, the exact years Jason missed to experience. Duke is what Jason missed out on, and he'd protect that even with his teeth to concrete.

Jason should want to be there for Duke. I even think Jason should visit the Wayne Manor more often just to passively check up on how Duke is doing.

How he's adjusting, how he's living. And you bet your ass he would sit down any day to listen how Duke's day went. He would want to hear it all. From shitty teachers to shittier criminals.

Jason would hang around Duke, passively mentioning things and maybe they even get to share writing together. Because yes, Duke AND Jason both write. They'd 100% fold up pieces of paper they had writing on, secretly pass it to one another and leave notes on each others stories and grammar. Tips and tricks, praise and general nerding out.

They should be best friends so passively most of the family doesn't notice, and that idea means so much to me.

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my version of the clock tower!! tbh i can probably work on this more... but i'm giving up aaaa imsorry there's too much stuff to draw

there are 2 conversations happening, it's a mystery what they are saying

clock tower design thoughts below:

i always liked the clock tower! i have almost no notes until i started to draw and think about it a bit.

idk, barbs pulled herself out of a tragic situation, turned around, and became the lifeline to so many heroes. they know she won't accept grand gestures of thanks so they try to thank her in little ways instead

in my hc, barbs moves in the clock tower but it remains mostly unfurnished besides the bare minimum so she can focus on getting her oracle stuff set up. so everyone bit by bit, brings things over to furnish her clock tower.

dick leaves a blanket because barbs said she was cold that one time. steph lugs up an armchair someone was about to throw away ("a perfectly good chair!!"). next day, she drags in a sofa. cass finds a nice picture frame on the side of the road, just a frame. damian scoffs and offers to paint something for it. tim offers to take a photo for it. cass finds another frame so they can both hang up their work

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so i’m trying to write duke and i don’t think i’m writing him right. how would you describe his personality because with don’t trust fanon lmfaooo

(this was only supposed to be a paragraph or two i swear to god)

1. first things first, duke is a hardcore gryffindor. don’t let the yellow color scheme mislead you, okay. and while most of the time he’s depicted in fanon as “omg this family is crazy and i’m the only sane one,” it’s actually pretty much the opposite? if anything, i think the other batkids would be like “oh finally, someone who can match our level of chaotic energy. HEY DUKE WANNA BUNGEE JUMP OFF WAYNE TOWER—” and an hour later they’d all be in the batcave getting lectured by bruce for leading poor sweet innocent duke astray when really he was already planning on doing that this weekend.

listen, this is the kid who once jumped off a bridge to escape police. this is the dude who decided to fight criminals while they’re still eating their wheaties at 6am in a bright yellow suit. and while duke seems to be the best at following bruce’s command at the moment due to having been trained by him most recently compared to the others and is still figuring out how to be a hero, i’m positive that if bruce weren’t here to guide him, duke would be running around gotham taking down criminals anyway. i mean, he literally did do that with the “we are robin” kids. plus there was the whole thing when he was like ten years old and decided “i am going to singlehandedly stop the riddler in my light up sketchers and pikachu backpack. try and stop me.�� 

duke is headstrong and has a strong drive toward heroism. he’s an extremely enthusiastic and passionate person in general, and i try to capture a little of that when i write him, even with mundane things like trying to beat his siblings to the last cupcake. 

2. another thing i noticed is that duke swears like a sailor in comics? seriously, this boy could give jason a run for his money with how many “@#!%” speech bubbles there are. i don’t know if this is just a trend the writers added in the comics i’ve read of him, or if it’s a genuine trait throughout every comic he’s in, but that’s something to make note of when writing dialogue for duke. after all, he did grow up in the narrows, so it makes sense that he’d use a lot of swearing and slang in his everyday vernacular.

3. i would also make a point of noting that duke is fairly young compared to the rest of the batfamily, being the second youngest after damian. duke is still a teenager in high school, and he acts like it. he’s got homework and friends and is eager to make a difference in gotham, trying to juggle everything and make it all work somehow. he’s stubborn and doesn’t give up easily, so it’s important to write him as someone who is trying to save the world while also struggling with finding time to study for his next math test. he's human. he doesn’t get to dedicate all of his time to fighting crime like cass or jason might be able to, since duke is still a mostly normal teenager with teenager problems.

4. and don’t forget that unlike the other batkids, duke still has two living parents. sure, they’re jokerized and might not ever be the same again, but they’re alive and that’s what holds him back from letting himself get as close to the waynes as he wants to. duke won’t be calling bruce “dad” anytime soon, and i think he’d have some internal struggle over stuff like holidays and birthdays with the waynes, remembering what his parents are missing out on and wondering if joining the wayne family is a betrayal to them. duke is very conflicted over this, even if he doesn’t say it directly. stuff like ducking out of movie night early or feeling a bittersweet pang during thanksgiving dinner makes sense for someone in his situation. 

(i usually ignore that aspect in my fics because i want duke to just be adopted and part of the family already, but not everyone does that, and that’s perfectly fine.)

5. honestly, duke is such a caring individual and we as a fandom need more of him being a shoulder for people to lean on because he’s?? so soft?? duke can be so sympathetic and rational when it comes to emotional problems. it seems like duke internalizes every bit of advice he gets from the people around him and uses it to inspire others and help them through their own problems. as tough and hotheaded as duke can sometimes be, he really is good when it comes to emotions.

6. duke is a smartass. he will 100% use sarcasm against any and every authority figure he meets, usually just for the hell of it. 

7. he’s very frank in general, usually the first to be like “okay full disclosure, we’re about to die right now. that sucks. anyway—” in a situation. he’s honest and tends to be upfront about his fears/anxieties, usually for comic relief, but i think it still counts.

8. okay i have to add that duke is also kind of a punk? he and jason have a lot in common because of this: they both grew up in one of gotham’s worse areas (jay in crime alley and duke in the narrows) and they’re both highkey deliquents. duke has no problem getting into fights or talking back to authority figures, and it’s gotten him in hot water on more than one occasion. it’s why he kept getting moved around the foster system before bruce took him in because no one wanted to keep him.

9. he’s also gotten so close with the other batkids and we love to see it!! duke calls cass “sis” and treats damian like the annoying little brother he never had and i adore every second of it. we haven’t gotten a lot of interactions between duke and the others aside from training and stuff, but he and jason have the whole “punk kid who got adopted by batman and is baffled by how rich people live” going for them, so they can bond over that. and duke is a thinker like tim, so they can hang out and do puzzles or play chess or whatever it is that smart people do. (and duke and steph are BESTIES i don’t care what anyone says.)

10. most of all, duke is still learning how the whole hero thing works. he’s young and he’s trying his best, but he also makes mistakes. he will be impulsive and screw up, and he’ll try and merge the lessons batman’s taught him and that his parents taught him and that other heroes teach him until it all makes sense in his own mind. duke isn’t experienced like dick or even damian, so he’s going to be lagging behind for a while until he grows until the role he’s made for himself.

other miscellaneous details to include: 

- duke is dating izzy, who used to be part of the “we are robin” gang with him - he used to live at the manor and now lives with his cousin jay, but honestly i just have him living at the manor in everything i write because i like it better that way - he can control shadows and light now! what a king! - duke secretly writes poetry and is good at creative writing in general  - this:

- duke is super smart?? he figured out that agent 37 was dick grayson without even trying?? i’m so proud of him - his biological father is this supervillain called gnomon so now duke has got four parents: his mom, his dad, his supervillain dad, and bruce (plus selina if you count her as the batkids’ stepmom, which i do) - jason calls him “narrows” and i love that

- and, lastly, the most important panel in the history of comics:

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from now on your tumblr nickname is whatever you get from this sexual identity generator  ☆

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There's two types of white women that scare me.

soccer moms and real crime podcasters.

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for the 3 jak and daxter fans in the back

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*points and laughs*

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Old school assignment :P

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Because why did we have the exact thought

Exploring the batfamily + friends through Tim's perspective makes so much sense in a episodic format, and you can still make time pass with a bunch of important events in Gotham's history explored through a kid who's just so royally disappointed that he is the monkey in the circus

for as much as I love jason todd if i ever made a batman show it would be about tim

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today someone told me if my skin was a blanket they wouldn't leave it.

weird way of saying my skin's smooth but thanks

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for as much as I love jason todd if i ever made a batman show it would be about tim