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Some Titans characters, made in artbreeder.

And I guess it’s an AU. Where everyone is human, and if you require reconstructive surgery they put the metal plates under your skin (that’s my reasoning, and it’s not at all because I can’t make a more accurate representation of cyborg look decent.)

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Some Batman characters (and a few Superman ones) made using artbreeder.

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Coat Bat

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I combined these two asks into one that essentially questions, “What does Jason want to do with his life?” 

Why Jason hasn’t killed the Joker

a) DC would never let Jason kill him. The Joker is too much of a moneymaker, especially in comparison to Jason.

b) Since Jason isn’t allowed to kill the Joker, we can only measure his intent by his attempts, of which he’s had two. 

In Lost Days #5, he tracks the Joker down with every intent to kill him. However, his timetable is cut in half, so he starts panicking and having flashbacks (one of the best indicators of him potentially having PTSD IMO). His explanation to Talia is: “It wasn’t because I was rushed. I was planning on getting him to another location… I was gonna do it slow.” 

Then he starts talking about how he “[doesn’t] give a crap about the world,” despite having just saved London from a terrorist attack, and that it wasn’t enough. The latter is the same explanation he gave Talia after he failed to blow up the Batmobile with Bruce inside it.

It seems that he isn’t angry so much as hurt, and lacking any outlet other than violence. He doesn’t want Bruce dead–he just wants to feel better, and he thinks that blowing up Bruce will do that, but he still can’t go through with it. 

Notice how much bullshit Jason spouts. He tends to talk a big game, but you really need to watch what he does and analyze the rare thoughts that he shares with the audience to figure out what he’s really trying to say.

Skipping to Under the Hood, Jason sets up the perfect confrontation with all three of them, just as he’d planned in Lost Days. It’s emotional and dramatic and senseless because Jason already knows that Bruce won’t kill the Joker. He already knows that he isn’t enough to convince Bruce to betray his oath to never kill. He already knows that this won’t fix anything, but he does it anyway because what else is there to do? At least with this, he can find some kind of closure. 

In this encounter, Jason would have killed the Joker if Bruce hadn’t intervened at the very last second, so…I’m not sure what else people want from him, since he can’t actually cut through the Joker’s plot armor. This is as far as he’s allowed to go. 

What Jason wants from the Batfam

Frankly, I think he’s just a bit lonely and doesn’t know what he wants anymore. 

Towards the very end of preboot, Damian calls Jason out on his “passive-aggressive familiarity,” which shut Jason up for at least a second (amazing). 

When Jason was Robin, there was no “Batfam”–it was just him, Bruce, and Alfred, with Dick keeping his distance and Babs retiring. Since Jason also had no friends in school, he was very isolated by the time A Death in the Family rolled around. If he’d had any support network closer to his age, he wouldn’t have felt compelled to chase after his biological mother. 

At the end of preboot, the Batfam was huge–but Jason wasn’t in a place where he could ever become a part of it, or even truly want to. The closest he could get was “passive-aggressive familiarity.” A little taste of what he hadn’t had as Robin, and what he would never have as Red Hood. 

And as far as hobbies go, harassing the Batfam on occasion isn’t the worst that Jason has taken up. 

That being said, I can’t see Jason actually trying to join the Batfam. I think he could connect with individuals within the Batfam, such as Steph and Cass, and possibly reconcile with Bruce. However, at the end of the day, Jason prioritizes his sense of justice over his sense of belonging. 

Whether Jason can move on

Bruce thinks that he “saved” Jason from being a third-strike lifer at Blackgate (I can’t find the panel right now, but trust me, it exists), but in reality, Jason didn’t want to be a “crook” and would have likely only committed crime for the sake of survival. Even stripped to his most basic instincts shortly after his resurrection, Jason was the kind of person who shared the food that he stole with other homeless people. Stealing loaves of bread and jacking tires to survive isn’t exactly Blackgate material. 

After Under the Hood, Jason doesn’t have any long-term plans. Sure, he works with Brick and kidnaps Mia, and he feeds intel to Dick, and he breaks out of Arkham–but these are all reactions. He kidnaps Mia because Bruce let others interfere in their argument. He feeds intel to Dick because he happened to overhear it. He arranges his transfer out of Arkham because Dick stuck him there and he wanted out. There’s a lack of overall purpose in his actions once his end-game fails in Under the Hood–and yet he doesn’t leave Gotham. 

I don’t think Jason can “move on” since a) Gotham is his home, and that’s where the Batfam is; b) he still loves Bruce but hasn’t dealt with that fact like, at all; c) it’s more dramatic for him to keep a grudge in the narrative; d) his emotional issues are too complex for him to surmount on his own. 

What the fuck is Jason even doing with his life?

Who knows? Not Jason, that’s for sure.

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Batman Black & White #5

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What was/is the arrow family like? I haven't read anything, yet

The Arrowfam is something that I dearly miss from the oldcontinuity. I actually made a post about Mia Dearden and Connor Hawke here, butsince I love these characters so much, I’ll also give you a brief intro to theArrowfam.

Think of it as the Batfam except a lot more functional.

Green Arrow v3 #31

Keep reading

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back by popular demand, #jasontodd

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Have you ever drawn Cassie Sandsmark?

Now I have!

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What kind of dumb mistakes does he do?

First of all, he shot heroin when he was a teenager. We seethat regret coming back to him when he found out that Mia was HIVpositive, to which he said “that could have been me,” which strongly implies that Roywas sharing needles.

In the Outsiders, he was fooled by Deathstroke when heimpersonated Batman, giving away secret Intel and then getting his ass handed to him.

He was also confident that he could reprogram and putfail-safes on a homicidal android that was centuries ahead of his time. WhileIndigo become a loved member of the team, she ended up destroying Outsiders HQand attacked the Teen Titans once her “Brainiac self” resurfaced.

He’s also very wrapped up in his work, which means that hehas a tendency to forget appointments.

After promising Lian that he’d pick her up from school, he losttrack of time and ended up breaking that promise to her. It isn’t because he’schoosing Red Arrow over her, but I think his spontaneous nature would land himin hot water in more than one occasion, such as missing a Christmas concert ofhers or forgetting an anniversary if he was in a relationship.

So to give a better answer than before, the dumbmistakes Roy makes are also his life lessons. He’s not clumsy or air-headedthough; he’s constantly analyzing his surroundings and circumstances.

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Old Starfire sketch, now colored!🌟✨

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Did you know how is the personality/code of ethics of Deathstroke in the comics bu Marv Wolfman?

(Tales of Teen Titans #55)

I just reblogged [this post] for you, but I’ll do my best to expand here. Slade has one of the most complicated moral codes in DC Universe IMO, particularly when he’s written by Wolfman because I feel like later comics simply generalized Slade into a straight up villain.

In the above panel, Gar says, “That’s insane! You could have died doing something you didn’t even believe in.” Slade took up a contract to kill the Titans after his son died failing to complete this mission for the HIVE. Slade didn’t have any real motivation to go after the Titans other than operating under this idea that he was helping to lay his son’s memory to rest– as corrupt as that memory was. I feel like this ties directly into the fact that Slade Wilson is a military man. It’s expected for soldiers to commit to a mission regardless of whether or not it’s in line with their own moral codes, and I think that’s something we’re seeing reflected here. Slade took up this cause as if it was a mission foisted upon him rather than because he was morally driven to eradicate the world of the Titans.

Slade actually seems to have a soft spot for the Titans and even carries mutual respect for them. I think that Slade’s moral code can first and foremost be described as honor bound, because as a mercenary, he lives up to a reputation of discretion and success. His son, Joey, lost his voice because Slade was honor bound to not give up details on his client. 

(The Judas Contract)

“My word is my bond.”

Overall, Slade seems to exist very firmly in a morally grey spectrum. I think he has an utterly realistic outlook on life. He doesn’t seem to have any idealistic hopes that the future will be a better place; he just takes life as it’s given to him. Murder and death are a part of life; therefore, Slade will take contracts for money. He doesn’t see himself as a villain for doing this because he’s just participating in something that’s always been common in humankind’s history. The only thing that seems to carry worth to Slade is honor and commitment. If you say you’re going to do something, you better do it.

(Tales of Teen Titans #55)

“You called me a villain. Never thought of myself as that. I’m a mercenary. A soldier for hire. […] I don’t steal or kill for personal gain. I have a strict code of ethics.”

Because Slade is so firm on this quality, it makes it possible for him to occasionally team up with the Titans. Even if he’s working to his own agenda, he can generally be trusted to do what he says he’s going to do. Slade may live in this morally grey spectrum, but he’s upfront about it and doesn’t seem to seek out other people’s misery and destruction on his own. He’ll just do it if he gets paid for it, and it’s probably because he figures that if he doesn’t do it, someone else will. Therefore, he might as well be the one who cashes the paycheck.

Regarding Slade’s preoccupation with commitment, you mainly see this in regards to his family. Slade is loyal to Adeline, his ex-wife, despite all the animosity she harbors toward him. She tried to kill him and ended up shooting his eye out, and he doesn’t hold this against her. I think he views her actions as completely appropriate because she was acting on behalf of their son, and Slade regrets what happened to Joey. He thinks he deserves it. Slade’s commitment to Grant is seen through the way he took up the contract against the Titans. Overall, he wants the best for his family, even if that means he needs to stay away from them.

(Tales of Teen Titans #55)

“No way. I haven’t been with Joseph since he was a kid. He’s straight… a good kid. His mother raised him well. Y’know, I still love her and I think she loves me… but we’re committed to different goals. But she raised Joe good. […] Joe was worried when Addie was kidnapped. He’s absolutely clean. And I’m damn proud of him.”

Despite Slade’s life as a mercenary, he’s first and foremost a family man, which is a very paradoxical quality. Slade keeps his distance from his family because he realizes that his proximity has a tendency to make their lives worse. Slade can be pretty self-destructive with the life choices that he makes. Even when people have entirely different moral codes as him, Slade seems to easily respect it and stay in his own lane. He’s definitely a complicated guy.

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Commission.

The end of tonight’s picspam!

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pretty sure I still have a crush on her

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Just a fun ask here: if you were given the task of designing Nightwing's costume, what would you do? What would you add, take away, etc? What gadgets would you have him carry on a typical basis?

(NW Annual #2)

Well, I would keep the blue fingerstripes, but the number of people who are surprised there is zero. I already have a detailed HC on the material of Dick’s suit [right here]. To recap it briefly, I imagine Dick’s suit being comprised of three basic layers: a bottom layer that is waterproof and tear resistant, a middle layer that is insulated from electricity and durable against extreme heat, and a top layer that works as a kevlar nanoweave to protect against low to mid-caliber bullets. 

I really like that Dick’s suit is set up to automatically release a taser charge when tampered with (like a possum defense mechanism when he’s unconscious). His mask also canonically has an explosive charge that will go off if the mask is removed and a trigger word is said. I’m guessing this extends to Dick’s combat boots and gauntlets as well, which will also self-destruct if removed by the wrong hands when a trigger word is said. I also love the new Arkham City thing with Dick’s escrima sticks doubling as tasers (but for the love of God, keep the electricity blue. Red electricity isn’t possible in the circumstances Dick uses them under and DC drives me crazy by defying physics just to make Dick red in the N52).

I don’t think there’s anything I would take away, because Dick has a nice, slim, and aerodynamic design as it is. It’s already so simplistic and sleek, and it’s a design that works and can keep working for decades without ever going out of style. The blue stripes along Nightwing’s arms resemble a bird’s wingspan, which is nice and symbolic for Dick, being the Flying Grayson that he is.

I also like that Dick doesn’t have a belt for a couple reasons: it would look bulky for his acrobatic self, and it would potentially move around too much while he’s doing flips and shit. I like that Dick stores his supplies in his gauntlets and boots instead of a belt. I think it makes more sense for him, is unique, and is practical. When it comes to both Batman’s belt and Dick’s gloves/boots, it barely makes any sense to me whatsoever how they can hold so much shit, but it’s comic book logic. I can roll with it. 

(Outsiders Vol 3 #49)

Dick has a bunch of visible compartments along his arms and legs, and I think this makes about as much sense as Bruce’s utility belt, so here I am, not complaining about it. A+, would recommend to other acrobat vigilantes in need of storing their dangerous gear

As for the gear he carries around, obviously it will change depending on what kind of fight he’s going into, but I think the core essentials should be:

At least two to three grappling hooks

A dozen wing-dings

Some quantity of explosive plastique

Mini-penlight

Lockpicks, both inside compartments and built into the suit itself

Tracers

Tear gas pellets

Smoke pellets

Flash bang pellets

Strong mini-laser with limited duration

Morphine pills / basic med kit

A syringe of some dangerous chemical to be usedas a last resort in emergencies that gives him an edge in a fight 

As well as a mask that automatically has infrared and nightvision, basic GPS capabilities and a satellite comm uplink to communicate with.

Most of the above are self-explanatory and things that Dick already uses in canon. The only thing I’m adding that isn’t quite canon is the ‘dangerous chemical’ thing. Dick has been known to carry syringes of dangerous substances already, actually. (Like lyersgic acid, but why Dick carries this around, I have no clue.) I’m thinking more along the lines of something that will stave off his pain and give him an adrenaline boost to keep going when the odds are stacked against him. Like I said, as a last resort.

Anyway, this is more of a canon meta than my personal opinion, but I think comics are already so detailed about this sort of thing that there’s simply not much for me to add beyond the specific materials I’d choose for his suit.

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some 17 year old Dick Grayson looking adorable as he poses to buy drugs. (Batman: Black and White #3)

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Last one for today