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And, ok, I love the idea of batfam being kinda… odd to everyone else around. Like these guys have such an insane bond between them (please) that they talk in all their (sometimes niche) references and everyone around them is like??? wtf???

They’ll be fighting with the Justice League to help out with some demon summoning and Jason, who definitely watched Supernatural at some point, will off handedly turn to Dick, who’s fighting alongside, and say: “We are just like the Winchesters right now.” And Dick, in true sibling fashion of hating whatever they’re interested in, will throttle him and DARE him to reference that goddamn show again! (And you get everyone else kind of there like, wtf, why are they quoting some ghost hunting show??)

It’ll be Tim and Steph coming to help out Bruce and repeating references that no one else understands; they’ll look at some accidentally-induced earthquake, roll their eyes and mutter “so 9-1-1 core.” (Because, yes, they both watch 9-1-1 together and judge it on their ability to survive each seasons disaster.) They regularly refer to Renee as their “Athena Grant”.

Damian, reluctantly, using the references because they are basically a short hand. Heaving a sigh Dick mutters “gotta go fast” in a response to Oracle giving them co ordinates to go, but finding himself quoting Sonic without thinking. It builds to the others always responding with a quote from Sonic Boom — except that one time Duke and Cass ended up re-enacting dubbed scenes and Sonic quotes got banned.

And then there’s the insults that aren’t straight up insulting, but the way they all giggle when it’s said implies it’s supposed to be insulting. They’re all sat together when Bruce comes in, decked out in the Batman suit, and Duke mumbles “ok nightman” under his breath. It’s his theme song.

Each of them have a “theme song”: something they’ll hum to the other mockingly. Dick’s somehow ended up being the Life’s a Happy Song from the muppets.

They also use simple words to make fun of each other. Steph will mutter “slip-up”, in reference to one time Damian might have slipped, every time she wants to rile him up and it works. Jason’s word is “shoot”— it sets him off because what are they making fun of guns for?

All in all, they are siblings and they WILL make fun of each others’ interests and they WILL kill each other for making quotes about said interests. Again, they are siblings after all.

They will quote each others most embarrassing and traumatic moments for fun, but with little enough words that only they understand what they’re saying.

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i add:

Playing Jackbox games. Have you ever played Blather Round??? bcs niche references FLY here

tim: hes a goofy character, think, like, mangoballs au

steph, immediately: goofy!

jason: he, fuckin, did that table cloth magic trick

dick, without a moments hesitation: the pope

Or, right, in an insult way. My best friend and I have a very specific way of insulting each other and I feel like it would carry across very well:

bruce, somehow missing the punch he’s aimed:

cass, under her breath: ok, miss the target

jason and tim eating out together:

jason: ok, swallow

tim: i will fucking kill you i will actually kill you—

etc

i love the idea that batfam kids speak in rly niche references like me and my sister/best friends do like… three words and we know what we r chatting its like a secret code

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i love the idea that batfam kids speak in rly niche references like me and my sister/best friends do like… three words and we know what we r chatting its like a secret code

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a girls fave robin!

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a boy’s heroes

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WIP RN! need to also add texture to it :p

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have my actual favourite part of the sunshine court

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"Did you think you were special?"

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guys….

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ermmm yeah

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todays doodles when drawing w the sis i whipped out the ink for the first timr in forever

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blud at the thrift store!

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cassandra cain doodle ft my younger sisters annotations

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HALLOWEEN FITS! bonus under split

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character designs pj vers

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tim 😿

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spoiler doodle ;p