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ideal jason and talia dynamic to me

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Finally finished this piece after months of reworking. Far from perfect, but I’m glad it’s done. Inspired by the amazing Bruno Redondo, Dan Mora, and especially Dexter Soy.

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that one kanye trend

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Damian: Father

Bruce, working on a case: I'm busy go ask Dick

Damian: Richard I-

Dick trying to pull Tim out of a cupboard: Sorry, can't right now, go ask your Father

Damian: But he's the one that told me to ask you!

Dick now trying to pry a jar of cookies out of Tim's grubby little hands: Go ask Jason then

Damian: *angry grumbling*

Dick and Bruce standing in front of a burning building: why.

Damian: Todd said it was okay

Jason: Hehe yeah i did

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spoiler: Not the first time Bruce has gone overboard for a party

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On vacation🧳

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explanation as to why in my previous comic Dink refers to Tim as "Bitty" (featuring tim's ability to spawn out of nowhere) <3

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thinking about the batkids being told they act like bruce, and their immediate reaction is negative. bruce is around to witness it, and while it hurts, he agrees they’re nothing like him. they’re better

but what the kids and bruce don’t realize is that every time someone tells them that, it’s based on positive characteristics

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clark, “you’re so much like B sometimes…”

dick, “absolutely not.”

clark, “the way you handle your team, dick. it’s precise and controlled, but you understand their strengths and weaknesses, offering support when necessary.”

dick, “oh…you mean like that.”

clark, “what did you think I meant?”

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roy, “you’re acting like your dad.”

jason, “shut the fuck up, harper.”

roy, “oh come on. the way you defended those kids and made sure they knew they were safe? softening your voice like that?”

jason, “…”

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kon, “that’s so batman of you.”

tim, “what did I do to be insulted like this?”

kon, “insulted? tim, you’re a genius detective and sometimes it feels genetic even if you swear up and down that B isn’t your dad.”

tim, “…he’s not.”

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steph, “it’s like trying to fight against bruce!”

cass, “that bad?”

steph, “uh, try that good. both of you are scary solid.”

cass, “huh…”

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jon, “whoa. it‘s like watching a mini batman!”

damian, “excuse me?”

jon, “yeah! i suuuuuuck at stealth, but watching you move like that is impressive!”

damian, “hmph…i’ll teach you.”

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bruce is so used to his kids blaming him for any of their faults, the negative aspects of himself they’ve adopted from being raised by him, so he’s blind to positive attributes they’ve also gotten from him, up until those outside of the family point it out.

and the kids start to regret how hostile their initial reactions always are, because yeah, bruce has fucked up a lot, but he’s also taught them a lot, and they’re good people because of it, not in spite of it. so over time, the comparisons stop being responded to w negativity, and instead it’s w a smile, a smirk, or some subtle pride

“I am like my dad.”

and it’s a good thing

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I think little kids hear that Superman's an alien, and the fact that they don't watch TV interviews or know much about him aside from nice alien means that he'll be saving them or trying to locate parents or just wind up talking to them and kids will solemnly offer to show him human activities like ice-cream or roller coasters and Clark's torn between telling them he's done all that or playing along and making shit up about his weird alien habits.

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Damian gets de-aged to a baby during an altercation with a magic user and it's a mess.

It's not exactly the first time this has happened to one of them, hell, Dick got babyfied like three times as Robin alone. But. This the first time that it has happened to Damian.

Damian who would rather be caught death than acting cute. Damian who has adorable round cheeks but once bit Dick when he tried to pinch them. Damian who, without the league training and influence, will probably be the sweetest, cutest baby on earth.

Needles to say, everyone is speeding back to the cave the moment the news hit the coms.

When they get there Damian is Bruce's arms drinking milk from a bat-themed bottle Alfred produced from god knows where. And everyone immediately is shoving one another to get a god look at the baby.

The moment Damian notices his siblings he stops drinking, his eyes growing huge and unblinking.

For a second nobody moves. Everyone is waiting to see what adorable thing will the tiny baby do first and Damian... Throws his bottle at Tim and hits him square in the face.

It's just the beginning.

As it turns out Baby Damian is... an asshole. League influence or not.

Forget all cute expectations they had about him. Within the hour Damian has managed to pull some of Stephanie's hair out, has puked on Duke, has thrown more things at Tim. And when Dick tried to pinch his cheeks Damian bit him again.

He is the most temperamental baby they have ever met, he scowls and glares, and yells when they try to pick him up...

The only two people he seems to tolerate are Bruce (when he's feeding him). And, weirdly enough, Jason.

It comes as a surprise to everyone. Most of all Jason.

He wouldn't say he's bad with kids, but no kid has ever taken to him like Damian does. Somehow, the tiny ball of anger loves him.

Damian clings to him and cries when he leaves the room. And lights up when he sees him in a way that he only does when they put Talia's picture up on the screen.

Jason even gets Damian to giggle! An adorable little thing that has Bruce looking away with suspiciously shiny eyes.

Dick is devastated, Tim is concussed and too embarrassed to admit it. Bruce is taking pictures regardless. And Jason is... not saying a word, because for whatever reason Damian loves him but still gets a bit freaked out when Jason speaks.

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they're out to dinner :)

comic adaptation of a scene from this superbat fic im writing!!!!!! but actually only kinda...

(its adapted from an early draft which i have since entirely rewritten. so when i post the fic ill probably link it here but this dialogue isnt in there. i just really wanted 2 draw them its been a minute :)

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I know how to draw two things no. 1 is gay men in zero gravity situations and the other is the sky

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since a lot of people place Jason’s time with the outlaws as a side-quest he does between leaving the league and going to Gotham, can we combine that with Jason being asked by Talia to take Damian with him to Gotham to meet Bruce? because that’s fucking hysterical. Damian as this little kid the outlaws just kinda. have with them at all times. like the baby groot to their guardians of the galaxy.

Talia asks Jason to take Damian to Gotham to meet his father and become the next Robin, something that Jason wasn’t exactly thrilled about—but she ASSUMES she’s threatened him enough that he’ll still listen. and then after a month of no signs in Gotham of Red Hood or a new Robin, she calls him. and the little fucker doesn’t pick up. of course.

she calls Damian instead. he picks up the video call sitting in a seat on what looks like a weird high-tech spaceship, with rock music playing and the background showing Jason Todd and some random redhead guy doing shots off a table.

“Damian. You are supposed to be in Gotham right now.” She demands. “Where are you?”

“Not sure,” Damian shrugs childishly. “Princess Koriand'r was flying somewhere over China, I think?”

“…Who?”

“She’s nice.” Her youngest continues. “She blew up a submarine yesterday with nothing but her bare hands.”

“Yo kiddo!” She hears faintly, coming from the slightly tipsy redhead. “You still wanna see how I built that bomb?”

Damian perks up, turning in his seat to nod furiously. “Mother I must go,” He declares, once he turns back to her.

“Put your brother on the phone!” She hisses quickly. Damian shrugs again but hops off the seat, camera angle swinging wildly as he moves over to Jason’s side. Jason looks down at him, solo cup in hand, and he narrows his eyes when the phone is thrust in his direction.

“Mother wants to talk to you.”

“Aw fuck, you picked up?!” Jason whines, taking the phone before Damian scampers off in Roy’s direction. He looks down at Talia’s unimpressed face, and blinks at her. “You literally cant be mad at anything my friends teach him; you know you’ve taught him worse.”

“HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN GOTHAM.”

“I AM SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD, I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENDS.” Jason yells back into the phone.

“Not when you’ve been asked to drop your younger brother off at your father’s!” Talia snips. “I gave you one job, Jason! ONE!”

“And i’ll get him there after,” Jason emphasises. “You never said I couldn’t make stops on the way.”

“Jason-“

“That man who wanted to hire us as mercenaries is here,” Kori interrupts, sticking her head around the corner of the entrance. “He says he’ll only negotiate prices with Red Hood.”

“Sorry Tals,” Jason looks back down at his adoptive mother, who very much seems like she wants to put him back in the pit. “Duty calls, see ya. I’ll tell Dames you said you love him.”

He hangs up before she can start yelling again. At the other end of the ship he can hear Roy faintly explaining to Damian how to build a nuke into a pencil. By the time they actually get to Gotham, Damian’s big brother and his friends have made him about a thousand times more dangerous than the league ever could have. Jason thinks it’s funny as fuck.

(like six months into his stay at Gotham, Dick finds Damian building something in the batcave.

“What are you working on, Dami?” He asks fondly, pausing slightly in confusion when he sees what’s on the workbench.

“Exploding arrows. Ahki’s friend taught me how to make them during a heist we all pulled off last spring.”

Dick bluescreens, seeing his old best friend, Roy Harper’s, special insignia crudely etched into the side of Damian’s project. “Your- wait ‘ahki’-? Who- what- BRUCE!”)

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I know I’ve talked about this before but Bruce hiding stuff in the Batkids’ armor that he only triggers when it’s absolutely needed: you’re Robin going first into a room full of toxic gas and freezing up just long enough for Batman to step in front of you and hit the center of your chest hard where the sensor is and boom, that mask you were wearing? Yeah that’s a self contained breathing apparatus now. You get two moments to clear your head and let Batman shove the final piece in your mouth and then you’re moving. Batman already has his mask on — when did that happen? — and when you get back to the Cave later you’re going to figure out how he hid it there without you noticing. And without it being triggered by something else.

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Returning to my roots

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Bruce never has to call or spy on his kids if they're randomly in town. They will literally jump headfirst into one of his cases, save him from nothing, announce their presence, and then pretend like they don't even care.

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When Dick tries to encourage Damian to have a little more fun with this, Damian says he is not a child like Dick. Which gives Dick an idea and he tells Damian that they should pretend they have been body swapped and see how long they can keep everyone fooled. So Damian is running around pretending to be Dick and actually doing all the fun stuff that he has always secretly wanted to do but didn't feel like he could while Dick is getting have time to relax by himself because everyone thinks he is really Damian.