#90s batkids

[clarisse-doodles]

batkids

[incorrectbatfam]

Dick: Damian isn’t great about expressing his emotions.

Damian: If I say how I feel, people will say how they feel, and I don’t care.

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[punkeropercyjackson]

Spider Variant!Tim,Stephanie and Cass

[theresamouseinmyhouse]

refuse to believe stephanie brown is a cheerleader in any way shape or form. Ur telling me she wouldn't be that one aggressive lacrosse girl? Lies.

[thecreatornooj]

I was looking to get Tim Drake: Robin #1, and sought reviews for it. The reviews I've seen call it a disgrace and lament that he's not straight, call DC perverts, make fun of the art style, and just general shitty negativity. After going to my local comic shop and actually leafing through the issue.... this is a normal comic. The comic is average, kinda similar to Damian's year of blood first issue. Their necks are a bit long but it's only atrocious once.

It's like that short Lil Nas X put out just before Industry Baby released, where he's on trial for the blood shoes thing but all the jury cares about is that he's gay. Like... it's really the homophobia isn't it. This is Tim's first solo series in years and the vultures that fall back and wail "ooh my stoic hetero straight man tim has been ruined. He was so smart and deep and now he's a gay twink" are blatantly shitting on a series that's trying to lean into the detective part of Tim, while also adding depth into the Tim/Bernard dynamic.

And I'm hard pressed to find positive tim content anywhere beyond tumblr these days.

I fucking hate people.

[primeministerofantarctica]

Asking u right back - top 5 dc charas !

1. would it be cliché to say superman. i love superman. i love a clark kent who just CARES about people not because he has powers but because he's a genuinely kind person. one of my all-time favorites of any character.

2. damiannn my scrunkly murder baby *dodges sword* i care about you SO MUCH i just want you to keep growing and learning and becoming more confident in yourself as a person and not just a fighter

3. cass! cass is so cool y'all. hands down the best fighter, does ballet, has communication issues (ik that's not a positive for most people but it's #relatable even if asd and aphasia aren't the same thing)

4. in this house we love and support jason todd and his myriad of complexities

5. tim drake is so funny. "i'm a good guy but my moral compass is a fucking roulette wheel." he's just like that.

[bruciemilf]

A Jason and Terry rivalry would make my day. Jason truly deserves an older sibling who’ll do his damnest to embarrass the fuck out of him. (Yeah I know that’s all the Batkids, but Terry’s Terry)

Imagine having an older sister who’s just the embodiment of coolness, (Dick is an older sister with Ken energy) and you’re constantly treated like an insectuous baby brother.

Bruce rubbing his temples, listening to them argue (Jason argues; Terry’s cackling) “SO, you’d honest to god fight Bane bare knuckle. “

“Yep. I could do it. Killer Croc, too.”

“HE’S A FUCKING CROCODILE, TERRANCE!”

“Hey, you should’ve Ivy. Killer Croc? Piece of cake. An environmentalist lady who values my life less than a leaf? Yeah, no. Still, sucks that Bane kicked your ass. Couldn’t imagine.”

“BRUCE! GET YOUR FUCKING 90’s BULLY, AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!”

Bruce sighing, “Sweetheart. This is my house.”

“So?! You’re leaving it to me in the will, aren’t you?! We can hurry that up!”

Terry snorting, “Not like you haven’t tried.”

[dyslexicandakeyboard]

Each of the batkids play their own version of "car chase" music in the Batmobile.

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Damian *turns the radio onto the classical music station*

Bruce *side-eyes him*

Damian: Mother always told me to relax. This relaxes me.

Bruce: Hn

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Tim: Yes! A high speed chase. Whoo!

Tim: *Turns on 90's techo hacker music*

Bruce:

Tim: *Bumping to the music*

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Jason: Let's get our adrenaline pumping!

Jason: *Turns on death metal*

Bruce: *Grinds his teeth as he feels the begins of a headache emerge*

Jason: *Headbanging*

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Cass: *Sits in silence*

Bruce: Would you like to play some music

Cass: No

Bruce: Ok

Bruce: *Turns on Clueless soundtrack*

Cass: *Beaming*

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Stephanie: You have a radio? Sweet!

Stephanie: *Turns on Nelly Furtado*

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Duke: Why do you have a radio?

Bruce: Dick made me install it.

Duke: Can I...Uh...You know?

Bruce: *Shrugs*

Duke: *Plays Avenger's Endgame Soundtrack*

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Dick: Guess What B! I have a new song.

Dick: *Pops in CD and plays the 60's Batman theme*

Dick: You like it?

Bruce: It's nice

Dick: Knew you'd like it.

[fryingpan1234567]

canonically Jason and Tim have motorcycles, right? and B and Duke too but the other two are more well known I think

ANYWAYS what if everyone in the batfam had one tho? because. the potential.

Dick takes his off of roofs sometimes, but it’s built for it. before all his modifications, it was just a blue and black chrome Yamaha sports bike, nothing special. he added a Nightwing sticker on each side, a bunch of weapons (mostly electricity based), grappling hooks, Nightwing things. there’s even a sidecar for Haley.

Babs (before the wheelchair days) had a purple and yellow one that matched her suit perfectly. it sort of meant she couldn’t use it during the day, but occasionally she rode it to work with extensive concealing of the random dangerous gadgets. hers was also a Yamaha (same model ^^)

Jason canonically has a black shapeshifting one like some maccadams shit but it’s fine— it’s loud as shit, so he doesn’t really use it for patrol, but he loves it during the day. because it’s just black, it’s pretty easy to take it out for completely non-suspicious speeding law breaking joyrides. no harm done!

Cass has a jet black Ninja, and her reputation on the streets is about the same as the nightfury’s at the beginning of the first httyd. dark, deadly, and it’s even quiet in Gotham’s busy streets. watch your back for her.

Tim’s got the BATCYCLE it’s CANON. it’s also canon that it’s got a liquid-cooling engine and a Robin-themed paint job, but fuck that, I say it’s dark red and electric and he rides it to work. so sometimes (most of the time) he pulls up with ruffled clothes and helmet hair, which Conner nearly fainted at the first time he saw it, but we don’t talk about that. he doesn’t use it for patrol because Kon said he’d carry him everywhere if Tim gave him rides in exchange. on the bike. he has said on more than one occasion “wear the helmet, ride a biker” and Tim punches him really hard

Steph’s bike is purple, and the wheels do the hover-shift-glowy thing like in Mario Kart (also purple). she’s not scared of you or anyone; she will ride that shit to school and use it on patrol with the hovering and distracting color and everything. fight me.

in canon, Duke’s bike is electric with a bunch of lights and black and yellow and lowkey built like a tank. I kinda like it! I think it’s a fabulous bike for a fabulous man so therefore he gets to keep it I won’t be taking criticism

Damian gets a green and red and black electric Ninja, plus a helmet that he painted with feathers and paw prints n shit. Jon likes the spare, which is just black but has a red mohawk. what more could you want? he could fly everywhere, but he also could just have his badass motorcycle bf drive him everywhere while he wears his dope ass helmet and vibes to whatever 2000s pop shit Damian lets him play. he’s a professional backpack.

did you think I’d stop at the Batkids? sorry imma keep going

I like the idea of Brucie having a black sports bike that’s 90% modifications like in the movie. no one remembers what it was before he took it all apart and added Bat-stuff, but it looks great now! it’s blown up more times than you can count, just because it’s a really good target for rogues.

Kate has one that’s almost exactly the same, except hers is maybe a little closer to what it was originally. she doesn’t quite have all the same stuff Bruce does, but they’re the same vibe!

anyways that’s the vigilante weirdos club, so like it’s expected that they’d all have a dangerous vehicle. slightly less expected— Alfred freaking Pennyworth has a Harley with tall handles and sparkly black paint, but nobody knew that for such a long time because he barely leaves the manor. all the kids lost their minds when they found out. what can I say

anyways some Bat-bike shenanigans that have ensued:

street races between all the Batkids at least once a week, whether that be on patrol or in civvy clothes

Jason obnoxiously revving really loud whenever he sees one of them in the street, on a date, when he’s picking them up from something, just as often as possible. obnoxious revving. old people hate him

cool lesbian aunt Kate picking up kids from school with her badass bike and epic helmet

sometimes Dick will be talking about “his child” or “his baby” and no one’s sure if he’s talking about his dog or his bike

bike-related thirst traps on social media

“race you to the next light”

not a single one of them has left a Gotham speeding law intact even once (not even Alfred, although he won’t admit it)

Wally likes to get Dick to race him on his bike even though he knows he’s going to win

both Jon and Conner have said something along the lines of “I bet I could pick up the bike with you on it” as a show-off attempt, but Damian and Tim love their paint jobs too much to permit them to try

Batfam on bikes❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[punkeropercyjackson]

Please tell me how Duke,Cass and Stephanie getting nonstop left out of Batfam content isn't because of antiblackness,racialized misogyny and a mix of gender essentialism,classism and ableism.When none of you can shut the fuck up about how 'black haired and blue eyed male is the only requirement for a Batkid!' and go as far as to include 'pale/fair skinned' sometimes when Damian and Dick are brownskin in multiple versions because of being brown in heritage and Damian and Jason have green eyes half the time and by saying 'lighteyed' when it comes to Batboys,that would be problematic but it'd at least include Duke since he's gold eyed due to Gnonom and you probably don't even know who that is since you actively refuse to meet Duke even though he's easiest Batkid to read for BECAUSE he's got so little content and Cass and Stephanie also have a small amount of material compared to the other boys

When Cass is chosen over Duke for Jason by all of you even though she hates him and she chooses Stephanie again and again against everyone's wishes and Duke canonically WANTS to be chosen for fucking once and Jason DID choose him and is the only other Batboy who called him a Robin directly outside of Robin War and Stephanie's dying wish was be 'a real Robin' and Cass' character creation purpose is to defy the idea that asian women exist only for white men and go against other asian girl stereotypes,INCLUDING being purely soft and feminine by making her a rough and tough butch who hates cis men.When you say 'Fuck canon,fanon is better!' to justify your millions of rewrites to erase Tim's Robin being a romani man and his Batgirl a half chinese girl and Jason's Robin and Batgirl being a black autistic boy and his Batgirl a bpdtistic male explotation victim and your crossovers of characters who have the perfect parents or at least caretakers in canon but suddenly,canon is your gospel when it comes to the bigotry in it's writing i.e how 'The core Batkids' came to be

And the fact is,that's like the only Batkids combo that DOSEN'T make sense!The Dead Robins Club is a no brainer but there's also the 90s Batkids trinity,the Shakespearen Robins(Jason,Stephanie and Duke),The Troubled Batkids(Tim,Stephanie,Cass and Duke),Batman!Cass Batwoman!Stephanie Robin!Maps and Trans Batgirl!Damian and the ONLY CANON Nightwing Robin and Batgirl trio we've ever gotten in Dick Tim and Cass??????You have some of the best dynamics of all time possible but nah,you'd rather pass it over for infantalizing a grown ass disabled moc into your pathetic lil pretty obsessed manchild,turning thee dead sidekick into a convuluted mess more than canon ever has and that's saying BIG words,cringeifying someone who just has the personality of an ordinary of 17 year old boy and is therefore inherently lovable into the arranged marriage lovechild of a dark romance guy and a pick me quotev girl and dehumanize a cute and sweet lil brown boy who's got that trauma already to turn him into an animal in human mold in the same breath you bash him healing enough to get a gf through trauma bonding and being kiddy together in favor of your groody ass lil age gap fantasy-Actually,that applies to ALL OF THEM

Kory,Rose and STEPHANIE are infinitely better written love interests for Dick,Jason and Tim than any older man you want them to get with,Tim most of all because he's not even a man,he's a boy.Cass and Stephanie are adults and have been for a long time in multiple incarnations so why not make Stephcass smut instead?Why not 'Duke joins the Batfam early/Jason takes Duke into The Outlaws after he has a fight with Bruce that scared him/Sleep Deprived Duke Thomas/Chaotic Duke Thomas/Duke Thomas deserves better/Trans Duke Thomas/Autistic Duke Thomas?,all of which are infinitely more implicable to Duke than they are to Tim and so is 'Token Normal Tim Drake'?When you make this content or you support it,you're saying something.You're saying you don't care about representation and perfer stereotyping and abusive dynamics because you believe they're inherently more interesting

Before you judge this post,consider the following:Which one of us has read enough comics and watched enough adaptions to know all this?Which one of us has more of a right to call themself a Batfam and Batkids fan?Which one of us is constantly gatekeeping Duke,Cass and Stephanie from their own story and pulling the 'No,YOU!!!!' card?It's absolutely pathetic how desperate the grip Batfanon has taken is and even more so that y'all refuse to move on from it like i did.It's not gonna kill you,you pissbabies.And just curious,how long was the last Batfam-centric post you rb'd?Longer than this,right?

[aingeal98]

The 90s Tim, Dick & Cass (plus Babs) batkid squad really was iconic like no other era has quite captured the delight I felt whenever they showed up as a team. It wasn’t going to be one panel of “happy family together” fanservice no there was going to be DRAMA. Punches were going to be thrown, someone was going to try really hard not to cry, everyone repressed a bunch of emotions which lead them to terrible communication. Even worse if you were a villain because then they would put aside all their baggage and emerge from the shadows in the most dramatic fashion possible to let you know they were going to beat the fuck out of you. Classic.

[mistergreatbones]

The batkids like to make fun of Bruce for the way he speaks but done of them make any sense either. Dick will randomly drop a “holy [X]!” Or a “golly gee!” Or use slang he picked up from Clark or the Titans or use a word from a language from the circus because “the English translation just doesn’t /fit/ right. Cass learned to speak from a combination of trashy TV and Shakespeare and her language reflects that. Tim uses 90s skater lingo and also… y’know in movies and tv when a character randomly uses phrase/word a only a specialist would use or compares the situation to some random fact to show they’re a Nerd? Yeah that’s Tim. Jason does the same but with books and 80s action movies. Steph is just always uses the slang of whatever era she’s in and will say yeet whatever major loser and so true bestie in the same sentence. Damian is Damian and Duke’s the only one who talks like a normal human except for sometimes he’ll stop mid-sentence, stare off into the middle distance, and mumble something unintelligible, then go, sorry, powers, ya know how it goes

[puppetmaster13u]

Hey so, I am searching for a fic, 90% sure it's on Ao3 that I am struggling to find again. Been looking for it the last few days.

Includes children batkids and Bruce trying to balance the whole being a parent with being part of the Justice League.

Points I remember in no particular order:

Bruce ends up being the one to rescue Kon

Tim traumatizes a lantern after getting separated from the others in metropolis or somewhere and straight up telling the lantern that his dad is batman

I believe they are in the different city for a track meet or something similar since Dick is running

There's a bit of Outsider Pov when Bruce takes the kids to the pool so Damian can take swim lessons, I think the Pov is one of the people working there

Steph or Cass insists they get TWO whole dolls because they're twins

the league has no idea that batman is Bruce or that he has a bunch of kids

When I say kids I mean kids, I think Dick was only like 13

If anyone can help me find this, it would be amazing. My phone restarted and I lost it mid-read.

[vinelark]

do you have any good reverse robins fic to rec?

oh hell yeah!

Reverse Robins: Joker Junior series by miyaji_08 i rec’d the second fic in this series over here for the timkon of it all, but the series—two parts, both complete—is also one of my absolute favorite reverse robins stories. it goes the joker junior!tim route, so heads up for A Lot of tim-centric trauma, but gives tim (and everyone else) so much healing, too. it also gets creative with the robin of it all, as in, the call sign for batman’s partner is different from the jump because dick wasn’t around to originate “robin” for it, which i always think is a fun extra detail. the batfam characters are great and the young justice crew is also great, so read for top-tier hurt and comfort and great characters and satisfying plot and tim and damian competing to see who is the most Tired big brother of the bunch.

blood of the covenant by envysparkler robins are angsty in any order, but man does this hit the angst sweet spot, which in turn makes the soft parts feel even softer. i genuinely can’t decide what my favorite dynamic is in this AU, between damian & tim (damian wracked with guilt, tim hurting and still wanting an older brother even if he’d never admit it) and tim & jason (no spoilers but chapter 4 especially lights my brain up like a supernova) and tim & dick (i think about the part where dick grayson [tiny, cheerful] uses tim [undead, annoyed] as a jungle gym like once a week).

Wing Beats in Reverse by firefright a longfic where jason gets kidnapped by the mysterious red hood, who turns out to be jason’s not-so-dead predecessor. the jason pov here is great, and i was so compelled by how this AU explored his place in the bat family, and how it managed the emotional fallout from the kidnapping. tim is also so interesting in this—it does something i love in a reverse robins concept, which is make tim’s motivations (and lazarus pit effects) less about anger/hurt/revenge and more about ice cold logic, about being the villain so the bats don’t have to/whether they want him to or not. plus some league of assassins trauma as a cherry on top. also, kon gets to show up for a bit. (as a fair warning—and spoilers ahead—the fic has a somewhat hopeful ending for tim, but doesn’t reach full reconciliation in the scope of the plot.)

i woke up so worried that the angels let go by circees a short but potent batkids age reversal au that’s also a grisha au, starring duke as the coveted sun summoner that damian is trying to deliver to safety without mentally adopting a new brother (damian fails on the second part). even with my limited memory of grisha lore i could tell a lot of thought was put into this au, and i have a feeling it would be even better if you are able to catch all the details. i also love that even in a fantasy world where some of the bat family have magical abilities, duke is still extra special—a great analogy to being a metahuman among the bats.

The 90s Are Back! by RedWritingHood saving the two silly ones for last to lighten the mood! in this one, red hood!tim gets de-aged to sixteen and meets all his new siblings. it’s like .01% angst and 99.99% shenanigans, and pretty much all the dialogue is super quotable but Dick holds out his hands like he's calming a bunch of wild animals. "Okay, I know everyone's real upsetti spaghetti right now, but I think we all just need to calm down." might take the cake.

Clowns Don’t Kill People by mademoisellePlume very short, very silly reverse robins brother shenanigans, in which tiny dick grayson isn’t scared of recovering joker junior!tim because dick, having been raised in the circus, doesn’t associate clowns with evil yet. the fic is fun (and a great palate cleanser if you need a break from the angst above), and the author’s note at the end made me fully laugh out loud.