#Cass is scary

[batfam-nalu-onepiece]

Bruce: *looking serious and deadly* Jason, stop killing people, before I make you

Jason: ooo so scared! Big ol Batman is coming for me! A criminals Greatest fear! Yeah right. Fuck you. I do what I want *double middle fingers and backs out of the room*

Later

Cass: *with a sweet smile* Jason, please stop killing people before I have to make you stop. Pretty please 🥰

Jason: *scared shitless* um, um ok Cass. Whatever you say

Jason after she leaves: holy shit I almost died..again

[audhd-nightwing]

dick grayson has scary dog privilege but it’s just his younger siblings

dick: hi :D !!

cass, jason, tim & damian: *behind him, glaring*

[oifaaa]

DC AU but Tim just hacks the batcomputer to get intel on who the batfam is to get accurate in his Self-Insert fics.

Tim never became robin au in which Tim instead becomes the bats number one civilian enemy since he keeps writing the worst ooc fanfic about them all but gets a scary amount of small details right

[jokingmaiden]

okay i could easily ramble about @somerandomdudelmao’s art and how amazing it is for hours, but i’m bad at expressing affection so i’m settling for a meme

anyways i saw these tags

and all i could think of was this

[caitlynmeow]

As much as Donna loves her she can be stern when needed and it always works on this wild child.

[theo-notts-doll]

does it make sense that i love batman far more as a conceptual thing than i do like actual media??? like absolutely are the bats in the BatCave™️ called the BatBats™️, there for the aesthetic and bruce is terrified of them but robert pattinson can fuck all the way off

[mamawasatesttube]

everyone who prompted "can you hear me?" from that list last night. well there's good news and bad news. the good news is i had a banger idea for what to do with it! the bad news is that it's definitely not gonna fit in a ficlet AND im out of town for the next couple days and probably won't have time to write so i Really hope i retain the "oh shit this is a banger idea" juice 😩😩😩

[erebosblue]

honestly just putting this here so that I remember but I really wanna write a fic from some villain's POV as they're working with Nightwing for whatever reason. (maybe they have an in with a network of criminals Dick is trying to take down.)

point is: this villain is working with Nightwing and therefore seeing him through the lens of someone that Dick would want afraid of him rather than someone that Dick loves or at least wants to be perceived as friendly with.

so obviously Nightwing is going to be fucking scary to this villain even though they're gonna be at least a somewhat established villain. and, since the entire thing is from their POV, the reader is gonna see Nightwing as scary too.

not only is Nightwing just very capable and that's scary, but he's actively manipulating this villain and lying.

like example:

"You won't kill me. Bats don't kill."

"Are you really in a position to make that assumption?"

"You've never killed before!"

"You seem pretty sure of that."

the villain has no idea how much Dick is stretching the truth or straight up lying. the reader can only assume based on canon and their knowledge of the character.

like in that example, obviously Dick is not gonna kill this random villain, but at the same time he's not entirely lying either. they really aren't in the position to assume Dick will stick to a moral code, (especially if this is a villain that knows about Red Hood,) and Dick has killed before. but that knowledge is only the reader's.

again, Dick is still actively manipulating the villain here, but what are they gonna do about it? they can't know for sure and even if they did assume, are they really gonna be able to beat Nightwing?

Nightwing who from their perspective seems to be calm as can be. walking with pure confidence as if there isn't a villain right behind him.

a kind of confidence that can only come from a man with the skills to back it up.

[abeinginsand]

Late night sketches wanted to draw some small happy scenes

[gothamundernightlight]

Incorrect Batfam Quotes

*Jason has just finished explaining an insane plan for a takedown

Dick: That is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard!

Jason: I have done dumber things than this for flimsier reasons!

Jason: So you should come with me, because if it goes right, I need a witness.

Dick: …and if it goes wrong?

Jason: If it goes wrong, I need an escape plan.

[tadpolesonalgae]

I know the dark Cassian fic is coming out first, but the grip the dark Rhys one has on me is insane

[terrywho-cartoons]

🦉 The Court of Owls is the best modern Batman villain and I will die on this hill.

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Just think about how much potential it has! The Owls are the Gotham elite, you know who else is the Gotham elite??? BRUCE.

Imagine a Court of Owls storyline where Bruce (not Batman) needs to step in to take them down. He needs to consider his own ties to the Owls, he might have sone friends that are part of it, he might have people he trusts be part of it. Bruce never fights as himself, he hides behind the cowl, but this time he would have a type of access that Batman could never get.

Just think of the stories we could get!!!

Imagine all of the ways the other Bats could fit in it!

Cass and Damian (and Jason) would look at the talons and be brought back to their time as assassins.

Tim could find himself in a similar position as Bruce, being a drake he risks finding people he knows within the owls. I MEAN, HE COULD FIND OUT HIS PARENTS WERE HOWLS!!

Jason and Steph, who grew up in Crime Alley, the type of kids that the Owls see as canon fodder would bring that anger with them in the fight. (It would also be interesting if the Owls took crime alley kids to train as Talons, making Jay and Steph think about how their lives might have been different if the hadn’t managed to get out of there).

Jason. Just, Jason dealing with everything the Owls represent…

[hedge-rambles]

Ianthe's fight with Silas

Ok so I was rereading this post from @thewinterstale because it's very good and I was reminded of something that's always bothered me about the fight scene between Ianthe and Silas in GtN: How on earth does Ianthe just whip out teleportation?

This is never explained nor even referenced again and it doesn't appear to be like...a thing necromancers can do.

Except, it is, and the method actually fits quite neatly with the one way we know it's done. Lyctors can move from point A to point C without going through point B, because they can travel via the River. It's a whole thing to do, with wards to keep away the ghosts (ravenous lava fish etc.) but it is a thing none the less.

The River is described as an oily, disgusting, bloody soup, not too dissimilar to the "rain" that comes with Ianthe and Silas falling out of the ceiling. Staying in it any length of time is extremely dangerous, but how dangerous would it be to travel a couple of metres? We never see it done by other lyctors but presumably because it's a lot more effort than just walking across a room, but this was not exactly a normal situation.

Did Ianthe, self professed limnal magician, manage that feat in her fight by detouring via the river? Was she even aware of what she did? And was that what caused Colum to go full possessed? I just reread the fight scene and Colum does totally grey and still as Silas siphons him, as normal, until Silas sticks his hands into Ianthe's horrible fat puddle.

Silas knelt by the puddle, and - silver chain starting to warp and buckle on his perfect white tunic - thrust his hand into it. Colum made a noise as though he had been punched in the gut.

It's only after she pulls Silas through the wherever that Colum starts moving again, while still being heavily siphoned, which...y'know we never saw that afore actually? And it's extremely shortly after that that he becomes obviously possessed. What happens when you open a door to the River, in a place as metaphysically shaky as Canaan House, in the presence of a person being siphoned, Eighth style, and pull their necromancer through the limnal spaces? I wonder...

[highlifeboat]

Nightmare Blunt Rotation (Dark Haired Women That Will Kill You Edition)

[caitlynmeow]

Daniela is 100% a morning person. She’d be up at the crack of dawn, full of energy and so full of life.

Bela is almost a morning person. She normally gets up early, not as early as Daniela but it’s early enough. She enjoys mornings and feels more productive the earlier she starts.

Cassandra, like her mother, doesn’t like to wake up early at all. Unlike Alcina, though, she is a night owl which makes sense why she likes to sleep in and have a late start.

[amaraudermind]

I just know Duke loves celebrating the Ides of March