#Duke is concerned

[wildrosesayshigh3]

Is it weird how I want Batman to take a life. And not accidentally either I want him to take a life on purpose it can either be fueled by raw emotion or because he had quite literally no other choice. I want him to take a life and deal with the aftermath.

B could lean on agent a, Gordon, and Selina in the aftermath since he won’t lean on his kids and students. Relearn what he already knew the world is not black or white and that also involves killing.

He could slow down on patrol in the aftermath giving more room for his children to flourish. Spend actual father son time with Damian merging back into his life as a parent. Throwing himself into Wayne Enterprise as a way to cope when he’s not with his kids .

Meanwhile everyone else who isn’t James Gordon, Alfred, or Selina is freaking out. They don’t know why he’s pulling away, why he’s slowing down, they don’t know anything and Bruce can’t won’t tell them. Babs doesn’t know what’s going on either. Maybe Kate has an inkling but that’s it.

Bruce is contemplating everything. Suddenly life has been flipped on its head and now he has to go to therapy because Alfred is putting his foot down. He isn’t budging because taking a life is different for everyone and he needs to talk to a professional.

I want Bruce/Batman to take a life and I want him to think about what this means because the person he was before and after are different. I want this to force him to look at his own actions and fucking apologize.

[batfamhyperfixation]

*Dick hangs up*

Bruce: Huh.

Duke: Uh oh. What's going on, B?

Bruce: Dick usually says "I love you" when we hang up. And then he sings it and then he whispers it. This time he just said, "gotta go, dad"

Cass: Well, maybe... He's gotta go?

Bruce: Yeah, maybe. It just feels like Dick hasn't been around as much lately. Last week, he only came to four out of seven breakfasts, and he missed bat-equitment maintenance day to, and I quote, "train with Wally." He didn't even come over to watch that other unrelated Wayne family on Family Feud.

Damian: Their performance was- survey says- disgraceful.

Bruce: I mean, I don't want to just throw around the D-word but...

Steph: *Gasp* Dracula disorder?

Bruce: Drifting. As in we're all drifting apart. This was my worry when Dick moved out to Blüdhaven, that we'd see him less and less. And then from there, who knows what would happen?

Jason: oh my god, is it me driving him away? I'm always pestering Dick with annoying questions like "How much do you think your arms weigh? Like if you took them off your body and weighed them separately?"

Tim: *gasp* it could be my fault. The other day, when Dick and I went to the movies, I got a small popcorn to share and he said, "I wish you'd gotten a medium."

Damian: well, I know it's not me. I'm amazing.

[majosullivan]

I wish I had the ability to grab Annabel by the shoulders through the screen and yell at her to just tell Lenore that Montresor was originally planning to kill her and she threw out Duke’s name in order to protect her. Like from a character perspective, I completely get why she would think that wouldn’t be important to mention considering how she views everyone else at Nevermore, but boy, even though it wouldn’t have fixed everything right there, that is very important information about the situation Lenore should know about

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+Bonus!

[jaxon-exe]

Wayne TV show

Ok so awhile ago someone (I’m sorry I don’t know who, if u know plz tell me so I can credit) came up with the idea of “what if the Waynes have a show like ‘keeping Up with the Kardashians’?”

Well I’ve been reading WFA and was thinking… what if they did have a show like that but the Wayne’s didn’t try to hide their weirdness. Like the weirdness that only comes from there nightlife.

I’m taking:

Damian keeps threatening to stab people and the crew think it’s a joke until he actually pulls out a dagger.

Dick decides the best way out of the manor is to do a flip out of a 3rd story window

Jason jokes about death (both his own and causing other people’s) a little to much

Tim full on passes out at the dinner table and Bruce just picks him up like he’s a toddler that weights next to nothing and takes him to bed

Cass has a habit of jump scaring the camera guy by just popping into existence next to them

They have a game of paintball that gets way to intense and ends up with Stephanie giving a speech that wouldn’t be amiss in a war movie

After ep 1 a lot of people talk sh/t about them online and in the next ep Barbara just random says names every now and then. It isn’t until after people work out she was saying the names of the worst people that sh/t talked them

For a long time all the viewers and crew thought Duke was the normal one until ‘the incident’

Jason and Tim are fighting and it’s getting pretty rough and bruce just spawns outta f/cking nowhere and just picks up the human tank that is Jason Todd like it’s nothing and just walks off

It becomes a running joke that whenever things go wide the camera just zooms in on Alfred, who just standing in the background calm as can be, as you can just hear the chaos continuing

Like everyone knew the Waynes were crazy but like…….. no one expected this

[formerheroeswhoquittoolate]

headcanon that jason reads to cass. well, it started as him reading to cass -- she got to work on her literacy, and he got to share his favorite books with someone -- but it kind of isn't just cass anymore.

tim was the first to join them. he'd sit at the end of the couch and listen. jason's got a good voice for reading, very calm and measured, and having that sort of steady, relaxed sound in the background made tim feel comfortable enough to fall asleep to the sound of his brother reading.

damian, oddly enough, was next. he walked into the library one day, fully prepared to dye tim's hair purple or something while he was asleep, but he came across jason reading aloud and short-circuted a bit. he didn't get read to growing up in the league of assassins, so the concept was pretty foreign to him. but he kind of liked it. so he sat down in one of the chairs and listened.

dick's Sibling Bonding Radar just went off one afternoon and led him to the couch in the library. tim was already asleep and damian was settled into the armchair, entranced, so it was cass that made eye contact with him and put a finger to her lips, telling him not to interrupt. not that dick was going to -- he was already stretching out on the floor, careful to be absolutely silent so as not to disturb the peace.

steph, kate, duke, and barbara don't live at the manor, but every time they're in the house during this self-imposed quiet time, they'll find a spot on the couch or the floor to listen. in the kind of life they have (the one where you dress in kevlar and spandex and go out at night to punch people) (or during the day to punch people) (or you run an enormous computer to help the people in the kevlar and spandex... okay you get it) it's nice to have some quiet time with their family.

[phantoms-world-and-more]

Duke gets blinded

So there was an emergency JL meeting when a dimensional rift opened up in bum-fuck nowhere and dumped an ENTIRE TOWN

There were no attacks, no damage or pollution to the crops, but still...a TOWN

So all the batfam menbers, some young justice, and some JL went to investigate

Duke happened to fall asleep because NOT EVERYONE CAN BE A NIGHT OWL BRUCE

So he woke up half an hour after they landed

What they weren't experting was for duke to open his eyes, scream fall on the floor and start shouting about who landed on the sun

The JL, batfam and young justice are confused and more than a little concerned

That concern only intensified when ,he after he put on blinders to help him see, a kid walked up and duke once again dropped, screamed and cussed to the sky

Meanwhile the kid wasent bothered, he didn't even seen borhered that he was in another dimension!!!

He only apologised for the drop in and said that he'll make sure their gone by morning

[dceuheadcanons]

Every batboy (just The Robins in this post) has their own Concerning Old Man.. It's like a theme at this point. Some can be seen as "ships", some are familial, some are just straight up abusers. Sooo buckle up!

Dick has Slade. We all know this. Slade literally abused Dick while he was his apprentice in canon, so.. yeah. They get together in the future in this blog's personal version of DC. I have a whole playlist of songs for them.. they are so unhealthy and codependent and I LOVE IT. I love some good fucked up angsty abuser x victim.

Jason.. he has The Joker. The guy that killed him. I think that they're sort of similar to Dick and Slade, but they never date and Joker doesn't even like Jason. But Jason has this weird love-hate for the guy. He was trapped with him and forced to obey him for two years before he was killed in this blog's personal version of DC. He'd gladly kill The Joker, but the second The Joker decides to give him orders again.. he's probably done for. Anyway I also think Jason sees Slade as a father figure but that's a whole other thing.

Tim has Ra's Al Ghul. Complicated. A lot of nuance but quite fucked up. Really really hard to explain? Especially since none of the people running this blog are like.. Tim superfans like we are with some of the others lmao. But you guys get it.

Damian has Luthor. Honestly hard to explain to anyone that doesn't know the full extent of our DC universe? But it's like a father-son thing. Luthor reminds Damian of his grandfather, that's why he gravitated towards him. Damian probably has a bit of an unhealthy kid crush on the guy too, but never says anything about it. Damian uses the fact that WE and LexCorp are connected as an excuse to see him. (Bruce very openly doesn't like Luthor, but they can't separate the companies completely. So Damian offers to go to meetings in place of his father.)

Anyway yeah!! Hope you liked this little Concerning Older Men post. I love how traumatised the babies are. It's so fun!! Poor them, but.. It's entertaining.

[coconut530]

LET THE DIVORCE ENSUE

[two-sibyls-tall]

I wanna get stickers that just say "Dead Robins Club" and it's a compilation of panels of every time that a past robin or current robin has died

[introspectivememories]

i hope i am not just your average dc enjoyer to you but also your favorite timbern poster

[oifaaa]

Spoilers again for batman 138 but despite the absolute awful Bruce content we are currently getting I am enjoying the small moments between a couple of the batboys

[punkeropercyjackson]

My personal fancasts for Jason,Duke and Nell(Aubrey Joseph,Issac Ryan Brown and Sanai Victoria)

[krawlernyannyan]

I'm still mad about this so, just so we're completely clear on the timeline of what happened here:

Hoyo builds up hype for Duke Inferno by giving us his backstory through the Follow-Up Attack Relic set, just in the background of an unrelated patch.

Duke Inferno is officially revealed as an invitee to Penacony during the end of a livestream to build up more hype, and he's shown to have one of the most distinctive designs in the game up to this point.

Duke Inferno gets to be a bit player in a different patch's story (albeit in a plot where it's implied he isn't actually involved and Ratio is just using him as a cover to carry out his own goals).

As build-up for Penacony Hoyo releases a teaser trailer entirely about Duke Inferno and his supporting cast, and the fanbase collectively goes bonkers over the new characters having extremely fun designs and the trailer itself being pretty visually stunning.

Said trailer also implies a bunch of backstory about said cast that we could possibly get elaborated upon later.

The Penacony story finally releases.

A certain character tells us Duke Inferno died offscreen before he even got to Penacony.

In the same conversation we are told the Duke's supporting cast disbanded immediately upon his death to go their own separate ways.

The Duke never appeared in the game proper outside of one motion graphic in the patch before he's killed. Neither he nor his supporting cast ever got in-game models.

Like, listen. I'm gonna let them finish the Penacony story first, because otherwise it's pretty solid so far. We have 2-3 patches for that. Acheron is pretty engaging as a character at least?

But this sucks, and I really hope they go back on it in a later patch.

[breadandblankets]

duke and damian are old man friends But they are transmasc old man friends And they are Different about it

damian is more on the nonbinary end, not that he knows that yet, but has some weird hang ups about masculinity, duke is definitely a man but exceedingly comfortable in his own skin, playing with presentation and making it a show

[harryandmeghansussex]

Prince Harry is flying back to the UK to see his father, the King. The Duke of Sussex spoke to him about the diagnosis. He will be traveling to London in the coming days.

[smad-lesbian]

McNamara: Adulting is hard.

McNamara: How do I quit?

Duke: Time travel.

Veronica: Die.