#Talia al Ghul

[frankencanon]

AU where the real reason Ra's al Ghul has lived so long is because he's a vampire and they were just lying about the Lazarus Pits this whole time

Ra's is a vampire, Talia's a vampire, Damian's a vampire — Talia never actually dunked Jason in the Pit, she bit him.

They're all lying liars who lie and the League of Assassins is full of their thralls

Why lie? Because everyone knows about vampires and their weakenesses and this way no one will ever think to to use silver or garlic or wooden stakes against any of the al Ghuls

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Also, please consider: Jason and Damian trying to hide the fact that they're vampires from the Bats (and being really bad at it)

Or, worse: Damian not bothering to hide it because he thinks "Batman" is a vampire, too (and accidentally causing a hilarious amount of misunderstandings in the process)

(Angstier alternative is the Bats unknowingly starving Damian who thinks they know when they most certainly don't, only for fellow vamp Jason to eventually come to the rescue)

[arellas]

what is very annoying about the vast majority of batfam fans is the very surface level approach they take towards calling out racism in dc canon and fandom. yes, you want damian to be brown in the comics but do you care about how his mother’s character was butchered due to post 9/11 anti-arab racism? yes, you want cass and duke to be featured more prominently in comics but would you be okay with them displacing your own faves in order to do so? do you even read the comics they ARE featured in, or are you content with just reblogging their one panel cameos from your fave’s solos, extolling how much you “love” them (so long as they are second fiddle, that is)? you want jason or dick (whichever you prefer) to co-parent lian, all the while sidelining jade - you are content relegating jade and talia and shado and shiva to a joking “assassin moms” punchline when you talk about their kids while not realising the implications of their race and how it plays into their portrayal by dc.

you can’t just reblog a vague post about colouring damian correctly and wanting representation and then uncritically reblog another post about how evil his mother is - you’re playing into the exact same racism you claim to denounce, while feeling like you’re being so very progressive while doing it. it’s not like i’m expressing a particularly novel sentiment either, and i’m aware i probably sound like a broken record right now but it’s just so irritating

[who-always-pays-their-taxes]

okay but imagine Talia submerging Jason’s body in the pit and than he rises back out and he’s a FUCKING GINGER LMAOOO

[allovesthings]

Look at his smile. What a little shit (affectionate), it's on sight for both of them and he is always going to be petty about it. and it's great. 10 out of 10.

RIP to the timeline where they co-parented Damian together while Bruce was gone, you will be missed, you hilarious what if..... 🎶 We could have it all....🎶

Anyway the Tomasi run (Nightwing 1996: issues 148-153) is great.

[momachan]

"Haha. You were late to save me once and it cost me my life. I save myself now."

Truth & Justice (2021). "Haunted By The Past."

[violent138]

I like the idea that Talia took in and later revived Jason Todd because she knew him and his potential and that's why she was invested in training him.

[tsuyakiku]

[ghost-bxrd]

Bruce "Talia, why did the league steal Jason's Pelt"

Talia "Damian wanted to give his brother a gift, and there is nothing that would make a comparable gift to Jason's pelt"

If you know Jason is Damian's brother, then this is sweet as Damian is returning highly sentimental and personal item.

If you don't know Jason is Damian brother, then this looks like Damian saw the pelt as some kind of hunting trophy, valuable only for its rarity.

Miscommunication at its finest.

I can see that happening 😭😭😭😭

And Talia, true to fashion, would not clear up that misunderstanding. 😂

[jasontoddsgaythoughts]

What’s your biggest “we could’ve had it all” moment when it comes to DC comics?

[chernobog13]

A smattering of DC super-villains circa 1976.

[72stars]

[cw teeny bit of blood]

Return of the RH: Prometheus digital sketchbook, feat. a doodle of Jason’s previous face design and playing around with brushes, a couple of pages with resident oc Kieran (one page costume design current version, one page relationship with Jason), Talia rough design feat. baby Damian, Cleo costume and prop design current version + doodle of her and her dads when they were alive, current version of Jason’s face with early Robin era and semi-catatonic era versions, current version of Bruce with him being very unkind about Jason post-death and -return as a terrible coping mechanism, and a couple of pages re: Gotham and rough layouts for Jason+Kieran+Cleo and Dick/Kory/David’s apartments, feat. a doodle of David, Dick, and Kory in bed together

[roseredsnow]

I propose we start doing with Damian what High Republic fans do with Elzar Mann whenever he gets whitewashed.

Wamian.

[vioranhyperfixation]

Talia : so is there's perhaps anything you want to do once you get out of here?

Jason : yep, got it.

Talia : And what might that be?

Jason : kill joker.

Talia :

Talia : is it bad to say your father is going to resurrect him after you kill him?

Jason : yeah I know, hate him for it.

Talia : and you're still going to kill him?

Damian : mother, why are you asking such obvious question? of course he's still going to mother, what's he's after is not profit or a result, what he wants is the satisfaction of doing it.

Damian : and unlike us he has nothing to lose. So why not?

Jason : see? Demon child get it

Damian : although it would be nice if you could get something good for yourself and others while you're at it.

Jason :

Jason : I would kick you in the face have you not been in the wheelchair

Damian : good to know I'm disable then.

[wesavegotham]

"Talia can never be redeemed and her romance with Bruce can never come back because *falls for Grant Morrison's/DC's extreme racism towards asian and arab characters in the 2000s/2010s"

Yeah, sorry, but shut the hell up. It never fails to astound me when DC actually tries to fix the mistakes they made with Talia/the al Ghuls in general these last two decades and the fans manage to be even worse than DC by clinging to the blatant racist/sexist writing of the past instead of embracing the turn for the better.

"But she did this and that!"

She's a fictional character in a fictional universe that is aware that it goes through continuity changes/retcons. What Grant Morrison did to her character was a a complete retcon of her 30 year history and characterization with zero respect for her. Why am I supposed to take Morrison's bullshit as gospel and reject any attempts to fix her from writers who know better?

[momachan]

"The name's Jason Todd, but most people know me as the Red Hood. Y'know the story, a badass kid from Crime Alley tried to steal the wheels off the Batmobile and got caught by the Dark Knight himself. Instead of sending me to juvie, Batman made me the new Robin. Seeing as the old one had flown the coop, seemed like a good fit. But you know what they say about partnerships, sometimes they just don't work out. Other times, you're killed by a homicidal maniac clown."

Truth & Justice (2021). "Haunted By The Past."

[bitsofbats]

Batman and Robin #38, 2015 Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, and John Kalisz