#also bruce and damian are autistic GOOD NIGHT!

[mysterycitrus]

from what ive seen dick grayson having bpd is a pretty popular idea on twitter but i dont think ive ever seen anyone on tumblr mention it...was wondering if you might have any thoughts as the resident dick expert. sorry thank you

so sweet! imo the trifecta for dick graysons diagnosis is ocd + bpd + psychosis, though ur mileage may vary. i know some people read him as audhd but that’s not a personal preference for me. ive talked about it before a while ago but i think all of bruce’s kids show very clear compulsive behaviours and intrusive thoughts, and i think dick grayson in particular — as both a professional acrobat and considering the circumstances of his parents deaths — would have rigorous compulsive habits wrt safety and personal equipment. there’s also the idea that treating ocd in part comes from exposure therapy, and it’s kinda hard to argue against the logic of someone obsessively checking his grapple as a unpowered superhero lmao. like bruce inflicted these neurosis on people for a reason, which makes it very hard to unpick

wrt bpd i also think that fits well with how he’s been written traditionally — the compulsive thoughts, how he isolates himself, can struggle with sudden shifts in mood, has self-destructive habits, etc. i do also think he has a history of canonical psychosis in some capacity, which could be exacerbated by his history in the spotlight, or his intense observation by bruce. i imagine he was probably diagnosed into adulthood, where maybe someone like bridget clancy or the metropolis therapist picked up on some of his behaviours.

overall i think the idea that someone with bpd or ocd — or whatever other lens he can be analysed through — is beloved and trusted and capable is very important! the nature of bpd in specific is so isolating so like…. yeah i think it’s neat that someone with those symptoms can be reflected in a positive way. i try to incorporate my personal diagnosis in little ways regardless — there’s a part in persephone where roy’s emergency bag has a bottle of clozapine — and it’ll be shown more explicitly in some of the other stuff i eventually work on

[wakkoroni]

✨Damian Wayne Headcanons pt 3✨

Okay last part I promise-

Damian walks his dog every morning and every night. A stroll around Gotham, Bruce knows Damian has the training to defend himself. Thing is… Damian got comfortable with his routine so he isn’t as alert as he used to. He got kidnapped one time and the way they found out wasn’t with a ransom call. It was Titus that ran back home and barked at the door until someone opened. They eventually found him looking unamused and bored out of his mind. Needless to say the kidnappers didn’t walk out without a scratch. They may or may not have gotten a broken arm. Damian thinks this is overkill but whatever. Now someone walks with him when he walks Titus until Bruce gains enough trust in Gotham to take care of his son.

Damian is autistic. Idk how to accurately present this so if anyone wants to join feel free to

There are moments where he gets an art block and he gets so frustrated when that happens. Anything he draws will be torn up and just cry probably. He will walk up to someone who isn’t busy so they can give him ideas on what to draw. Usually it’s Jason cause he’ll give him book characters to draw based on the description and it’s fun to draw them while Jason reads. Sometimes it doesn’t work and Jason takes him somewhere so he can take a break and calm down.

Jason is such a good brother to him and they met in the league. I will die on this hill

Jason was one of Damian’s trainers in the league. He only took on this job so he could take care of Damian while he was little and he wouldn’t train him that hard. But it didn’t work because Ra’s found out and replaced him. Jason begged for his job back and had to be harsher in order to keep it. He’d make it look like it was rough but it wasn’t that bad as the other trainers. He still had to hurt Damian and the cries is a sound that still haunts him to this day. So that’s why if he can make Damian laugh or something that isn’t crying, he will gladly do it.

Damian probably got branded and when the others found out they got sooooo mad. Damian is just confused because he thought that everyone had one to show what family they belong to.

He also believes that he is expandable. He was raised to give his life for the mission and Bruce didn’t really… teach that out of him. So any dangerous mission comes up that could possibly end with suicide he will volunteer. The others can try and talk it out of him but like it doesn’t really work. He fully believes that it’s okay for him to die in order for the mission to be successful.

“What do you mean I’m not supposed to die? I’ve dead 6 times already, clearly the world doesn’t want me. I was raised to be a weapon, I serve no purpose other than to die”

Pt 1. Pt 2

[ylfva-remade]

ok batman disability + neurodivergency + pain headcanons because I SAID SO!!!! not including ptsd because that's a given.

-first of all babs is in her wheelchair and is not batgirl because i will kill you if you make her abled again. (canon)

-cass has a language processing disability! she can speak sometimes but she struggles with how language itself works. (canon)

-bruce is autistic and has difficulty caring for himself and recognizing his needs, as well as chronic pain later on (also has ocd because i have ocd and i mean. look at him.) also he's very good at masking.

-damian is also autistic but he doesnt struggle as much with taking care of himself

-steph uses a cane sometimes because i use a cane and i like steph. she also struggles with fatigue and can't do as much vigilante work as the others. she CAN walk without the cane but it depends on the day and its tiring for her.

-tim has autism and adhd and has a really hard time telling what his body needs and will often only realize he needs to eat/pee/sleep/etc until the very last moment. this is due to the fact that (vine voice) hahah i do that.

-dick sometimes gets shooting pain on the side of his body that he was shot on, and sometimes at night the shoulder he was shot in as robin aches badly. he is also neurodivergent in some way

-jason has adhd, inattentive type. he hyperfocuses on things often and its really hard to get him out of that when he's started. he finds cleaning his guns/weapons to be a soothing task and he often stims by fixing mechanical objects like motorcycles (greasy mechanic jason has my heart okay)

-duke has autism because i saidd sooooo

[not-back-to-this]

What would the batfam listen to? Batman & Co.

Bruce Wayne: Lowkey Emo Boy

~Boulevard of Broken Dreams- Green Day (Don't even try with me on this one) ~Feeling Good- Michael Bublé ~Skyfall- Adele ~Cigar- Tamino ~Indigo Night- Tamino

Dick Grayson: Upbeat Baby

~Dancing Queen- ABBA (If you thought any different then begone ->) ~You've got a friend in me- Randy Newman ~Colors- Halsey ~LOST BOY- Troye Sivan ~You'll be in my heart- Phil Collins

Jason Todd: The Angst is strong with this one

~It's my Life- Bon Jovi ~Old Me- 5 Seconds of Summer ~Back from the Dead- Skillet ~Renegades- X Ambassadors ~The end of Jason Todd- The Smyrk

Tim Drake: OMG Somebody plz get this poor child to therapy

~Unsteady- X Ambassadors ~Team- Lorde ~I'll Die Anyway- Girl in Red (Tim Plz we're all worried) ~The Broken Hearts Club- Gnash ~Serotonin- Call me Karizma ~Five- Sleeping at Last (No I'm not biased towards this one cause I'm an INTP Type 5w4)

Damian Wayne: Entitled Autistic Stab Child-I Love My Demon Son-

~Silent Scream- Damien Dawn ~Outrunning Karma- Alec Benjamin ~Emperor's New Clothes- Panic! At the Disco ~Cold Blooded- Zayde Wolf ~12 Rounds- Bohnes ~Middle Finger- Bohnes ~Habibi- Tamino

Barbara Gordon: Could still kick your ass in a wheelchair-Mom-

~Run the world- Beyoncé ~How to be a heartbreaker- Marina and the Diamonds ~Victorious- Panic! At the Disco ~Confident- Demi Lovato

Cassandra Cain: Selectively Mute baby-My Actual Girlfriend-

~I am not a robot- Marina and the Diamonds ~Shatter Me- Lindsey Stirling ~Lost Girls- Lindsey Stirling ~Battle Cry- Beth Crowley ~Stay Alive- Hidden Citizens

Stephanie Brown- Meme lord Pancake Queen

~Dancing Queen- ABBA (Goddamn it, Dick! Not everyone needs to hear it) ~Girls just wanna have fun- Cyndi Lauper ~I'm a Mess- Bebe rexha

Duke Thomas- No Metas in Gotham ...except him :)

~Bury Me face down- Grandson ~Crossfire- Stephan ~Thnks Fr Th Mmrs- Fall out Boy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

They would all definitely listen to...

~ R.I.P To my Youth- The Neighborhood ~Unstoppable- The Score ~Born for This- The Score ~What's Up Danger- Blackway, Black Caviar ~Hey Brother- Avicii ~My Family- Migos, KAROL G, Snoop Dogg, Rock mafia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I honestly don't know much about Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, and Duke Thomas (They aren't really my favorites sorry) So if you have anything to add to their Playlist go ahead.

If you have anything to add to any of their playlist also be my guest :)

Also do the extended fam if you want too (Kate, Alfred, Selina, ect.)

[master-of-fluff]

Some DC Fic recs

I'm forcing my sister into the DC fandom so we can talk but I figured maybe some of the multi fandom people would also like to read these?

Life happens

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14779667

Basically Tim and Damian ended up in our world and have to learn to get along, very angsty but also fluffy

Roasted

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17024694

Dick is a former talon that opens up a coffee shop

Shut up

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25941214

Damian's older bros hear him being bullied

Family doesn't betray family

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26323006

Tim and Damian argue over talia

Bruce ships it

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27239512

Brice finds out that the riddler and scarecrow are in a relationship...

Tolerable

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30144942

Damien has a nightmare and calls dick

One shots that are short

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27338719

Short batfam shots

The bat way

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23412865

Young justice finding out that all the robins are related...

Oops

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23696536

Stephanie time travels

Strange days

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32007601

Damian suddenly being nice to tim...tim is suspicious

Tired of you

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30805625

Bruce is woken up at night by a son he didn’t expect to see.

Trending

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12969513

In which, Gotham News reports something highly interesting after the night of a Gala at which the Wayne men were present.

A regular occurrence

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24845173

5 times Tim fell asleep on someone and 1 time they fell asleep on him.

Good habits

https://archiveofourown.org/series/514471

A batfam series

I'll pick you up

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15277716

Jason comforting Damian

Neurodivergent bats

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2110959

Another batfam series! But with autistic Damien and Tim plus other things!

Bat family shorts

https://archiveofourown.org/series/126677

Yet another series (haven't finished it yet actually its got like 50 works in it lol)

[valkerymillenia]

What are ur headcanons for brudick?

That is a VERY good question... I actually need to think about it and add more details to this list later.

Anyway, here are some hc's, many are nsfw.

Autistic Bruce.

Sorry, the way I see it autistic/Aspergers Bruce is basically canon and the reason why I'm mentioning it in ship headcanons is because I hc that Dick learned to understand Bruce well enough that, other than Alfred, he's the only person that figured out Bruce is in the spectrum and thus knows certain things others don't (like how to tell what Bruce is feeling by his stims, knowing what causes sensory overload in Bruce, knowing how Bruce likes to be touched and when not to touch him at all, knowing when Bruce is trying to be humorous, understanding Bruce's SI's, etc, etc, etc).

Basically most people assume Batman is just emotionally and socially constipated, brooding control freak but Dick knows that Bruce actually just has issues interacting and expressing himself (unless he's playing a role like "the billionaire playboy" because scripting) because of how his brain works, and even though he doesn't know how to really express emotions he's actually hyper empathetic.

Surprisingly gentle in bed

They totally have potential to be kinky af in the bedroom (I mean, masks and leather and between Bruce's vigilante persona and Dick's flexibility...) and their relationship is often intense and turbulent but they're actually super dedicated and gentle with each other because Dick is a helpless romantic and Bruce is secretly starved for affection and will take all he can.

Nonetheless, they do have kinky sides, like:

Bruce is more experienced and knows a lot of positions, some of which can only really be performed with someone as bendy as Dick.

Both of them are thrill seekers and kinda get really turned on by danger even if they won't admit it (Bruce keeps trying to be responsible and not get distracted in dangerous situations but when Dick is also around sometimes things happen, specially if Dick gets bored).

Dick kinda really likes roleplaying (and likes the idea of pulling out his old police uniform or Robin costume to play with).

Sparring as foreplay.

They are both pretty flexible in bed when it comes to who tops and who bottoms but ultimately they are both just very generous lovers

Dick is the loudest is bed but the thing he loves most is when he gets Bruce to be a little noisy too

Dick is a damn tease and Bruce secretly gets jealous easily. On the other hand, Bruce knows how to tease back by letting others flirt with him in public because he knows it riles Dick up

Bruce really likes backrubs. Dick really likes cuddling.

Bruce also gets grumpy and jealous of Dick's fanboying over Superman (although they both secretly have Clark as their guilty choice for a threesome)

They actually argue a lot less than people think

A lot of awkward pinning for the longest time

Bruce doesn't mean to but occasionally dads Dick, surprisingly Dick doesn't mind and actually find it kinda... amusing

Bruce learns Dick's Romani dialect specifically to have private (and affectionate) conversations with him in public

Bruce is actually really frustrated by Dick's puns and word play but he doesn't say anything because Dick's smile is worth it

Bruce really, really, really doesn't like Midnighter because he gets irrationally jealous when the man interacts with Dick (he's not sure why)

Sometimes people start talking about vigilantes around Bruce Wayne because it's Gotham, Bruce pretends to be disinterested, however if anyone mentions anything negative about Nightwing, Bruce goes immediately defensive and tense ("what do you mean some people don't like Nightwing? Who? I need names")

Whenever they have a fight, Bruce has a really bad habit of buying Dick gifts instead of apologizing (because he's way too stubborn), they are always thoughtful and interesting gifts though, he actually puts more effort into them than he cares to admit (there was one memorable time that they didn't speak for two weeks and Bruce ended up buying Dick a rare classic car)

Bruce often has nightmares but Dick knows how to soothe him, on the other hand, Dick usually only has nightmares when he's sleeping alone and sometimes he'll call Bruce in the middle of the night because he "misses him" and Bruce immediately knows what's up

Dick is not the best at it but he actually likes to cook for Bruce so sometimes he'll give Alfred evenings off; the one single time Bruce tried to do the same, well, they ended up eating Chinese takeout

Dick is naturally more paternal towards Damian than Bruce is and it's actually a big thing in their relationship that nobody really has the guts to talk about (except Talia, who hates it)

Damian once caught Bruce and Dick making out in the batcave showers and spent the rest of the week avoiding them like the plague because he just didn't know how to cope (Jason actually took the kid out for ice cream and Tim chose not to give him a hard time about it because they can both relate)

Whenever Bruce buys Godiva chocolates for Dick it's because he did something Dick will be mad about

Bruce has had more than one fantasy about proposing to Dick but never actually goes through with it

Dick has a habit of sending flowers to Bruce's office every once in a while just because he likes flowers and wants Bruce to know he was thinking of him (he likes people to know Bruce is taken)

Dick's desktop picture is a photo of him and Bruce at the circus

Their first kiss was a hot mess, all desperate and anxious and intensely emotional. There were a lot of mixed feelings going around because they still kinda had some hang-ups about their past mentor/ward relationship but they also dragged out the pinning and sexual tension for so long that it ended up being a hell of a rush

Dick really likes pet names but Bruce isn't creative in that front so while Dick will call Bruce a myriad of things like "old man", "big bat", "daddy bats", "big guy", "B", "honey", "sweetheart", etc, Bruce usually just sticks to "Dick" and occasionally "dearest" ("Robin" also slips out sometimes, as does "chum" out of habit)

Bruce steals the covers at night (Dick doesn't really care that much though)

Bruce remembers everything, every special date, every little casual comment Dick might have made about something he likes, every kiss, every memory, every request, every birthday, every anniversary. He just remembers everything about Dick (who isn't forgetful either but doesn't make as big a deal out of it)

Bruce doesn't curse often, Dick does but usually not around Bruce. Unless they're in bed, then they both curse but in a good way.

If Dick gets hurt Bruce just automatically feels guilty (even when there's nothing he could have done to prevent it) and will do anything to fix the situation. He will also avoid Dick out of said guilt.

When Bruce gets hurt, Dick also has the unbridled desire to fix everything but rather than blame himself he tends to angry at the situation in general and does all he can to fix it. Unlike Bruce, Dick will actually hover and refuse to leave Bruce alone.