#also you can take from my cold dead hands the hc that Jason used to call B “dad” all the time

[littlefankingdom]

Seeing all those posts and fanfics where the batkids, especially Dick, calls Clark "uncle Clark", made me think.

If Dick calls Clark "uncle Clark", he probably started doing it BEFORE he ever referred to Bruce as his father. After all, another uncle doesn't erase any existing one, but accepting Bruce as his father was erasing John Grayson in Dick's mind, for multiple years. It makes sense for Dick's confused feelings about his situation to call Clark "uncle" before calling Bruce "dad".

So, I present you: Bruce being envious of Clark because Dick refers to him with a family's title but Bruce is just "B".

And in the same continuity: Dick being envious of Jason calling Bruce "dad" so easily.

For Dick, it feels as if the word is stuck in his throat. He can say it to joke around with others ("let's steal dad's car" he tells Jason), but to Bruce's face? He's afraid the world would end.

[glorified-red]

Could I request hcs for subtle ways the boys express their protectiveness?

Thank you for the request my love! I got to play a fun little game of ‘Eenie Meenie Miney Mo’ for which request to do.

Protective BatBoys

word count: 1600~

warnings: insinuation of someone getting hit by a car, mentions of attackers

I was quite tempted to write Bruce headcanons to this but I must hold back ><

Dick Grayson

Ah, Dick Grayson, the King of small romantic protective gestures

Every time, without fail, Dick will wait until he watches you get inside your house safely before driving/walking away

Its a really cute tick of his because he covers it up with a goodbye kiss and goofy waves that leave you giggling even after you close your house door

But its so he knows where you are, and he can see for himself that you made it safely inside because the second he turns away too soon, you may get locked out, or someone can crawl out from the bushes and nab you

Paranoid, he knows

He constantly wraps you up in things, when you two go swimming he’ll patter up from behind you and place a towel around your shoulders, patting you dry along the way

Very insignificant gesture but he doesn't want you to catch a cold in the A/C or Gotham wind

He’ll do the same with his jackets, maybe even plop his hat on your head when it's gets to the snowy seasons 1. Because its adorable seeing the hat fall into your eyes and 2. Because it'll warm your head up

Scarves too, he’ll even go on a tangent about how cold it is outside while he wraps you in it

Dick will always offer to drive you places, even if you insist on driving yourself to meet up with him or walking there, Dick will still offer because it means he’ll be present if you get into a wreck, sucks but then he can help with first aid

If you decline his offer though, he’ll politely ask for you to take Titus or Ace with you whenever you walk somewhere, they’re trained and he trusts them to keep you company/safe when he can't 

Jason Todd

Jason’s protectiveness comes from a place of knowing how cruel the world actually is

He can't stand the idea of anything happening to you

If he has to, he will use his reputation of Red Hood as a way to keep you safe, putting a man at gun point and sneering out, “They’re off. Limits.”

He’d bust a whole trafficking ring if it meant ending a person who touched you or hurt you in any way

But Jason’s protectiveness doesn't stop while he's wearing the helmet

Even when you two are sleeping, Jasons unconsciously protecting you, no matter how you two cuddle, Jason always positions himself as closest to the bedroom door

Whether his back is to the door or he’s facing it, Jason needs the comfort of knowing any person coming into the room would have to get through him before even reaching you

He also envelopes you, he's a big guy so its pretty easy for him to wrap you up in his arms as an extra layer of protection from the outside world

Jason doesn't really like the idea of training you past basic combat or gun skills, hell, he doesn't like involving you in the family business if he doesn't have to

So he inserts himself into any situation you may need protection in

Which is exactly why he starts going to the gym with you as a work out buddy

Jason makes it sound like he just wants to spend time with you or help you achieve your goals faster since he knows how the body works from his Robin days

But deep down you both know his true intentions: he wants to keep an eye on you

The gym is crawling with creeps that have the guts to ogle at you or get too touchy, but having Jason’s 6 foot beefcake of an ass standing beside you the entire time is like an instant creep repellent

Plus, he gets to spot you and make sure you don't get injured from bad technique or from pushing yourself too hard

He’ll even encourage you with innuendos the entire time, but at the end of the day, he’ll gladly walk you home

Tim Drake

Tim is the most subtle about his inner protectiveness, a subtle King if you will

Most times when he gets protective, you never even notice

When you two cuddle in your house, it takes him a very long time to actively fall asleep because he doesn't trust your home security system if you even have one so he forces himself to stay awake just incase anything happens

But don't worry, he’ll eventually get to updating the security in your house

He does get these protective eyes whenever something is off when he's around you, they narrow a bit and latch onto whatever is off, glaring holes into the offending object until its all clear

Its quite terrifying to witness and very hard to miss when Tim is staring dead at the man speaking to you from across the room at a Gala, sipping his drink in the corner

If he feels the need, he will walk up and control the situation, whether it mean inserting himself into the convo or simply being present for it, he’ll do it

The thing with Tim though, is when he's protective, he’s almost always touching you in some way

His fingers playing idly with the ends of your hair as he speaks to a random person who walked up to you, clinging to your shirt/sleeves when he’s analyzing a situation and doesn't want you to go forward just yet, or even as simple as holding your hand as he leads you home

Tim also keeps small snacks/waters on hand at all times to protect you from Gotham heat and pesky hunger, very much like a mother hen because he also carries a first aid kit everywhere

He follows you whenever you walk alone around Gotham at night, he’s already on patrol so he might as well make sure you make it home safe, if anything happens he won't think twice about intervening as RR

If your going out somewhere alone he always always always asks you to call him until you make it to your destination, he doesn't care if he's working on something or in the middle of a board meeting, he has an assistant for a reason who can give him notes

Its become a normal thing for you to send him your Uber tracking link so he can watch it, if you don't send it he won't hesitate to hack into your account just to find it

Damian Wayne

Damian? Wayne? Being subtle?

Its usually pretty obvious when Damian gets protective over you

He’s the type who won't hesitate to pull out a knife out of god knows where and threaten whatever is responsible for you being uncomfortable

This leads to very interesting encounters of you having to hold him back because ‘oh no a random guy bumped into you and didn't apologize’ and suddenly Damian is missing 

He’s also incredibly blunt, saying things like “Cover your drink” at galas or handing you one of those hand held tasers before you go out and saying “Go for the neck”

Will insist on training you himself, whether its hand-to-hand combat or with a sword, Damian wants to keep track of your progress himself so he can make sure all your weaknesses are trained

Its also because he doesn't want his grimy brothers near you, so its protective on all counts

But subtlety? Theres a few you can notice after being with him for awhile

He’s very careful when going out around Gotham with you, Damian knows he can fend for himself so he will gladly take the brunt of any possible situation

This leads to him always walking on whichever side of you thats closest to the road, so on the off chance a car derails, he’ll get hit first

Always making sure to match your pace when you two walk together, he doesn't want you getting too far ahead of him because he'd have to run to get to you, too far behind and he might not notice you getting taken silently, he wants you right in arms reach at all times

He has a permanent scowl and narrowed eyes but when he's protective, they get even more prominent

Bonus

All the BatBoys do the same exact thing out of instinct when it comes to protecting you

None of them will hesitate to step in between you and any attacker, pulling you behind them so they are in the line of fire now

Its a subtle action that each of them do, albeit with some differences

Damian will push the attacker back as far as he can from you, putting plenty of distance between the two of them and you, so if anything breaks out, you can run away easily

Dick will hold his arms out, fully covering you but keeping his hands in the fray so if the attacker tries attacking you from any angle, Dick is ready to protect

Tim will grip onto you somehow, keeping his hand right on your bicep or forearm so he can still hold you, he doesn't know if there can be a hidden attacker from behind that will pry you away from him, so touching you is his way of making sure he doesn't lose track of you

Jason will slip in front of you and cross his arms, its a sign of nonchalance but obvious dominance, showcasing that he doesn't need his hands to be intimidating to the attacker, he’ll glare and challenge them so all attention is on him now and not you

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[hauerr77-and-a-dream]

Now that I have an official CoD side-blog, I can finally talk more about my fic! It’s currently like 50k words and counting in which I provide my own take on Bell and what happened after the canon ending! 

If you are interested, I’ll add the prologue under keep reading!

My inbox is also open for all things related, I’ll even do some HC requests!

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The Bell Keeps Tolling

Chapters: 22/?

Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Russell Adler, Helen A. Park, Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay, Bell (Call of Duty), Frank Woods, Alex Mason (Call of Duty), Lawrence Sims, Perseus (Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War), Yirina Portnova, Ingo Beck, Viktor Reznov, Jason Hudson Additional Tags: Non-Binary Bell, Post-Canon Fix-It, after the "good" ending, bell deserves better okay

Summary:

Bell's entire life had been a lie. Everything they thought they knew, everyone they thought knew them, lies. That's where their life was supposed to end. That had been his plan for them at least. Cut all the loose ends, Bell included. So what happens when they don't bleed out that day on the cliff? They can't even remember their own name, much less their past, leaving Bell with one question.

What happens now?

I’d always wanted to see the ocean. I’d never been. At least, I think. I wanted to feel the breeze, the sand under my toes, and smell the fresh salty air from the waters. But now that I was here, just above the ocean waters, the only thing I could smell was the scent of copper, the taste of blood in my mouth amplifying it.

I placed a hand on my side as if somehow that would stop the bleeding, but all it caused was pain. I tried to sit up, he was still here, wrapping bandages around his arm where I had shot him. He was looking away from me, and I still had that knife in my boot, maybe I could still--

“Don’t make this harder on yourself, Bell,” he spoke. I clenched my jaw, feeling another surge of anger. With what little energy I had left, I reached for the handle of the blade. Russel Adler sighed, finishing tying a knot on his bandages with his teeth.

I tried to move fast, but I had an obvious disadvantage. His knee collided with my face, knocking me back down to the ground. The smell of blood was even more pungent now as it began to pour down my face. The knife in my hand was kicked away by his boot, which a second later was on my chest, keeping me down. I looked up at him, fighting the tears welling up in my eyes. A wild mixture of emotions was flooding through me, the events of the last few months flashing before my eyes. I wanted to scream. Alder looked down at me, seeing the tears rolling down the side of my face.

“Oh, c’mon, Bell,” he sighed, sounding annoyed. “You had to know it was going to end like this.” I opened my mouth to speak, but his foot pressed down harder into my chest, making it impossible to breathe. I squeezed my eyes shut, letting my head rest on the ground. He was right. The second he brought me out here, my gut told me what would happen. I just didn’t want to believe it. I trusted him. Even if the trust was artificial.

The pool of blood around me was growing, and with each passing second, the spinning in my head grew with it. I felt the weight on my chest from his boot lift, but by the time I had the energy to open my eyes again, there was no one here. I was alone.

I closed my eyes again, trying to picture something happy or comforting before I went under, but my mind was blank, empty. There was only darkness where my life should have been. I started to wish that he had just shot me in the head.  

Just when I thought I was going to drift off, I heard someone. Maybe he was coming back to finish me off.

“Jesus Christ…” the voice muttered. “ I should’ve known he was going to try this!” Definitely not Alder. I tried to open my eyes, wondering who had come to watch me die, but doing so only made it harder. “Don’t worry,” the voice said. This time, I was able to recognize it. A newfound sense of adrenaline surged through me, my eyes snapping open.

“N-no--” I tried to speak, wanting to get myself away from this person. I didn’t want to go anywhere with her.

“Bell, relax,” a second voice said. “We’re not going to hurt you.” I wanted to protest, tell them I didn’t believe them, but it wasn’t like there was anything I could do. I closed my eyes again as I felt a stim being jammed into my stomach.

The next time I opened my eyes, I was being lifted off the ground. I looked up at the man carrying me and blinked a few times, trying to process. Lazar saw me looking and grinned,

“We gotcha Bell.”

My vision goes dark again.

I’m back in Vietnam. Alder and Sims are sitting beside me in the chopper, all three of us laughing, joking with one another. I feel like I belong. Like I am supposed to belong, but something about it seems off. A hand is placed on my shoulder.

“Bell,” Alder says, looking me dead in the eyes. “We got a job to do.”

And then it all goes black.

[serpentinegraphite]

ship asks: 3, 5, 11, 19, 27!

On mobile so I can’t easily do any classy formatting, but:

3. What is the rarest pair that you ship?

LOL I mean I think hands down this goes to Felix/Isaac from golden sun because there’s consistently never more than like five people in the fandom at one time and the big OTPs are very far from that. Like, what’s the fic count total for the ship on ao3? Seven fics or something? And one of them is mine?

But also probably any and all femslash (reynabeth! Sakura/karin!) and poly ships (listen I know Destiny island ot3 isn’t like….obscure or unheard of, but have you ever tried to find fic for it?? Bc after a certain point, the kh fandom is 90% orgy xiii, and also kind of dead and also a huge fuckin mess). I’m kind of a multi shipping disaster.

And Percy/Keyleth from critical role. I know we’ve all tossed our lot down with perc'ahlia recently, and that’s because it’s an excellent ship, but consider: Percy/Keyleth/vexahlia.

Also there’s a part of me that believes in my heart of hearts that Adam “ridiculous rich boy suit/competency kink” Parrish had a huge fucking crush on Declan Lynch for the first ten minutes before he hit Ronan and that’s a headcanon you’ll tear from my cold dead hands that I’ve seen absolutely no one writing about.

5. What is your most fluffy/happy ship?

Listen,,, I have a type okay,,

I mean, even if a ship isn’t at its core very happy (fenders!) You’ll still find me drowning in the most ridiculous domestic garbage I can shovel into my face.

riku/sora is pretty fucking upbeat after kh1. Like, all of Dream, Drop, Distance is the boys being separated again and Riku being completely unironically “this is fine!” about it because he trusts Sora and he knows their destinies are intertwined and he can kind of fell Sora across their nonsense dream ~*connection*~

and Adam/Ronan is honestly probably one of the best/easiest/most domestic? Part of that is how often people write nice, domestic post-series raising their weird goat daughter fic (“this is torturous/electricity between both of us” by ~*arielmagicesi*~ is exactly what I’m fucking talking about) and part of that is how well the boys’ personalities mesh, just in general. They’re very complimentary.

And oh shit definitely Finn/Poe Dameron because unless you’re just angling for dark resistance fic, they’re consistently sweet af

11. What’s a character you can imagine in only one particular ship?

Percy Jackson/Annabeth Chase. Like, I can do Annabeth with piper or Reyna or Thalia, but I want to like other Percy ships. It would certainly make combing ao3 an easier experience. But. They went through tartarus together. I don’t have a whole lot of ironclad ship kinks, but that’s it. That’s one of them. Holy shit you can just toss me into the sea. Like, I’ll allow Percy/Annabeth/Piper or /Reyna or /etc, but it’s gonna take I mean a LOT to split them.

Also, from stargate: Atlantis John Sheppard’s crush on Rodney McKay is such a fundamental part of my headcanon for the character that I really have troubles believing any other interpretation. Further backing this hc: Joe Flanigan is like so awkward and so stiff when acting in romance scenes but so smooth and so natural at acting any scene with McKay.

19. Is there a ship the fandom has ruined for you?

Axel/Roxas probably. I mean, the canon also ruined this one. But I just. The kh fandom is kind of a wreck. ngl.

Shipping anyone with anders is kind of….an ordeal. He’s a divisive character. I wouldn’t say I’m ruined for shipping him with anyone, but like, I kind of make sure I’m in a mood where I can handle a fight if I run into one bc lbr I’m probably gonna see wank even if I’m just innocently browsing.

I try REALLY HARD to enjoy the things I like and not let the fandom get to me.

27. Name a ship that deserved better in the end.

Lol all of the above??

There’s a significant amount of wank over pynch not getting any actual words for Adam and Ronan’s sexuality (use the fucking word. gay! bisexual! pansexual? We don’t actually know what Adam prefers!) and for the epilogue being really fucking sparse with almost no wind down, and that’s 100% fucking fair, but I’m content with for the fandom fills in these gaps for now and willing to reserve judgement on the dreamer trilogy until it’s out. Stief has definitely heard the criticism! She’s not always the most delicate at responding to it? But there’s such a huge quality gap between the wolf books she wrote and trc that I’m choosing to optimistically hold out hope that she continues to improve from here.

And also jasico. Like toss me into the sea. I know solangelo is canon and whatever but like. Will Solace was hastily tacked on at the end and Jason Grace drank poison for Nico and threatened to fight their friends if they didn’t accept Nico’s sexuality. I know I literally just said I don’t have very many iron clad ship kinks, but this is it, this level of trust and respecting the hell out of Nico’s boundaries, them’s my other iron clad ship kinks. Also I know uncle Rick made great strides to work around the skeezy piper/Jason origin with Hera/the mist playing with their memories, and all, but I’m still kind of uncomfortable with like. All of that. Jason/Piper/Leo is a fine ot3 and I’m definitely all up ons with Jason+Piper+Leo, but like. The thing where Piper thought Jason was her boyfriend and then after being told her memories were fake, she decided to actually woo him for real. I admire her determination and all, but that squicks me out pretty bad. Give Piper a girlfriend 2k17!