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[sing-me-under]

I’ve finally decided to post this because I have many thoughts on many things and one (1) person asked about it. Awhile ago, I complained about how boring I found Reverse Robins AUs. In that post, I also made a comment about how much creative liberty there could be in this AU, and this is the result.

“Who is included? Is it just the bats or is it all the generations? If it’s just the bats, what are their relationships with the other heroes? Did their fates swap too or are their destinies written in stone?”

This AU reverses the order in which the Batkids become Robins/Bats. I want to keep their fates relatively close to comics canon, so they’ll join at the same age as they do in OG timeline, meaning their ages aren’t necessarily reversed. The ones who became Bats as adults (Bruce, Luke, Jean-Paul, Helena, Kate, etc) keep their original timelines. I also couldn’t decide if the other kid heroes were reversed, so I keep it intentionally vague… I dunno. It could go either way.

Anyway, here’s the order of reversal:

Matt McGinnis

Terry McGinnis

Mia “Maps” Mizoguchi**

Duke Thomas (We Are Robins)

Damian Wayne

Stephanie Brown

Cassandra Cain

Tim Drake

Jason Todd

Lance Bruner**

Barbara Gordon

Dick Grayson

Summary under the cut

It began when Matt McGinnis became the anonymous detective, Robin Hood, seeking to uncover the damning secrets of Gotham’s corrupt upper class. His work inspired dozens of teenagers across Gotham. The most notable was the We Are Robin movement, which protested against corruption in politics, law enforcement, and corporations.

Bruce Wayne returned to Gotham just as the W.A.R. movement turned into a burgeoning teenage vigilante force. He found himself corralling angry teenagers way out of their depth just as frequently as he spent scaring the shit out of criminals — often simultaneously.

Terry, fresh out of juvie, attempted an assassination of the corporate mogul who had ordered his father’s death. He was stopped by Batman, but Terry found his new calling as a vigilante.

Duke was another teenager Bruce kept running into, and this one, Bruce decided to mentor and foster.

Sometime after Bruce took in Duke, Talia appeared with Damian, and they played happy family. It didn’t last much longer when Ra’s Al Ghul appeared to take back his heir, and Talia gave up her life with Bruce to lead her father away. For a while, it was just Bruce, Alfred, Duke, and Damian.

Because “Robin” was the catch-all title for any teenage vigilante in Gotham, Steph took to the streets as another Robin to stop Cluemaster. Steph endeared herself to Damian like an annoying little sister, and soon enough, she became a beloved member of the Batfamily.

Cass appeared after the Cataclysm. She had been particularly attached to Stephanie, both in and out of costume. After Steph was killed by Black Mask, she switched gears and assigned herself as Bruce’s protector, both in the streets and from himself.

Tim was another child Cass liked to follow around Gotham. It was because of Cass that Tim figured out Batman was Bruce Wayne. Tim hatched a plan to bring Damian back to Gotham as Batman’s Robin but was uno-reversed and ended up taking on that responsibility himself.

Jason stole Batman’s tires. Bruce had been so endeared by him and quickly adopted him. Jason did not become Robin until after Bruce was “killed” by Darkseid. Shortly after Bruce returned, Jason was betrayed by his bio-mother and killed by the Joker.

Toward the latter months of Jason’s time as Robin, Barbara Gordon debuted as Batgirl. Ever since she had been a young child, she had idolized Steph’s iteration of Batgirl. She didn’t really get close to the Batfamily until she was hired as Dick’s babysitter.

Dick Grayson’s parents died midst-performance. Bruce had been drawn to the similarities between their parents’ deaths and directly took him in once it became apparent Haley’s Circus had no legal claim on Dick’s guardianship. It had taken literally the entire collection of vigilante family and friends to keep Dick within an acceptable radius of where he should have been. Dick eventually won in the battle of perseverance and became his own Robin, donned in his family colors instead of the traditional black and red.

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**characters who are included in the reversal but are not part of the batfamily. I have a very specific plan for Lance, and it involves Hush.

@ethereallyoccultazalea I hope you found this interesting because I will be posting more about this AU now that it's been unleashed.

[corrodedparadox]

My train was late. AGAIN.

Prints

[zeezeepearl]

ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

[mobgoblin]

Queued right up for it

[letthehatersbark]

The funniest one star review of Wicked I've seen so far

[amartworks]

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

[missabnormal]

imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

[starbuck]

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

[rainbow-taishi]

Filipino Isekai

[nerdpiggy]

i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor

[bedupolker]

Gotta feed the family somehow!

[rocketbirdie]

very nice suggestions tumblr, thank you

[charrfie]

Chimera

Acrylic on canvas, August 2024

[joseopher]

before you stab someone: THINK!

how can you make it Tender?

how can you make it Homoerotic?

how can you make it Implicitly intimate?

how can you make it Noticeably a metaphor for sex?

how can you make it Kind of gay?

[koobiie]

foliage study :-) there's an angel in the garden