#batgirl

[malenjoyer]

Colored the cass doodles : ]

[ashoss]

if you're taking requests plsplspls duke and steph solving some riddles together (+any other batkids you want but specifically those two)

workin hard or hardly workin ammirite

[bats-and-birds-24]

Imagine a timeline where Tim has just had a fight with Bruce over his safety and gets benched.

He's still pissed so he decides to do some detective work on his own without Bruce knowing. He finds out that Jason's grave has been disturbed and doesn't want to tell Bruce because;

A) Bruce is in a really fragile state as is due to Jason's death and he doesn't want to worsen the situation.

B) he doesn't think Bruce is going to be able to see this through without letting his emotions in the way, so he decides to investigate on his own.

He's benched for a few months so he has plenty of time to prepare, keep his head down around B and say that he's focusing on school to get him, Alfred, Barbara and Dick off his back.

He gets a lead to the League of Assassins and the next thing you know, he has a missing spleen, and has somehow acquired three siblings.

Jason who was somehow back from the dead, Cass who was training in the league under her father and decides to help Tim because he's honest, and Damian who is three but is already being trained to kill.

I think I might write this as a fic later, lmao.

[vodrae]

I love the running joke of the Batkids getting a new sibling everytime they're out of town.

But imagine Damian or Duke, you are an only child and suddendly your closest circle goes from 1 or 2 people to ELEVEN (according to wikis)

Baby Damian, fed stories about his batdad all his life, you know he lives with his butler and that kid in bight colors.

AND THEN

"Everyone, this is my and Talia's son, you know we were married. Damian, this is Dick, Barbara, Helena,Jason, Tim, Stephanie, Cassandra, she's mute, Harper, my cousin Kate, and you already met Alfred."

First of all, you're pretty sure you have already met the biggest with the red hoodie, and second, WTF ?

In addition, their SO are dying to meet you and then Bruce has the audacity to die and leaves you with the gymnast. Time to adopt a turkey.

[bibibusinessman]

[dailydccomics]

Birds of Prey #11 variant cover by Gleb Melnikov

[dc-polls-not-the-og]

[but-a-humble-goon]

I could honestly take or leave Stephcass. But if DC's gonna insult my intelligence by trying to pretend all this wasn't shameless, malicious queerbait then screw them, I will ship it out of SPITE.

[eldritchdreamss]

I have a thought about Reverse Robins au

Basically I saw something about how Reverse Robins is just Robins with their names changed, so Damian has Dick's personality, Tim has Jason's and so on. Something else I'd like to point out is that most of the time they still all had used the name Robin which...I don't think they would have? If I remember correctly (Which I might not be so please correct me if I'm wrong), Robin was originally used because it was a nickname that Dick's mother had used for him which is one of the reasons why Dick gets so pissed at Bruce in one of their fights about Jason taking over the mantle.

With that being said I think that tension about being replaced wouldn't be as prevalent as it is in these fics, at least not in the sense of "Robin" but as siblings. I realize "replaced" isn't the right way to describe this in more of a sibling dynamic, what mean is when siblings get jealous of each other(typically of the younger siblings) when the attention of the parent/s moves off them, if that makes any sense.

Something else the post I saw pointed out was that we never see Steph, Duke, or Cass in these fics and like...why don't we??? It's almost like they don't exist at all, or maybe people are just forgetting about them because they're "not Robins"(even though Steph was Robin at one point but I won't get into that here).

One thing that I'd like to put out there; why is it just the robins/batfam being reversed? I'd love to see the other teams being reversed as well, superman, flash and arrow for example. Idk, I just think it'd be interesting if we branched out a bit to other families/teams with this same concept. I will say it is interesting to see Reversed Robins interacting with each others teams in the fics that branch out to it.

I guess that's one of my main things though, similar to the post I saw(which unfortunately I'm unable to find again) is that it's just the Robins..with their names being switched but keeping the personalities of the original order. I would love to see the dynamic change with the actual characters changing. Yes, Damian becomes the oldest and Dick becomes the youngest, but they're still Dick and Damian; two completely different characters with their own issues that wouldn't change to be like the other just because the order of their ages have changed. The same goes for Jason and Tim.

Idk, I just think that there are so many things that could be done in this au that isn't being taken advantage of. If they wouldn't be called Robin what would their names be, and if the order they're taken in by Bruce and their ages changed how would that affect their dynamic and their stories? Would their stories be changed drastically or would they stay relatively the same with only a few minor changes for it to make sense? Obviously there are parts that are integral to their character that can't/shouldn't be changed without changing the character too much, how would people work around that? How would their relationships with the people around them change, even if they're the only ones who's ages are being switch around or not? Again, there are so many things that could be done to make it more interesting in my opinion.

All this to say, I do love the Reverse Robins Au, I just wish people would take a little more creative liberty with it. I also would like to know other peoples thoughts on this as well.

[roseandgold137]

valentines party steph

[humblefryingpan]

Who joined the batfam first, Stephanie Brown or Cassandra Cain?

Was Stephanie Robin before or after Cass was Batgirl? I know Cass was Batgirl and then Steph became Batgirl after her but was Steph Robin before or after Cass joined the bats

I've googled so many variations of this question and I don't get it. I know Cass appears in comics before Stephanie but I know she wasn't in the batfam when she first appeared.

[bats-and-birds-24]

I'm thinking of setting the Tim discovers three siblings story in a Marked AU.

Essentially, in this AU, all the batfamily members are marked from birth as they each have a birthmark in the shape of a bat between their shoulder blades.

This is due to a curse on Gotham which states that a select few people are chosen to protect Gotham with a bat birthmark.

If they try to shirk their duty by leaving Gotham or otherwise not being a vigilante, they will face immense bad luck and circumstances will force them to become a vigilante.

It would help explain why so many batkids were already vigilantes when Bruce found them.

It's a story of how the batfamily formed thanks to being cursed.

They do have some benefits from being cursed, namely higher endurance, intelligence, and pain tolerance, along with an inability to stay dead.

Because even in death, they have a duty to Gotham.

[lesbian-cowpoke]

EVERYONE ALWAYS SAYS HOW SIMILAR STEPH IS TO JASON

BUT IN UNIVERSE THEY SAY HOW SIMILAR SHE IS TO DICK OR BARBARA

I wonder how she feels, always being compared to others. I wonder how she feels not being able to just be Stephanie Brown. Not Stephanie who is like Jason Todd, not Stephanie who is like Dick Grayson, not Stephanie who is like Barbara Gordon.

She is only ever compared to others. "Stephanie reminds me of Dick because of this!" "Stephanie is different from Cass in this way!"

When can she just be Stephanie? When can she just stand on her own?

[pinkspacek]

a side story took days after cass got her ear pierced *Batgirls (2021)

tw : blood

inspired by real events (it was me being an idiot)

[docgold13]

alter egos paper cut-outs