#but ...

[frownyalfred]

I know that the appeal of the Brucie Wayne identity is shameless incompetence covering up extreme hypercompetence, but another interesting aspect of Bruce's in-between persona (not quite public, but not Batman, explicitly) are the large/significant changes he makes and has to go to great lengths to keep subtle or easily dismissed by the public. Reducing something massive and complex to what amounts to a "happy accident" or forgettable coincidence on paper.

Examples:

Buying the Kent Farm. He couldn't buy the house outright, it would draw far too much attention and link his and Clark's identies, even with several steps in between. So Bruce bought the bank, then the Farm.

In Batman Begins, he buys certain gear in bulk to avoid suspicion. He gets thousands/millions of cowl prototype bases because buying ten would be strange.

All of the journalistic manuvering. It's very look here, don't look there. It's artistic. It's sleight of hand with the media. "Brucie falls into a fountain the same night Batman needs to take a night off" no, even better. Bruce, as Brucie, captures attention in a way that doesn't let you even realize that you should be paying attention to something else. He isn't taking away your attention. He has it, and that's the point.

The painstaking and painful steps he takes to fund and oversee the Justice League while maintaining credible distance. The fact that he's able to spin it as CSR without anyone putting the pieces together is impressive.

Tech/behaviors he employs to ensure the government thinks Batman is a low-level vigilante with limited access to complex resources.

Doubling up missions/priorities for events. If he can get intel and a a JL target out of a stuffy Gotham event, he can and will. And on the other side, doubling up patrol/investigations as Batman to benefit Bruce Wayne. None of that intel is a coincidence. Keeping those two lives completely separate only harms him in the long run.

[bolithesenate]

do you think there ever was a mandalorian who, after a hunt gone bad, suddenly wakes up in a gigantic farmstead, surrounded by scantily clad (by mando standards), impossibly capable people of all ages, species and sexual persuasions and thinks "oh no, I died and this is heaven"

and all the AgriCorps jedi around them have to try their very best to not break down laughing

[galaxygazer-lav]

This is why I love Luigi

[authenticcadence18]

SHE LOVES HIM SOOOO MUCH

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

jesus christ. Johnny who died cause he never got what he wanted. n dallas who died cause he always got whatever he wanted. don't talk to me.

[flicklikesstuff]

Now imagine younger Wildberry meeting younger Crunchy Chip~

Oh noooooo, my hand is being forced against my will…

Please somebody stop me before I-

Some context:

*sigh* Looks like I made a WildChip childhood buddies AU. Whelp, too late to turn back now.

So anyways, this fun concept is not at all canon obviously. Just a what-if universe on what if these two knew each other as kids, both as young orphans taken in by their respective ancients. The timeline here is after the Dark Flour war but also before Dark Choco’s betrayal and Holly leaving for Beast Yeast.

Just to explain, Dark Cacao and Hollyberry agree to meet in person since they’ve stayed in touch in this AU rather than shutting themselves out. Just to talk about matters together and what to do going forward.

………….

*Rewinding hours before the boys’ “first” introductions in the art above.*

In one of the monarchs’ meetings unfortunately, when the Cacaoians traveled over to the Hollyberrian Kingdom, Dark Choco (who came to assist his dad) found a certain rascal who was supposed to be with Caramel Arrow back home:

Ah yes, the young cookie they rescued from a Cream Wolf trap in the wild. Ever since Dark Cacao saved his wolf family, little guy has been wanting to return the favour and his life debt.

Yeaaaaah, this was not supposed to happen.

Dark Choco struggled to keep Chip away from the king to prevent distraction but unfortunately lost sight of both him and his puppy in the Hollyberrian castle. Chip at some point split up with his buddy and now he’s looking for both of them in this giant maze of halls he’s never seen before. Lots of new sights and smells. Nothing like the bitter cold of the Dark Cacao kingdom. Where is he actually?

Until:

What a quiet, rude and strange-looking cookie! How dare he trip him! Who the heck reads in the middle of a hall anyway?! And not a single word or apology??

Whatever, he’ll exact his comeback later. The good news though? Chip found the king safe and sound ^^ (Looks like his little cream wolf brother beat him to it though)

Fortunately, Dark Cacao wasn’t too hard on the kid.

Meanwhile, Wild took in mind Holly’s lessons and with some self-control, left his encounter with this aggressive cookie to avoid further escalation. (See!! He remembers the Queen’s words of advice! :DD)

Holly was worried for a second since she’s aware that the Hollyberrian nobles tend to be harsh on the young street kid she took in. But she also became confused when Wild couldn’t say what House the other cookie was in. In fact, their dough wasn’t a berry flavour he could recognise at all.

But while they both went to snitch, they unfortunately caught their parent monarch at a busy time when they’re expecting to go and see a friend from the neighbouring kingdom any second now.

Some formalities and friendly exchanges later, the two ancients made some necessary introductions and uh….

Let’s just say Young Wild and Chip recognised the other cookie with a disgusted realisation-

[fraternum-momentum]

i need to draw more porn

[cheschesterpossum]

Squished

May or may not be inspired by @startheskelaton

[digibugs]

posting these here just to see what happens

[dovewingkinnie]

i have the opposite problem of most people when it comes to ‘mischaracterization’

when i see people properly characterize william afton i have to look away. Fuck that bitch I like him better when he’s heavily mischaracterized

[frownyalfred]

the “which could mean nothing” meme being applied to Superbat in-universe has SO much potential.

[dear-ao3]

Shimmy shimmy yeah shimmy yeah shimmy ya

[dailyjaycetalis]

[omgtheregoesthefuckidontgive]

I actually don't have anything meaningful to add

Just unfortunately this is very much doing it for me and this is exactly how I wanted to see him, on his knees and bloody and the smile is the cherry on top. And I'm not saying this as in yeah this is what he deserves... I wish I was... Unfortunately I'm saying this in a yeah he's fucking hot in exactly this situation

[authenticcadence18]

ten episodes and not a single phinbella subplot oh. it hurts. 😵‍💫😭