#echo tim

[koskela-knights]

Jaakko x Tim sketches 🥰

[starry-bi-sky]

Out of Context Stuff for a Danyal Al Ghul au i haven't posted - Pit Beast Danyal

Damian, 13: Look, Danyal, -- I am so sorry for everything that happened between us in the League, I hope you can forgive me.

Danny, 10 (allegedly): (has been secretly plotting to murder Damian this whole time, is still gonna do it obvs, but is going to make it significantly less painful now)

Danny: I-- of course, older brother. :]

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Bruce: what do you have there, Damian?

Damian:

Danny: (a hulking 10ft pit beast standing beside him, growling idly with ram horns gouging out his eyes and a second set of horns jutting into the air, spines down his back, and a long, spiked tail with an animalistic, skull-like face)

Damian, who smuggled him in (they've made amends): a smoothie, father

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Damian: this is my little brother Danyal, i murdered him when he was five. He festered in rage for the last half-a decade, took over a League mountain base in Switzerland, murdered everyone inside and then tried to murder me when I went to investigate with Drake.

Danny: hello!

Damian: we're cool now

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Damian: thoughts on resurrection

Danny, (a full ghost): i will succeed in murdering you if you try it

Damian: we'll put a pin in it then

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Danny (still instilled with League values): why don't we just murder him??

Damian, on patrol (Danny followed him): we don't murder people, Danyal

Danyal:,,,,are you sick, Dami?? Have you been possessed? Why not!?

(There is raucous laughing through the comms)

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Danny, five, pre-death: Dami! :D

Danny, dead, vengeful: Older brother (:

Danny, post-forgiveness: Dami! :]

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For some actual context: Danny is fully dead in this au, its a result of the classic DPxDC Demon Twins "death duel" trope but instead of Danny getting revived, he stays fully dead. Danny was five, Damian was seven. His ghost lingered though, and due to the proximity of the pits his ghost steadily absorbed the ambient energy it was letting off. The pits are not corrupted ectoplasm in this au, it's just liquid ecto.

Which means Danny's corruption from an angry and hurt little ghost boy to an unrecognizable monster is from his own doing. It's a result of him stewing in his hurt and anger for years, it physically warped him. He's very powerful. Danny can travel between League Bases but chose a small, out-of-the-way base in the Swiss mountains to fester in and then just. Never Left.

His influence steeped into the very foundations of the building, allowing him to transform and warp the rooms and hallways for his own bidding, Meaning he could turn it into a seemingly unending labyrinth if he so wished to, and block the entrance.

Eventually, blinded (both metaphorically and physically) by his own rage, Danny grew powerful enough to appear physically in the living realm and attacked everyone in the base, slaughtering them all and leaving the base abandoned. He attacks anyone who dares enter -- whether that be other league members, or the unfortunate hiker who stumbled across the base. His conscious is steeped into every nook and cranny of the building, there is nowhere you can hide where he can't find. Nobody leaves without his explicit say so. Nobody ever does.

Him appearing as ten years old before Damian in the skits above is his own physical doing. First it was to prevent Damian from being suspicious of him. Damian initially thought Danny was revived with the pits, he was too busy with his own training afterwards to notice that Danny never showed up again, and when he did notice, he assumed it was because Danny was too ashamed of his loss to face him. He'd always forget to ask about him.

Then it becomes a personal choice to appear as ten. It's how old he would've been had he been alive.

danny forgiving Damian is kinda for an offshoot branch of the main au. Whereas the main au takes the form of a ps4 first person horror game where Damian and Tim are investigating the Base for Plot Reasons. There's no sign of the rumored "monster" living inside until the end, where Danny, who was found inside the Base and has been happily "helping" them look around, manages to persuade Damian into splitting off from Tim in order to "show him something."

This something turns out to be Danny revealing that he never really forgave Damian for that fight, and he reveals through a horrifying transformation, that he was the monster the whole time. Which the game subtly hints at throughout as Danny's strange behavior becomes harder to ignore.

First from his insistence to only refer to Damian as "older brother" (when before the duel he always called him Damian or Dami), to him right off the bat denying the existence of a monster when questioned. ("There's no monster here, older brother. It's just me.") To other various things, like his knowledge of the outside world not matching up to modern times or things going on with the league outside of the base, or what happened to the other league members.

This whole idea was inspired by the song "Scylla" from Epic the Musical, with Danyal being the voice of Scylla as well as Odysseus, while Damian stands as Eurylochus. The instrumentals after Scylla says "hello" is him turning into the pit beast, and Scylla's "drown in your sorrow and fears" part is danny, as the pit beast, snarling at Damian while he attacks him.

There's a Good Ending, a Bad Ending, and a True Ending. The Bad Ending results in Damian being killed by Danny, it happens when Damian decides not to question or suspect Danny and treats him kindly. The Bad Ending is a cutscene, where Danny kills Damian quick and painlessly.

Meanwhile the Good Ending is Damian killing Danny. This is a boss fight, and it happens when Damian treats Danny coldly and suspiciously the whole time. Danny as a result, decides to make Damian's death painful as he had planned to, which is why it's a boss fight because it only causes him to double down on his anger.

The True Ending is Damian escapes with Tim. It happens when you treat Danny warmly up until the last minute, where when Danny proposes to Damian that he wants to show him something, Damian goes to talk to Tim and finally, reluctantly agrees that something is off with Danny, and that he'll be careful going in. It starts off with the boss fight until a third through, where it then changes to a cutscene where Tim manages to get the door open and Damian escapes out. It's then a chase scene down a never-ending hallway as the building actively works to keep you trapped inside. But you eventually make it to the exit so long as you avoid all the projectiles and doors.

Remember when I mentioned that Danny only lets people leave when he wants them to? That's where the treating Danny kindly throughout the game comes into play. It causes him to second guess himself and, eventually, reawaken and strengthen the love and admiration he had for Damian prior to his murder. It's why in the Bad Ending he kills Damian quickly -- because by then, he loves him enough that he doesn't want him to suffer, but is still so consumed by his rage and need for vengeance that he kills him anyways. That quiet part is what allows Damian (and Tim) to find the exit, because some part of Danny still loves Damian enough that he wants him to live.

The True Ending ends with a cutscene of Damian and Tim tumbling out into the snow/grass outside of the base. Damian looks up back to the entrance to see Danny standing there. But rather than a ten year old boy, there's a little five year old Danyal Al Ghul instead. He stares at Damian emotionlessly, blood seeping from his chest, staining his clothes, and little, bloody sword in his hands and tearstains on his cheeks, before he turns away and disappears back into the building.

[romantashas]

the echoes of us. – Chapter 8: The Bells

“I’m glad you’re here,” she says, her voice low, almost intimate in the way she says it. His brows lift slightly as he stares up at her. “Of course. I’m always here.” She doesn’t wait for another beat. She steps closer, closer until there’s nothing left between them. In a fluid motion, she straddles his lap, her legs settling on either side of him. She reaches up, fingers grazing his jawline in a quiet, familiar gesture that makes his breath hitch for a moment. “Lucy…” Tim’s voice is soft and wanting, but there’s a hint of uncertainty beneath it. His hands hover near her waist, but he doesn’t pull her closer, as if waiting for some signal, some cue from her.

read on ao3.

[snuize]

excuse me waiter, i'll have more of these menaces please

id like to thank the local idiot who keeps showing me these (but with the sims 2) in the middle of ethics class @expired-rice

[echoishere69]

Pls just imagine being moots on tumblr or twitter with one of the Batkids and not realising 1. That they are a vigilante or 2. That they’re even Wayne kids.

Just imagine getting a notification from ‘mrsbennettlover’ and just being like “oh yeah that’s my moot, we like talking about classic literature and the politics behind it. He felt very strongly about Coleen Hoover as well and it’s funny cause that’s how we became moots”

Or like your just mutuals with this account that dumps the craziest theories about superheroes and celebrities. You don’t hate any famous person really but you think this account is fucking hilarious and the person regularly comes to you to be like “this isn’t a crazy theory is it???” After you corrected their info once to help prove one of their theories even more.

I just like to imagine the kids all having second secret online personas where they’re just normal people. Babs knows as well but she lives for the drama and just watches them all go insane online about their interests or whatever else.

Also imagining the kids just go “oh yea that’s my mutual. They’re chill” and Bruce being like “your what???”

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, the Welsh national anthem, mentions leek soup four times.

During the Civil War, Walt Whitman made extra money drawing caricatures of soldiers.

Due to a fraternity prank in 1955, several Boston laws were signed into existence by Tim the Beaver, mascot for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The literal translation of the title of the Chinese version of the movie Pretty Woman is California Prostitute Challenge.

"An unused broom means an unclean house" was the saying that most inspired Vlad the Impaler.

Echo Park, Los Angeles

[krizeros]

Zelda and Tri trying out the business scrubs new drinks

[hawktims]

FELLOW TRAVELERS (2023) 1.06: BEYOND MEASURE

[tarwis]

About Robin…

Robin is light, Robin is hope, Robin is magic.

Batman is darkness, Batman is vengeance, Batman is justice.

Dick was light, hope and magic. Jason was light, hope and magic. So was Tim. So was Steph, for however short.

Do you know who isn’t light, hope and magic?

Damian f***ing al Ghul.

Damian is dark, broody, full of hate and vengeance. Sounds familiar?

Am I saying he’s evil, tainted, or irredeemable? No. Am I saying he is too full of unaddressed trauma to be Robin? Yes! Every Robin before him had trauma in some shape or form, but his is the one unaddressed by the writers. So, yes, Gotham needs Batman, Batman needs Robin and we already have a perfectly Robin-shaped child to fill the role. (I’ve already reblogged the whole post about that, but for good measure, here:

So, who should Damian be and what happens with my precious headcanon identities Cardinal and Crow?

Robin is Dick’s legacy and Dick’s alone. It was why he was so mad that Bruce gave it to Jason without asking — Robin was Dick’s mom’s pet name for him. Robin’s colours are the Grayson’s colours and the whole Robin identity revolves around Dick’s family, their deaths and his attempt at avenging them. Batman is Bruce’s, Robin is Dick’s, but Bruce forgot that, thinking Robin was Batman's. And he passed it along, making Robin a tainted legacy where Batman is a symbol of darkness. Fitting, yes, and morbidly ironic, just as Gotham likes it.

So now, to keep the legacy, the city keeps spewing children who crawled out of various holes to fight against the darkness, inspired by the hope and light and magic that Robin is. The world tells them to give in to the darkness, to give up the light, and they spit in the world's face in defiance. (Another thing Damian isn’t. He’s a spoiled prince in both worlds, trained to be a weapon. He didn’t have the chance to choose to fight for light and hope, because the choice was made for him)

So, once Robin (Tim) becomes an adult, I think he should break the tainted cycle. Just like Tim was Duke’s Robin, I think there will be other children inspired by him and for whom the only Robin will be Tim, too young to know of Robin's messy history. Children who refuse to back down and it is either train them before they go out to fight, or pretend you can stop them and they go out untrained to die. They may not become Robin, but maybe they can all be robins, if the idea of many street children in bird costumes infesting the streets to fight crime under the watchful eye of the Red mama bird (since I'm sure at least half of them will be Alley kids and everyone knows that Robin and hurting children are not allowed in Red Hood's territory) is appealing to anyone.

Meanwhile, as Robin continues as a legacy, Tim will probably also take a more secretive alias — Cardinal. Where Robin will be loud and funny and a bit cheeky, Cardinal will be invisible and silent. Both will be dangerous, sharp and precise, but Cardinal will be more like a dark mirror hidden in the shadows that Robin’s light casts. Because Tim is both and his work in the underground world cannot be associated with Robin.

Alternatively, Tim could take the mantle of Crow as a secondary occupation and work exclusively as an informant and hacker. A shadowy presence in the internet almost on par with Oracle and her "unofficial rival", if the rumours spread among the Bats’ enemies by O and C themselves are to be believed. Again, no connection to Robin, who will still be active and well in the field.

If Tim decides to create Cardinal, that may leave Crow to Damian if he does not want to be called Batboy, but somehow Crow does not fit him. He could also decide to go all in and call himself Shadow to mock or acknowledge his past. He could be Echo, a silly little reference to the echolocation of bats. There are many names under which Damian can thrive, but I don’t think Robin is one of them.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[echowithpain]

I'm still not planning on watching the new season whenever it comes out, but I miss 911.

I miss what it was before the 2nd Lab Rats episode.

I miss being able to rewatch the entire series without the thought of "they're gonna fuck all this up for no reason" constantly hanging over my head whenever something fun happens.

I might come back if they bring Bobby back within the first 3 episodes, but if not then I'm forever done with this series and will never forgive Tim Minear for how much he fucked up a great show.

[koskela-knights]

Jaakko/Tim sketches 🥰

[havenshereagain]

WIP Wednesday!

I did finally finish the de-aged Tim fic (i'm waiting for that prompt for batfam week to post) so i'm not gonna post a snippet of it, but I do have two others to post from! One is kinda a vent fic of a thing i've been thinking about in my own life applied to Tim and Dick (i know i make their relationship strained a lot, but i enjoy playing with their dynamic) - not sure why i've been thinking about it since it happened years ago, but i am. The other is inspired by finding out DC has their own version of ao3, with Jaytim both being fic writers reading each other's hero RPF without realizing who the other is

Tim and Dick Vent Fic

Dick's face softened slightly at that and he patted Tim's hand. "You're too old for that, bud," he said, and Tim felt his heart break. Of course. It was the same argument his parents always used about physical affection - it was childish to want, Tim was too old, he was better than that. He just hadn't expected Dick to think the same thing.

He wrenched his hand from Dick's, turning on his side away from him. "Righ'," he muttered, trying to blink back the tears welling in his eyes. "'m too old t'need t'be taken care of. You can-" he broke off to cough, sitting up against the pillows but still keeping his eyes off Dick. Tim couldn't look at him right now. "You can go." Tim felt a hand on his shoulder and pulled away from it, lurching forward with another cough.

Jaytim Tales of Our Own

Tim was always blown away by how well dar managed to write he and Jason's relationship. They almost always managed to actually get Red Robin right - he wouldn't just stand back or stand down, he would argue with Red Hood, push back against his bullshit, and, when they wrote combat, was able to hold his own easily. They wrote Hood getting saved by Red more often than the other way around, though the new fic was an exception.

It was actually reminiscent of something that'd happened maybe a month or so ago, where Tim got in over his head with some drug traffickers and waited until the last minute to call for back up - only for Jason to show up barely two minutes later and decimate the guys. Jason had apparently already been on his way for his own reasons when Tim's call for back up went through, and he was pissed about Tim going in on his own. The two had actually argued briefly on a rooftop about it - maybe a clip of that had been the inspiration? Usually Tim was good about not being filmed, but he'd been tired and annoyed that night, and even he wasn't perfect about spotting onlookers.

[romantashas]

the echoes of us. – Chapter 1: The Porters

In which Lucy and Tim go on a long-term undercover assignment as a married couple, after their breakup. It goes as well as you’d expect. Post S6 finale Chenford fic.

read on ao3.

[ichor-emia]

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✦ rebranded recently!✦

✦astronomic-explorer -> ichor-emia✦

✦ call me august/jay and my pronouns are she/they

✦mdd haver (its rough out here folks)

✦personal tag: jay.txt✦

✦ 20

✦ ao3: moderately_mediocre (psst! 2 new birdflash fics out!)

✦ goodreads: Jay_reads

✦ current obsessions:

✦ dc (absolute flash, wally west, tim drake, batfam and flashfam, yj 1998)

✦ tmnt (rottmnt specifically)

✦ loz (botw/totk)

✦ literature/books (sylvia plath, stephen king, andy weir)

i am looking for new moots! especially if ur interests align with mine, but please do not follow if you ship b@tcest or tcest bc i will block u <3

also appreciate my cat because he's dead </3

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[kore-arts]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM DRAKE

Sorry for Casting so many curses on you lol

First three are for a Magic user Tim au called Echo.

Next two are a Hades game inspired au. Which has other designs for Gothamites (the new city of Monsters)

Then two of the Dragon boy from home long found, being gifted a Aragon amulet from his ancestor;)

Lbm Meme, Eldritch Mer and Lazarus Drake au

[echoishere69]

Me when any of the Batkids exist:

(This includes Dick, Jason, Cass, Duke, Tim, Steph, Damian and Babs even if she’s technically not been adopted per say by Bruce)