#ghostbat!reader

[sassatoru]

GHOST OR BAT?

pairing. batfam + ghostmaker x ghostbat!reader

summary. reader is a dna mix of ghostmaker and batman.

warnings. ghostbat drama, Minhkhoa Khan, I’m confused, cursing, canon typical violence.

a/n. I am bored out of my mind, might become a mini series. That I just randomly add stuff to. The mask referred to is kinda like Jason’s from red hood and the outlaw just minus the eye cover.

wc. 0.8k (not proofread)

You kept to your spot beside Talia, staying alert to the people in front of you. Batman and his children, plus Ghostmaker. You remembered reading up on each of them, studying all of them.

You eyes were focused on the oldest of the Batkids, Dick Grayson. He’d be your biggest problem, the man was severely underestimated but in Talia’s eyes he’d be the most capable assassin if he wanted to.

Cassandra Cain, you knew her. You fought her, you looked different then though, and by her stance you assumed she hadn’t connected the dots but she remained watching you.

Jason Todd, you helped train him. Never with your mask off, and you never spoke. Only ever instructed to fight him till he learnt.

Tim Drake. Held in high regard among the league, with smarts to match that of Batman’s. But not much of a problem, you’d have no problem with him.

Your eyes glided over to the youngest of the bunch, Damian. You’d die before letting your blade touch him, and he’d hesitate before raising his against you. He didn’t know you truely, you didn’t even know yourself truely. But he knew you’ve protected him.

Behind your mask you glared at the tallest two in the room. But your hands kept the same elegant hold on your swords, like Talia taught you.

Batman, Bruce Wayne. The world’s greatest detective. Truthfully you’ve always wanted to fight him, see how long you’d last, see if you could take him down. But that wasn’t going to happen unless he attacked, and he wouldn’t. He was smarter than that.

You glanced at the man in white, face masked so his expression remained covered. Minhkhoa Khan, the Ghostmaker. Not much was known about him, but the League of Assassins or anyone for that matter. He’d be the most unpredictable, you think.

“Mother,” Damian addressed the woman beside you. You remained stationary as she walked towards her son, brow raised in slight alarm as you stepped closer hesitantly, watching the others.

Damian moved through the crowd of his siblings to step before his mother, they greeted before he nodded to you, acknowledging your presence.

“Dear,” Talia called to you, she’d never used your name, saying that it was your secret to reveal so she only ever called you ‘dear’.

“You may speak,” she sighed softly, a strange softness in her voice. But you ignored it and nodded in response, she turned to the crowd of vigilantes.

“I suggest your other children leave,” Talia says. “The matter I’ve come to discuss is… personal. In a sense.”

Bruce narrowed his eyes at the assassin woman before nodding, earning a groan from each of his children, who begrudgingly walked away towards the stairs that lead back to the manor.

“Damian stay,” Talia ordered, the boy halted his movements and stepped to his father’s side.

Now the room remained with five people in it. Ghostmaker, Batman, Damian, Talia and you.

“I have some rather—“

“Disturbing,” you offered, voice distorted due to your mask. Khoa raised a brow at the robotic voice, good way to keep yourself hidden.

“Yes,” she nodded. “This child,” she motioned to you. “Happens to be a mix of the two of you.” She then motioned to Bruce and Khoa. Both of whom stared at you in response.

“Disturbing, all right.” Khoa murmured to himself, watching you, analysing you. Though he couldn’t be too surprised, considering Damian Wayne.

Bruce glared at you, “you’re lying.”

“I wish,” you scoffed, glaring back at him. Your eyes shadowed by your hood, and voice distorted by the mask that only covered the lower half of your face.

—

The three of you stood in silence after Damian and Talia left the room, neither of you looking at each other.

“You’re sick,” Bruce mutters, glaring at Talia before pointing at you.

“The child is a wonder of science, if anything i did you both a favour.” Talia shrugs, Bruce raising a brow in response.

“Enlighten me.”

“Think, a child with both your skills. The perfect weapon,” Talia replies. Khoa nods slightly, thinking it through, the perfect weapon.

“So, how many kills, kid?” Khoa speaks up, causing you to shift your gaze to Talia who nods.

“I don’t count them, they’re insignificant to me.” You mutter, detached, Bruce thinks, just like Khoa.

The Ghostmaker nods in understanding, as if he were impressed with the answer. “Smart girl.”

“Why did you come here? I doubt you were doing anyone a favour by exposing your secret.” Bruce asks Talia.

“I need you to look after her, i will be gone for a while. And i don’t trust my father with her, and i don’t trust her not to try and kill him again. She’ll be here also to watch over Damian.”

“Why?” Bruce presses, and Talia doesn’t bother answering as she’s already gone

All eyes turn to you, watching you as intently as you watched each of them. Now what?

© e-nonsense. do no copy/steal/translate. do it and I’ll bite your toes off

[cairoscene]

14 and 15 for lover be good to me and also 5 for lipstick on the glass!!!

wow sorry i decided i needed to reread my fics to answer and then i didn’t do that for 20 days. anyway

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

for context lover be good to me is my ghostbat feelings depository and tbh…. when i wrote it i set out to a) exorcise porn thoughts and b) convert people into reading batman: the knight. that’s pretty much it. i’m still quite self-conscious of it having written it as a general non-comics reader but i did read and enjoy btk and kind of wanted to seduce other people into my little world where we’re pretending that this version of batman is the only batman (for now).

now i would say i want readers to learn about the appeal of ghostbat. its a dead ship rip minhkhoa khan dc never knew how to write you anyway queen BUT. i think they have a lot of merit

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

lover be good to me was really important to me when i wrote it because it taught me i could write again. i’m the kind of writer who is both unmotivated and extremely self-conscious and afraid of Making Bad Art, which means i go very long periods where i don’t write anything. at all. currently in one of those btw. this fic taught me that i can write, and will write, and when i do the results are not perfect but they are compelling and worthwhile

5: What part was hardest to write?

lipstick on the glass is mostly fun silly gushy timkon and tbh it flowed out of me fairly painlessly. i had two specific scenes in mind and let myself write just those and nothing else, no complications, so i remember the process being smooth. tbh the hardest part was realizing i had to come up with halloween costumes for everyone and floundering. thankfully @vinelark came up with void nexus jerry and that took care of pretty much everything

ask meme in question

[rabnerd28]

GhostBat anon here, there's so few people talking about the ship, sometimes I feel like I'm just yeeting my ghostbat fics into the void. It also bothers me that there's two tags for the ship on ao3. Also I like your fics. :)

I know there's a way to contact Ao3 to tell them about the tag problem but I don't know how. We should probably move all our fics to Minhkhoa Khan/Bruce Wayne. That's gonna be the one people are more likely to use in the future. Honestly it's all my fault. I posted all the ones with the hyphen in Ghost-Makers name not realizing there was already one without it. 😳

I get the feeling of yeeting the fics into the void. One day we'll be big. Sadly a lot of Batfam fan fic readers/writers aren't always up to date on the new characters and Khoa is pretty new. Am I obsessed with him? Yes. Is anyone else? No. Hopefully we'll get some love later on.

[sassatoru]

Hi sorry to ask but do you have any plans to continue your ghostbat reader piece?

not consistently, maybe if you give me a request and if i ever come up with random ideas to add on

[sassatoru]

okay. upcoming fics because I’m clearing out my drafts. no schedule but I’ll tell you what’s coming. ghostbat!reader, roy harper smut, part 2 of little prince jason, the next part of the duchess series, and more batsis fics

[sassatoru]

batsis brainrot, where she's the biological daughter of both Khoa and Bruce but she's already like fifteen or smth a trained assassin (league + talia) and she's more like khoa than bruce and she has to choose who to live with and she's not used to being given a choice so she trials both of them for a month and blah blah.

dunno if i should write it maybe later :)