#robin numero dos

[manyu-ten]

Ah yes, Jason Todd. Always the perfect scapegoat but never the perfect victim.

[manyu-ten]

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How well do you think you can tell Dickbin and Jaybin apart? Take my quiz and find out! Also there's a Tim thrown in there to fuck with you. And a Brothers In Blood reference to fuck with @glitter-stained

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[shnjblj]

Hush2 draws parallels of the history repeating.

The once and future Batman blockbuster called Hush is back to tell us something new about broken promises and kept secrets, allies and enemies taking new masks and behaving differently.

Second issue repeats watercolor memories and visions of anger, which enamored me verily the first time Jim Lee did it. And it isn't the only pattern that shows. Just like the original arc was about mindgames, more specifically subliminal images put into subconscious mind to program the Dark Knight for desired board game move, now Lee does it to us, the audience. He uses the story to frame old moves and poses into new settings and actors.

+ A friend wants to stop me (from doing insane things with Joker) with a gun.

+ not my vs my

+ memory in the flesh

+ a green one waiting in the dark for transaction with a stiff pose

Original Hush conspirator Eddy is back to help the Batfamily, just like original conspirator numero dos Jason is back to steal Joker from the cave and take him to Hush (supposedly).

Just like in the original second chapter broken Batman gets taken from Crime Alley to cave to childhood friend who happens to be dr, this second issue Bruce takes broken Joker to childhood friend in Crime Alley who happens to be dr and then takes Robin Killer to the cave. In the original Batman can't Batman till the doc doesn't fix his nogging, this issue Joker can't Joker ie laugh till Crime Alley doc doesn't patch him up. Will doc Elliot fix damage he did to the Crime Prince?

Batman changed suit last issue. Riddler gets new outfit here also. Huntress got a new look in the original blockbuster. Theme repeats. Will we get explanation about Eddy's buff figure and commando question mark? Is he scared of someone whose moniker rhymes with lush? Running from someone who doesn't say to Aristotle Shush?

Hmmm. Jeph and Jim, you have my curiosity piqued.

Cue fitting soundtrack

[manyu-ten]

less is expected of me in comparison to you vs way too much is expected of me in comparison to you

i am the Shadow at your heels vs i am the Sun at zenith

i am free, unloved vs i am loved, unfree

and anger consumes them both. and the grief is so long that it disappears past the horizon. and i love you, but i don't love you in a way you understand. and you love me, but you don't love me in a way i understand. and i hurt you, love me anyways. and you hurt me, i love you despite it all. and i am the blood-caked dirt underneath the toe of your boots. and i am the whisper of gloved fingers against your throat. and i am your mirror, broken. and i am the shard that which you cut yourself with. and i don't owe you anything. and you don't owe me anything. and our father looms over us—is he holding us down, or lifting us up?

and i don't know you. and you don't know me. still, I LOVE YOU.

Everyone likes you more than me, which is understandable because I'm fundamentally unlikable and you're not. You bought into a broken system even though you know it's broken, and you've been rewarded for it. You don't value me at all, and I hate to be near you. But if you ever needed anything I would crawl through glass to help.

vs

Everyone loves you more than me. You can be horrible and people still love you. I have to be good, always. I have to clean up after you, to compensate for you. You cause problems because you just can't accept what you can't change, and you never let anything rest. It's exhausting being around you, and I resent all the times I've had to deal with the fallout of your behaviour. I love you.

[i-care-bout-things-too]

Batfam Ages:

Okay, there is no such thing as an exact science when determining the ages of the Batfam, but the easiest thing you can do is work of the concrete ages that you /do/ know, and make them fit with canon events to the best of your ability. Now, canon changes all the time—which definitely makes this a challenge, but I’m going to just explain my process for determining their ages and you can disagree if you’d like, or you can use this to write fic like I do where ages are semi important,

Let’s begin. I’m going to give you the arbitrary number of 15, this will be important later.

Dick Grayson:

Depending on the canon, Dick is 8, 10, 12, or 15 when his parents die. All of these numbers will have problems depending on which you pick, but I go for the safe bet of 10 years old. Why? Well, a little known fact is that Dick ends up in juvie after his parents die, and he’s not immediately taken in by Batman. Thus, it takes a little while longer for him to become Robin, which doesn’t immediately happen after he becomes Bruce’s ward anyway, because Batman doesn’t immediately go and spill the beans. Thus, Dick ends up in Bruce’s car at around ten or eleven, but doesn’t become Robin until he’s 12.

Now Dick is Robin up until he’s about 18, when Bruce takes Robin from Dick because it’s too dangerous and Dick refuses to quit. Dick joins up with the teen titans full time, and he’s still Robin for a little while longer until we get Nightwing, aka Discowing, for the very first time at age 19. Simultaneously, while this is happening, a little kid is stealing the Batmobile’s tires.

Jason Todd:

Our beloved street rat Robin, Jason Todd, swings a tire iron at Batman and then gets taken out for fast food. It’s great, it’s cute, it doesn’t immediately lead to his adoption though, either. No, instead Jason ends up in an orphanage that is trafficking children. Bruce shows up one day to check up on Jason, and is made aware of this by his soon to be first adopted son (yeah, you heard me, Dick isn’t adopted yet). They take down the trafficking ring, and Bruce adopts Jason. Jason then becomes Robin at age 13.

Unfortunately for our boy, he was widely disliked by comic fans across North America, DC did a little telephone poll, and by a few hundred votes, DC changed comic history forever by killing off a high profile character what seems like /permanently/ for the first time ever. No resurrections this time. (Hah, right!). Which is to say, Jason Todd has the second shortest run as Robin at just two years, dying at age 15.

Tim Drake:

So then we get Robin numero 3. Tim Drake sees Batman getting darker and more violent and goes y’know, someone should do something about that. He tries talking to Nightwing, but he’s in a bad place with Bruce after learning Jason died via a Newspaper (yeah, Bruce sucks for that one), and tells Tim he won’t be going back to Robin. Thus, lil Timmy Drake gets an idea in his head. He looks himself in the mirror and goes, I can fix him, and then, Tim Drake becomes Robin at age 12.

Tim Drake has one of the longest runs as Robin, with only a mild interruption from a lil blond Bat.

Stephanie Brown:

Stephanie Brown starts off as the vigilante Spoiler, whose whole purpose in life is to spoil the plans of her C-list villain dad, Cluemaster. She meets Robin (Tim), hits him in the face with a brick, and then ends up dating him. Unlike most characters who appear a few times and never come back, Stephanie manages to stick around. She gets pregnant at age 15 (it’s not Tim’s, and no she did not cheat, this happened priorly), she gives birth, the baby is put up for adoption, and she becomes Robin after Tim’s dad, Jack Drake, finds out Tim is Robin and bans him from it. Tim is forced to quit and Stephanie picks up the mantle. She’s clocks in the shortest run as Robin, working with Batman for about two months before Bruce forces her to stop. Tim picks up the mantle again, and Steph goes back to being Spoiler—only to get killed by Black Mask, making her the second “Robin” to die. DC does retcon her death, and we later learn she was only badly beaten and sent off to live in a foreign country before she makes her return.

Jason Todd, Again:

While all this is going on, stuff is happening behind the scenes. Namely, Jason coming back to life. A common misconception here however is how long Jason was actually dead. While I wouldn’t be able to find the panels to confirm it, the true number is a “short” 6 months. Yep, while years passed in the real world, possibly decades, actually, Jason was dead all of 6 months. According to the books, he undigs himself from his grave six feet under (because Superboy punched through the multiverse or something?) and ends up wondering around Gotham as a mindless little zombie. Conveniently, Talia al Ghul stumbles upon her beloved’s lost little bird, and she decides to take him home and train him. He’s with them for a bit, gets dunked into a Lazarus pit, comes back very very angry, is shipped off to the all caste for a bit, and upon his return to the al Ghuls, is informed he’s been replaced by little Timmy Drake.

Jason makes his whole plan, and decides to make a splash by returning to Gotham wearing an old moniker of the Joker’s and taking over Gotham’s underworld. He beheads a few criminals, tries to kill Tim, tries to get Bruce to kill the Joker, and doesn’t really have success in those latter two objectives. That puts Jason at age 19, roughly. We don’t really know how to count the months he was dead.

Damian Wayne:

Shortly after Jason’s unmasking as the Red Hood, Damian Wayne turns 10 years old and beats his mother, Talia al Ghul, in combat. His prize is to be taken to his father and given to him for training. We know definitively that Damian is 10 thanks to this we can measure out the age gaps between the others and get their ages at this point in time. Dick at age 19 became Nightwing, while Jason is made Robin at age 13, so they have a six year age gap. Jason dying 2 years later at age 15 leads to Tim becoming Robin at age 12, they have a 3 year age gap. Tim is Robin for 3 years before Jason comes back and Damian trails after him a few months behind, putting Tim at around 16/17 while Damian is 10. I tend towards 16 instead of 17 because DC stopped aging Tim for a while, so it just makes more sense to pick the lower number. Thus, when Damian is 10, Tim is 16 as is Steph, Jason is 19, and Dick is 25.

Thanks to Damian being quite young, DC has kept an active track of how and when they age him. We know Damian is only with Bruce a few short months before he disappears into the time stream and Dick makes him Robin, and we also know that Damian’s 11th birthday is celebrated after Bruce is reinstated to the proper time. However, DC follows this up by killing Damian and making him the third Robin to die, the second to do so in the suit itself, and he’s dead for a significant number of months. In this time, Dick also dies—as in his heart is stopped by Lex Luthor for a few seconds, and then restarted, after his identity is revealed on live TV. Bruce decides to let the world believe Nightwing died and stayed dead, and Dick is sent off to Spyral to do secret spy stuff for Bruce. There is an issue around here in the “Grayson” run that claims Dick is twenty-one years old, which is ENTIRELY incompatible with the time line I just painstakingly established, and I go ahead and outright dismiss it because it clearly doesn’t work with a majority of canon. While Dick is with Spyral, Damian is brought back to life, and he goes on a year of redemption (which doesn’t actually last a whole year, but I digress). He and Dick meet again, and we move into Rebirth somewhere around here with the conclusion of Spyral and Batman and Robin Eternal.

General Events:

Damian turns 12 presumably sometime during rebirth, although not specified, I do believe Truth and Justice issue #6 to be his 12th or 13th birthday, but I lean towards 12 because of the costumes everyone wears in the issue. Steph is spoiler, Cass is Orphan, Tim is Red Robin, Red Hood has yet to don his solo Outlaw uniform, and Barbara is Batgirl.

I can’t name a specific issue for Damian’s 13th birthday, but it’s canonical that Damian turned 14 in his solo Robin series, Robin (2021) while he was off finding himself before the Lazarus Tournament, and since then, there’s been the Shadow War, Batman Vs Robin, Dark Crisis event somewhere around there, the Lazarus Planet event, Gotham War, DC Knight Terrors, and Beast World event, which catches us up to the modern day world.

Since Damian hasn’t yet turned 15 despite ALL of that going on, and is still for now at least, 14, that means Tim and Steph are 20, Jason is 23, and Dick is 29.

I know I mentioned Cass and Babs, and I would love to give you a proper age for them but I don’t know where to place them in DC canon like I do the others, however people do commonly place Cass roughly around the same age as Jason making her 22 or 23, and Babs tends towards being 6-8 years older than Dick, although that is an age gap DC has been slowly bridging over the years. Still, I put her at 35 years old. I don’t have a reference for Duke Thomas either, but he’s commonly placed as being two years younger than Tim making him 18 currently.

Lastly, I bring back the arbitrary number of 15, given that that is the number of years that separate Dick and Damian, I also use that age gap between Dick and Bruce—meaning that Bruce took Dick in when he was 25, and placing Bruce at 44 years old in main continuity.

Overall Ages Currently:

Bruce Wayne: 44

Barbara Gordon: 35

Dick Grayson: 29

Jason Todd: 23

Cassandra Cain: 22

Tim Drake: 20

Stephanie Brown: 20

Duke Thomas: 18

Damian Wayne: 14

[kindlingkeen]

Yo as the resident Jason Todd fan, maybe you can answer this for me because I haven’t been able to find the answer anywhere else.

At some point in RHATO, Jason gives up his most cherished memory. The one where he’s sick & Bruce stayed home with him.

He was offered it back, and told them to keep it. He refused the offer. I’ve heard that the memory gets mentioned again later but I don’t know if he ever actually really takes it back.

Do you know if he ever gets it back? It’s both sad and not if he doesn’t, because on one hand he’s losing a good memory, but on the other I think it helps cut him off from Batman. Which really might be good for him (looks at all the other comic issues w how Bruce has treated Jason)

Hey, anon. Thanks for the ask! 💙

I’m by no means an expert on the comics, but I did have a bit of a comic-buying hissy fit a bunch of months ago trying to answer this exact question for myself. Here’s what I concluded (complete with pretty pictures because I’m a firm believer in citing your sources):

So in the new 52 rhato #3 (written by Scott Lobdell), Jay, Roy and Kori each give up their most cherished memory to gain entrance to the Chamber of All. The memories are held by Sa’ru (an all powerful being is also apparently a bratty child?).

Sa’ru gives Roy and Kori their memories back when they exit the chamber, but Jay refuses his.

Skip forward a bunch of issues to rhato #19 and Jason actually has Sa’ru take all his memories after a thing with the Joker (that’s a whole different blog post) and he ends up with complete amnesia. The series is being written by James Tynion at this point, not Scott Lobdell.

But Jason eventually gets all of his memories back in rhato #26.

I think you can make a reasonable argument that Tynion intended this to include his most cherished memory, as Jason talks about remembering his finest moments, his lowest moments, etc. Note, the series is still being written by Tynion.

But now skip way way ahead to rhato rebirth #34, and we get this exchange. 

So, no, I guess he didn’t get it back? Note, that the series is back to being written by Lobdell at this point.

Honestly, I think this is just another stellar example of dc saying, continuity, consistency? What are these strange and foreign concepts? And thus authors doing whatever they want, to hell with any prior storylines. Tynion was clearing going for an arc where Jason reclaimed his memories. Lobdell had a different idea in mind.

I don’t know that it really matters either way. I mean it’s one memory, right? So even if it’s gone, Jason’s second most cherished memory just moves up into spot numero uno. Based on how much Bruce clearly meant to Jason, and that Bruce was actually a good Dad in most of the comics featuring Robin!Jason, I’m guessing that that memory is of the two of them together, too.

I’d say go with whatever makes you happy and fits your own head canons for Jason. I hate the whole storyline and pretend it doesn’t exist while I stick my tongue out at dc and tell them liberally to fuck right off.

Hopefully that was helpful/informative, or at least worth a merit badge toward my resident Jason Todd fan status (I’m expecting my vest in the mail any day now).

[thieves-in-the-palace]

☆ That blue-haired boy from the rooftop joins the team! Introducing Shun Kanou, codename…Soy? i made fun of Cattle but damn dude that's kinda rough

★ Shun's Persona is apparently named Mandrin. It's likely based off the French highwayman Louis Mandrin of Dauphiné, who earned the title of "the Robin Hood of France" for his defiance of the deeply corrupt (and widely despised) Ferme générale – royal tax collectors. With no set limit to their taxation powers aside from what they were required to pass along to the king, the fermiers could (and did) tax people as they pleased for personal profit.

☆ Chihaya (and Wanna-kun!!) spotted! Her dialogue is something along the lines of "nothing good can come from pursuing your desires" and then a plug for her fortune telling services.

★ ya boy is Cooking

☆ Takemi is back with her array of helpful medicines!…not that we didn't already know that, but it's still nice to see the good doctor again.

★ Footage of Palace numero dos! As many have predicted, it appears to mirror the traditional Japanese aesthetics found in Madarame's Palace.

☆ A possible view of the next boss? Or at least some sort of enemy from the second Palace, judging by the design. (It's shoved between shots of what looks like an escape sequence from the first Palace & a view of the first Palace final boss, though, so who knows.)

★ A very short shot of Shun's Persona awakening! Based on the background, it looks like it'll be taking place in the second Palace.

☆ I know how to make gifs now so u KNOW I had to get something of Jánošík looking cool during Wonder's Persona awakening

★ A new All-Out Attack! For the life of me, I can't figure out what the flavor text is. That second character looks like it might be 志?

☆ Anyway, we also get a view of three new playable characters! Jury's out on who the first two are, but that bespectacled, pigtail-having girl looks an awful lot like a certain Tomoko Noge…

★ Last but not least, we get to see unique attacks for most of the playable characters thus far! Most of the attack sequences appear to have been shortened for editing purposes, but Yusuke & Ann's look to be pretty complete!

[manyu-ten]

D1 Crashout = Dick Grayson, Grant Wilson

D1 Instigator = Jason Todd, Joey Wilson

[redsbid]

Reporter, trying to fish out their identities: And who would you say was your favourite Robin?

Nightwing, diplomatic: Every Robin earned their place rightfully and it would not be right to put any of them ahead of the other!

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Robin Damian: obviously the first one.

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Robin Tim: no arguments numero uno and maybe dos

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Batgirl Steph, clearly throwing rocks at Tim on another rooftop: the third was okay, but the fourth? hot damn if i could ask if they were single.

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Red Hood: none.

Reporter: Well you can’t just-

Red Hood: I said None, so if you want this interview to continue, stop-

*winding audio starts playing*

Off camera male voice: So, the third Robin, huh?

Supposedly Hood: yeah I guess he isn’t that bad. Don’t tell him though, he can’t know how much I like him.

Present Red Hood, cocking a gun: WHO THE FUCK-

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Batgirl Cass: Fourth and Third.

[violet-foxe]

Danny was kind of scared of what Damien would think of him. Like, this was a seriously bad impression. Dami, Robin, the Bat's son, who works with the Justice League, heroes, enforcers of the law, has just seen his brother get summoned for doing ghost crimes... Yeah, that is actually kind of funny.

So, distraction! If Danny can get away from the fact that he is technically a criminal, then he doesn't need to fight his brother! Again...

"You're Robin now?!" Distraction plan numero one: get him to talk about himself.

"You're a ghost criminal?!" Plan foiled! Distraction plan number dos: make it not a big deal (cuz it kind of isn't a big deal in all reality)

"Well, yeah. But only because I like hanging around the living, and Walker hates that. But come on man! The living have things like video games!"

"Walker?"

"Yeah, this guy who just makes up rules that everyone has to follow, doesn't tell anyone those rules, and then captures and imprisons those who break the stupid rules for insane lengths of time! It's completely insane! Like, he literally wrote down a rule in his book as a reason to take me for something I just did! I was just trying to get the thing back to the living world, but apparently being in possession of a 'real world item'" He air quotes that, "is a punishable offense for a thousand years. I'm not doing that."

"That does seem absurd." Damian lowered his sword. Plan successful! And he didn't even have to lie!

"Anyway..." He started messing with his cuffs, while intangibility doesn't work, that doesn't mean that he wasn't trained to escape handcuffs and other types of bondage from a young age. He slipped out of them using a sleeve trick and a little bit of flexibility. "Want me to help you take down that guy?" He pointed his thumb to the magician dude who was slowly backing up throughout this conversation.

"Gladly."

The demon twins fell back to their old style of fighting. They worked together like a well oiled cog, when one twin had a weakness, the other covered. When one twin made an opening, the other capitalized on it. All of this to say that the magician went down quickly and anticlimactically.

"Sooo..." Started Nightwing, looking between them. "You never told me you had a twin! Who's older?"

Damian just looked affronted "Well I clearly-"

"Well it matters how you count it." Danny interrupted.

"Huh?" Red Robin asked, looking somehow more tired than he did before, which is a feat.

"Do you count how long we lived, or who was born first?"

All the bats looked stricken. They were probably thinking about the fact that Danny is a ghost for the comment on how old he was, and he is a ghost, but that's not what he meant. Danny came out of Mother first, but he was stillborn, and needed a quick dunk in the Lazarus pit, so he technically was alive after Damian, who was out and breathing by the time Danny came up. It was always a big fight over who is older because of that.

Danny still stand by the fact he is older, after all, if someone's heart stopped temporarily, you don't shove their birthday back a bit. Damien is firm in the belief that aging doesn't start until the first breath though.

"Um, who was born first." And just like Danny planned, they avoided the life and death question.

Danny proudly pointed to himself, "that makes me the elder brother!"

Damien just had to ruin he momen, "You were stillborn, I took the first breath. You needed the Lazarus."

"I was still born first, which means I'm older" he glared playfully at his younger brother. (Yes he did the stillborn pun on purpose, no he wouldn't apologize)

Damian just glared at his dead twin brother.

Danny successfully distracted his brother from ghost crimes, and also the fact that 'hey, your brother, you know the one you killed, yeah he's a ghost now, and he's right in front of you.' granted, the Lazarus pit did heal him from the dead a second time, before he had made his way to America. Man, three times dead in this life... Wait no, four! His birth, at the end of his time with the league, his first death to be a halfa, and a second time after the whole thing with Desiree. (He's not counting every time he shifts between human and ghost for the sake of his sanity)

Ok ok so hear me out Twins au. Danny and Damian are twins. And you know the whole story. Danny gets "killed " moves in with the Fenton's and becomes phantom. Ad Damian doesn't know that. Well the magician summoning Damian's dead brother to enact his revenge on him has a very bad timing

"Oh robin. Dont you know the dead can have fangs. I've heard of a little tale. Of how you killed your own brother. Your twin in a quite a cruel and merciless way don't you think?" The magician drawls on over the horribly over used repetitive lines.

But it still stops Damian in his tracks. He can see as his family stop and look at him. With the look of horror and well concern. And he hates it. He can feel their gazes on him and it burns his skin.

He stops and tries to yell at them. To do something. To stop dawdling around.

Until a right flash of green stopped him. The circle lit up as a clawed hand grasped the edge from inside.

Unfortunately the magician wasn't a phony.

The being slowly crawls itself out. It's wearing striped prison clothes with conically oversized shackles? Huh.

Damian muses to himself as he prepares for battle . Must represent his or rather their lives in the league of assassin's.

The being finally looks up and shouts

"HAHA YOU CAN SUC MY DIC WALKER. I MAY BE OUT NOT ON MY OWN VOLITION BUT IM GONNA DO GHOST CRIMES AGAIN . And there's nothing you can do about it. "

"Ghost crimes exist? What even are ghost crimes???" Dick whispered to Jason

"I don't know but I am so angry at the implications of ghost cops. " Jason replies

[a-sour-nectarine]

The care and keeping of the Batclan: a guide by Duke Thomas.

Numero uno: don't take Damian's stuff. This is more so for Tim's health than yours. The kid has a vendetta.

Keep Dick away from fire.

Cassie's favorite movie is Tangled.

Steph's least favorite movie is Tangled. I'm pretty sure those two things are directly related.

Damian doesn't half-ass anything. Nothing. Even if he deems it below him. Keep that information in mind, always.

All of Tim's friends have super speed. Don't be alarmed.

Jason and Tim both have very strong Cain instincts and level them almost exclusively at each other

Dick is not as naive as he lets you think! Do not be fooled! He pretends he's stupid just to catch you off guard when he drops the act. I only feel comfortable telling you this because he vehemently denies he does it, therefore he can't justify feeding me to the dinosaur without admitting his catfishing to the world.

Cass gets wildly uncomfortable around the color chartreuse. I have never asked why, out of fear for my bones. I'm pretty sure no one else has ever noticed.

Selina's favorites are Tim and Damian. Beware random gifts of kittens. And fish. She doesn't trust Tim to take care of a cat, but she gives him fish, to stay on theme.

Harley's favorite is Jason. If you walk in on them whispering to each other, run.

Stephanie. Keep an eye on Stephanie. She has a penchant for injuring herself. Like, to a ridiculous extent.

Tim seems sweet, right? WRONG. He is a Red-Robin-shaped ball of rage and knows how to utilize it.

Get on Babs' good side. It will mean the difference between life and death.

Notify Damian if you find Alfred the Cat missing. He will know where to find him. Don't follow him, wherever he goes (the kid, not the cat).

Tim is allergic to walnuts. HE FORGETS! PLEASE KEEP AN EYE ON THE WALNUTS.

Don't touch Dick without his permission. He might seem cuddly and tactile, but that's not consent. Don't ask about Tarantula, either.

Don't ask anyone about Tarantula. It was bad, someone died. That's all you need to know.

Damian likes silence, but silence with a companion. Keep in mind that it's rude to ask about a drawing before it's finished.

Billie Holiday is one of Bruce's triggers. Do not play Billie Holiday.

No butterflies in the Cave.

Don't let Damian and Jason patrol together. You don't want to have to clean that up.

Do not let Steph patrol with Jason either. That's just dangerous. Not for either of them, though.

Speaking of patrol, Batcow does not actually fight crime. She doesn't need a kevlar suit. She doesn't even have opposable thumbs.

the rest of the family:

Steph | Tim | Babs | Cass | Bruce | Jason | Dick | Damian

[theveryfires]

two idiots | eddie munson x reader

summary: it's movie night, halloween is coming up, and two idiots are hopelessly in love.

a/n: hi there lovelies! sorry its been a few days since my last post. i just want to say a massive thank you for all the love! this is just a silly one, major fluff warnings. also i've been struggling wit a bit of burnout recently, but this is such a cute idea i couldnt not at least try and write it. hope you enjoy!

Family Video was quiet, save for a few stragglers wandering the isles at the back of the store. Robin was manning the counter, her head in her hands as she struggled to stay awake, caught in the drone of the eight hour shift delirium. Despite her valiant fighting, sleep was beginning to take over as her only source of entertainment was stuck sorting through videos in the back. 

However, the liminal silence that haunted downtown Hawkins was quickly broken as the front door swung open. Dustin marched in first with Eddie following close behind, the pair caught in a heated debate about their next DnD campaign; pausing only to offer their hellos to Robin. Behind them, half-listening to the squabbling of the pair in front of her was Y/n. Robin perked up a little, offering a tired grin as Y/n leant against the counter, mirroring Robin with her head in her hands. “How long have they been like that?” Y/n’s eyes peeked out from behind her eyes, exhaustion from school and the incessant argument clouding their usual warm glow. “Pretty much since we left school. I’m hoping they shut up for the movie, although who knows…last time we watched Little Shop of Horrors they sang all the way through it…bless them.” Y/n cast a small smile over her shoulder to Eddie, her annoyed gaze softening as she watched him wind up Dustin. He had his arm thrown around the kids shoulder, whispering to him, probably trying to sway his movie choice to one of his favourites like Ferris Bueller or Beetlejuice. A laugh escaped her as Dustin pushed Eddie away by his face, insisting ‘he could choose his own movie’. 

“I see your busy as ever.” Y/n’s teasing brought a faux frown to Robins face as she pushed her arm, rolling her eyes simultaneously as she looked around at the deserted video shop. “My usual entertainment is stuck in the back…speaking of, wheres dingus numero dos?” 

As if on command, Eddie appeared by Y/n’s side. His arms automatically worming around her waist, his head resting on top of hers as he pulled her so her back was against his chest. “Movie night Buckley, Henderson’s turn to choose though. Hopefully it’s better than that yuck fest my girl here made us watch last time.” Eddie’s head moved to the side, smiling as angelic as the devil could. “Hey! Don’t think i didn’t catch you crying by the end, Munson.” The couple stuck their tongues out at one another, soon breaking into laughter as they both noticed Robin’s disgusted face. “I know you idiots are in love, but can you please keep the cutesy stuff to a minimum? I think my heart might vomit.” 

The couple responded in tandem, tongues out and scrunching their eyes shut with furrowed brows. Robin countered through mime, acting out violently vomiting her guts out whilst Eddie lead Y/n over to the sci-fi section. Halloween was fast approaching and the couple were notorious within their little freaky family for having the best costumes in all of Hawkins, maybe even Indiana. Y/n has suggested going as Columbia and Eddie (as in Meatloaf) from Rocky Horror which Eddie wasn’t totally opposed to. But he had some other plans which of course included Dustin. 

Eddie had spent weeks thinking of the right costume, finally settling on it a few days prior after their cinema date. Y/n had been begging to do a vampire theme, only settling with Rocky Horror because it was his favourite. She was always doing that, putting others wants and needs in front of her own. It’s what had got her caught up in all the mess with the Upside Down, what had brought her and Eddie together. He had wanted to do something special for her, and he knew how much Dustin meant to her. The kid was basically her little brother, he had thought they actually were siblings when they met.

 She had burst into the drama class, glasses slipping off the end of her nose and wearing scuffed sneakers. Dustin had actually yelped, gathering up his things as whilst she glared at him. “I know this club means a bunch but thats the second time this week Dusty? We’ve already missed the trailers and Steve isn’t gonna wait for us for..ever” Eddie had already been standing, his eyes felt like they were gonna pop out of his head as she offered a small smile. “Sorry to barge in but we’ve got a date with David Bowie.” Dustin had offered a sorry as he ran out the class, not bothering to wait for Y/n that had lingered, caught under something she couldnt quite place. Eddie had moved to stand in front of Y/n, towering over her as the rest of Hellfire watched. “Henderson never mentioned he had a pretty older sister” He was weird, Y/n had always known it. The two had sort of been friends but that was too long ago for either of them to remember. “That’s probably because I’m his babysitter, dingus.”

Back in Family Video, Eddie and Y/n browsed the isles. Eddie was paying more attention to Y/n, his eyes watching her whisper the films titles, hands sliding over the glossy covers. Everything about her pulled him in, resulting in him constantly having some kind of contact most of the time. Today he had his pinky locked with hers, letting her drag him along as something new caught her attention. “So…yknow we were thinking about costumes?” Y/n nodded, her attention still not quite on Eddie as she read the blurb for some new tacky rom-com. “I know we always do couples, but why not add in a…not add in but i have a fun idea but it needs three of us.”

Dustin and Robin were watching from the counter, adding their own commentary to the pair. “I mean she’s literally got him by the pinky, Munson is quite literally wrapped around her finger.” Steve had finally appeared from the back store room, his comment making Robin and Dustin jump. Robin sighed, head in her hands once more, no longer having the energy to watch the happy couple. “How do you put up with this all the time Henderson?”  Dustin offered a smile, patting Robin on the head before continuing to watch the unwitting show in front of him. “Still no joy then?”

 “Nope, not a single iota, not even dingus numero uno could help, its hopeless.” 

“Speaking of hopeless.” Steve motioned towards the couple, a small smile growing on his face. 

Y/n had known for a while that Eddie wanted to include Dustin on their Halloween costume plans, but the opportunity to tease the boy was too good to resist. “Are you, Steve and Dusty finally going as the three stooges?” Y/n couldn’t help but laugh at Eddie’s deadpan face, standing on tiptoe to smash his face before wandering a bit further away, egging him on. “Y’know that movie we saw a few weeks back?” Y/n nodded, letting Eddie pull her back towards him. “You mean the one we were almost late for because you forgot?” That pulled a groan from Eddie, sent his eyes rolling as he frowned down at his beautiful but frustrating girlfriend. “When will you let that go? Anyway, i was thinking and me, you and Dustin would be perfect for Michael, Star and Sam? If you want…of course…if its dumb..” Eddie was cut off as he noticed the bright grin, the love soaked stare that had taken over Y/n. “We are so winning costume of the year, in your face Buckley!” 

Before she could stop him, Eddie had picked her up, twirling her around, his hands tight on her waist as she giggled uncontrollably. “Did i ever tell you that i loved you?” Finally Eddie had set Y/n down, ruffling her hair once before before squishing her face in his hands. “Only every five minutes!” Dustin answered, his grin falling as Eddie raised an eyebrow. Already racing towards him as Dustin hauled ass to the back of the store. Y/n chased after them, laughter taking the air from her lungs as she offered a smile to Steve and Robin. 

“Those two are idiots.” 

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

I do so enjoy tag games like these! 4 crushes eh? So few! The first ten would be all Emhyr XD.

Oh well, I'll pace myself!

Crush numero uno is this cruel beauty! Heck I collect his voice clips (even Ai audio) just so I can feel warm in my cold nights!

The Goblin King! That hair! That voice! Swoooon!!!!

The old Robin Hood show starring Michael Praed. When he was killed off, I stopped watching.

This asshole: Lord Julien from Dragons Dogma. I replayed that game so many times and I always- ALWAYS- rescue this awful guy and make him my beloved. then I go save his ass from Grigori.

So there! Controlled myself from posting all Emhyrs! I should get an award!

tagging @bittersweetbark, @traumschwinge, @marnasid, @geraltyen-of-corvobianco, @gauntermetaverse, @oblakovka, @lorvdz.

Fictional Crush Tag Game! 💕

One of my lovely moots invited me to participate in a tag game that I couldn't possibly refuse! The rules were 4 crushes and tag 4 friends, but um.... I couldn't choose 4, so I chose 9! Here you go! Some of my fictional character crushes. None of them should be surprising.

Tagging some moots and friends in case they want to join in! @safarigirlsp @cillmequick @zablife @queenandkingofthedragons @deblou008 @eternalstrigoii

[teary-eyed-tiaras]

Every great villain needs and sidekick, and numero uno has two

After he fell off the roof and figuired out he had super powers, Mark and Jon suggested that they join him to take down Edd but Eduardo just scoffed."You guys didn't even get powers, how could you possibly join me?". Little did Eduardo know that years of dodging his punches and running away from him made jon develop the reflexs of a cat and the agility of an acrobat and Mark had enough brains to just invent gadgets for his powers. In just a few hours he created a pack/tablet where you just have to tap whatever elements on the periodic table you want and it'll brew in the pack and blast itself out of the hose attached to it. He also invented a few other "smaller" things as a plan B. So Numero uno got two great new sidekicks, Royal Pain and Ele-mental. I'd like to see Edd try to take Numero uno down now! He might even have to get some side kicks of his own.

I actually had this idea when i was 13 and first watched poweredd, i unfortunately didn't have the art talent back then to draw it but now i do! And it's everythinh i had hoped. I based jon's super hero outfit off of robin a little bit and Mark's off of mr. Freeze, starlord, and doc oc.

[zeravmeta]

Top 5 Fate blorbos NOT including Limbo.

this one made me laugh bc like, yeah limbo is my special little princess but also he is one of my many special little princesses, like i love limbo but im not The Limbo Guy, if that makes sense (i have many guys)

That said there are simply too many fate blorbos i have and no easy way to list them in a perfectly objective top 5, so I shall do something fun instead, listing them in tiers. As expected, the list expands as it goes on (not every servant listed obvs)

5. Characters who I am passively aware of. This is for characters who are somewhat relevant enough for me to like. think about

Gilles Saber, Caesar, Paris Hektor, Circe, Lu Bu, Spartacus, Eric Bloodaxe

4. Characters who I have a light inclination towards. Maybe they were useful for farming or I read their profiles and was satisfied

Jason, Billy The Kid, Oda Nobukatsu, , Tristan, William Tell, Medusa Lily, Janta Lily, Tawaru, Achilles, Wu Zetian, Cleopatra, Darius III, Kiyohime

3. Characters who I just like. I look at them and go "its the guy :)"

Senji Muramasa, Fergus, Robin Hood, Leonidas, Enkidu, Nezha, Anne-Bonny & Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, Red Hare, Scheherazade, Anastasia, Kyokutei Bakin, Charles-Henri Sanson, Assassin Emiya/Kerry, Ushiwakamaru, Gray, Huyan Zhuo, Penthesilea, Kijyo Koyo, Asterios

2. Characters who I love. This one is a substantial jump upwards in quality and they only have like 1-2 things missing (to me) that prevent them from being numero uno

Altera, Bedivere, Okita, Beni Enma, Sigurd, Saito Hajime, Artemis-Orion, Emiya, Atalante, Baobhan Sith, Cu Chulainn, Romulus (and Quirinus), Caenis, Vritra, Melusine, Boudica, Marie Antionette, Mandricardo, Habetrot, Dobrynya Nikitich, Hans Christian Andersen, Mata Hari, Charlotte Corday, Katou Danzo, Koyanskaya of the Light, Tezcatlipoca, Sen no Rikyu, Kriemhild, Koyanskaya of Darkness

My special little princesses. Play this song while reading

Mash Kyrielight number one forever, saber classes artoria pendragon nero claudius siegfried void shiki miyamoto musashi ibuki douji barghest archer classes david arjuna oda nobunaga artoria pendragon archer swimsuit james moriarty tomoe gozen calamity jane nightingale santa sei shounagon zenobia lancer class scathach artoria pendragon lancer artoria pendragon lancer alter brynhildr tamamo no mae lancer minamoto no raikou lancer swimsuit ereshikigal elizabeth bathory rider class medusa francis drake artoria pendragon santa alter astolfo sakata kintoki rider quetzalcoatl artoria pendragon rider alter swimsuit leonardo da vinci rider murasaki shikubu rider swimsuit caster class mephistopheles cu chulainn caster tamamo no mae nursery rhyme helena blavatsky xuanzang sazang nero claudius swimsuit nitocris leonardo da vinci shuten douji caster ascelpius chen gong artoria caster assassin class phantom of the opera jack the ripper mysterious heroine x ryougi shiki assassin shuten douji scathach assassin first hassan nitocris assassin osakabehime okada izo yu mei-ren kama berserker class sakata kintoki vlad III caligula tamamo cat nightingale cu chulainn alter minamoto no raikou mysterious heroine x alter hijikata toshizo atalante alter jeanne d'arc alter berserker swimsuit xiang yu arjuna alter mori nagayoshi salome miyamoto musashi swimsuit brynhildr swimsuit morgan sei shounagon swimsuit ibuki douji swimsuit ruler class jeanne d'arc saint martha swimsuit sherlock holmes qin shi huang quetzalcoatl samba santa artoria pendragon swimsuit ruler himiko leonardo da vinci swimsuit james moriarty lily iyo avenger class edmond dantes jeanne d'arc alter angra mainyu gorgon antonio salieri demon king oda nobunaga space ishtar kama avenger swimsuit nitocris alter alter ego class meltryllis passionlip sessyoin kiara okita souji alter ashiya douman xu fu larva tiamat mooncancer class bb bb summer sessyoin kiara swimsuit archetype earth foreigner class abigail williams katsushika hokusai mysterious heroine xx voyager van gogh mysterious idol x alter kukulkan pretender class oberon beast class draco nero