#robin: inside

[dreammastergopherwood]

A very happy new year to all my followers!

As we move from the year 2024 to the year 2025, I would like to wish everyone peace and happiness. Personally, I prefer measuring years in the Family's calendar years. However, I must acknowledge the most commonly used interstellar years, the Interaestral Peace Corporation's Amber Eras. In terms of Amber Eras, it recently became AE 2158. As the changes in Amber Eras are less predictable, even a bit disorderly, however, my personal calendar will remain in Family years for the foreseeable future.

As the new year begins, I would like to make a resolution. This is the same resolution I aspire to achieve every year: I vow to to maintain the safety of the dreamscape for all dreamchasers, and hope to make it more accessible, so that more can attempt to reach their dreams under Xipe's loving and kind gaze every year.

Speaking of increasing statistics, Sunday recently informed me of a trend among various IPC sub-corporations. He called it a "year in wrap." I found this trend a good way to remind everyone of the victories and achievements made in a year. Therefore, I would like to present a Penacony year wrapped:

This year, we had 32 new Family members. I am so happy to welcome these new souls to the Family, and sincerely look forward to seeing their happy faces at all future Family events.

We welcomed 28,341,950,342 dreamchasers to Penacony this year. This is 13% more dreamchasers than last year. We dearly hope everyone enjoyed their sweet dreams, and would be delighted to see you return.

This year, I am especially proud to remember the election of Oak Family head. Congratulations to Sunday Oak, my own adopted son. Sunday has been working hard for his entire life to personally help every dream chaser who may need help. His kind heart is one of Penacony's most important assets, and I know he will bring safety, stability, and continual order to Penacony

The Alfalfa family has reported an average economic growth of 23% this year. This economic gain means that they have hired 57,234 more dreamchasers to work as employees and investors in their divisions. I offer my most heartfelt congratulations and happiness to head of the Alfalfa family, Oti Alfalfa, and all of the members of the Alfalfa family.

Reports from the Bloodhound family show a 13% decrease in crime in comparison to previous years. Now, that may seem to be a small number, but crime in Penacony is already so uncommon (the lowest crime rate in the entire Asdana system) that this goes to show how every year, the Bloodhound family brings us closer to absolutely no crime. This is incredibly admirable, and I would like to thank every member of the Bloodhound family for maintaining law and order every day.

The Iris Family was proud to announce this year the construction of the new Char Legwork Theatre, in memory of the Watchmaker himself. As Ms. Ellis of the Iris family and myself are both personal friend of the Watchmaker, I am glad to come together with her to preserved his memory for future generations. This theatre will be showing an all new, never seen before Clockie story from his time on the Compass. We hope that Clockie fans new and old will enjoy the show, and invite everyone to come see this Clockie story and enjoy the limited time Clockie collectables for the first year of the Char Legwork Theatre's opening. I am delighted with these new beautiful dreams, and would like to thank all members of the Iris Family for their hard work this year.

For the sake of the current and future dreamchasers, the Nightingale Family expanded the sweet dream by 27.43% this year. Not only will this allow us to accept more dreamchasers in the future, but it will also allow for more opportunities for the residents of Penacony. This is a record speed of expansion for Penacony, and I join Sir Wittaker in sincerely thanking every dreamweaver, new and old, whose creative visions allowed for Penacony to achieve this new growth.

Finally, on a more personal note, I would like to congratulate my adopted daughter Robin on the release of her new album, Inside. Robin's work as a musician as well as an ambassador of Xipe the Harmony has brought joy to countless planets in the cosmos, and I proudly anticipate the next year of happiness and harmony she will bring to all that meet her.

Thank you to all dreamchasers and followers for a wonderful 2024. I look forward to 2025 alongside all of you.

Happy New Year!

Sincerely,

The Dreammaster

[sourkreem]

they decided to crash jasons place after patrol (jason did not agree to this)

[morganbritton132]

Steve isn’t the first person that Will comes out to but he’s definitely top five and it’s completely by accident. So now, Jonathan’s talking to him like -

“Wait, are you threatening me?” Steve asks, tuning back into the conversation after spacing out five minutes ago. “Because of Will?”

“Um, yeah? Kinda.”

“Wow, I’m not like…I’m not that. I’m cool with gay people. You know I love-“ He realizes that Jonathan doesn’t know Robin is a lesbian and course corrects - “Spock.”

“Spock? From Star Trek??”

“Yeah, obviously. Big gay, that guy. He wears eyeshadow.”

“Because he’s an alien,” Jonathan says, completely off topic now. “Not because he’s gay.”

“Okay, well. He’s dating Kirk too. That’s kinda gay. It’s in the books.”

“What books?”

Steve rolls his eyes and ducks behind the counter at Family Video for his backpack. He pulls out a thin bundle of papers and shove them at Jonathan.

Jonathan looks at them like, “This is a magazine…I don’t think this is an actual publication.”

“Okay? Well, Kirk and Spock bone in there so, you know. I’m not going to make fun of your brother.”

Steve goes back to stocking shelves for a second and then says, “Mike though?”

“I know.”

[lustwithoutlore]

After a mission…

Dick: I can’t wait to go home, have a bowl of cereal, and go to sleep.

Duke: Lucky, I have patrol in like, two hours. No sleep for me. What’re you going to do when you get home, Jason?

Dick: Wait! Let me guess. Crack open a beer, order in Chinese food, and fall asleep on the couch watching a gritty action movie.

Jason, fully planning on having a lavender scented bubble bath while drinking vanilla earl grey tea and watching Pride and Prejudice: … Something like that.

[ditzybat]

bernard: i just love true crime, don't you?

tim, trying to impress him: i may or may not be a war criminal with a hypothetical body count in the triple digits who's trained under multiple trained assassins as their apprentice

bernard: ???

[allthegothihopgirls]

you'd think dick would be the renowned 'biter' of the batfam from his early days as robin, frequently biting attackers when not really necessary. then jason comes along and is 10x worse, doing it purely for his own amusement.

you think, surely the next one won't want to bite people for fun, and you're right, tim bites people as a defence mechanism instead.

by the time the 4th one comes around, it's statistically impossible for him to be a biter, but low and behold, damian's worse than all three of the previous boys combined. the cherry on top is that unlike the others who only bit for fun, as an attack, or as self-defence, never multiple, this one's standard reaction to anything is to bite it.

[superbat-lmao]

Jason and Damian stay with the League. They’re basically royalty and functionally generals, completing missions with Talia and serving Ra’s and the needs of their family.

As such, a large portion of that is maintaining a public cover. Talia lives a very public life that she uses for political maneuvers.

Jason attends college and Damian attends school, everything is public record and on visas.

However, it isn’t until Bruce is required to attend one of Lex’s galas in Metropolis that he becomes aware of Talia’s status as a Mother.

It’s also the first time he meets her sons.

Cut to Bruce blue-screening as Talia introduces Jason and Damian al Ghul, who are the very picture of upper class royalty.

Nightwing and Robin are immediately in his ear over comms (teamed up with Uncle Clark to foil whatever plot is going on) asking what’s wrong as Bruce can’t take his eyes off his dead son and a child that looks like the spitting image of his father.

[succo-al-limone]

The goobers line up

Close ups under

[t0bey]

toxic yuri crossover moment

[queenie-ofthe-void]

A good idea: Steve and Robin watch Eddie play a gig at the Hideout

A great idea: Eddie and Robin watch one of Steve's basketball games

A galaxy brain idea: Eddie and Steve watch Robin play in the high school Concert Band recital

I wrote a fic about it!

[akyonceyar]

Greta: I never knew Superboy had a girlfriend. Tim: Haha. You're surprised he actually has one? Greta: Well... yeah! Tim: "Well, yeah" she says! *laughs* Greta: Because to be honest, I thought he was only in love with you! Tim: ...

[finny-again]

*pulls up a chair, sits down*

As I am still in timkon hell, I have decided to take a jab at another popular au for them, the clone baby au.

And boy do I have ideas:

First off, the idea is Tim tried to clone Kon like 99 times and on the 100th try it failed again, so he had this wild idea to combine some of his DNA with Kon's. He like left some variables undecided like gender, and such. Cue the clone baby.

She's a perfect blend of the two, having Kon's skin tone and wavy-curly black locks. She has Tim's eyes and though still young she's definitely going to have Tim's features when she's older. She's perfect.

He names her Nova, Nova Drake. (Later on a common nickname he gives her is Supernova, which I think is flippin' adorable)

And then realization sets in and he's like, "ah fuckkkk." Because he just made a baby with his own DNA mixed with Kon's and he's like barely an adult and now he's responsible for a tiny being that he literally created.

At this point in time he's not Robin, Batman is "dead", but Tim knows he is alive (we will come back to that point later) andddd he's basically jobless.

So he like, panics and calls Cass. Cass is there so fast. She even brings Steph, and for once, Steph stays quiet. They just, sit down and tell him it's going to be okay.

In this au Kon comes back a few years later, probably around the time Nova is 4-ish. Things have, healed up with Tim and his relationship with the Batfam.

Nobody knows his secret identity, it's better that way so he can keep Nova a secret from the rest of the supers. The only people who know are the Batfam, who literally adore Nova to pieces. She is the little lady of the house and is treated as such.

Alfred takes care of Nova when Tim has to be Red Robin. And Barbara even steps in to help too at times.

Steph, Barbara and Cass are the best aunts. And Dick, Jason and Damian fight over who's her favourite uncle. Duke just smiles cause Nova said it was him while he was playing with her one time and told him not to tell the others because it'd make them sad.

Bruce is overwhelmed at first, cause holy shit Tim you did what and now there's a baby made with not only your DNA, but your dead best friends' too? He's a little stressed, but eventually gets over it and begins to treat her like his own granddaughter. He definitely spoils the crap outta her.

Nova starts to exhibit signs of Kryptonian powers, the most notable being Kon's tactile kinesis.

Nova once asked her daddy where her other parent was. Tim explained he had gone away to somewhere they couldn't follow. Nova, though unhappy at the answer, accepted it and just never asked again. She's definitely starting to also exhibit Tim's genius level intellect.

Anyways, Kon comes back. It's unexpected. Tim isn't prepared for it because a) he made peace with Kon being dead, and b) he literally saw him die. Turns out, he wasn't. And whomever finds Kon alive just shows everybody at the watchtower and Tim literally almost has a panic attack right then there. He's able to get out of there, although with a flimsy excuse which nobody buys.

He makes it back to the manor where he is found by Dick, curled up underneath the computer desk in the Batcave. Dick walks him through his panic attack, and then Tim explains what happened.

And that's as far as I've gotten but this was inspired by the fact that I was like, Tim and Kon are so girl dad coded it HURTS ME. Also, the whole timeline/universe is just a jumble of things I picked that I figured would fit in with my idea. So yeah. Remember kids, DC stands for, "Disregard Canon", and will run with that until the day I die.

[starry-bi-sky]

have just recently decided that Danny's nickname (one of them at least) for Dick in the blood blossom au should be "Bobby"

why bobby? Robin -> Rob -> Robert -> Bob -> Bobby

this confuses. so. many. people. who do not know the origin behind the nickname. It's the same kind of bizarre, seemingly unconnected nickname that Bruce has, where Danny calls him "Buzz."

[mockingjaylad]

Happy birthday Jason 🎂🎂 (second cake is for Alfred)

More Jason and raw drawing under!!!!

Jason complication from this year <3

[ditzybat]

tim: honestly, ra’s isn’t that bad of a guy

dick: tim, is this some weird form of stockholm syndrome we need to talk about?

tim: what? no, his whole thing for killing people is basically ‘save the trees’ the guys a hippie - he cries when an animal dies and he met his wife at woodstock

dick: and your point is?

tim: i’m just saying, he’s a silly lil dude

dick: tim, he’s killed thousands

tim: hypothetically i have as well, but i don’t think explosions count if you give them a 5 minute warning

dick: what?!

tim: again, hypothetically

[jewelsli]

Not that I don’t love when Bruce’s kids outperform him and give him heart attacks, but I think it’s funnier when the kids think they are better fighters/spies/infiltrators/etc. then him but he’s just so proud so he lets them think that they are.

I think that Babs would be a really good hacker, the best in the family, but Tim, who thinks that he is the next best(and is still scarily good) has no idea that Bruce only let him think that he broke his record of hacking into secret organizations.

Dick is amazing at acrobatics, and centers his fighting style around it much more. He even won gold in the Olympics for gymnastics! Bruce doesn’t want to tell him that he trained under several gymnasts, contortionists, even ballerinas!!! and has the acrobatic fighting style mastered, so he (within reason) let’s his kid win on most occasions, he doesn’t need to fake loosing on trapeze though(I am still giving the kids SOME things they are better at…)

Cass knows that nobody can lie to her, she can spot everyone’s tells and knows most people better then they know themselves. Bruce is, however, extremely paranoid and also has a kryptonian he works with regularly. He lies so well that he can convince himself he’s telling the truth(which is literally the point in case of advanced lie detectors), and so what if he lets some of his tells be more obvious around his baby, he’s so proud of her for picking up such small things! And while Bruce is AMAZING at reading people, he can’t beat Cass, it is however much closer matched then the others think.

Let’s be honest, Bruce is banned from the kitchen and isn’t good at cooking… or so everyone thinks. While he’s not as good as Alfred or even Jason he could whip up something Gordon Ramsey would be proud of if he actually tried to.

Damian in the best fighter with swords, this is undisputed. Bruce just hopes none of his kids find his crate of custom katanas in the attic, if they do then he’ll say they are for Damian.

Tim is an amazing investigator, so good in fact, that Bruce has trusted him on his hardest cases. Everyone assumes this is because Tim is a better detective then Bruce, but he just loves seeing how proud his kid gets when he gets a breakthrough.

Batman doesn’t kill, Red hood does, everyone in their right minds knows that’s a lie. Before Robin came along, leaders of drug operations or terrorists would disappear into the night, never to be seen again. The only people who don’t seem to know this are the Bats children themselves. Sometimes you can still hear a cut off scream in the dark before the news announces a missing person that everyone just knew was doing something horrible, criminals are more wary on nights that the Bats brood are in. And people running trafficking rings pray that it’s the Hood when a knock sounds, the bat doesn’t give those people the mercy of death.

All of the bat kids know more languages then Bruce, and they keep learning more to throw him off, for a family of detectives they really should have thought about the fact that Bruce traveled the entire world, he knows ancient languages and the words that world in other galaxies use, if he could speak Martian then he would have learned it by now, he still does know that part that he’s able to learn.

Idk I just need more of Bruce being skilled at SO many things while his kids are like “oh yeah Bruce? He’s good but I could defeat him easily” and Bruce just so proud of his babies when they do ANYTHING.

Bonus:

Tim made a plan to neutralize Superman at some point, it wasn’t as good as Bruce’s but he replaced it so fast. When he later uses it to take down mind controlled or something Supes Red Robin is watching.

Nobody notices that Batman whispers something to Superman before he goes deathly pale and acts like the plan is working so well he immediately gets defeated. As for what Batman said to him? It was basically ‘Clark(they aren’t supposed to know identities here btw) my kid made this plan and I swear to every mortal and immortal force that if you don’t take the fall right now you will regret it for the rest of your life” and Batman was usually scary but this was like, God will cower before him terrifying and it scared evil Superman so much he went along with it.

Res Robin was smiling so brightly that later Clark honestly couldn’t be mad at the Bat.

Edit: I forgot to add this but unbeknownst to EVERYONE (including Alfred somehow) Bruce can and will stay awake longer then Tim and his drinks are somehow worse in terms of caffeination. The difference is that on the fourteenth day with no sleep everyone thinks it’s only been three even though he is Vividly hallucinating. The ability to hide his lack of sleep for the first week and a half leads them to believe he’s actually the worst at staying up since on what they think is his fourth day of no sleep (it’s his seventeenth) he’s talking to an apparently very vivid hallucination of Alfred the Cat in a suit and a Tiger named Tawny(he had met the tiger earlier that week) and having a civilized conversation with them