#still trying to figure out how to draw tim and bruce

[daydreamerwonderkid]

Somebody rescue Tim. He's seen too much.

You do NOT have permission to repost my art.

Meme reference under cut:

[snakeredbirdbatkatana]

Damian has learned many things since joining the family. He's found joy in Gotham even fighting Rouges and stopping crime he's made more happy memories here than he did while in the league.

Although he will always love his mother and be grateful for everything she has taught him many of those skills have been retired and he can't say he's partically angry about it.

What he's truly enjoyed most is his family Father and Richard, even Todd when he cooks and lets him sketch the alley cats that frequent his terrace.

'So Baby Bat guessing you weren't invited to the brother meeting tonight".

-

The pencil rolls hitting the floor. Jason was half paying attention more focused on the pasta he's stirring.

"I don't understand, what do you mean by that Todd"

Now Jason knows he's not exactly kept up to date on all the family's lovely adventures. But he can't place why Damian's voice is shaking.

Or why his little brother seems so hurt a part of him wants to scoop him up and wrestle his problems back to wherever hell they came from. But something stops him.

"I figured you were here cause of Dickbird and Timmy aren't you" he says carefully.

" Why would Drake and Richard have anything to do with my presence here." He spits, pausing.

"Are they together, Richard said he had something important to do and why would that be with Drake."

"Shit Dami sorry I must have made a mistake on the day it's the 16th not the 23rd my bad. The thing with Timmy is next week photography or something."

"Idiotic as ever Todd I will go back to my drawing now."

Jason would feel more offended at the blatant dismissal if he hasn't just lied.

Because Baby Brothers shouldn't be told that they aren't Dickie birds little Robin always.

That Dick is taking Tim on their weekly getaway to gone only knows where. That always seems to end with blood and death.

That their eldest brother is more fucked up then all of them combined and that only one is trusted enough to see what that means.

That as kind as Dick and even Tim can be they aren't always like that. There angry, vengeful, sadistic little shits that burn as much as they warm.

How's do you explain to the kid who's thinks the sun shines out of someone's ass that they are off galivanting with the favorite brother.

That the kid got off lucky for trying to kill the golden apple.

You don't.

You make food and watch him sketch the cat who's seen almost as many fights at Jason himself.

Ingnore your own twisted jealousy and pretend you wouldn't cut off your own arm if replacement asked.

Because only one Bat is unaware of who's the deadlist of who is lurking in the shadows weaving.

It's not Jason's place and more importantly he can't destroy the very pedestal that Jason still worships.

"Come on Dami, stop bugging the fucking cat and come eat."

Who's he to explain about the brothers who would put each other above all others even their own.

How do you explain that if you weren't practically the son of the last flying Grayson you would be another hidden name on a list more guarded than Bruce's emotions and that you would be rotting six feet under dead at the hands of your beloved Richard.

[ijustthinkhesneat]

I feel compelled to expand upon the previous fae/folklore! Batboys headcanons:

-Bruce is just a straight up normal human. I think this provides a great opportunity for angst because unlike his immortal? children Bruce does age and it terrifies them. And Bruce is young he’s in his early 30s but like his knees will crack a little or his back is slightly stiff after a bad patrol and it just sends them into a spiral because they cannot fathom their dad not being around forever. I can definitely imagine them trying to strong arm Bruce into becoming some flavor of unaging. You could go super dark or just more generally emotional angst but damn the possibilities.

-Cass is giving me shadow person. Very cryptid of her. I’m not sure that I have a clear backstory for her worked out yet. Either magic gone wrong or she’s another flavor of undead like Jason and Tim. I like to imagine she just hovers over people at night to be creepy.

-Originally I wanted to say Duke was a Will-o-the-wisp. But I’m not really sure it fits, especially since he’s primarily active during the day. Then it hit me. Mothman. My lamplight boy is a moth creature. I like the idea of him hiding his little antenna under a beany and wearing sunglasses. The wings would be difficult. But my boy is creative.

- I think Steph and Barbara are also human like Bruce they just are extra bad ass.

-Coming back to life as a magical creature warps peoples memories and emotions from both the trauma and changing into something not human. Tim is significantly less effected than Jason, at least outwardly, because he was only a toddler when he died so he didn’t have many memories or experiences to draw from, but Jason was super volatile. His memories surrounding Willis became even more dark while his memories of his mother sort of glossed over her absentee parenting and drug use. Jason can’t help but struggle with associating the negative learned experience he had with his first paternal figure with Bruce. Jason ends up going to live with Talia for a while because he doesn’t want to feel that way about his dad anymore.

-Basically I think Jason, at least mentally, is the most human of Bruce’s kids besides Damian because he actually lived a life as a human, where as Tim changed so young that he doesn’t really know how to be anything but his extremely disturbing self.

-I think Gotham just has major ‘I do not see it’ energy. Like The Batfamily? Demons from hell. The Wayne’s? Hot neurodivergent people. Did you see Dick Grayson unhinge his jaw like a fucking snake at a gala? No you didn’t he just has a really big smile. Jason Todd??? Has scales??? Nope actually he just developed early onset Eczema and he’s really self conscious about it how dare you! Tim Drake sucking the blood of the himbo blonde boy? Everyone knows Tim and Bernard are total freaks. Cassandra Cain is your sleep paralysis demon? Honestly fair.

-It’s totally a coincidence that strange misfortune befalls anyone who threatens the Wayne’s!

-Clark is Bruce’s favorite man to sleep on so he gets a pass. I don’t know why but a midwestern spin on the story of princess kaguya lives in my head rent free. Like Martha Kent is just shucking corn and then boom baby in the corn. We call that children of the corn. I still love to imagine him being like so perfect that it’s high key alien, but his little sharp nails and fangies! Maybe even slightly pointy ears. And like Clark fully thinks he is human, like his parents don’t tell him humans can’t fly until he’s in kindergarten, and even then they just tell him he is special and learned super fast and shouldn’t embarrass the other kids and Clark is such a Good BoyTM that he just never uses his powers in public cause he doesn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. Like bro doesn’t learn he is adopted until he is about to go to college, he is just straight up clueless.

-Clark learns Dick is a Fae creature when Batman brings Robin to the Watchtower cause he couldn’t get a baby sitter and Alfred doing some spooky shit like dusting the mausoleum. Like Batman just slinking around but there is this super colorful child with him. And then Dick turns and smiles and it’s just so wrong, like his mouth just stretching his face like some horror movie shit. Clark almost shots himself cause like what the fuck. Bruce told Dick to just ‘be himself’ so like he just thinks he’s being friendly. Despite being creepy as all hell Clark kinda thinks Dick is super adorable. Like was he spider crawling around the floor with all his limbs bent the wrong way while Bruce and Clark were talking? Yeah but then he just tugged on Bruce’s cape to ask for a juice box, like that’s a baby.

-Jason freaked him out in a different way. Since Jason is undead he doesn’t have a heartbeat and doesn’t need to breath so when he isn’t moving he makes literally zero noise. When he first met Clark he was just watching him from around corners and behind stair banisters and Clark was convinced he was losing his mind and hallucinating the kid from the Grudge. Then Bruce is just like “Oh you met Jason! He’s so sweet, just a little shy. He’s my second oldest! I think he likes you though.” And then a little grey blue slightly webbed hand just reaches around the corner to give a little wave and boom Clark would kill for him.

-Tim is similar in that Clark has trouble pinpointing his location because of a lack of normal bodily functions, but Tim has no idea what a boundary is. So like at first he’s a shy little toddler and then that night he’s crawling all over Clark and pranking him nonstop.

-Damian is a baby but like Clark looked in his eyes and just felt like this infant could see his past present and future and was judging him heavily. Clark was relieved cause at least he had a heartbeat.

-Cass lives to fuck with Clark. She’s Jason’s age but not only has no heartbeat and doesn’t breath, when she is in shadow form he can’t see her with X-ray vision. She can literally make herself undetectable to Superman. He learns this one night sleeping in a guest room at the manor. He gets the feeling he is being watched but can’t find anyone. Then right when he relaxes her arm shoots out from the darkness under his bed and grabs his leg. Clark screams so loud it cracks the window. And then just nearly silent muffled laughter as the arm retreats into the darkness. He X-Ray visions but nothing is there. He demands to stay in Bruce’s room after that. Bruce is just like “Oh that was just Cass. She likes playing practical jokes, she is my little princess!”

[cryptid-intraining]

Even More Jason Todd Headcanons

(Wholesome And Kinda Less Sad Version Because Everyone Was Crying In The Reblogs Of The Last One)

Jason keeps stealing the Batmobile's tires. He calls it 'keeping Bruce on his toes, one day someone else is going to steal his tires and when that day comes he'll be able to replace them so fast' and Bruce calls it 'genuinely baffling, I've upgraded the security measures on the outer perimeter of the Batmobile four times already, there are a whole host of sensors and mechanisms that are designed to prevent this very thing from happening, how does he keep doing it, Alfred?!'

Jason never says that he thinks of Damian as his brother, at least not in such clear words, but he does call him habibi when they talk in Arabic, a habit that slips over to English conversations sometimes, let's him sleep in his bed when he has nightmares, pretends not to notice when Damian is trying to secretly sketch him (but he sits very still for him because he notices the way his tight expression always falls away when he focuses on drawing), and whenever Damian withdraws from them and becomes distant Jason will make murtabak or manakish and quietly leave it in his room. Damian never says anything about it and Jason would never admit to it. But they don't have to. It's just how they are.

When Duke noticed how uncomfortable Jason was around the random crowbars and metal tools kicking around in the garage of the Cave he locked them all up out of sight. He didn't know the specifics but Jason's discomfort was enough of a reason for him.

He does illegal street racing in his free time with his motorcycle. Due to this he is an incredibly good driver in tactical situations.

The white streak isn't a solid chunk of white but rather his hair just started greying prematurely (which is a thing that can happen when you undergo immense trauma or stress so it's a bit more realistic).

Part of Jason and Dick's reconciliation after he came back as Red Hood was really just about getting to know each other. They only knew each other for a few years (?) when Jason was Robin and there was too much baggage between them for either to really feel like they could be brothers or even friends (Dick feeling bitter he was replaced and Jason feeling as if he was constantly being compared to, and falling short of, Dick's legacy). But even still when he came back as an adult it took Dick awhile to realise that he actually doesn't know much about Jay, especially after so many years, so he made an effort to reach out beyond their vigilante work, coming around to Jason's apartment with cheap pizza and pepsi (no beer because Dick knows about his issues with alcoholism) and they'd just hang. At first it was awkward but they filled the often uncomfortable silence with random movies from the years Jason was dead or gone that he wanted to catch up on. It became a routine for them and slowly over the months they started to open up and actually talk.

When things were still rough between Jason and Tim, Jay would make sure to stay out of Tim's sight and hearing whenever he swung by the Manor. He figured it was the least he could do, after what he did.

Tim absolutely notices this but doesn't say anything. He's grateful for the space and knows that Jason will listen to him when he's ready to talk about their relationship and what Jason did.

Jason knows that Duke, being the newest member of the family, likely feels left out or distant from them, something he knows they've all felt when they first joined, so he always makes sure to invite him out on patrol or just to stop by the Manor to chat with him when he has the time. They both have a shared interest in cars and racing and often end up talking for a hour or two about the F1 season.

Jason absolutely has taken Damian to a shooting range. Against Bruce's wishes of course but no one could say no to Jason and Damian when they get an idea in their heads. Plus Alfred said they could.

Alfred joins them at the range the next time because Jason kept nagging him to come with and he shares stories about his days in the service. Jay and Dams are both really interested in that period of history and the old espionage tactics people used.

[fahbev]

More shit for my dpxdc merfolk au!

No I’m not censoring boobs. I have Opinions TM on this matter, don’t get me started. Basically: If mermen don’t get their nipples censored by unnecessary clothing, neither do mermaids.

I’m trying to have some diversity with body types in these designs, for no reason other than wanting some variety.

For Cass [Sting Ray] I can’t really decide on a body type I like for her. I’ve drawn her before with the “conventionally attractive girl body type” (bc that was my reference pic and I turned it into Cass lol) and I liked it bc she’s fine like that. But I also love her being more bulky/muscular like she is in WFA. But for this design, I am spreading my Chubby Cass Propaganda TM. Okay, she’s not that chubby, but I like the idea of her moving past her whole living-weapon thing and gaining some weight bc she’s not training 24/7 anymore. Obviously she’s still very physically fit ofc; she’s the best fighter in the world.

Steph I kept exactly how she is in canon bc she’s already perfect just the way she is. Though I am considering making her a bit more muscular.

Dick’s also pretty similar to canon, but I made him a bit slimmer. I always imagined him as more of a lean muscle kind of guy but dc loves giving all of it’s characters of the same gender the same exact body type.

Duke I made more square. He’s based on an eel so the rectangle body just made sense to me.

Jason’s just huge and Damian’s just small.

Next up is Babs. Then comes Bruce and Tim. Danny’s last bc I haven’t figured out what fish he’s gonna be yet lol. The rest of the fentons are human so I don’t really need to redesign them so much besides maybe different clothes.

FURTHER RAMBLING UNDER THE CUT bc i put a lot of thought into these

Steph is a betta fish. Ik that doesn’t make much sense bc they’re tropical (i think?) and domestic and like super aggressive and only the male ones have those pretty fins— but suspend your disbelief! She a mermaid. I’m using some real science but some of it’s just me playing with fish like dolls. ANYWAY! The reason she got fired in this au was bc her long, beautiful fins were way too fragile and Bruce stopped it bc she got hurt too easily. Nowadays she binds her fins close to her body and attaches fake ones for swimming as Spoiler. Either that or they’re not vigilantes at all in this au, I’m still deciding. I also based her hair on her Robin look.

Dick is a flying fish, bc of COURSE he’s a flying fish. What else would he be, huh? I have visions about him jumping out of the water and sailing over or onto the Fentons’ boat. The transition on his waist is supposed to mimic the nightwing symbol if you can’t tell. That’s another design element I’m trying to vary— fish to flesh transitions.

Cass is a Sting Ray. She was originally gonna be a manta ray, but when i looked it up, sting rays were the ones with the more round shape i wanted. Mantas had much bigger wings, which were absolutely not gonna fit on this paper. But sting rays are cool! They’re super friendly, some aquariums have little “petting zoos” where you can pet the sting rays! And also, yk, stinging. I’m betting the ones at the aquarium didn’t have stingers that can affect humans tho. I may have to do further sting ray research. Yes that bigass thing is attached to her back everywhere except for her neck and the base of here head (bc i love drawing hair too much). Her arms are, ofc, not attached to it. I made her a ray in the first place bc they have very good camouflage at the bottom of the ocean. I saw this picture of a ray blending in but it was ominous af. It felt perfect for her.

[msfcatlover]

More Reverse!Robins

When Steph died, Tim took up her mantle because Steph deserved better than that memorial. Steph was so much more than the rest of the family’s guilt trip, Steph was so much more than her last moments, and Tim couldn’t bear the thought of that being Steph’s legacy. Tim still had to argue, he still had to fight, he still had to initially steal the suit in order to go out in it, but he won in the end.

Sort of.

Cass wouldn’t patrol with him, because she couldn’t bear to look over & see Not Steph in that suit. Bruce was still mourning, and only begrudgingly “allowed” Tim to go out like that. Damian was awful, because he felt like he’d personally failed Steph and insisted Tim come up to Bludhaven weekly to train, and didn’t realize how harsh/cruel that training was until Duke called Damian out on it… after which, Damian couldn’t bear to look Tim in the eye, and tried his very hardest to be better for him. (Duke gets to be the awesome big brother in this verse.)

Then Timothy Wayne got shot. Very publicly. And Tim couldn’t risk anyone putting together pieces that would’ve been obvious to Tim, so Tim all but begged Jason to take up the mantle. Jason didn’t even have to fight (Tim would prefer if Jason didn’t get into any fights, Jason was still pretty new,) but they couldn’t have Batman patrolling alone at the same time Timothy Wayne was in the hospital. Tim would’ve asked Cass, but he knew stepping into Steph’s boots would only hurt Cass worse, and everyone else was too tall to pass for Tim (Damian’s a beanpole, fight me.) It broke Jason’s heart to leave his brother in the hospital just to be seen running around on rooftops, but he did it anyway.

When Tim’s prognosis came back and they all realized Tim wouldn’t be doing parkour again, Jason formally took up the mantle with many tears shed. The rest of the family positively doted on Jason, with Cass & Bruce becoming borderline obsessive with their protectiveness, Damian trying to make up for past mistakes with a brother he didn’t feel guilty just being in the vicinity of, Tim trying to make sure Jason didn’t inherit any of Tim’s hero-baggage, and Duke making sure Jason still got a buffer of breathing room & got to act like a kid sometimes.

And then Steph came back. Saw how quickly Tim had taken her mantle. Saw how easily everyone who claimed to love & be there for her replaced her not once but twice. Where was this Damian, pictured out in public making time for his little brothers, when Steph happily took up his mantle & Damian disappeared off to Bludhaven to “figure himself out”? Where was this Duke, who cared more about his younger siblings than his daylight responsibilities both in & out of costume? What happened to the Cass who knew what you were feeling but not why you were feeling it (leading to hurt & misunderstandings that Steph remembered more clearly than the reunions & apologies) rather than hovering & doting over everyone younger than her? Where was this Bruce, who happily called them all “my children” rather than drawing a line between foster & family? Where was this Batman, who kept his sidekicks close & gently chastised them, rather than treating them like strangers or intruders into his space?

Steph had thought Duke & Damian’s distance was confidence, that Cass’s fumbling was just how Cass was, that Bruce’s harshness was just because Steph didn’t have powers or ninja training or whatever. She’d thought she found a family, and just needed to wiggle a bit in order to fit.

Clearly, Steph was wrong about that.

(Then Steph finds out her killer is still running free, still hurting others, that nothing’s changed & nobody did anything, and all that hurt turns to anger. It’s not even about being avenged—after everything Steph’s learned, she doesn’t expect that anymore—it’s about innocent people getting hurt.) (Fuck the Bats. If they can’t protect the city, Steph will do it herself.)

[deepwithintheabyss]

writing patterns

rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

tagged by @waffleinator-inator @anawrites3 and @vellaphoria

as I don't have 10 posted fics I'll be sharing some wip lines as well

Stupid Things [Jason/Tim]

Gotham rarely saw such beautiful days as this one.

Catch 22 [Slade/Tim]

Slade grunted satisfied as his release hit him, and pushed his hips almost impossible deeper into the lithe body beneath him. He inhaled once, savoring the feel of hot cum sloshing around his cock, before he leaned back with a deep exhale, so he could smirk down triumphantly at the trussed up little bird. With a half-lidded eye, he drank in the sight beneath him.

Sometimes all it takes is Love and Time [Slade/Dick]

Dick had grown up with rigidous meal plans and a minimum amount of what he should eat. It just came with being someone who was very physical active. This hadn't changed when his parents died and he came under the care of Bruce Wayne, if anything his food intake was only micro-managed more. The man drew up many plans as to how much he should eat if he was to go out as Robin.

Trust bleeds Red [Dick/Tim]

“It’s okay to be scared Tim” he whispers, as he caresses one soft cheek, relishing in the touch of warm skin on his, the way his angry rosy flush contrasts so nicely with Dick’s pale hand. He skillfully ignores the glare being sent his way, as Tim tries to twist away from his cold touch and the eye-contact he’s forcing onto him. “But please don’t fight me on this, I only want what’s best for you”

And when the darkness comes, you shall call my name [Jason & Tim]

Hood grinned under the helmet, breaking into the tower had been a fun challenge, he had debated about if he wanted to test out his old codes but in the end decided against it. He still didn’t know how he wanted the reveal to go exactly so it was better to not give the old man too many hints and give up the game too early.

WIP Sequel to "Trust bleeds Red" [Dick/Tim]

They’re in one of the living rooms when Tim finally breaks.

WIP OJT Week Day 3 [Jason/Tim]

Jason’s body had been trying to kill him ever since he regained clarity in the pit.

WIP Rock Hard Tension [Dick/Tim]

Tim had always been too tense for anything and everything in his life, but he made it work. He did stretches and bending and being a vigilante even if his body screamed and protested him. He learned how to move with and not against his body to keep himself from harm.

running out of good wips to share here 😅

WIP Feral Alpha Tim wooing Omega Jason [Jason/Tim]

Struggling in Ivy's bonds Tim curses his luck. Of course he would get caught on the one night where he really could not deal with this. His brain and patience were equally fried from all the posturing he had to do and put up with in the last few hours. Galas were the worst and in Tims opinion they could all burn in hell, but being a public figure meant he had to attend them and play along, put on a nice face and smile as if he he enjoyed getting his nose assaulted by the posturing alphas and omegas that loved to crowd him for his status alone. And the few that didn't came for his appearance. Alphas crowding him about how he looked like the prettiest O they have ever seen. Talking about how they could give him everything he wanted if he just let them, how he would look so pretty dominated and bent down. How he would make a beautiful bitch.

WIP RedRobinYum [Tim/Any]

Red Robin groaned as Nightwing pushed him across the desk. “Careful,” he whispered, “I'm still quite sore from sparring.”

I know I already reached 10 but because some of these are wips that might or might not get rewritten I'm gonna share 2 more

WIP Waffle Prompt [Jason/Tim/Steph]

Tim groaned when he caught sight of Steph entering the library, she looked around for a second before spotting him and made her way over grinning like the maniac she was. He was sure that if they weren’t in a library she would have whooped as well, drawing the attention of half of the college just so she could embarrass him more.

WIP “You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.” [Dick/Tim]

“You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you” Dick breathed into Tim’s hair. Tim only grumbled and shifted closer in his sleep, pressing close to Dick. “Come on” he coaxed gently, shaking the sleeping figure softly. Tim grumbled some more, clearly trying to cling to sleep but failing. One eye opened up to glare at him, but the heat of the gaze was tampered by the haziness of sleep still clinging to him. Inwardly, Dick cooed at the fact that Tim felt safe enough around him not to spring to immediate attention at the slightest disturbance. 

Already I can tell I like to start with long lines

Wasn't sure if this meant just the first sentence or like the first complete line/paragraph, so I went with paragraph

and I'm tagging uuhhh

@bi-bats @ragnarokhound @littlemourningstarr @cadkitten @zeroducks-2 @disniq and myself because apparently tumblr wants me to do that @deepwithintheabyss ??

[ladytauria]

can I be evil and just yoing the book jaytim we talked about? /j

lol uh how about an au where when Jason goes to test out Tim in the TT a lockdown happens or whatever and they are locked IN together

i will give you both xD

[ au ask game ]

jaytim books as gifts au (insp, ask)

Tim gets it in his head that he's going to woo Jason with books. The idea comes from two main sources--first, Dick causing Jason to go off on a very long, very passionate rant about a favorite book/series, and second, finding out Jason is in a book club. (These things may have come up in the same conversation.)

He immediately draws a blank on what books to get. After some subtle inquiries (and possibly some light breaking and entering; it's fine, Jason aims for non-lethal areas most of the time these days), he figures out what to get, and after some digging manages to find a copy. It happens to be one that Jason's been looking for, so he gets pretty excited to see it and kisses Tim.

For added humor the initial gift exchange happens on Valentine's Day. Thing is, Tim's sense of time is, ah. Warped. Especially after several long nights spent book hunting and then bidding. So he. Has no idea. Jason on the other hand is perfectly aware, and like. He already had feelings for Tim, so he's more than happy to consider them dating now <3

Tim continues to find more books for Jason, which Jason is pleased to accept. In between that, they go out for coffee, lunch, dinner, etc. I also want there to be like... a cute scene where they end up reading each other's favorite books on Jason's suggestions.

Eventually it comes out that they're dating---maybe Jason calls Tim his boyfriend? Or maybe Tim finally actually asks Jason out? And both of them are flabbergasted that... they were not on the same page. (Also I'm thinking Tim's POV, so this is when it comes out the initial exchange happened on Valentine's Day :P)

putting the second one under a cut!

titan's tower lockdown AU

(dub-con ahead~)

Jason waltzes in using his codes & drugs the other Titans so his showdown with Tim is unimpeded, as in canon. During their fight, I think they end up in one of the labs. Maybe Tim had been testing some kind of pollen? The canister is breached, which immediately triggers a lockdown in the lab.

The pollen (or whatever it is) is still new, so there's no antidote. Maybe the pollen isn't immediate acting, so there's some time for them to panic. Tim does try to override the lockdown, but between Jason cutting the power / blocking communications and then the protocols themselves, there's just no way for him to do so. So. They're stuck until the drugs wear off of the Titans.

Both of them are definitely feeling the effects of the pollen, but it's pretty ignorable? At least for the moment. They end up arguing. Tim tries interrogating Jason about his plans / actions, Jason resists answering, maybe insults Bruce and/or Dick, which Tim argues with.

They end up fighting. The spike of adrenaline doesn't mix well with the pollen. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that it mixes too well. And they end up fucking <3

Am split on this last one. Part of me wants them to be released as soon as the initial round is over? But the other part of me wants them to be stuck together for a while after, and have to deal with the aftermath immediately~

[unicornkilla109]

Incorrect batfamily quotes with ✨️Y/n✨️

Bruce : I CAN'T DO IT!

Jason, laughing: I CAN'T EITHER!

Bruce : I CANT FUCKING DO IT ANYMORE

Damian: WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU CAN EITHER GIVE UP NOW, OR YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT. BECAUSE WE CERTAINLY CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU, AND WE KNOW YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT US.

Bruce :

Bruce : I appreciate it,

Bruce : BUT LOOK WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH-

Dick: Bruce -

Bruce : YOU GOTTA DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE!

Tim: Bruce we gotta-

Bruce : YOU GOTTA DRAW A FUCKING LINE IN THE SAND. YOU GOTTA MAKE A STATEMENT.

Bruce : YOU GOTTA LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF AND SAY 'What am I willing to put up with today?'

Bruce , motioning to Y/n: NOT FUCKING THIS!

Jason: Is it still visible? Where Bruce slapped me?

Tim: Your face looks like a don't walk signal.

Damian: Your face looks like a photo negative for the hamburger helper box.

Y/n: A palm reader could tell Bruce's future by looking at your face.

Dick: The phrase 'talk to teh hand cause the face ain't listening' doesn't work for you, because the hand is your face.

Jason: ...A simple 'yes' would've sufficed.

Bruce: Who else is hiding in the laundry room trying to listen to Tim and Y/n's convo?

Damian: Me. I'm in the laundry basket.

Jason: I'm in the washing machine.

Dick: I'm in the closet.

Damian: We accept you Dick <3

Dick: No I'm literally in the closet.

Damian: Love is love <3

*The batfamilys reaction to being told they're the chosen one*

Bruce: I will not let you down.

Dick: Sounds fun.

Y/n: K.

Jason: No, I'm fucking not.

Damian: Do I have to be?

Tim: Please god, I am so tired.

Dick: The floor is lava!

Damian: *helps Y/n onto the counter*

Bruce: *kicks Jason off the sofa*

Tim: *lays on the floor*

Dick: ...Are you okay?

Tim: No.

*The Squad is on the bus, and a child is crying*

Dick: *rolls eyes to the sky*

Bruce: *makes funny faces to get them to stop*

Y/n: *puts their earphones on at 100 volume*

Damian: *doesn't mind, doesn't bother*

Jason: *is the reason they're crying*

Tim: *enjoys in silence*

Jason: *standing at the top of the stairs*What are y'all doing at the bottom of the staircase?

Bruce: I accidentally fell down.

Damian: Y/N PUSHED ME down the stairs because I refuse to pay THEIR part of our rent!

Tim: Bruce bet me fifty bucks that I couldn't reach the bottom of the stairs faster than he did falling down it, so I slide down the banister to get my money.

Dick: I don't know how I got here. One moment, I was sleeping in my bed, three floors up, and then suddenly I was waking up here, just in time to get crushed by Tim.

*the Squad at Disneyland, in the teacups*

Bruce, Tim, and Dick: *spinning a little and talking*

Jason, Y/n, and Damian: *flying past them, spinning as fast as they can, screaming*

Y/n: *dies*

Jason: Timer starts now! When are they coming back? I say two months!

Bruce: Bullshit. One month.

Dick: Nah, half a month.

Damian, sobbing: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Y/N JUST DIED!

Tim, scratching chin in thought: One week.

[redrobinhoodrat]

Batfamily AU with time travel (but this time it’s Tim)

Tim groaned as he woke up. His head was killing him and it felt like the room was spinning. He must have took a hit to the head or something. As he rubbed his eyes he couldn’t help but notice how soft his hands felt. Looking down he was shocked to see little tiny fingers sitting on top his childhood duvet. Quickly taking in his surroundings his eyes went wide as he realized where he was.

He threw his covers off quickly and ran to the bathroom. Throwing himself up on the counter he gasped as his childhood self gazed back at him. His jaw hung open as he moved his hand up his face, poking and prodding at his featured and giving a few quick slaps. Yep, that was him.

“…WHAT THE FU—”

~20 minutes later~

“Okay. We’re okay.” Tim took a few more deep breathes as he paced his room. His arms were crossed as he bit at his nails, a habit he thought he’d grown out of- except no he didn’t because based on his estimate he was eight years old again and nothing was right, he was back at his old home, his parents were gone but gone and omg Bruce didn’t even have Jason yet- Jason hasn’t died yet! What did he do? Did he let things play out? He couldn’t do that! He knew too much! And! Just!

“URRGH” Tim muffled his scream in the pillow on his bed before going limp. He turned his head to the side as he thought about it. His eyes took on a determined glint.

If he was back, he could help. He was no use to anybody just sitting here like a scared kid. He was Red Robin! He smiled to himself.

They just didn’t know it yet.

~ Two Months Later~

So Tim definitely fucked up—he fucked up big time.

In his defense! He didn’t know Talia would go nuts on Bruce just because he sent her some messages implying he knew about Damian…while also implying that he was Bruce. But okay! How else was he going to get information on the little brat. He didn’t want to leave him with the League any longer than he had to! He could be saving his little bro some key trauma here. Bruce had already got to Jason before he could, so he figured he’d start collecting the rest. He peaked his head around the corner to look at the figures arguing in the distance. Jason was standing there with jaw dropped as he witnessed the scene.

“—A CHILD?!!” Batman argued. Gesturing wildly, waving his arms as he looked over the woman in front of him.

“Do not act like you don’t know what is going on! You! Are the one who sent me! Threatening messages about him. If you knew about him and you wanted information. You could have came and seen him. I thought we were past foolish nonsense like hidden messages.” Talia snarled. She had punctuated her sentences by boldly poking Batman in the chest, clearly unintimidated by his postering.

He hadn’t meant for this to happen.

Tim looked down at the young boy watching the argument along with him. At the same time the boy looked up and Tim couldn’t help but feel bad for the kid. He knew watching your parents fight was hard and dang if Damian’s little face didn’t show emotion even worse than he did as a teenager. Tim huffed out a sigh as he crouched to be on Damian’s level. Damian had focused completely on him, still with a little pout on his face.

“Damian, does your mother know you followed her here?” He asked in Arabic, figuring that at —four? Five?— the kid would appreciate it instead of English. The kids eyes narrowed as he scrutinized Tim before responding.

“No, who are you? Mother said I had a brother but she said he’d be a lot older.” He crossed his little arms and Tim tried valiantly to keep his expression plain. “You obviously are trained.”

Tim couldn’t help the small smile that spread on his face as he fully took in Damian’s posture. He looked adorable trying to be intimidating, almost like a little miniature Batman in his little black ninja outfit, complete with a little black hood. Tim was wearing something similar, drawing from his time with the league to help him get by when he didn’t have access to the bat’s technology. He held up a finger to his lips as he met Damian’s eyes.

“I’m a secret brother, don’t tell though. Father doesn’t know yet.” Truthfully Tim didn’t call Bruce anything resembling a parental figure but he’d thought about it and what better time to start than when he had a chance to fully start over. Besides, it would help the demon believe him more right now.

Damian looked skeptical but seemed to take in the fact that they were both in the same position as proof. He turned to look back at where the grownups were still fighting. Jason was sitting down now, talking into his com. Probably to Alfred considering he didn’t think him and Dick we’re getting along yet. Damian was still looking at him out of the corner of his eyes.

“Did your mother hide you as well?”

“Mm, something like that.”

A couple seconds passed and Tim was thinking Damian would go back to watching until—

“Do you know where father lives then? Mother wouldn’t show me.” Tim snapped his head toward the kid who looked a bit embarrassed. He thought about ten year old Damian, who came to the cave full of anger and rage…but also hero worship for Bruce.

Maybe he could end up getting his brother quicker than he thought.

[zorilleerrant]

Pride. Tim's palms are sweating, and that's of course because it's warm out, but - he's not Bruce. He can admit he's nervous. Coming out to Bernard, admitting, well, admitting stuff he still doesn't like to think outright to himself, in the privacy of his own head (and that's, you know, probably all the telepaths he knows and nothing pathological), it was a relief and it was a stepping stone and it was easier than saying anything to his family, saying anything to his teammates or his close friends. Easier than talking to a stranger, too, because Bernard has always known things that Tim has to talk around, been there for parts of his life he likes to ignore these days.

There was something about Bernard coming out to him, too. The trust that was still there, even after the lapse in contact. The idea that he might still have friends out there, if he ever gets the time to breathe and go back to things that seem so selfish when there are lives on the line, things that seem less important in the moment and then loom so large when Tim does stop to take a breath. But also - it's something they share. Even after all this time, there's not such a gulf between him and every other person who's stepped in and out of his life. It's warm, knowing someone still wants to spend time with him, forgives him for letting so much communication fall to the wayside and pass them by.

Warm that flushes up his cheeks and covers the bridge of his nose in a way he thinks probably doesn't really itch, but he doesn't want to draw attention to it by scratching it. Which makes it itch so bad every time he tries to look Bernard in the eye, and ends up staring at the ground, flushing harder. He can't have a crush on his only gay friend. It doesn't work like that. If he wants - and he's seen, on so many shows he never wanted to admit put a lump in his throat, the casual touches, the hugging, the slumping against each other - a group of queer friends, he can't make it weird every time. He can't go around perceiving every touch, every look, every casual kiss as meaning more than it does. He wants this. He's always wanted this. He's wanted to be able to touch without checking first, to know exactly who and where and how and everything all about him and his friends, not whoever's watching.

That's never going to happen, because Tim could barely get through what he was saying to someone he already knew wasn't going to hate him, and if he did, so what? It was a friendship he'd already worried was no longer salvageable - but it was, which means now he has to worry. And he can't do that again. He's looked at so many numbers, so many email addresses, and he can't bring himself to type up the briefest hello. Even most of his family can't stand more than a nudge of the shoulder or a high five without a ten minute disclaimer preface, and they're the closest friends he has, these days. So how's he going to find more than Bernard to be able to be out and proud with, if he's barely out and the pride is so overshadowed by -

Not shame, so much. Embarrassment. Because look at him, and look at all he's done in the time Tim's been trying to figure out what it meant that he wanted to fuck guys, other than the obvious. (Which, as everything does in his life, only ever turned out to be the obvious.) Why's he going to want, of all people, Tim? Except Bernard's nice, which is half of why Tim loves him, so he'd give it a shot because he's the kind of romantic to believe that any friendship can blossom into romance in the right setting, with the right lighting, with the right music swelling to a crescendo just as they lean in. And Tim loves kissing Bernard. He's just like to kiss him as something other than a friend. Something deeper, with just a hint of tongue.

Tim's a bad kisser, anyway. Steph's told him that. She might have been joking? But there's so many things that Bernard was joking about that turned out not to have been jokes, never to have been jokes, not on his side and not on Tim's, and it's only now either of them will admit it. And she told him he was a bad baker, too, but here he is being way too obvious to someone who may be the only non-detective in his life right now, but he's not so oblivious he's not going to notice that Tim baked a whole ass cake for him. Friends can bake cakes, right? That's not too forward?

He used to think he was suave, as a kid - he can barely think of himself as an adult yet, but it's still miles away from, fuck, even a few years ago, what was he thinking? He was so tiny and naive and shouldn't have been out on his own - and he would put the moves on anyone and everyone that... well, not anyone. There were so many people that - even Bern, for a minute - he had to push to the back of his mind and develop weird celebrity crushes to cope with, the kind of strange obsession with action heroes that was just this side of straight. (Which is, thinking back, maybe why Bruce wasn't surprised. About the bisexuality, or about the crush.) Tim's old enough to know he's not cool, and he's old enough to feel the sting of rejection like it might mean something for the rest of his life, and he's old enough to be pragmatic about one of his few civilian friends.

But he still baked a cake, and they're still celebrating their first Pride together, and he's still going to ask Bernard out, maybe. If he can get the nerve up. If he really thinks that conversation won't jeopardize a good thing. Which he'll know, maybe, once they see each other, if he can hear the motif in the air when their eyes meet and that slow smile curls up Bern's lips, and he gives that casual wave that he ends in a sway of the hips as he starts to saunter over. Hugs Tim. Kisses him. Takes the box from his hands, and looks at it, and gets excited over such a little thing and Tim's absolutely gone on him.

Except then Bernard says to him, "Tim, what the fuck do you mean first date?"

[praetoring]

ok i'm falling down the rabbit hole that is witch hat atelier au for the batfam. so here's a better picture of baby jason as a little witch apprentice.

his apprentice robes are supposed to mimic that of his robin uniform, but with the cording across the chest that reflects that of his teacher - bruce. on bruce actually it's mean to mimic the placement of the bat symbol. but I didn't want jason to be in a complete replica of b's so he got his robin look~

i've got more ideas about who everyone would be in this au

dick is obviously the elder apprentice under bruce. he wasn't initially a fan of bruce taking on another student when he was nearing the end of his own apprenticeship, but they manage to work it out. he still hangs around the atelier tho b/c b is hopeless with the sudden influx of kids

jason's a bit like coco in this au, he wasn't born a witch but was taken in by bruce. he stole a magic book from bruce and figured out how to draw magic from it. instead of wiping his memories like he should ahve, bruce took him on as an apprentice. jason still dies but gets revived thanks to forbidden magic (and gets a sick magical tattoo) and becomes a brimhat

tim's a fellow apprentice, one who was taken in via coercion by bruce because there always seemed to be a problem with his other teachers. either he was slacking (wasn't being mentally challenged) or talking back (politely correcting them) but he made is way to bruce's atelier and convinced the professor to teach him.

steph was one of tim's few remaining friends from their time under another professor. she makes a point of following tim to bruce's atelier one day (after he was visiting family), and is just constantly over after that. bruce takes on her apprenticeship when it's found out that her father turned to the brimhats (and was captured and had his memory wiped) and she was under constant scrutiny for also being a traitor.

damian and cass were both taught under the brimhats (tho different sects), and to some on the council they are still considered brimhats even tho they've renounced their brims and adopted the pointed hats of bruce's atelier. damian is still bruce's son here, which has the fun implications that bruce's memories have been tampered with (the were erased by ra's for clarity's sake).

duke is bruce's latest apprentice, and was taken on when bruce found him trying to learn more about the brimhats - wanting to bring them to justice himself for erasing his parents memories - and was worried duke might get himself hurt in the process.

[beepawz]

(Do not look at the background it was rushed. Other than that, enjoy the quick drawing of Stephanie and Cass) If Cass’s outfit looks odd it’s because its not a cannon suit. In this au she modeled it after Macaque. (I wanted an excuse to give her a red cape) Thinking of calling this au MonkeyBat (I know im bad at naming things) unsure tho

Also, here’s the link to the LMK specific headcannons. Enjoy:

·   Cass is 17 when she first went back to the dimension she was born in

·   At this point I wanna say we’re close to the end of season 2 of Lmk so she’s started her training with Macaque

·   She learns the basics first- how to summon her staff, shadow travel and she’s working on making shadow clones

·   When Batman finds her, it doesn’t take long to tell she has powers, so he assumes she’s a meta

·   Cass likes to go back and forth between dimensions

·   She disappears randomly to go back home before showing back up at the manor for random periods of time

·   No one knows where she goes off to. Trackers don’t work (she always finds them) and not even Batman or Superman can find her

·   When asked where she was she either shrugs or says home she will not elaborate

·   At first the family was suspicious but as time went on and it became clear she wasn’t doing anything malicious they kinda dropped it and it became usual

·   Tim is still trying to figure out where she goes

·   Bruce is too but not like Tim is

·   At first, she didn’t care to much for her birth dimension and that doesn’t really change much except for the batfam

·   She came back because she likes the family. She likes helping them out at night and hanging out with them

·   She still refuses to let Bruce adopt her though and tells him he’s like an uncle to her.

·   She drops hints that she has a family and but never drops names or locations

·   At first the family think she might be talking about Lady Shiva and David Cain, but it doesn’t take long for it to become clear they aren’t who she’s talking about

·   The search continues

·   The batfam know that Cass can shadow travel, inhuman strength, her durability and that she has a strange shadow staff (that seems to come out of nowhere) but that’s about as much as they know on her powers

·    It takes about 2 years for the batfamily to figure out she’s technically from this dimension but it’s not her “home” dimension

·   She doesn’t tell them because she sees no harm in keeping it to herself. Besides it’s kinda funny watching them try to figure it out. She also wants to see how long these “world’s best” detectives take to figure it out. It’s not like she’s not dropping subtle hints.

·   Stephanie is the first to find out about everything. Duke is second.

·   They’re both smug about it once the entire family knows.

·   They are also the first two that Cass brought home to meet everyone

·   Before everyone else knows, Steph and Duke like messing with the rest of the family by making their own hints/references to Cass’s family

·   It frustrates the others more than ever

·   The three are having a great time

·   As she gets more of her powers, she doesn’t really use them while around the batfam

·   She just doesn’t see much reason to. She does however use them to fuck with some of the rouges if she’s on her own

·   No one believes them when they say she turned into a slightly demonic shadow being

·   Well no one but Tim

·   Tim will figure her secrets out. Cass finds it entertaining.

·   Cass and Duke get along great.

·   Dukes just glad there’s someone else with powers around

·   The first time Constantine met her, he showed up, looked at her, turned around, and noped right out of there. He doesn’t explain anything and refuses to be near Cass unless he has to

·   Cass finds it hilarious and will sometimes sneak up and scare the man

·   When confronted or asked if she knows why Constantine acts like that around her, she just shrugs.

·   It’s not her fault he’s scared of the sheer demonic presence she give off

·   With the exception of Constantine, she does try to avoid the league and other magic users. To many people who could possible out her by her presence alone and she enjoys being a mystery

[thatblondeperson]

Now that you said it regarding Lyxn, I do agree especially about the racist dragon lady trope. I do think she had a neat design and I think dealing with her supposed role as an undercover cop could have been a good plot. If I went about if she was a love interest it would only be AFTER Tim and Tam broke up and flesh her out more than just a sexy Asian lady for a fling and be a genuine interest.

DC was never gonna make her anything more than what she was in Red Robin.

Tbh, I would have liked to see her character fleshed out withOUT her being a love interest. That doesn't add anything more to her character or Tim's. It would have been more interesting to draw the line at the differences between Tim and Bruce again. Tim constantly shows how he utilizes allies and friends where Bruce does not. He didn't have to make out with Lynx, but suppose he formed a conditional ally ship. If she was working undercover, she could help him a lot, but his dick doesn't need to get hard every time he sees her to make that dynamic work.

It reduces her to just a tool for Tim's progression as a character, just as Tam and Zo were. I say, flesh out the relationship with Tam better, give Tam her own agency, like actually dig more into her sadness over her father's death and some behind the scenes of her trying to figure Tim out more, maybe helping to build to the ultimate betrayal she felt from him. Still keep Tim's conflicting feelings for Steph that make him reexamine himself and how she subtly helps him to find his center whether he realizes it or not. have Lynx be a growing ally without maxing her a wet dream fantasy, give her her own story, and maybe have her not be lusting for Tim. Just like, have her be a badass and not look like she wants to suck Tim's dick every time they talk. Yeesh.

[fenrir-wolf-of-gotham]

This was an ask by a person I don't want to be associated with anymore. Its also one of my favorite asks I've ever received because I got to talk a lot about my f/os in a deep way so I'm gonna repost it as a non-ask.

This is the ask game it was drawing from.

🧡: Tim Drake. He and I struggle to find things to talk about. We're just not very compatible socially. I suppose you could also say Bruce fits this. He's not happy about Cass being with someone romantically because nobody will ever be good enough for her but he does care about my opinions. He knows I'm very objective when I'm distanced from a situation. Now, I know this isn't part of the question, but Duke Thomas is my best friend. We're both Metahuman Vigilantes who grew up in Gotham, though he grew up in Burnley and I grew up in New Gotham. We still had very similar childhoods minus the fact I’m Irish and he’s African American.

💚: Oh absolutely. Cass and Steph are very protective of me and it is not helped by the many seductive villains in Gotham (even some guys believe it or not). Steph is the most open about how much she doesn't like other people flirting with me but Cass dislikes it more than her, she's just used to holding her emotions in. Cass will just stare angrily at them while getting physically close to me but Steph gets really sarcastic and passive aggressive (the first time it happened she grabbed me by the arm and loudly called me her boyfriend while telling me we were going on a date "right this second"). My obliviousness to when people are doing that means they also get the fun of seeing me completely miss social cues they picked up on hours ago. We have a code for when people are flirting with me that Steph or Cass asks me, "Did you water the tulips?" We don't have any Tulips. We only have a Peacelily that I bought for our room after watching Hot Fuzz (my favorite movie).

💘: For Cass, I caught feelings first and knew it the moment I saw her unmasked. Cass and I worked together on missions before that point and I respected and admired her but I definitely caught feelings once I saw her without her mask. It was also shot into overdrive when I saw her exercising in the Batcave (you could cut metal on her abs). Later, Cass became a little obsessed with me after she realized I could deliver a decent challenge as a fighter thanks to my metahuman powers. That evolved into romantic affection and she realized it after she saved my life and kissed me. We started dating.

Now we get to talk about Steph's side of the story which was much more emotionally taxing for her. Imagine you're Steph. You've been waiting for Cass to actually ask you out because she obviously has to know that you like her (Cass did not in fact know that Steph liked her), you know she likes you (Cass did not know that she liked Steph despite the emotions being there), and she never has a boyfriend so there's plenty of time for her to ask you out in between the boyfriends you keep bringing along just to highlight how much you're not into anyone but her (this was not her best plan).

Imagine all of that.

Now also imagine that this new vigilante rocks down to electric avenue, Cass seems to fall head over heels for him despite barely showing any interest in guys up to this point, and now they start dating within a few months of being friends despite the fact you and Cass have known each other for two years and have saved each other's lives on multiple occasions, one of which involved an explicit confession of love that she somehow managed to miss completely (see figure a).

Imagine all of that.

So she was trying to get over that when Deathstroke kidnapped her and injected her with a serum that made her emotions go into overdrive and manipulated her to follow his orders in an attempt to kill Batman.

Cass and her had a duel which ended with Cass hugging her until she stopped fighting and just started crying and emotionally laying all this out while I beat up Deathstroke.

It was a close duel but I won. Yes I am very proud of that fact.

A few days later I started taking Steph out to places to try and see how compatible we were (me and Cass called it "Operation: Stephside"). We went to a tabletop game store and played a few games with each other, we went to a music concert, we stayed home and played video games, and then later we went on a picnic which was when Steph started to get suspicious. Steph told me that, while she did like me, she wouldn't help me cheat on Cass which was when I told her what was really going on and that we were considering making it a throuple. Steph got really nervous but I made sure to let her know she had passed all the tests in no uncertain terms with flying colors. Then we headed back to the manor where the three of us spent our first night as a couple playtesting a game I had made in the Batcave.

It took a while but Steph finally got her perfect romantic ending.

You have no idea how funny it is to me that it took some random guy to finally get me and Cass together.

I absolutely love how incidental I am to your version of the story sweetheart.

Oh shut it you know what I mean. The irony that it took a man for two girls to finally go sapphic for each other? That doesn't usually happen.

Heh, yeah I get what you mean.

[noodleswithsoba-blog]

Earth 3329's Batman.

So, who wants to know about my Batman? I know, I know real original story ahead but here's the deal...

He's pretty different, based off the Burton movies mixed with the 2022 Batman, kind of a dark Gothic-Cyberpunk vibe. Also this is probably going to be a massive post.

"Every day I put on that suit, keep my stick at my side, and for what? Just to fall over and over. But I always get back up, because of one truth of this world... everyone needs a little hope and if I'm that hope, then it's worth every fall."

Quick Facts.

Name: Grayson Thomas Wayne.

Birthday: 10/27. (A few days before the anniversary of the start of the Long Halloween.)

Special Ability: Nine Lives. Grayson can come back to life nine times, after the ninth he has no more, however whatever killed him before is remembered and sometimes leads to resistances.

It's main weakness is the fact he remembers how he died every time, if it was particularly traumatic it'd have a deeper impact.

Hair Color: Black.

Eye Color: Green.

Relatives.

Bruce Wayne. (Father.)

Selina Kyle. (Mother.)

Richard 'Dick' Grayson. (Adoptive Older Brother.)

Jason Todd. (Adoptive Older Brother.)

Tim Drake. (Figurative Older Brother/Adoptive.)

Barbara Gordon. (Sister-in-Law.)

Damian Al Ghul/Owlman (Half-Brother.)

Relationships.

Page Monroe (Ex-Girlfriend.)

Pamela Isley (Current Girlfriend.)

Backstory.

The son of Bruce and Selina, young Grayson Thomas Wayne (Named after his big brother and paternal grandfather to highlight the expectations on his shoulders.) was born with Cerebral Palsy, which hampered his training quite a bit, but he was still eager to learn because who wouldn't when your dad is BATMAN? Of course when he became Robin he mostly stayed back with the Batmobile and helped investigate crime scenes and rarely got into fights.

Selina taught her son how to steal things on the side, definitely a mom that'd be protective but still try to have her son grow up a bit by taking on a little more at a time.

As a Robin, Bruce's rogues understood that Grayson couldn't really hurt them, but in this case he turned out to be a pretty sweet kid. Arkham was hell but at least he'd try to make things a little more comfortable for the inmates.

But there was one that didn't like the baby bat, one that wanted to play an even deadlier joke against the Bat and Cat...

The Joker. He took out one Robin, he's 1-3 on the Killed Robin board so the cute little prince of Gotham would have to do. So one night, he caused a huge crime spree, drawing away both Selina and Bruce, the fourteen year old Grayson, eager to prove himself had tracked down the Clown Prince of Crime and was just about to send the location to Oracle when he dropped off the grid.

When they found him he was barely alive, dying soon after and being buried... until he dug his way out and went to bed, scaring the daylights out of Alfred and the rest of the family.

Ever since then, the Bat-Family as well as the Wayne family imploded. Grayson could barely look at the Robin suit without flying into a panic attack, losing his desire to help Gotham. Selina thought it'd be best to divorce Bruce and get their child out of Gotham. In no small part blaming her complacency in the fact that their son had difficulties and still made him a Robin.

They moved to Seattle, Washington. Bruce slowly gave up on being Batman, Gotham slowly rotting further.

Becoming the Bat.

The matter of Grayson becoming Batman is because of a downward spiral after losing Pamela and not processing his grief well at all. While the Mission isn't as important, it all starts as an investigation into Jason Woodrue, who he was suspicious of back in Seattle, but now really wants to find out why he did that to Pamela.

It's also a culmination of all the years he's tried to run from his destiny as the next Batman, so this is all just a burden he has to bear now because he's too far in.

As we'll see with my Superman, this is the opposite of his case.

Personality.

Grayson became a very quiet young man. He could ACT like he's happy or not having issues but in a moment whoever he's hiding it from would see into him.

He very much wears his emotions on his sleeve. Even after what happened to him he still makes an effort to not let it defeat him. He's nervous in big social groups.

He's very soft spoken and doesn't like confrontation, owing to the fact that Pamela and Page were much more outspoken than him and he'd often retreat inside his own head.

But before that, he was outgoing and happy. Almost like he loved everything about being in Gotham and caring about it. Dick and Tim used to remember how eager he was to go out and help.

A lot of the Old Guard of rogues like the Penguin, the first Ivy, and Harley Quinn remember him as a sweet kid that really would get eaten up by Gotham.

He'd talk with them and of course none of them would actively try to hurt him. Mostly because Batman was nearby at all times as little Robin asked Mr. Cobblepot or Miss Ivy about how their gadgets and powers worked.

Grayson was never angry at Harley though. She wasn't there when he died and she probably wouldn't have changed Joker's mind at all. She does shove herself into his life as his 'Auntie Harley' and keeps an eye on him...

Which he finds really sweet but embarrassing because Harley tells Selina EVERYTHING about what he's doing and all that.

He absolutely adores cats, especially ones that wobble because they remind him of himself and he has a way with them because his mom does.

He and Bruce also loved listening to old radio serials like the Gray Ghost and The Shadow, so Grayson implements the tactics of The Shadow into his common Batman kit.

He'd be a drama kid if he wasn't railroaded into being Batman.

While being the Caped Crusader... Grayson is the definition of rage and efficiency. He has to be mindful of his limits and his Batsuit is armored in such a way to protect himself.

So imagine him fighting with a stick and metal claws and a whip, he's a blend of Batman and Catwoman with a bit of Nightwing.

He's also very measured and calm when not fighting. Often as to not scare civilians and unnerve villains when he's skulking towards them wanting to beat the tar out of them.

Well, that's his LAST resort. He tends to go for mind games rather than straight fisticuffs but can handle himself if desired. He doesn't have much of a Batgrowl, more like a soft, gentle monotone.

He does have a lot of gadgets in comparison to his father. Some more to make Batmanning more accessible. He does have his own Batmobile and that's pretty much it for vehicles.

His relationship with the GCPD is hostile. He doesn't care about them considering he has access to their records, and again, Babs is out of town but tries to help.

Meanwhile Gotham's falling apart at the seams by the time he returns.

As Grayson Wayne the Playboy... there isn't one. He has Ivy, or Page. He's happily partnered with either one of them and they're basically the talk of the town.

Even though he's highly introverted and his social battery is nonexistent, Pamela tends to chase them off with a glare, while Page would whip them all into an excited crowd as she regales them with glamourous tales to help Grayson get away.

Love Interests.

Back when Grayson was younger, he was a real hit with the uppercrust of Gotham, being the Prince of the City had it's benefits. Of course, there were several people who wanted to take advantage. None moreso than former actress Gloria Monroe and her daughter Page.

Gloria wanted to marry Page off to the Waynes as a backup plan if the acting didn't work out.

Of course, Page initially didn't want to be there, until she saw Grayson go into the manor's library for a little social battery recharge with his wobbly cat, Wells.

Page was a child star, a rising sensation in the entertainment world, being a riches to rags back to riches story in GOTHAM was a big deal.

But with Grayson? She had a friend who never saw the actress and saw the girl underneath. Over the next few months, she would remember every day with him fondly as she slowly began to fracture, clinging to him and wanting him to stay with her.

Until one day he broke up with her. Telling her that he was leaving Gotham. Yet she still held feelings for him, and little did she know for a while after he did too.

She has a very good memory for dates and often reminisces on the days where she was beautiful, the days where she had a wobbly cat and the heart of the Prince of Gotham.

There's a theme of getting back what you lost before with Page. Echoes of Sunset Boulevard, too. Constantly trying to stay relevant, to stay beautiful, to stay as she was before.

She's the first person the newly returned Batman saves. Page and Grayson reunite and she's on the very edge of snapping after losing a job and being rejected from new ones for not being what they wanted.

As a further partner, Page would be a pretty capable partner considering Mean Seasons, and this versions acting skills. Plus she'd appreciate her Gracey's efforts to reform Gotham with her as his spokeswoman.

She still would wear her mask if she gets overwhelmed or scared.

Pamela Isley met Grayson at a college party. Both of them being intense introverts but she was outspoken and very strong-willed. Something the quieter, softer Grayson needed help with regaining. Pamela also was a botany student, very intelligent and successful.

She was also intensely against all forms of authority, and would easily, easily be ACAB and maybe an Anarchist. Ironic considering that her boyfriend used to be a Robin.

Although nowadays Grayson would agree with her on a lot of points. She ended up radicalizing him.

Grayson steadily forgot about Gotham with her. Saw the light and saw getting better as a possibility. For himself, and to be a better man for her and his family.

However, the experiments that she was undergoing to protect the plants she loved and by extension protecting him from the wider world because he was one of the only people who saw her as more of a person other than her family killed her.

But like Grayson, Pamela rose again. Her goal is to tear down the corruption of Gotham, and make a garden in its place, to be the salvation of the planet as well as the idea of being alone with the people she loves completely safe.

Of course Dr. Woodrue's goal was to precisely make an embodiment of the Green to combat humanity's expansion and grasp immortality. And while Dr. Isley finds it cruelly ironic that her daughter went down the same road...

Pamela sees it as a new opportunity. If only she could stop thinking about Grayson and see it through to the end. She's extremely antisocial towards other people and only still loves Grayson because he respects her autonomy and adores her for who she is.

Also during parties she scares people off. As Ivy, she's a very hostile person to whoever or whatever is getting in her way, but she helps Grayson because they have a similar goal. A better Gotham.

The only reason WHY she goes to these galas is to make people wildly uncomfortable. Also picking out more targets for her partner to take down, it's a whole system.

Also she absolutely has various plant monsters throughout Gotham just waiting for a citywide threat even though Grayson harps on it.