#talia al ghul

[spicy-apple-pie]

Bruce... you know you can't fix everything all the time, right?

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[veliya01]

Bb Damian!!!

Just ask me if y'all want more of baby Damian or baby any member of the batfamily and how you want it and I'll gladly do it cuz I definitely don't have an upcoming exam and is willing to do anything to forget about it 😊

[ckalaveram]

I forgot to post these, but there were some requests from tweet (they are all pretty rushed and most are done fully in pen)

[theamityelf]

Okay, I'm trying to familiarize myself with Batfam stuff, because I lowkey think they'd be fun to write for. (Never seen any of the animated series or read any Batman comic with Robin in it.)

What I have so far:

Bruce Wayne. Obviously. That's a Batman. Parents killed in an alley outside a theater, he maybe trained with some assassins (and Talia al Ghul is a character who's related to that somehow I think; she might be an assassin), and he's Batman. I know who Batman is. He doesn't kill; that's his rule.

Alfred. Butler. Secretly really good at weapons? Just generally hypercompetent and would probably be killing people if not for Bruce.

There's a bunch of Robins, which I will list. It seems like a lot of them have straight black hair and blue eyes; if true, it's wild that they didn't vary that more. I hope the fandom does something else, lol.

Dick Grayson first. He's the circus one who got adopted when his parents died. He's good at flips and stuff because circus. Not sure the specifics of his parents' death, but I suppose it triggered Bruce? And so Bruce was like, "I gotta adopt this kid." And he later became Robin. And then he did Teen Titans (which I haven't seen, but one of my college roommates watched Teen Titans Go a lot) and dated Starfire. I think he's the one whose costume is sometimes blue? But I'm not sure. Personality-wise, I think maybe he's generally positive and responsible. This is the first Robin, so he's probably got standard Robin characteristics and grew up with the standard amount of superhero angst. Not too much, not too little. I feel like I'd like Dick Grayson if I knew the character well. Oh! He's also called Nightwing, right?

Jason Todd next. He's, like...a street orphan? And I think he's the one with the white in his hair. He got killed by Joker with a crowbar and then came back angry because Batman didn't kill Joker. And I feel like things remained tense with him after that in canon but fan works have them resolve things, but like I said, I have not consumed any of his canon. I'm just going on vibes. Personality-wise, I'm thinking rougher-edged than Dick. Um, Red Hood, right?

Tim Drake is next. I genuinely don't know if and when he was adopted, because I'm pretty sure everything I've consumed about him was just like, "No, he has parents. But he figured out that Bruce Wayne is Batman, so he gets to be Robin." But I also think he lives with them? I think he's more upbeat than Jason; he fully opted into all of this.

Wait, Barbara Gordon is somewhere in there, right? Probably before Tim. I don't know what she's really doing, but she's Jim Gordon's daughter and I think she becomes Batgirl. Does she get killed by Joker? Jim Gordon is like, Batman's favorite police guy. He's the one who's always lighting the bat signal.

Full disclosure, I know Stephanie Brown is someone, but I have no idea who she is or what she's doing or when she comes into play, and iirc I think I saw a Tiktok that implied she straight up lives somewhere else. I guess Barbara probably does, too. And I guess Dick probably moved out to do Teen Titans, although it would be very funny if he didn't. I'm sure a lot of fan works just have them all live together; if the Marvel fandom could put everyone in Stark Tower, the DC fandom can move everyone into Wayne Manor.

I know that Cassandra Cain is deaf, and I think she's a street orphan, too? And I feel like there was some connection between her and the kid from the Birds of Prey movie. Maybe same character; I feel like I remember reading criticism about her not being deaf in the movie. I also don't know when she comes into play, but I'm pretty sure she's one of the straightforwardly adopted ones. But I'm just guessing that because I'm not aware of any reason for her not to be.

Duke Thomas is the black one, and I think he was kind of on the Tim Drake track of figuring out the Batman stuff. I don't know how he came into play either. I think he's called Signal? Does he have an electricity thing, or am I mistaking him for a different character? There are a lot of black superheroes with electricity powers. Personality-wise, I think he's just generally cool and good-natured, but I'm not sure whether that's an actual canon thing, or if I've just consumed content that misrepresents his whole deal. Whatever the case, I'd probably love him if I knew more about him. I feel like I'll like all of these characters.

Damian Wayne, biological son of Bruce and Talia. (Though, if I'm mistaken about that, then that's really funny.) He's, like, an analyst type, which means we've got a lot of characters who are specifically characterized as analytical. (I hope knowing more about them will make it easier to vary the kind of intelligence. I want them to have different specific strengths and weaknesses. They probably do.) And I think he might have also been trained by the assassins, but I'm not sure. Personality-wise, I'm pretty sure he's distinctly creepy. Like, I think he's the creepy genius child trope, and all serious and formal. I like that trope.

[shyjusticewarrior]

Talia threw Jason in the lazarus pit while Ra's was monologing about how to one else can go in the pit. Really set the tone lol.

[littlefankingdom]

I'm going to need the sources to back up that Dick didn't like Talia. What are y'all sources? What comic, what issues? I'm only accepting pre-9/11 stuffs. Thanks.

Btw, it's not that I have a problem with it, I like it, I just need the sources if it exists.

[fanfic-writer-and-rambler]

Talia stabs a fork in Bruce's hand. He doesn't react.

Bruce (monotone): Huh... Ow

Talia (angry): Asshole!

With that she stormed off, her heels clicking on the ground as she left the sushi restaurant.

Selina sits on the other side of the table and looks on horrified that he got stabbed in his hand.

Selina: What the hell?

Bruce: She's mad I won't let Damian spend the summer with her. I expected a negative reaction but... This-

Bruce yanks out the fork unfazed. Selina covers her mouth shocked.

Bruce: Was not what I expected. This is even a fork in this restaurant.

Selina takes the fork.

Selina: I'll return it to her then. In her fucking thigh.

Selina stands and leaves the restaurant angry, but remains composed.

Bruce: Okay, I'll wait here.

Bruce stays at the table, wipes his hands and takes a tuna roll off Selina's plate with the hand that got stabbed.

Bruce: I'm surprised she didn't poison the tips of the fork. Means she's not that mad.

He dips another roll in the wasabi and eats in one bite, coughing at the spice.

Bruce: I swear I can never handle that level of spice.

The lady sitting across from him stares perplexed.

Lady: Sir, a woman stabbed you in the top of your hand with a fork, it's the wasabi that you react to?

Bruce clears his throat and says to the woman: I've been stabbed there before, you get used to it.

[brutalia]

I will try to bring him back to himself.

talia al ghul in detective comics #1080 (2023)

[crabrat]

damian talia and dick they’re ough they make me feel so many things

no no because talia raised damian that’s his mom-probably one of the only people who game him some semblance of kindness in the league-a roll model-an authority figure he cannot question and suddenly she turned him away and sends him to meet his father, someone whose practically a stranger to him

and so he goes and he adapts but everything he’s been taught is challenged all the things he’d been punished for not doing he’s punished for doing

but to keep his family something’s he’s been easier to value so highly he learns and adapts and so he has his father he gets used to this new form of love and it’s ripped from him, his father is dead and everything around him is in shambles and he’s with dick and dick well dick just drills in the idea that the woman who’d loved and poured her tangible pride into him and taught him everything he’s ever known is just Wrong dick tries to save him from his own childhood

and then where does he go from there, it is all wrong and dear god if that’s wrong then what is he what is he without this everything he’s ever known is mute

And then we have Dick whose just trying to live to survive to continue when his father has died and he has to pick up the ashes he’s got to take care of a. new kid and a whole fucking city and he is terrified he’s going to repeat the past

god he’s got so many regrets and so many things he has to do the and world keeps fucking spinning while his has been obliterated

and his brother is chasing after ghosts and his team is picking up the peices and his sister moves and his brother moves and they’re spread out thin grief cannot be escaped yet they all try to avoid it and he’s left to drown in it

but he has to persevere batman cannot die and neither can robin the cycle must continue but all he can do is his best to make it run smoother so he takes in the kid whose so harsh and rough around the edges but still very clearly a child and he tries to make sure damian knows he’s loved that he’s not leaving he tries to provide stability but he is in his mind but a pale imitation of bruce never able he’s truly measure up to the man and really hes not even sure he wants to

And talia, talia’s stuck between a rock and a hard place, she’s never aspired for motherhood and she’d never really gotten a choice but she has a child and she loves him yet she never seems to be able to do him right she knows the league isn’t the best place for a kid but it’s all she’s ever known and likely all he’ll know so she teaches him how to survive and she makes him know how proud she is and how proud he should be

and then she has an opening she can send him to his father to be trained and she knows if she does she’ll never get him back but as long and he’s safe and happy she’ll do it she has to and she knows she will never be forgiven but she will do what she musts for her family she loves Damian so so much but Love alone won't save you make you a better person or excuse the harm you cause in its name It's not enough just to feel love-what truly matters is how you choose to act on it

[nenehyuuchiha]

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Talia al Ghul, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: talia dick alfred and tim are all here but in supporting roles, Blood and Violence, Implied/Referenced Torture, Child Abuse, (not from Bruce), Discussion of/References to sexual assault, Hurt/Comfort, Lost Days-Era Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Talia is...morally complicated but she loves her kids, Jason Todd-centric, Biracial Jason Todd, what if lost days jason got stuck in a room with bruce, what would happen then hm? Series: Part 1 of an aviary of vicious and carnivorous birds Summary:

Lost Days-era.

Jason's latest teacher is cruel man, but a boring one. There's no reason for Jason to expect that he will be any different from the rest—just another monster with a skillset that Jason wants to learn. He'll get what he needs and then take out the trash before he goes, as always.

It's all going according to plan until, very suddenly, it isn't.

~

One of Jason's instructors kidnaps Bruce fucking Wayne. This changes nothing, or at least that's what Jason keeps telling himself.

[7weaslesinacoat]

i like to think talia al ghul would do stuff like sneaking into the manor and putting a cheesy note in damian’s lunchbox with xoxos and advice for how to handle the day.

i know canonically, probably would never happen, but let me dream.

[damian-lil-babybat]

A tool is always innocent

Headcanon: Damian being damned in hell does not make sense. In a world where Talia is good, she made sure that all his sins would fall to her hands. She basically brainwashed her son, so Dami won't have the discernment that would damn his soul. A tool is always innocent. So all his death counts and sins should be placed on Talia's shoulder. Dami is innocent to it all.

So his trip in hell was all due to the fact that when he underwent in-vitro gestation, Ra's ordered using Dionesium (key element in Lazarus) which defied the balance of life and death, damning his soul in limbo.

The Boy Wonder #4 by Juni Ba

[blue-boy-scout]

stranded on the shoreline of angels and their sin

“Are you proud of me, father?”

[mrdogface]

[wellzofyouth]

Talia x Selina would make the hottest power couple. PLEEK DC