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Childhood trio Pt. Don't mess with him!

Caleb: I want to make one thing clear. If you mess with Zayne, you mess with me.

Zayne: Yeah.

Caleb: Cause we boys.

Zayne: Yeah!

Caleb: We friends!

Zayne: Yes!

Caleb: We boyfriends.

Zayne: Ye- no, no we're not. No we're not. You can't say that.

Caleb: We're boys and we're friends.

Zayne: Yes, that's better-

Caleb: So we're boyfriends.

Zayne: No. No we're not.

Caleb: Nobody better mess with my boyfriend.

Zayne: No. Just friends-

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THIS IS NOT MINE. X: https://x.com/ankek00/status/1935032569923518905?s=46

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i only really tolerate being touched by certain people and i’m projecting onto zayne and thinking he’s the same way.

too-friendly patients clasp his hand as they thank him, and he’s bristling so much he barely processes their gratitude. he takes a step back, gentle but firm, and sends them on their way, trying to look past the confusion on their faces.

the only intern who doesn’t fear him aces an assessment one day. but when she bounds up to him and asks for a high-five, he can only spare her a curt nod. her dejected flush replays in his mind when she shrinks away from him in the hallway.

he questions his personhood when he retreats from the pediatric patients’ eager touches, their tiny hands reaching up to grab at his stethoscope. shouldn’t he like this? shouldn’t he chuckle and beckon them forward? shouldn’t his heart fill with warmth? that’s how he hears greyson describe it. that’s how he sees the nurses act. so why can’t he do the same?

it’s only when you touch him—when you hold his face, kiss his nose, or wrap your arms around his waist—that his worries fade away. your touch is good. safe. familiar. he craves it, he seeks it, he leans into it instead of shying away. in your arms, he doesn’t bristle. doesn’t wonder if he was meant to be a recluse, never to be touched by another hand. in your arms, he feels a little more human.

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hi! i’ve recently read your stray au and i CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT 😭😭😭😭 i really like both versions of the au but i think this is more ver 1 so this hc is rooted in that; i wanna see jondami meet as their hero/antihero counterparts for the first time and its jon not clocking that stray is damian and since i’d like to think that dami as stray has taken more of selina’s flirty tactics when encountering any hero—boosts their egos and stomps on it with his foot, crushing it to pieces. but jon? jon’s too adorable not to mess (straight up flirt) with in damian’s eyes 🥺

it’s the little remarks like how strong he is or how the scars he gains never truly ever stick, how kind he is with people—actual genuine compliments mixed with a little cat flavored taunt-flirt. “something something damian compliments him on his fists actually his punches and how it really hurts—i wonder what other things those hands can do?”

jon turns his head at near neck breaking speed, face all red all the way up to his ears. and stray is just standing there smiling like it’s just the facts!!! nothing weird!!!! throw in some, “aw, that’s adorable.” and jon just wondering why the universe has allowed this to happen

(i also am a firm believer of jon finds stray dami so distracting bc he is SOOOO pretty like god forbid something happens to damian bc superman jon kent will GET your ass i fear)

sorry. i just love stray aus 😭 thank u for the food sorry for the long ass yap 😭😭😭

Thank you! Please yap at me!

I love posting, but I don't get a lot of comments or asks, so I adore when someone builds on my au ideas.

Stray Au is one of my favourites, and I'm working on more snippets or another version where Jon is teamed up with stray instead of meeting him accidentally because I love writing flirty Damian.

Jon is a distracted mess when Damian uses the tactics Selina taught him.

With others, he doesn't have to do much, just bat his eyes and pout, and people are taken back enough that he can rob them, but he has fun seeing just how much Jon can handle.

He is a menace and loves to see to see how brightly he can make Jon blush.

This ask has inspired me, and you have no idea!

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Throwback to "Sword Sparring" an edit I did several months ago, in which I used the sound effects of Bridgerton as a musical instrument.

Watch the full thing below... 😊

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On many requests from one indiviual person (not naming names (@sheepbish)) I present you a flustered dick

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Deaf Damian AU

For the anon Ask I got. This idea is very cool, but I have a lot of thoughts on disability as i am a disabled person currently going through a flare-up. So this is gonna be a little angst and a lot fluffy. I am physically disabled and don't use hearing aids so some of this might not be accurate, but I added in universe hand wavey science for story purposes

Damian was born perfect. He was turned into the ultimate warrior and leader. His mother's Alexander.

For many years of his life, he tried his best to achieve these goals. He never quite managed it but he took pride in the victories he accomplished in the League.

Then, one day, a tutor sets off a bomb and leaves the eight year old for dead.

The tutor was a traitor and a coward but a demolition expert of the highest calibre.

Damian couldn't defuse the bomb, so he tried to escape. He makes it outside the building but not much further when he is thrown in the air by the blast.

Damian hears the explosion, watches the world burn around him, and falls unconscious.

He wakes to his mother staring at him and sharp pulsating pain in his head.

Her lips move, but it's like the world is underwater. He can't make out what she saying.

Damian tries to tell he can't hear her only to find he can't even hear his own voice.

He feels the vibrations in his throat, but he can't hear anything. He starts to panic and his mother looks horrified as she flinches back from him.

He must have been screaming.

His mother gathers him into her arms as he sobs. She must say something he can feel it against his head, but he can't understand.

Talia and Damian don't go back to Nanda Parat for a long time.

His mother brings doctors, specialists, and even Lazarus Water to try and fix him, but whatever had happened to him in the blast can not be undone.

Damian tries not to show how every failure terrifies him. How every day the world is silent leaves him unbalanced.

After weeks of no solutions, Damian starts to learn to read lips and sign. His mother looks conflicted when she catches him, but there are books on sign language delivered to his room the next morning.

Damian learns until the world feels less distant.

The idea of not knowing when someone is sneaking up on him never leaves, his paranoia only grows.

His mother brings two devices one day. She signs that it should work like for him that the hearing aids are special and alter how he perceives sound.

They are thin, small, and would be easily hidden in his hair.

Damian looks at it in awe and carefully puts it on. The device feels strange as it wraps around his ears.

Talia helps him turn it on, and Damian waits for the world to return to normal.

Except it doesn't. He can hear, but it's wrong.

Instead of what he expects it is like he is hearing everything through a vibrating speaker. The texture of his mother voice feels wrong.

Damian shuts off his disappointment quickly and contents himself in hearing anything at all.

His mother looks emotional as Damian tells her it works. She hugs him in relief, whispering sweet words that he can hear now.

No matter how far it is from actually hearing he is grateful for even a moment of his mother's voice.

Damian gets migraines when the device is on too long, so he turns it off when he can and retreats into the silence.

They return to Nanda Parat, but Mother stays with him for months, bringing him with her on missions and ensuring no one knows about Damian's new weakness.

Damian feels guilty about distracting her and, in many ways, being a burden but appreciates having his mother close.

They sign together over tea and warbat. It settles Damian and provides comfort and grounding. He never asked his mother to learn sign language for him, but he is so grateful that she did.

When the League is betrayed and begins to crumble, Talia and Damian escape to Gotham.

His mother hugs him and reminds him to be careful and safe before leaving Damian with his father.

Life at his father's is strange. Gotham is cold and lonely. Father's other children are hard to get along with, and Damian is tempted to turn off his hearing aids but reading English from people's lips is not easy.

Damian struggles through headaches constantly, never comfortable going outside his room without being able to hear.

He knows he should probably tell his father about his disability, but his father is already disapproving of him. He will tell him one day when he proves himself as a worthy heir.

The only ones that seem to realise something may be off are Pennyworth and Cassandra.

Pennyworth ensures Damian can always see his face when he is speaking, especially in the morning before he has had a chance to put in his hearing aids. The man has never mentioned it, so Damian has never bought it up.

Cain seems to know immediately. She signs to him in greeting and seems delighted when he replies, but not surprised.

They become close. Speaking with their bodies while they train. Cassandra understands how hard it is your him to be gentle, to not go in for the kill when everything about him was trained into a lethal weapon.

The other ex assassin explains fathers rules and how he is expected to behave better than the Batman ever could.

They spend hours in silence but are so deeply understood by their companion.

His experiences with Cassandra build his confidence in telling his father, and he even practices how to have that conversation.

Then his father dies.

Damian moves in with Richard Grayson and becomes Robin.

They are a great team, and after a night where his migraine from overuse of his device becomes too much for even him to bear, he finally confesses his disability to Grayson.

Richard is shocked, mostly because Damian screamed it at him because the pain and frustration had frayed his temper.

He asks questions, but Damian is too sore to handle it, so he rips the device out and switches to sign.

Richard understands it but can't keep up quickly enough with Damianfurious signing, so he just gathers the kid into a hug.

Damian tries to fight it, but his migraine is finally fading, and Dick is a great hugger, so he eventually relaxes and falls asleep.

He wakes up to Stephanie making waffles and Richard watching videos on sign language.

He is subjected to a very emotional talk, thanking him for trusting them. When asked, Stephanie reveales Cass told her and made her promise to look out for him.

Richard also lectures him on ignoring his health, but waffles soften it.

They make him take his aids out for at least a few hours daily at home. Dick buys him a vibrating alarm clock, and they speak in sign over breakfast and dinner every day.

When Tim and his father return, Damian should probably tell them about his condition, but he is caught up in trying to be a good son and can never bring himself to say the words.

It's not a real issue, Father doesn't talk to him much outside of patrol.

That is until his hearing aid is destroyed by Bane one night. The sharp pain of them being destroyed makes him scream.

And then the world is silent, Damian is bleeding, and Batman is saying something to him, but he can't make it out.

Damian starts to sign that he needs to leave now. Bruce stops and stares at him.

Damian doesn't wait for his father to figure it out. He grabs the fragments of his hearing aids and bolts away.

Gotham is awful, especially when Damian can't hear it.

Every shadow in his periferal vision could be an enemy. Every movement in front could be coming to kill him.

Damian makes it back to his bike and drives back to the cave. He tries to put his aid back together only to find it too broken.

He will have to make a new one which will take weeks. The world will be silent for weeks.

His father must have arrived because Damian feels a hand on his shoulder.

The man goes to speak and catches Damian looking at his lips and starts to sign instead.

What followed was an interrogation where Damian had never felt more vulnerable. The cave is silent and it doesn't feel safe.

His father must notice because he eventually relents and asks to see his hearing aid.

The Batman is fascinated at its design but has no suggestions on how to fix it. He does order the materials needed to rebuild it and call Talia for information.

So Damian lives his life in silence for weeks. His family help, Cassandra helps the most.

Jason, Tim, and Duke are told about Damians deafness and while Tim can sign, Duke and Jason only started learning recently, so they are a bit awkward around him.

Dick drags them all into family nights so the boys can practice.

Damian has to tell his school, and unfortunately, they are not very good at accommodations. His father hires him an interpreter for class after the school says they can't afford it.

Batman and Oracle start an investigation into their finances, finding many disabled students don't get the help they need. It ends in fired board members and principals.

Damian accidentally becomes the face of a Gotham accessibility after Wayne Enterprises starts a non profit to increase access to accommodations for students.

While Damian struggles to build his new hearing aids, he starts to get a bit more comfortable in the silence. He never stops reacting to the shadows, but he trusts his family to guard his back.

Not many know Damian is deaf outside of his family, especially in the hero community. The weeks without his hearing aids see him benched, a choice Damian doesn't protest.

While being at home, being vulnerable is getting easier. Being outside and missing a sense makes him jumpy.

Cancelling patrol inevitably brings Jonathan Kent to his door.

An annoyed Superboy enters his room while ranting and waving his hands in the air. He gets even more frustrated when Damian doesn't reply.

"Why aren't you listening to me?!" Damian is pretty sure that's what he says going by the pouting and the glaring.

"Because I'm deaf Hayseed."

Jon glares harder, "ha ha."

Damian sighs. "I am deaf, I broke my hearing aids, so I can't listen to you for a bit. Lucky me."

Jon gets quiet after that, and Damian suddenly feels very nervous.

The Super flies off only to return with a paper and pen moments later.

He writes the rest of his questions and Damian tries to answer as best he can.

Jon gives up on going on patrol and sits with Damian, excitably learning to sign to his best friend.

Damian eventually fixes his hearing aids, but his family keeps signing so he can take regular breaks.

Months later, Jon asks him on a date with shaky ASL that Cassandra taught him.

Damian kisses him instead of saying yes.

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Confession

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Imagine if Bruce wants to get a family photo with all his children but them still mad at him and refusing, then Bruce is just there looking at them with a pained yet understanding expression before excusing himself.

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“You want… what?”

Dick’s voice wasn’t angry, but it had cooled—frozen, even—just enough that Bruce could hear the quiet retreat behind the sarcasm.

Bruce didn’t look up from where he was tightening a new gauntlet. “A photo. All of us. Together.”

“For what?” Dick asked, arms crossed, his lean frame braced against the cave wall like he was ready to bolt at the first sign of a landmine.

“For the house.”

Dick scoffed, the edge of a humorless laugh slipping out before he cut it short. “Oh. Sure. ‘For the house.’ Gotta remind the walls what we look like when we’re pretending.”

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“Whatever it is,” he said flatly, “I’m not interested.”

“I haven’t asked yet.”

“You don’t need to. It’s either a mission, a lecture, or a guilt trip. If it’s a mission, give it to someone else. If it’s a lecture, save your breath. If it’s guilt—” Jason looked up then, finally, and Bruce hated the wall behind his eyes, the bitterness baked into every word. “You already cashed that in when you let me rot in a coffin.”

“That’s not fair.”

Jason laughed, dry and sharp. “Neither was coming back and realizing I didn’t matter.”

(Idk, I feel like maybe Jay would be sarcastic before he refuses him)

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I haven't thought about the others :')

Bruce gives up and tries to avoid them so they don't have to see his presence. Since he's an emotionally constipated person.

Bonus points if he dies surrounded by his children after he sacrifices himself when a laser (?) Was heading for one or two of the kids direction in an all hands on deck invasion situation XD

Them saying that they haven't done the family photo yet and desperately trying to keep their father tethered

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New Jon-centric DamiJon fic! (Although, I will admit, it's kind of background DamiJon... It focuses primarily on Jon and Lois, and a bit on Jon and Clark.)

Lois pursed her lips slightly, concerned. “Did something happen on patrol last night?”

Jon’s head whipped toward her. “What? No,” he said, defensive.

Something did happen on patrol, then.

Or:

Jon is being moody. Lois's solution: Force him to run errands with her until she can figure out why.

Written as a sort of companion piece to Brooding Over Batburger, but can be read alone.

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The tumblr girlies have been talking about handsome asf Doctor Damian and I am but a humble artist with a weakness for pretty boys. Thus! This happened

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ig story reqs pt 2

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I've decided if people are going to call male characters babygirl then I can do it the other way around for female characters. She's my man now. That woman is my boyfriend. My boytoy even.

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why is ao3 is blocked on the hospital wifi????

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mods show him the truth of the universe for a single moment then return him to a state of mind incapable of comprehending it