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“Do you want to make a stop for Batburger?”

[Incoherent concussed Jason noises]

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People are mad about Jason Todd new suit I think it suit him it give him a rugged look and it suit him well.

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BtfC should have had more murder-suicide attempts & psychological warfare on Jason's part if they wanted to make him in character. It just doesn't really feel like his heart is in it otherwise 💔

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Omg wait wait wait wait wait

So I have the idea with Dick being the original Lex/Clark clone baby. But, BUT

What if Lex didn’t want to use his DNA originally. Didn’t want to waste his precious clearly more valuable DNA on what is essentially a test baby. So he uses the next best thing.

DNA from fellow billionaire, Bruce Wayne.

So now Bruce has taken in this child that looks so eerily familiar, but he can’t figure out why. He reminds Bruce so much of himself, but there’s no way he could be Bruce’s child. Bruce wasn’t sleeping with anyone when Dick would’ve been born. It’s not possible.

But the DNA test results are flashing in his face, and Dick is in fact his kid. But who is his mother? It doesn’t make sense, he’s so confused. So he runs Dick’s DNA in his system again, looking for another match. Because Bruce is a weirdo control freak who collects and catalogues DNA from basically every person he’s ever met.

And fucking Superman flashes across the screen next.

“What the fuck,” Bruce deadpans.

He knows he’s never slept with Superman. He’s only met the man a handful of times! Even as Clark Kent (because of course Bruce knows Superman’s secret identity), Bruce has only run into the reporter a couple times when he was covering some charity galas Bruce attended in Metropolis.

Bruce eventually somehow finds out that Dick was an experiment of Lex’s. Idk how, that’s not important. What is important is that Bruce now has to figure out how he’s going to tell Superman that they sort of have a child together.

When he tells Dick, the boy is a combination of confused, ecstatic, devestated, and scared. He’s upset that his parents weren’t really his parents. He’s confused because he can’t remember a time before being with his parents, and he doesn’t really understand how he’s a clone of two boys. Bruce tries to explain the science, but Dick is eight, so it sort of goes over his head. He understands it more when he’s older.

Then he’s scared that Bruce won’t want him, or that Superman will try to take him away. But he’s excited that Bruce is sort of his dad, because he’s grown quite fond of Bruce and Alfred, and he really wants to stay with Bruce. Plus, Superman is his favorite superhero, so that’s pretty neat too.

They don’t tell Clark until Dick is ten, because that’s when they form the Justice League. That’s when they actually start meeting regularly with Superman, and not just every now and again for a team up when it’s convenient.

Dick is terrified. Bruce is nervous that Clark is going to want shared custody or something. He doesn’t actually want to share Dick, but he feels sleazy for keeping it a secret from Clark. Especially since Clark and Diana now both know Bruce and Dick’s secret identities.

“He’s technically a clone, of sorts,” Bruce says, ripping the bandaid right off. Dick is clinging to him, half hiding behind him, and Bruce keeps a hand steady on Dick’s shoulder. “I found notes from one of Luthor’s labs. He’d been an experiment, to prove that he could clone someone, or combine DNA for a clone. He didn’t want to use his own DNA in an experiment, but somehow he had enough of mine to use. Bruce Wayne’s DNA, I mean, not Batman’s.”

“Wouldn’t it be the same whether it was Bruce Wayne’s or Batman’s?” Clark asks, but Bruce can see the way he’s starting to panic.

“That’s not important right now, Clark,” Bruce says quietly.

“You’re right,” Clark says, his voice strangled. He leans forward in his seat, and he looks to where Dick is still hiding behind Bruce. “Can I - would you mind if you came closer? So I could really look at you?”

Dick looks to Bruce, who nods at him, before he takes a hesitant step forward. He steps carefully towards Clark, and it makes Clark so sad, because Dick is usually always so excited to see him. But once he’s close enough, Clark holds his hand out, and Dick takes it. And Clark is marveling over how tiny his hands are, how small he is in general. He’s just a little boy. He only turned ten a couple weeks ago.

“Gosh,” Clark gasps, his other hand cupping Dick’s cheek, “I never really noticed how much you look like - well, both of us.”

“Are you mad at me?” Dick whispers.

“What? No!” Clark says quickly, and he squeezes Dick’s hand. “I could never be mad at you. You’re my favorite little buddy, remember?”

Dick smiles then, because Clark has always called him that since they first met. Then once he sees that Clark is telling the truth, he gets a mischievous little smirk on his face, and Clark wonders if this is how his parents felt whenever he was up to no good as a kid, because he’s totally charmed.

“B is scared you’ll ask for joint custody,” he whispers loudly, then cackles when Bruce tugs him back and mutters, You weren’t supposed to tell him that.

Clark is laughing along with Dick, and he can see the way Dick has Bruce’s dimples when he smiles. And now that he knows what to look for, he’s seeing little traces of both of them all over Dick.

“I don’t think joint custody would be the best thing for you, Dick,” Clark says carefully. “One week in Metropolis and one week in Gotham would be difficult for school, don’t you think?”

“Yeah,” Dick agreed quickly.

“But I wouldn’t mind visitation rights,” Clark teases. “And maybe a week or two in the summer for you to stay on the farm with Ma and Pa. They’ll want to meet you, of course.”

Dick turns quickly to Bruce, biting his lip, hoping Bruce won’t argue, because that actually sounds kinda fun.

“I don’t think that will be a problem,” Bruce agrees easily. “Maybe we’ll even combine holidays.”

“Well, I usually spend Christmas at the farm.”

“A trip to the countryside could be good for us. Don’t you think, Dick?”

Dick is beaming, because this is going so much better than he thought. He’d been so worried that Clark was going to be angry, was going to hate him, or hate Bruce for not telling him sooner. But Clark just seems a little shocked, not a trace of anger in him.

Clark is angry, of course, but not at Dick. Not even at Bruce for keeping everything from him for the last two years. He’s pissed off at Lex for using his DNA for an experiment, for probably still using his DNA. But he can’t be mad at Dick. He adores Dick, there’s nothing that could make him hate Dick.

Idk I think they’d be a cute little unconventional family. And I think Lois would be the best sort of step-mom.

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But what if all of Gotham knows that Brucie Wayne is a persona Bruce puts on for the public? Like they all saw him be a weird, quiet little boy even before his parents were killed. They saw him be a weirder, quieter little boy after they were killed. They saw him be a loner teenager who hated talking to people, who was always more comfortable keeping to himself.

Then he comes back after traveling the world and he’s suddenly a himbo playboy socialite? Either it’s all an act, or someone finally introduced Bruce Wayne to the good drugs. They’re more inclined to believe it’s the former considering they all start to notice that, while Bruce may always have a drink in his hand when he’s out and about, he never actually drinks it.

But they don’t say anything. They don’t call him out on it. He may be a weirdo, but he does his best to make Gotham a better place for everyone to live. He donates money to all sorts of local charities, he volunteers his time at soup kitchens, he donates brand new clothes and bedding and toiletries to shelters. He’s a good guy. Who cares if he’s a little odd.

Most Gothamites actually feel kinda bad that he must think he needs to play this goofball character in order to fit in, in order to be a contributing member to society.

So they let him play his role.

Then he adopts Dick Grayson, the little circus boy whose parents were just killed in front of him. Who’s eight years old, the same age Bruce was when his parents were also killed in front of him. And everyone knows exactly why he adopted him, because the parallels are too much, and they see so clearly in the way Bruce interacts with him that Bruce just wants to help him, that he understands exactly how Dick must be feeling.

And Dick is a very serious child, at first. He hardly speaks. He clings to Bruce’s hand if Bruce isn’t carrying him. He glares at people. When he does speak, it’s scathing, and he has a sharp tongue.

Then a couple years later, it’s like his personality has completely flipped. He’s goofy and silly and so very similar to Brucie. And they’re all reminded that Dick grew up in a circus, he’s a showman through and through, and they all know it’s an act. They all know Richie isn’t the real him.

But they let him perform, let him put on his show along with Bruce. Because Gotham loves the Waynes, and if they want to have a public persona to have some sort of privacy, then they aren’t going to stop them.

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Bully has a crush... 😏

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Fuck Alfred pennyworth and the 3 hairs he got left

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rewatching the under the red hood movie and i gotta say as much as i love jason’s speech to bruce about how mad he is that the joker’s still alive, i still maintain that a severely underrated speech in this movie is from ra’s when he’s talking to bruce and in essence says ‘yeah so i hired the joker to distract you which was my bad because he totally went overboard and killed your son :/ and i felt so guilty i decided not to try and fight you anymore and then i stole your son’s corpse and tried to revive him via lazarus pit so i could like. make amends. except that was also my bad because we fucked that one up real good and when he came back out BOY was he weird in the head. killed my guys and then fucking jumped out a window and we lost him. my bad. and i thought he’d died again but apparently he’s in gotham and is like. totally destroying your whole lives which again, my bad. shouldn’t have tried to help. sorry about that. i’ll just stay out of your business from now on.’ which is actually the funniest characterisation of ra’s i’ve ever seen

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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big fan of digging myself deeper in the hole #myhole . wait hold on. hm. maybe not on that one. post cancelled

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I’ve decided that my 20s are actually age 25 - 35

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Driving around my town trying to find one single burger just one burger or a hot dog but Unfortunately everythings just rubble and twisted scaffolding upstretched and rotting and theres shit on fire and a big black ass sky

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😭 how do u win the idgaf war when it comes to shipping

i'm 28

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i'm sort of between graves right now

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I get to hang out with world's coolest 15 year old for 2 weeks 😎

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Nightwing by Dexter Soy

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a twt user once said that they hate that comic characters now just wear colour coded civilian stuff and it spoke to me BADLY remember when kory was allowed to wear other colours than purple? its not even lilac?? raven was allowed to wear red and pink!! donna had colourful jackets and coats!!! dick was wearing yellow cream or red pants we used to be a proper society!!!