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Actually fuck it I'm expanding on this. Warning for uhhh body horror tall I guess? I'm making this a whole AU

There's only so much damage they can save. When he was taken in by Talia the fact that he was still very much a corpse and was actively rotting was VERY apparent. I'm talking "fluids oozing out of eye sockets and ears" type rotting. Due to the length of time between Talia getting him and their actual arrival at the league he was worse for the wear.

In a last ditch effort to see if something could be salvaged, Ra's agreed to let Talia drop him in the Lazarus Pit. He was curious too, especially considering this was a genuine walking corpse and not just one of his regular dead men.

It worked surprisingly well. He left the pit almost good as new, rot completely washed away. One could almost believe he was actually alive if you ignored the lack of heartbeat and breathing.

Throughout his time at the league they had a very trial-and-error experiment to see how they could get his body to stop rotting. It never worked. At one point Ra's got fed up and gave him a week to prepare before being sent back to Gotham. Rotting body or not- he had to leave.

In a last ditch effort to seem as alive as possible (because the stench of a rotting body is awful), he looked into various ways of body preservation. Embalming could work, but it would require a decent amount of upkeep. Taxidermy could work, but just by itself it would make it obvious his skin was drying and dead.

In the end, Jason took one last dip in the pit, headed to Gotham, and attempted a combination of the two.

One of the few perks of his body still being dead: he couldn't actually feel any pain. He was already dead so he didn't have to worry about injuries killing him.

One of the first steps of embalming is to drain all the gasses and fluids from the body. What better way to freak out the Big Bad Bat than by using an inhuman amount of blood to write on the walls? (It ended up taking almost two full gallon jugs to remove everything. Enough to write some ominous message with plenty to spare)

One of the most complicated parts was getting the fluid-cycle system set up. Having to pump the embalming fluid into his veins while also draining any remaining blood and allowing his body to be thoroughly flushed with the fluid, PLUS the estimated three gallons that it would take for this entire process was a lot.

It took him three hours to gather supplies and another hour to set the system up. He was doing this to himself after all, not to someone else.

In his first embalming, he didn't use any dye. He ended up trying to see if he could feel vaguely where the fluid was throughout his body (a lot harder than he initially though since, y'know, dead nerves. He made a note to use a pink dye in the future like some others suggested).

It took another five hours for him to fully embalm his organs and sew the incisions shut again. He refused to mess with his eyes yet, and settled for using sunglasses in the future (this will have consequences later). It took another two hours to ensure that no fluid was going to randomly spill or seep out of his body.

While all his nerves were shot to hell and back, he luckily would still move his muscles and body. It took a bit of experimenting before he felt comfortable walking outside for the first time.

The outfit he chose was a long coat, a face mask, sun glasses, and loose jeans. No one looked twice in Gotham, and no one seemed to realize there was a literal walking corpse next to them on the sidewalk. He deemed it good enough and went on his first mission as the Red Hood later that night.

AU where Jason is just possessing his own corpse. Michael Afton that man

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AU where Jason is just possessing his own corpse. Michael Afton that man

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Every time Steph leaves the bathroom she intentionally doesn't dry her hands so she can flick water/wipe them on the others.

People have retaliated by:

- Pouring a whole bottle of water on her

- Spray bottle (the colder the better)

- Waiting until she's settled to randomly do the same back to her (usually on her neck or shoulders, as they can come up from behind)

- biting.

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Start a casual cosplay TikTok and it's just various batfam ppl causing chaos in a tiny ass house /j

I've just started taking various situations thatve happened when living in a house of seven people and started making it the batfam tbh

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I've just started taking various situations thatve happened when living in a house of seven people and started making it the batfam tbh

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Hitting Tim with the narcolepsy beam again. He drinks coffee and then immediately takes a 30 minute nap before getting to work. To me <3

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Damian would learn how to mimic bird sounds to an uncanny degree to fuck with his brothers send tweet

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Dick and Damian Week 2025: Circus!

Batgirl (2009) #5 & #7

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so originally Jason was buried in Gotham Cemetery, which i think makes his whole ‘disorientatedly breaking out of his own grave’ thing so much funnier. because like. that’s a public graveyard. there’s probably walkways going through it that people take to get to work or school every day. and i know a lot of people retcon that with the excuse of the loa cleaning up the broken grave so that they can keep Jason away from Bruce, but what if they just. didn’t?

Gotham is a fucked up place, and the people that live there are so used to it by now. they don’t bat an eye at the vigilantes, the fear gas, the clowns-, they have been desensitised to the weird and unexplainable. so i imagine with the fact that Bruce Wayne’s dead son’s gravesite suddenly becoming the CLEAR location of a broken out corpse, with the scratch marks on the inside of a burrowed out coffin, mud and dirt bursting up in the way that could only happen if something was emerging from below, the probably muddy footsteps leading away, not to, away from, the grave…

what i’m saying is the general public of Gotham are probably well fucking aware that there’s a zombie Jason Todd walking around somewhere, and they’ve all just collectively decided to mind their own fucking business.

there’s no new zombie-rogues, no people being eaten, and after a week or so the caretaker of the cemetery sighed and filled in the mess anyway, so nobody really thinks to mention it. of course, the Waynes are too overwhelmed by grief to ever go to Jason’s grave, and people are too scared to bring up such a sensitive subject with them, so it gets to the point where literally everyone in Gotham knows that Jason is probably alive…. but his family.

Jason comes back to Gotham as Red Hood and he doesn’t even try to have a secret identity as a civilian. nobody fucking cares. he just gets an apartment and starts walking around during the day and everyone who recognises him as Jason is just like ‘heyy! glad to see you back man, we were wondering where you’d popped off to!’. literally nobody gives a shit.

(Tim knows. he used to walk through that graveyard to get home from school, he’s known from the beginning. he knows that whatever Jason’s staying away for is his own business, and to be honest he really didn’t want to be the messenger for that particular shitstorm of information. politely, he will not be touching that with a ten foot pole.)

(Damian knew before he even came to Gotham. quite frankly, his opinion on his father dropped astronomically when he found out his English teacher knew of his brother’s residence in Crime Alley and Bruce didn’t. it’s more entertaining for him to just sit back and watch anyway. he too, refuses to say shit.)

Eventually the news reaches the upper side of Gotham, who all immediately assume that if Jason’s walking around again then the Wayne’s must of course be aware of it, so they never think to bring it up then, either. but Jason Todd-Wayne is back, and there’s always been a special fondness for that cute little street kid who nervously started getting brought along to galas and tried his absolute best to fit in and be polite, even if half the time he ended up fucking around with Dick or that Drake kid in the corner to pass the time. so if he’s back, then the elites all immediately assume that he is once again going to be a part of higher Gotham society.

so Jason Todd, secretly the Red Hood Jason Todd, hiding from his family Jason Todd, living in a shitty apartment safe house with two pieces of furniture and a lot of swords Jason Todd, starts getting invites to high-end events from all the city elites. he doesn’t even know how they got his address.

but well, he was free that evening… and he couldn’t deny that it might be a little bit funny…

his identity reveal ends up being much less explosive than originally planned, but it sure is entertaining. at least for him. Damian and Tim looked positively suicidal the whole night.

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dick and jason being antagonistic siblings. no more soft shit let them punch each other at 7am bcs jason ate the last of dicks cereal. dick loses a tooth and they’re banished to opposite sides of the house until they agree to apologise to each other. they’re not allowed to sit next to each other on the couch/during meetings bcs they always end up trying to shove each other off their seats. one time jason came all the way to the manor, walked in, shot dick in the face with a water pistol, and then went back home to crime alley without saying a word. the first time red hood was asked to join the jla for a briefing on the watchtower nightwing ended up sumo-slamming him into the table and the entire jl were so freaked out by the uncharacteristic crash out that they thought nightwing was compromised by mind control, only for batman to tiredly inform them that it was because red hood had just messaged nightwing in the family groupchat that he ‘looked like a little bitch with that new haircut’.

theyre assholes with a baffling childhood bond let them act like it

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Gotham has a Spirit (1917 words) by Foxfire_and_Midnight_Wings

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Characters: Dick Grayson, Gotham City (DCU)

Additional Tags: Rituals, Angst, Hurt Dick Grayson, Ritualistic Sacrifices, Sentient Gotham City (DCU), Dick Grayson-centric, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Ambiguous/Open Ending

Series: Part 1 of Sentient Gotham

Summary:

Gotham City has a spirit. Many debate the qualities of the spirit. Some see she's as black as night and other say he's a pale white that glows in the night. One thing everyone could agree on, though, was that Gotham had something other in Its presence.

One group of fanatics was determined to summon Gotham and use Its power to raze the city. Another worshiped the ground and prayed It would protect them from the next rogue attack. Magicians and occult groups weren’t too common but they also weren’t uncommon. Many weren’t even noticeable, a simple blip on the radar.

This group, however, had a slightly more unusual take.

They planned to summon Gotham's spirit by using Nightwing as a sacrifice.

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i can never tell if i want them to beat each other up or hug it out

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I think anyone that studies medicine with Damian would lowkey hate his ass.

Not in a mean way, but in a petty why-aren't-you-struggling-like-me type of way. I mean, thanks to Robin and the league Damian is light years ahead of everyone on terms of experience and it would show.

Half the class is puking their guts out the first time they see a patient with an open fracture. Damian has been there, done that, seen that and worse. He's eating m&m's in the back.

They're all practicing making sutures until late. Damian is like "No, I don't need to join you. I could suture with my eyes closed" and then when someone is like "prove it, rich-boy" that mf actually blindfolds his eyes and sutures perfectly using four different techniques.

He also passes everything with flying colors! Because of course, the guy can't just be rich, good looking and famous, he has to be smart too.

And it just gets worse when he starts his actual residency.

Nothing shakes him! Thirty hour shifts? He doesn't even yawn. Extreme stress during a surgery gone awry? Damian is the one telling the other members of the surgical team to stay calm. Violent patient? They don't even get to call security, Damian has the guy pinned already.

And it would be easier to not get jealous of him if he somehow was a souless blood sucking asshole. But Damian is a good person, awkward and standoffish but always willing to help. He's there for whatever people need. He aids nurses, listens to patients, conforts victims. He sits with people for the bad news and when someone dies he gets this sad faraway look that shows he cares.

And it's just so unfair.

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Bruce: Hood, what were you thinking?!

Jason: No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness

Tim: Did you just quote Aristotle? Really?

Jason: He has a lot of good quotes, don't hate on the man!!

Bruce: *flashbacks to Jason quoting Aristotle during his debut*

Bruce: I think that's enough for the night

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Jason: Tim, how strong is your stomach

Tim: huh

Jason: how strong. Is your stomach.

Tim: I mean, I haven't thrown up before from food poisoning or bad food that I'm aware of??? Why-

Tim: wait

Tim, looking at the queso he had been eating and gave to Jason:

Tim:

Tim: is it bad

Jason, still eating it: mhm

Tim: damn

Steph, on the side: how the FUCK did you not realize???

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Jason, as a college professor: Some act differently when they know or believe they are being watched

Jason: You ever do that? Act differently because you know you're being watched?

*Silence*

Jason: Y'know, you're probably not gonna act the same around a cop as you would normally-

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Tim, presenting for a WE meeting on less than 5 hours of sleep over the past two days: and here we see-

Tim:

Tim:

Tim: this is the wrong clicker.

Tim: this is no longer my security clicker, and now I no longer feel as secure

The board: ???