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Batman: It’s not paranoia if they’re out to get me

Justice League: Who

Batman: I gotta go

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Clark doesn't know that Bruce is Batman, but sees him at a charity gala and ends up with a huge crush. Cark then uses his investigative reporter skills to stalk Bruce for months. Clark learns that Bruce drinks black coffee but actually prefers English breakfast tea with two sugars, that he always wears a maroon shirt on Thursdays, and that Bruce will cancel board meetings to go to his kid's extracurriculars. Bruce knows that the reporter Clark Kent is stalking him, but can't bring himself to care because he thinks Clark is hot and he isn't digging into anything he shouldn't be. When Batman and Superman finally reveal their identities to each other Bruce makes a joke about Clark now knowing everything about him. Clark is super embarrassed for having stalked Bruce and profoundly apologizes, but then Bruce tells him that he thought Clark's competency to find small details about Bruce was hot.

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fundamentally the issue with dick grayson in fanon (clingy, insecure, emotionally dependent on others) is a bad reading of showmanship — dick grayson has never wanted for a spotlight, nor does he want it

we conflate receiving attention with craving attention. dick grayson in canon doesn’t beg his brothers to like him, or be pettily violent when bruce finds another kid. dick grayson is a born showman, sure, but he hides from the stage more than he enjoys being the centre of his focus. he rejects honesty and embraces deception, like a magician hiding his cards behind his hand. he is resplendent and you cannot look away. he distracts you and then runs like hell

he’s recruited to a team because his friends don’t want to leave him alone (he wants to be left alone). he’s recruited to another team because his friends don’t want to leave him alone (he wants to be left alone). he gets recruited to another team because his friends don’t want to leave him alone (he wants to be

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Thinking again about how Duke's backstory was a deliberate mirror to Bruce's, and was designed to play out the same way if Bruce had not intervened. In light of Bruce's heavy idolisation of Duke, I think Duke might represent the ultimate positive end goal of Batman - one less orphan in Gotham. I think part of why Bruce loves Duke is that for someone who came so close to losing his parents in the same way, Duke ends up so unlike him, a symbol of light & truth & community. It's not that Bruce thinks if his parents lived he could've been like Duke (because Bruce knows a lot of who Duke is is just who Duke is). BUT Bruce saves Duke's parents from death, preventing the Wayne tragedy from reoccurring, and then meets Duke again further down the line. And the Duke he sees is strong, good, stubborn, a hero. Someone shaped by his past but not controlled by it; someone who does not need a Batman. Duke is a symbol of Gotham's future - in many ways the best version, the ending Bruce has always dreamed of. And that's why Duke is SO important to Bruce forever & always!!

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Au where Jason finds Tim and is the one to bring him into the family.

Except Tim was a baby that had been abandoned by his parents, Jason finding him while playing explorer in the Drake manor.

Bruce had been driving home from work when he saw his little twelve year old son walking home from the manor along the road in the dark, an infant hanging upside down in his arms. It was safe to say he shrieked as he assumed his son was now babyknapping.

As they sat in the car, Jason now holding the chunky baby in his lap, Bruce realized he had quite the dilemma. Bruce had checked the Drake manor and there had been no signs of anyone for a few days. They’d been on the news just yesterday after hitting a big discovery though… he must have been abandoned. Bruce was stressed with the consequences of this. Meanwhile, Jason was just kicking his legs happily while hugging Tim around his rolls.

“I’m gunna name him Carl.”

Bruce turned to him slightly horrified.

“Jason. You can’t just rename someone.”

“Sure you can,” Jason challenged, “he is mine now. I get to name him.”

Bruce swiped his face in stress.

“Jason. Listen closely. He isn’t a dog or a cat. He isn’t yours.”

“I found him.”

Bruce couldn’t deal with this. Tim had to go to an orphanage, especially if Jason was trying to raise him like a dog. Still. The picture of Jason saving him, carrying him from the manor to their home was sort of cute. Jason hummed as he bent down kissing Tim’s cheek.

“I think he’s lonely Bruce,” Jason whispered, suddenly sad.

Bruce paused, he glanced back at Jason who was wiping at Tim’s tears.

“He’s needs us. He needs Alfred’s cooking and Dicks jokes. He needs you to tuck him in. He doesn’t need those meanies who left him.”

Bruce’s lips folded in as he finally scanned the baby’s face. The first thing he locked in one was big bright blue orbs of eyes. Dammit.

He collapsed back into the seat groaning, eighteen years. Eighteen years of freedom he’d be losing to a child. It was enough he’d sacrificed six to the brat who picked him up. Then again, there was a reason after Dick grew up that he brought Jason into his life.

These boys brought love and life into his life like none other.

The car came to a stop. Jason began sitting up, crawling over Bruce as he was handing Tim to him. Bruce quickly took Tim in fear as Jason was just too fast and fidgety to hold and run around with him constantly like this.

“Cmon Carl,” Jason excitedly began as he was climbing out, “you gotta meet Alfred and Dick!”

Seventeen years later, Tim held a picture with furrowed brows. Bruce and Alfred were standing at back, Dick and Jason in front of them. And for whatever reason; a baby was being held lopsided, practically upside down in Jason’s arms.

Tim flashed his arms down.

“What the fu-“

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i'm getting into batman lore for the first time and the fact that the only meta in the batfamily has light powers and is a symbol of hope??? in gotham of all places??? and his superhero name is THE SIGNAL??? duke thomas you really are that bitch

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oh why does the Justice League rely on batman this, batman doesn't even have any powers that, why would literal gods and aliens- LISTEN

Look me in the eye and tell me that if you were nigh immortal and every day you struggled with the knowledge that you could at any moment hurt the people you love? that you've sworn to protect? And whether on purpose or an accident, Who's going to stop you before it too late?

And of course your loved ones say "you'd never do that, its okay, we trust you" which is nice but you know what you're capable of

and this fucking guy comes along and is like "I see what you could do. I know how to protect the people you love from you. And yet despite your power and strength, I believe that you want to do good"

So yeah, why wouldn't you follow him. Even if he is a little bit of a cold bastard sometimes.

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Saw a tiktok skit about the Batkids crashing out when they aren't the leader of their team and I raise you:

Batkids who are so fucking ecstatic when they don't have to be the leader so they can just turn their brains off and hit things.

Bruce can't be mad at them? How could he be? They were just following orders. Go talk to the leader and leave them out of it.

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Superbat has no concept of the word soft launch. They have never been normal about each other even when they were "just friends" so when they start actually dating its immediately 0 to 100

Clark has pictures of bruce at his desk within the first week. It's the front page story in less than 72hrs. They attend a gala together just a few days later.

Clark's already frequent visits to the manor become practically moving in after just a few months.

Whenever he's not in a suit (both kinds) bruce is in one of Clark's oversized t-shirts and flannels. Aside from them being comfortable he finds the smell soothing. It gets to a point where clark just moves his whole closet to the manor because he doesn't want bruce wear anything else

And of course Bruce's focuses many more efforts into his kryptonian research. Clark doesn't mind his boyfriend poking and prodding his body especially if it means he can search through Bruce's scars after

Several league members have walked in to find one in the others lap during their monitoring duties. Neither bruce nor clark act like anything's wrong, completely unashamed

The whole league isn't sure if they actually got together or if they're being fucked with.

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conversations overheard on the batkid com lines pt 13 (masterpost here)

Tim: guys, Batman is pissing me off tonight. i need revenge ideas, go.

Bruce: i am on this line- i'm literally standing right next to you, Red Robin.

Dick: shut up B, we're brain storming here.

Damian: you could hack the Batmobile's radio to only play that ad jingle that he hates so much.

Bruce: Robin?!

Tim: this is good, this is good,

Dick: just do what Hood used to do and write revenge porn.

Tim: sorry, Hood used to what now?!

Bruce: Oracle, kick Nightwing from this line.

Oracle: not a chance, please elaborate Nightwing.

Dick, giggling: yeah, he used to- O, get Hood in this call, he loves talking about this it's hysterical.

*ping*

Jason: -tell me where the site is or you'll be jerking off with a fucking prosthetic for the rest of your life, asshole, now- *distant scared whimpers* -TELL ME!

Tim, sweetly: hiya Hood~

Jason: the fu- what- *thump* ...when'd i join this line? why am i here?

Dick: i requested it, i want a Red Hood story-time.

Bruce, firmly: no.

Damian and Tim, simultaneously: yes!

Jason: eh?

Dick: they want to know about the revenge porn you did on B back when you were in Gotham Academy.

Bruce: NO.

Jason: OH- *wheezes*

distant unknown male voice, barely heard through Jason's laughter: c-can i- can i go...?

Jason: *cough* AHA- y-yeah man, fuckin- HA- *wheeze* go for it, i'll track you down later, *cackling*

Dick: this was the story that made me start liking Hood as a little brother, by the way.

Jason: so- *wheeze* so B really pissed me off this one time when i was Robin, i can't even remember why,

Dick: he grounded you for calling Mr Freeze a 'cunt' in front of a group of pre-schoolers you were rescuing.

Jason: OH YEAH-! and part of the grounding was that he forced me to take part in the theatre department bullshit going on down at the school for like, community service, where a bunch of kids in my class were writing an original musical to put on for the end of year show. i was pretty good at english lit, so when my teacher heard i had to join she put me on the writers squad or whatever and pretty much told us to have at it.

Jason: except i was really pissed off at B at the time, so i convinced everybody that the musical should be about Gotham's own Batman, and then i decided to add in Superman and make him Batman's gay love interest.

Damian: oh my god

Dick: *wheezing* it- it was so fucking cool-

Tim: holy- IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE SCHOOL?!

Jason: *cackle* *high pitched* yeah- that's not- that's not even- dude it gets so much worse-

Bruce: it was not funny.

Dick, crying: god it so was...

Jason: AND I MADE THAT SHIT- I MADE IT SO EMOTIONAL, TOO-

Dick: YOU REALLY DID- LIKE IT WAS GOOD, THAT WAS THE THING,

Tim: *laughing*

Damian: please tell me you have a copy of the script, Hood

Jason: annotated and signed, i'll drop it round the cave later

Damian: i love you.

Tim: *laughing harder*

Dick: even better, i still have the fuckin' video,

Tim: THERES A VIDEO?!

Bruce: *disgruntled groan*

Jason: holy shit- dude you still have it?! I LOST MY COPY WHEN I DIED!

Dick: oh Jay, i would not have deleted that video if it saved you from the fucking Joker.

Bruce, scandalised: NIGHTWING.

Jason: NO- NO, AS HE FUCKING SHOULD B, I SENT IT TO HIM TO KEEP SAFE, AS HE FUCKING SHOULD-

Damian: is the video of the whole play?

Dick: well kind of? but littlewing, littlewing's a fucking genius so he- *wheeze*

Jason: i didn't want to act in the actual musical, so they put me on stagehand shit and i ended up in charge of the official school's video production, and i just- *laughter* i just fuckin'- i fuckin filmed B's reaction in the audience for like- *wheeze* the whole fucking play-

Dick: THE BEST PART- best part was B 100% got sucked into the story,

Bruce: I DID NOT.

Jason: YOU CRIED DURING THE ENDING KISS.

Dick: *bursts out laughing*

Tim: SORRY-?!

Damian: Nightwing i want that video.

Dick: *still laughing*

Jason: to this day, best thing i ever did as a child. i don't care about my legacy as Robin, i'm just happy i got to produce such a masterpiece. i should write a sequel-,

Tim: PLEASE,

Bruce: ok that's it,

Tim: B, what are you-

*ping*

Dick: what'd- what-

Oracle: Batman, you can't kick Red Hood from the line.

Bruce: WELL YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING-!

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Jason Todd art nouveau, anybody?

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Jason is masculine in the specific way that some gay men are masculine. It's a performance. Gender nonconformity by adhering to masculinity in an entirely queer way. Do you see my vision

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don't usually draw fanart but i love these two

i fucked jason up tho sorry.. not a fan of his newer design.... so this is my version of bro lol =3

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The common assumption that the events of Under the Hood are "just" to get Bruce's attention has done irreparable damage to fandom's critical thinking skills.

No, Jason did not decapitate those lieutenants to get Bruce's attention. He DID blow up an empty building to mess with Bruce (Bruce evacuated the building first, but it WAS empty when it blew) and staged his own fake-death to traumatize him. (again)

I need you to understand that people's motives can be multifaceted and he said exactly what his motives were in very plain speech if you bother to actually read it.

"Who does Jason think he is to say who lives or dies?"

Who does BATMAN think he is to make those calls?

When he interfered with Joker's lawfully acquired sentence for execution (Joker: Devil's advocate)?

When he healed/saved Joker from dying in a Lazarus Pit and then restored the status quo by tossing him in the prison where Joker pointed out how many times Bruce had saved his life at that point, thus enabling his crimes (Legends of the Dark Knight #145)?

When he resuscitated Joker after Nightwing beat him to death (Joker: Last Laugh)?

When he prevented Jason from killing Joker? When he prevented Clownhunter/Bao Pham from killing Joker?

When he started going around interfering with the Lazarus Pits/possible locations for Lazarus Pits and causes Ra's al Ghul's death by preventing him access to them?

When he deliberately left KGBeast to die after he shot Dick?

What about all the maiming or maim-worthy bullshit that he and the other bats do to common criminals you think those medical debts aren't going to murder them just as surely if not slowly?

These aren't even the only examples of Bruce doing this and anyone is free to add more I just don't feel like going all the way through Bruce's list.

"Dick would have crashed out/killed himself if Bruce hadn't!"

So Bruce gets to decide that Dick has more of a right to live than the countless people that would be saved by letting Joker die? How is that not being an arbiter of who lives or dies?

Multiple people have tried to kill Joker and Bruce stopped them. Multiple people have argued that Bruce should have let him die or someone kill him. Bruce choosing to let someone live with the understanding that he will kill more people (because it's not a question of if, but when) is not playing god any less than Jason is when he personally does the killing, it just absolves him of direct culpability.

So, if Jason has some kind of arguable god complex about deciding who lives or dies? Well, frankly, some things you don't need to be related by blood to inherit.

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i think for jasons birthdya dick gets him this card

and scribbles out "awful" and writes "groovy 💖💖" overtop in glitter gel pen but leaves the rest of it the same

and jason thinks its SO funny but is SO mad about it. thats what i believe.