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Drawing the batfam as chaotic images I find on Pinterest everyday for 30 days: Day 1

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Jason on his phone late at night

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just shit

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Why would anyone care about Anarky doesn’t that guy exist for Tim to be all moderate and reasonable next to?

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the thing is that utrh has so many homophobic microaggressions in universe directed at Jason like the man gets clocked EVERY two pages by the end there absolutely nobody looks at the red hood and goes ah yes a fellow heterosexual man. no hes getting called a drag queen a girl not a real man etc etc they stop JUST SHORT of actually calling him a fag its insane

anyway what im getting at is jason lisp

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The thing about omegaverse and omega Jason is that you simply cannot convince me that Bruce wouldn't use Jason being an omega against him. Of course, this all depends on specific world building since each omegaverse fic is unique, but if we're going by "traditional"* omegaverse features, you cannot convince (alpha) Bruce wouldn't bite Jason to mate him or that (beta/omega) Bruce wouldn't just pester (alpha) Dick to do it.

My favorite version is Bruce mating Jason right after the batarang 🥰 (maybe even with some "it's to save him from death 🥺" fuckery)

[*] which is what I'm going for here, for more power imbalance 👍

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Jason Todd with perfect blank skin his body appears to be in peak health to all conventional (and many nonconventional) means of analysis his chronic pain gets dismissed as psychosomatic. Have you tried going to a psychiatrist?

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Tormented by visions of Jason in a throuple with Essence and Isabel (they’re in the same body) living with Ducra’s reincarnation in a little house out in Gotham’s suburbs where they’ve set up a temporary headquarters as the All-Caste-in-exile. Obviously the Bats don’t know about that so they just see what seems to be Jason of all people being the first among them to settle down and have a totally normal, traditional-looking family.

Dick gets ribbed for not having put a ring on Babs’ finger yet, despite being older and knowing her for way longer than Jason has Isabel. Bruce nearly collapses from the joy at the thought of 1. Jason leaving vigilantism behind and 2. being a grandfather. Tim’s the only one who has suspicions about the whole thing, but he comes to the conclusion that Jason must have talked badly about them to his family because Isabel always seems a little alarmed and strained when he sees her (He pops by out of nowhere and it’s disorienting for Isa when Essence shoves her to the “front” to deal with the situation) and Ducra behaves like the most bored, unfriendly toddler he’s ever met (she’s an old woman who has no patience to play games.)

Drama ensues when Bruce finds out Jason hasn’t given up vigilantism and tries to take his granddaughter for a day out without her “parents”.

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ANOTHER FACET OF MY JASON TODD OBSESSION COMIN AT YOU LIVE:

"Jason isn't someone that says/does things out of anger."

and now, you may think that's crazy to say, we've seen his anger, and he has definitely done insane shit mad as hell, but stick with me cuz all of that proves my point.

i would argue jason, generally speaking, is not hot tempered. he can keep his head, and he has never really said something off the cuff that hurt someone's feeling, or upset them, or made them mad unintentionally. he has absolutely targeted soft spots he has either figured out exists or inherently KNOWS that they do, with the singular purpose of getting a reaction.

jason doing things out of anger takes days, weeks, months, YEARS to fully come to fruition. that is not someone who is doing shit to cause problems that he'll later take back and say, "i didnt really mean that."

NO!

he meant that shit. he stands BY that shit. all those hours that go into carefully crafting a response to a slight cannot really and truly be sustained by something as quick as anger. something that goes against what you deem good or bad, right or wrong definitely can. anger isn't quite sticky enough for that to be the case, same way happiness isnt, or sadness isnt.

im noticing there seems to be an equivalence of anger with a grudge when that's not the case in the slightest. anger is quick, comes on hot and heavy, and is expelled typically in the moment. it's an emotion, a grudge can RESULT from anger, but it can also result from sadness, abandonment, etc.

point is, jason is far too patient, and far too exact in his goals for anger to be his sole motivator. for anger to drive everything he does because it just would not sustain him or the plans he makes. all of this to say, if jason were to get in an argument and said something the other party considered unforgivable, he wouldn't want to nor be able to take it back.

he meant it.

he feels that way.

he has felt that way for a LONG time.

and whoever it is, dick, bruce, tim, the rest of the bat brigade getting so uptight about it is the exact reaction he not only wanted, but was expecting.

it is one of the most subtle but DEFINING differences between dick and jason

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rereading my second ever fic hit me as hard as you can, which is a rough rewrite/mashup of UTRH with fight club by chuck palahniuk, and just. i was actually experiencing delusions writing it. like,

Jason’s teeth are bloody when he bares them. Jason’s nose is dripping red. The further he runs, the more God wants him.

“I don’t know how you came back,” Bruce says. “I can’t imagine what you’ve gone through. But Jason, your plan isn’t going to work. There is another way.”

And he says, “Jason. Put the gun down.”

You take a 96-percent concentration of nitric acid, eyedrop it into threetimes the sulfuric acid. You take a kid trying to steal your tires off the street. You have nitroglycerine.

Mix it with sawdust. Let him die, and let the man who killed him walk. Now you have an explosive.

What is a gun, Jason works his jaw around the barrel, but an explosion focused in one direction.

Jason keeps the gun up.

who tf writes this kind of thing? i had juice unlike any juice ive ever had before.

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The Demon Princess and the Blood Son

(Talias look here is inspired by how the fantastic Juni Ba drew her in the BOYWONDER comics!!)

If you have seen any of my drawings before you may have come across me on Instagram before! Feel free to say hi!

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perhaps it says something about the perception of adoption and even the institution of it that we first learn that jay has a father (who, for all we know, was a perfectly okay parent) who is in prison thus not capable (or rather not allowed) to care for him, after which he simply gets killed off, and years after he is retconned to have been abusive. sometimes it's good to take a pause and think about how these dynamics play out in real world. children being taken from poor parents because of perceived incompetence and placed with middle class/rich folks instead… etc.

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To me headcanons fit in one of these categories:

Implied by canon (any baiting and coding of a character as queer or neurodivergent for example)

Logical conclusion based off of canon (Consequences of the events the characters go through)

Canon fucked this one up actually (Classic in DC fandom when a character suddenly stops behaving like themselves or everyone ignores other canon events)

Coping (when you try to make sense of the previously mentioned fuck ups without just giving up on them)

Revelation( something you can't necessarily explain but you know in your heart of hearts to be true. The character has descended and told you about it)

Projection (self explanatory)

It would be so funny (does it make sense? Not necessarily. Does it spark joy? Absolutely)

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okay realistically I don't think Cass would like Jason if we're talking pre-N52 characterizations, but I DO think that she'd see him as Batman's failure that she Has To Fix

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I feel like part of the reason Bruce is so concerned with Cass being “perfect” is because he projects onto her and sees her supposed perfection as a justification or validation for his choices as Batman. Kinda like, “See? My whole obsessive crusade and pursuit of becoming the best version of Batman, even at the expense of my humanity and relationships, is worth it because here is an example that is inherently perfect”. Except of course she’s not perfect, she’s human, and acknowledging Cass’s humanity ruins his little power fantasy of himself. Meanwhile Cass is like, I can’t be perfect if I can’t connect and communicate with other people.

This is an interesting take! I agree that Bruce projects onto her, though I'm not as sure it's because he sees her as a justification for his choices as Batman. I also wouldn't personally call it a power fantasy - though Bruce for sure maps himself onto Cass, I see it as more of a genuine desire to connect with/see himself in someone, rather than an egotistical desire to see her as an extension of himself. (The latter is more representative of David Cain).

If we look at issue 4, where the 'perfect' quote comes from, there's a moment right before that is equally important to understanding Bruce's conception of Cass:

"It wouldn't have looked this way to anyone else." That anyone else is vital - it shows that Bruce not only thinks he understands Cass, but that he is the only one who understands Cass. His disbelief at Cass killing someone is not only a disbelief that someone with his code can have killed, but the bitter surprise that he does not understand Cass as well as he thought.

Bruce genuinely believes he can help Cass, and this belief is predicated on the idea that he knows Cass. That they are similar - that he's found a kindred spirit. Does this boost his ego? Absolutely, and the 'perfect' throughline shows that. But fundamentally it's his love for Cass, and his desire to help her, that makes him unable to see her as her own person. Because it is so much easier to help someone you think you know everything about than someone you realise you don't know at all.

There's also the wider context of Jason Todd, and how 'perfection' means Bruce being able to trust Cass with keeping herself alive. And that, given their conversation in #9, Bruce knows that Cass herself wants to be like Bruce. His desire for her to be like him is multifaceted: it is 100% what you said about him projecting onto her, but it's also his wish to keep her safe, his belief that it's what she wants, and his earnest desire that their shared understanding will help her. So you're totally right, but his view of Cass really defies simple categorisation (which is why we can have so many different takes that are all valid and interesting!).

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Undead and Ghost Jason

Part two | Part one

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is he talking about his kids or the justice league? probably both

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