#— wayne/azrael

[everwalldigan]

To anyone who thinks Bruce has a clear and consistent favourite child I raise you this: it is infinitely funnier for Bruce to have a complicated and elaborate “ranking” system of his kids that only he’s privy to.

Picture this: Batman, dosed with truth serum, gets asked as a gag from one of the goons holding him captive who his favourite bat-vigilante is and instead of giving a straight answer, he launches into this whole explanation about the ranking system and who’s in the current lead, who’s hanging behind, etc. At some point (this is a mystery to everyone involved) a whiteboard appears and he starts explaining his system like he’s a football coach before an important match. Out of nowhere he starts pulling out little cardboard cutouts of his kids and pins them to the board. At some point the red string comes out.

Jason hasn’t killed someone in a week? Automatically promoted to favourite. Tim hasn’t caused an international incident in the past month? Puts him a few points ahead that keep decreasing the longer he refuses real sleep (20 minute power naps don’t count Tim! Says powernap inventor Bruce Wayne). Cass gave him a hug this morning and wished him a good day? Favourite until he gets a call from dick telling him (without shouting!!!!) that he’ll be there for this week’s Sunday dinner. Duke accidentally scratches the Batmobile? Demoted to the “in trouble” zone (which, honestly, that’s where his kids spend most of the time in😭). Damian did not attempt to free all the animals in the zoo they visited? Favourite. Until Bruce found out he was just trying to conceal the cat hidden in his room that Bruce explicitly forbade him from keeping.

Dick arrives at the family dinner with a busted shoulder and a bruise the size of Texas on his face? Gets demoted so far down that even azraeil scores higher than him. He’s in the “in trouble” zone for a constant month after that. Oh one of them survived an almost death? Favourite for at least the next week. At least. Multiple people survive an almost death? EVERYONES the favourite. The least favourite is the growing grey hairs on his head.

The end of day results are decided by who bothers to wish him goodnight and if all of them have fucked up in some way the past week then Jon (Kent) becomes the automatic favourite until someone cracks a joke that Bruce actually finds funny.

The favourite child changes daily, hourly even, and his kids are aware this system exists and keep trying to crack the code but he always Knows and just smirks smugly.

[wwprice1]

No Man’s Land era Bat Family by Ty Templeton.

[why-i-love-comics]

Detective Comics #1086 - "Crescendo III" (2024)

written by Ram V art by Stefano Raffaele & Lee Loughridge

[whereistim]

Save me 90’s Gotham save me…

I was just wondering what would happen if you put a knight from the Order of St Dumas and an actual demon in the same room, and with them both in Gotham… there’s a chance. I also like to think that Helena and Tim try and think of the most random heroes to pair together and brainstorm what would happen as a thought exercise

[jalapainio]

Tim is like… 14 years old when Knightfall happens. He's not even a year into being Robin, trying to deal with his mother's death and worrying about whether or not he's getting his license early, and suddenly Bane comes and FUCKING BREAKS BRUCE’S BACK.

[catastrophicalcat]

Cass' line is so simple, and so loaded.

Meanwhile, Azrael is so... Azrael lol.

(Detective Comics #1086)

[but-a-humble-goon]

Cass and Jean-Paul have intense brainstorming sessions wherein they theorize why normal people do the things that they do. They're both 90% convinced that "how's it going" is some kind of coded message only they don't know the meaning of based on how people keep asking it but not actually expecting an answer. Babs finds it all very amusing to watch.

[why-and-or-bother]

If other, put in tags. Reblog for larger sample 🦇

[itsraining-honey]

helena, I don’t mean to alarm you but there are a bunch of bitches next to you that people think you’re family with!!!! DONT LOOK!!!!!!!! GET AWAY FROM THEM!!!!!

(excluding tim ofc y’all who get it, get it)

[celticcatgirl2]

Average Goth Friend Group Meet Up

[the-overanalyzer]

Two fixations for the price of one!

(Don't ask how long I spent editing that Azrael jpeg)

Batwoman art from Detective Comics Rebirth, by Andy Macdonald

Catwoman art from Catwoman v3, by Adam Hughes

Jim Gordon art from Batman Eternal, by Jason Fabok

Alfred Pennyworth art from Batman vs Robin, by Mahmud Asrar

Bluebird art from Batman Eternal, by Alvaro Martinez

Talia al Ghul art from DCeased: Hope At World's End, by Marco Fallia

Azrael art from Batman & Robin Eternal, by Roge Antonio

Wayne family art from Batman: Year One, by David Mazzuccelli

Text from The Locked Tomb, by Tamsyn Muir

[two-sibyls-tall]

Part 2/2

I couldnt think of any for that one Ellen response,, so lemme know if you have any ideas for that one

[90s-batfam-week]

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[why-i-love-comics]

Detective Comics #1086 - "Crescendo III" (2024)

written by Ram V art by Stefano Raffaele & Lee Loughridge

[celaenaeiln]

Absolutely agree with your post. My friend once told me something like “it’s interesting to see how there are a lot of narratives within dick grayson’s stories that can be read as metaphors of rejection of someone’s autonomy—which is many times it happens towards/explored in female characters, e.g the robin mantle being ‘ripped away’ from him without his consent, his should have been ‘fate’ as talon, a tool for CoO” and when you add it with his canonical SA and the many times he gets objectified, another thing that media throughout the times write happened to/explored in female characters, it further cements the point of him occupying the (traditional) female character role.

OG post in reference

Thank you!!! Those are all excellent points to bring up!

You guys did a fantastic job of identifying core examples of where Dick is written for the female role. Every time I read him, I'm amazed time and time again how beautifully DC has written him. He's undeniably written as a man but he's unique in the way his characteristics overwhelmingly reflect typical female personality traits and his entire life story is written as if he were a woman. The relationships he has with people, he always subtly ends up in the female role.

Take the scene of him being objectified -

JLA/Titans Issue #3

This is exactly what it's like to be catcalled.

It's humiliating, uncomfortable, and scary. It needs to be addressed.

But here's where I oppose fandom's view on this. Fandom basically blames DC for scenarios like this where Dick is being harassed by other characters for his beauty or suggesting that Dick somehow encourages this behavior, but I think we should restructure our outlook.

Dick being objectified should be considered as one of his trauma's like his SA is. Like the way Jason death affected him, Stephanie's death affected her, or the way Tim's depression did him, Dick's constant sexual objectification should be analyzed as part of canon problem because it's relates to once again to how women feel in these exact situations. Note the way he is uncomfortable - the writers know what they're doing. They know it's wrong and if they're bringing up his reluctance time and time again, then this should be explored not as a fault of DC but as a problem he's forced to face.

DC uses Dick as a soundboard to broadcast the issues women face in a way that wouldn't be as problematic as if they did with other major female characters. Because doing such things to female characters is a little too political for a comic book and a corporate company so they take liberties through Dick instead. Some of the times they've written him seem intentional and other times it seems unintentional, but even with the way the later is written, it's because they're following Dick's standard characterization which was written to be the balance between men and women.

Another major, MAJOR point you bring up is autonomy.

Autonomy is the essence of his character.

Quick definition: autonomy is the right to self-govern. This means you're in control of your own actions, beliefs, and HERE IT IS - Freedom to do what you wish to.

From the moment Dick and Bruce started fighting, the problem with their relationship boiled down to one thing and one thing only. Freedom.

Given my other Bruce and Dick posts, I've mentioned how Bruce felt an increasing need for control over Dick while Dick felt increasingly furious at his freedom being taken away.

Even Azrael when he lost it for a moment. Batman!Dick

Batman (1940) Issue #709

Another point: For Bruce, all his enemies want him to break. They want him to turn evil but for Dick's, his enemies always want to him to follow them.

Yet the fact that Dick faces all this and continually fights this - he's girlbossing so hard.

That's why I like Dick so much. He breaks the gender roles. Because breaking gender roles isn't just painting your nails pink and saying you respect women. No. It means playing the traditional role of men and women both.

A man's typical role is strength, power, and competitiveness.

A woman's typical role is vulnerability, empathy, and intutition.

But Dick? Dick is one of the strongest fighters in all of DC, he's considered the best leader, and he's so brilliant he always wins his fights. But at the same time, he cries when he's heartbroken. He cares for children that aren't his own and citizens he doesn't know. He anticipates the emotions of his family and friends and loves them for who they are.

That's also a core difference between Bruce's treatment of the batfamily vs Dick's. Where Bruce rages at their disobedience and differences, Dick accepts them and encourages them. Another why Bruce is viewed as the father role of the family while Dick is viewed in the mother context. Evidence of this is pretty clear in Red Robin Issues #23 - 26 with the way Dick treats Tim vs the way Bruce treats him.

DC made Dick pretty on purpose and they wrote him like a woman on purpose while building him up as a man.

I'll iterate agin, he was built to fight male toxic masculinity and we should be looking at him through those lens. He's a complex, deep character that was meant to break gender roles by embodying both male and female characteristics and that's beauty of him.

[mae-kent]

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