#His eye

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 15:3 (NLT) - The LORD is watching everywhere, keeping His eye on both the evil and the good.

[lovesickpizzatower]

How are y'all doing? - Paige

"Eh? Oh, you're back! Happy to see you! We just finished fighting, well, me, so I think everything is perfectly fine!"

"everything hurts."

[jonathantaylorthomas]

Matty with fans recently. 

[mahvaladara]

Mal: I was a bad father for you. I pushed you away. I left your mother impose an image of perfection on you, and I allowed you to take all fault for all that happened. And then I stood idly when guilt destroyed any morality and any good you ever had.

You wanted to be a hero at all costs, because only then could you undo what happened. Only then could you meet the expectations.

You didn't need to be perfect. You didn't have to save Arlo or Anika. That should have never been your responsibility, and I am a bad father for letting it happen.

I don't know the plot. I don't know how to fix this. But I know your heartlight is here, and for a good reason. It's safe, it's strong and it will live long.

But your Eye is missing, and that concerns me. For a Eye to flee, it can only mean, it's holding onto your resentment and it's going to do damage. You're my children and your eyes are mine.

[pass-the-5sauce]

LUKE FUCKING HEMMINGS YOU ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL I CANT HANDLE IT

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[noctuadora]

no thoughts, just... thinking about the way Ekko looks at Powder...

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on

[kensatou]

MONKEY MAN (2024)

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.

[sinsydia]

Am i the only one who imagined the first meet like this?? *swooon*

[trekkerac]

he's like a faulty lightbulb

[supine-ly]

Natural selection at its finest

[fogmoo]

Lamb to the slaughter

[doesephs]

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