#Janet Drake is terrifying

[xxxnightcorequeenxxxv3]

What if there is a world where Jack and Janet swapped, and who got the coma, etc.?

I mostly thought of this cuz I had an amusing thought at work that goes something like this: Ra's: "Your father must have been quite the man, Timothy. With just how perfectly you turned out. " Tim: "No, I got it from my mother. And if you know what's best for you, stay away from her. " ---Time Skip--- Janet walks into Wayne Manor: "Timothy, what have I told you about letting your stuff lie about in its improper place?" Tim: "Not, too, Mother. I'm sorry for being so thoughtless." Janet hands Tim a suspicious jar: "I'll be merciful this time; your surgery is booked for tomorrow, so make sure to get your affairs in order." Janet turns to Damien and hands him a card. "This is out of courtesy, child. Make sure not to repeat the mistake. Either of you." She eyes Jason and Damien. "And Mr. Grayson, you're on thin ice, too, for the attempted hospitalization of my Timothy." And with that, she walks back out. Bruce hesitantly asks: "Tim... Why did Janet hand Damien a sorry for your loss card?" Tim: "Well, since I now have my spleen in a jar, Bruce, I'm pretty sure Ra's is dead." Part 2:

[ravenlilyrose]

I love the trope where Tim jump scares people by reminding them he’s Janet Drake’s son.

[silverwhittlingknife]

very important announcement: new @birdchildsnest fic!!!

[periwinkle-the-11th]

It started as a short little 1k follow up.

It's gonna be at least 3 chapters.

[brucewaynehater101]

Android Tim Drake AU:

Drake Industries announced they had successfully created realistic-looking androids that passed the Turing Test (and harder versions of it). They were planning to release commercial models to the public within twenty years.

To go a step farther, the Drakes wanted to ensure no one was skeptical of the androids' abilities to pass as human. Thus, Janet and Jack Drake had a healthy "human" baby by the name of Timothy Jackson Drake. The only individuals aware of this are Tim, Janet, Jack, and a small handful of engineers bound with a fuck ton of NDAs. They planned to tell the public when Tim was eighteen.

While Janet and Jack Drake are aware of Tim's ability to mimic emotions, they do not believe him to be capable of actually feeling them. This leads to Tim's childhood being lonely and neglectful. He is a robot.

At first, Tim is incapable of consuming human foods or using his touch sense. They fix his touch sense by the time he is four (and thus Dick is his first hug), and the food by the time he is six. He is constantly undergoing repairs to allow him to mimic the growth pattern of a child. It's when he is nine that he finally gets pain sensors to discourage and alert him to damage.

Tim is, for all intents and purposes, legally a human. When Janet dies and Jack gets into a coma, Tim stops receiving "growth spurts." He remains the same size even after Jack wakes up from his coma.

When Tim becomes Robin, he does not disclose his status with Bruce, Dick, or anyone else. Given that his parents treat him like an object, a machine, and incapable of feelings, Tim doesn't want to be subjected to that by his heroes either.

Instead, he gaslights the hell out of the Bats, villains, and other heroes whenever he gets hit.

["Tim! You got flung into a building. You are getting a medical exam."

Tim narrows his eyes as his eyebrows raise in surprise. "Bruce.... what are you talking about?"

"I saw you get thrown into a building. You're not getting out of this."

Tim glances to the side and then back to his mentor. He carefully places a hand on Bruce's shoulder. "B... Maybe we should have Alfred check you over."

Bruce blinks in shock as his brows furrow. "What?"

Tim purses his lips and shakes his head in pity. "It's okay, B. We'll figure it out. Whatever is going on, we'll fix it."

Bruce is so confused and concerned he doesn't ask Tim to get a medical check and agrees to be checked over instead.]

Tim becomes an expert at repairing himself because he can't explain to the engineers (most of who were let go after Janet died) how he got damaged. He spends a lot of nights alone in his room turning off his pain sensors (which isn't an automatic process and is difficult to reach)in order to fix the mangled hand, the gaping gash, the crooked foot, etc.

Kon, and conversely YJ, are the first to find out about his status (darn x-ray vision and super hearing). This encourages Tim to create artificial sounds within himself to fool Superman when they first meet. This also forces Tim to wear a long-sleeved uniform and a hood to hide from x-ray vision.

Tim finds comradery with Red Tornado.

When Jack wakes up from his coma, he originally treats Tim as he did before: an object. Dana, though, changes this. Jack can't explain why he treats his "son" that way and slowly morphs into becoming a good father.

It starts as only occurring when Dana is in the room and ends with a very bitter and antagonistic Jack when she leaves. He is initially disturbed by how much Tim is "faking" emotions, particularly because Tim learned to conceal his emotions from his parents as a coping mechanism (not that Jack knows this).

As they start spending more and more time together, Jack begins accepting the idea that Tim is capable of emotions. He starts caring and loving the kid as his own.

Because of this, Jack becomes fearful for Tim. When he learns that Tim is Robin, he is both jealous of Bruce's relationship with Tim and absolutely terrified for his son (what happens if people find out that Tim is an android? How would they treat him? Tim told Jack the Waynes don't know about his status. What if Tim gets injured too badly during a mission and they find out?)

This is why Jack initially forbids Tim from being Robin. There is way too much at stake for Tim if he continues (even though, theoretically, Tim can't die. Jack can keep saves of Tim and import him into a new body if necessary. They both don't want to do this, however, because Tim's body is his. It would feel weird and wrong to put him in another one).

While Tim is prohibited from being Robin, Jack bankrupts his company in the process of getting Tim rights. He bribes the hell out of judges, law makers, etc. to subtly put I'm rights for androids. He wants Tim to have full access to his inheritance, to freedom, and to everything humans can do. He doesn't want Tim to be without it.

Tim doesn't understand why Drake Industries is going under and is pissed at Jack for preventing him from being Robin. Robin is everything to Tim. It allows him to be treated as human. It connects him to so many people.

It's only afterwards, when Tim is finally allowed to be Robin again (and Jack has ensured he did everything he could for now for Tim's rights), that Tim fully understands how much Jack loves and cares for him.

Then Jack dies.

Tim is able to hide the fact that he's an android up until a Red Helmet asshole breaks into the Tower. While YJ whisk him away before the Bats can find out, Jason knows. Jason found out.

[hello-eden]

Danny as Janet drake

Danny gets captured by the GIW but gets freed later on by redeemed Vlad and dan. The GIW have faked Danny's death so Danny can't go back home. Danny is also terrified of the GIW So they go so far out as to change not just name but gender on all the information.

 Danny lives with Vlad and Dan as Vlad's niece and is brought to Vlad business things and Galas.Vlad was injured during the Escape so Danny said to be family moving in to make sure he's okay. Danny looks just like Dan so they can easily pass off as cousins.

Danny meets Jack drake at a Gala and one thing leads to another, Due to shapeshifting and ghost powers Danny has Tim. They got married to avoid a higher Society scandal. Tim Is born with only a small ghost core and sensitivity to the supernatural but no ghost powers. Danny and Jack move around a lot due to Danny's fear of the GIW. Danny tries to get connections to a lot of people because of being terrified of just disappearing due to the GIW. 

Danny has drake manor as a lair. Danny has quite a hard time bringing people there outside of tim and jack Due to ghost instincts. Tim realizes this at a younger age and starts asking Danny if they can stay home alone, not liking that their mom is agitated due to the people coming in and out of their house. Danny, not realizing what age kids are supposed to be staying home alone due to their own experience, thinks that's a great idea. Danny leaves Tim at the house to try and give him a stable place of living instead of moving around all the time and to keep him close to friends. 

I have three ways that this idea can go.

1. Danny realizes that Tim is going out to be a vigilante when they get home the first night he really goes out and puts two and two together. They put together who Tim could be and Conference Bruce about it. Bruce expects to hate Tim's mom  thinking it's a case of neglect not realizing that Danny's about to hand him his ass due to their own bad experiences of being a vigilante at a young age.

2. Danny recognizes the signs of teen vigilantism and sits Tim down for a talk. The talk is mostly if they're being safe and that they can call them anytime they want. They teach them the signs to look out for if they start developing powers due to being in close Proximity with unknown substances and death.Tim instantly calls his mom after seeing Jason's eyes flash green.

3. It follows Canon And Danny fully dies. Danny gets stuck in the ghost Zone after his death but has people like clockwork or other spirits looking after his kid.  Tim finds out about Danny being scared of the GIW and looking into Vladco due to a case after Danny's death.  it would be later in the timeline and be due to a case that multiple people were working on. they would be investigating a secret project and see the name of the GIW. They would find out that Vladco used to work well with them but pulled out because of what is said to be working differences. They look into who runs Vladco and Tim recognizes the names. He used to visit Vlad for Christmas and  knows Dan as family. I don't think he would have talked to them since his parents funeral but definitely still gets invited to family things.

[p0ssym1lker]

Tim gets full named by bruce, and raises his eyebrow back at him

It's a showdown for everyone else but bruce knows, he knows the moment that gosh darn eyebrow goes up he has lost

Because it is the exact copy of Janet drake, who, in his humble opinion, is terrifying

So yeah, bruce takes the L but anyone who knew Janet drake would fully understand

[thatshadowgastwhore]

I love when Tim has paradoxically both only ever done what he’s told and is terrified of overstepping boundaries, but also has done nothing but break rules his whole life. I don’t care that it doesn’t make sense, the former should be a trauma response from his upbringing (I will freely admit bad parents jack and Janet drake is fanon I like, I know its not everyone’s cup of tea) where he believes if he just follows the rules and does well enough, his parents will stay and love him, and and they angry at anything they perceive to be out of line, and the latter should be his natural response to things, when he isn’t preoccupied and he’s allowed to react on instinct/his own personal morals & ethics ESPECIALLY when they’re significantly grayer than anyone else in the batfam.

Like, he won’t break the no kill rule because those are the rules and he is terrified of losing his place in the batfam by angering Bruce, but also, when he’s running on instinct and survival, aka the search of Bruce, he makes much more ethically and morally grey decisions, etc

I love it even more when different batfam members only know about certain sides of that paradox. I LOVE when Bruce & Dick only ever think of him as a rule follower. I love when that’s Jason’s initial impression of him based on their description, but when he actually gets to know Tim on his own, his determination is that Bruce and dick know next to nothing about this kid, because he’s only ever known Tim as a rule breaker. I love when Damian assumes Tim is a rule follower and refuses to change his mind on it even when he’s shown time and time again that Tim is significantly more ruthless than he (Damian) is willing to accept. I love when Tim thinks back on calls he made with a “wtf was I thinking” reaction in both directions; both feeling appalled that he broke the rules and defied his parents, Bruce, etc, and feeling panicked and trying to erase all evidence it happened so he doesn’t get in trouble, but also looking back at times he followed the rules and it cost him dearly, cursing his inability to think for himself.

I love Tim angst

[xxxnightcorequeenxxxv3]

What if there is a world where Jack and Janet swapped, and who got the coma, etc part 3.

So yeah, idk where this came from either, but as long as you are cool with the ships for this, here is part 3, apparently. Kon: Tim, can we talk? Tim: I hope it's not the we need to break up talk. Mother just... Kon: No, no, no, not that at all. I'm honored your mother approves of us dating. Tim: good, she would have murdered you otherwise. Kon: yeah, talking about murder... I know Clark has been a jerk in the past. But It's kinda become an issue now that he can't hear heels clicking on the floor without whimpering (She may or might not own a pair of stilettos with kryptonite heels). Tim: Yeah, we should ask Dinah if she can talk it out with him; it is rather a pathetic sight. However, on the positive side, Lex is behaving. Kon: Tim, you know it's cuz she terrifies him too. Tim: Of course, mother scares him. Having a future father-in-law in villainy is bad for business, you know. She also wants to use the cloning technology he developed to secure a future heir for Drake Industries for us. Kon: ... oh, that's nice. Tim: If you are worried about LexCorp, don't worry. My mother is in the middle of subsuming that for us, too. I would have done it myself, but my mother insisted it be a wedding present from her and Dana.

Kon: That's nice. I'mma go ask Ma a question only Ma can help with.

Tim: Love you Kon, see you soon.

Kon: Love you too.

--- Time Skip --- Kon: Ma, I'mma need your help.

Martha: What do you need help with dear?

Kon: I'm gonna need to either find or make a proposal ring that Mrs. Drake will approve of.

Martha: Oh, I know you like your boy a lot, but aren't you being a bit hasty? Kon: No, I'm sure Mrs. Drake has everything planned out to a T. Martha: But Connor, dear, this needs to be something you and Timothy decide together. Kon: It's not that I don't want to in the future. But you know how scarily competent and detail-oriented Tim is? He gets that from his mother, and I don't want to disappoint Tim with a bad ring. Martha: oh, you really love your boy, don't you? Kon: yeah, I really do.

[dairy-farmer]

The drakes secretly control gotham. Janet controls gotham high society, meanwhile her husband plays a himbo but he controls the underworld. Their og goal was to have 2 kids, 1 for the high society and the other for the underworld but the problem is the waynes. With the waynes, they can't fully control gotham yet. But then they have a son, Timothy, who's extremely smart. Who offers advice such as making the criminal underworld a lizard's tale, cut off whatever's trapped never let them get to the head (Jack) and keep people terrified but have second hands who keep people close, that was signs of backstabbing could be avoided. Jack and Janet are proud of their little prince because he's incredibly smart. They don't need another, he'll control all of what they own in the future. But Tim knows they don't truly own gotham yet. Not while vigilantes could topple the criminal empire, and not while the waynes could out buy them with everything they want. To truly own gotham, tim must own rhe waynes.

He becomes a well meaning son for bruce, one who'd kiss at his cheeks and be a good boy. He becomes a cute younger brother for Dick, someone pliant and soft for molding. He becomes a fiesty little brother for jason, giving as good as he got but 'weaker' and he becomes a well meaning but naive older brother for damian. Each time, he becomes a dark fantasy for them and he helps them fulfil it. By the end he owns rhe waynes ans his parents are proud. They own gotham now

!!! tim manipulating the bats by being exactly what they need him to be, being their dream of what they want 😍😍😍!

[bluejaysandblackbats]

Catch and Release

Fandom: DC Comics, Batfam

Summary: AU where Jason doesn't die in the explosion and he and Tim end up attending the same high school months later.

Chapters: 8/?

Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Sebastian Ives, Jack Drake, Janet Drake

Relationships: TBA

Additional Tag: Jason Todd Lives, Jason Todd-centric, POV Jason Todd, POV First Person, Tim Drake Has Issues, Tim Drake Has Issues, Tim Drake is Not Robin, Jason Todd is Not Robin (Anymore), Bruce Wayne Needs a Hug, Alfred Pennyworth is the Best, Alfred Pennyworth Knows, Stalker Tim Drake, Jason Todd Has Chronic Pain, Jason Todd Has PTSD, Angst with a Happy Ending, Unlikely Friends, Injury Recovery, Emotional Baggage, Rage, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating

Chapter Eight: Pain in the Head

I hung out with Tim's friends and worked on character sheets. I spent three hours there before I told Tim I had to go. I had a great time. Don't get me wrong. But I was nauseous and didn't want to be sick at his house. Ives planned on sleeping over at Tim's place, so I didn't have to feel bad about leaving him home alone. I got a ride to the manor, and Bruce sat on the porch waiting for me as soon as I arrived. "Where have you been?" Bruce asked.

"I could ask you the same thing, Bruce... Can I go inside now?" I asked.

"You're pale," Bruce replied.

I wanted to lie down and nap, but I could tell Bruce didn't plan on letting things go. I didn't have the time or energy to explain myself, so I did what any reasonable teenager would do. I made myself throw up and burst into tears. "Jason," Bruce sighed before helping me to the family room. He couldn't accuse me of anything while I was sick. That and throwing up stopped the onset of a migraine.

"I'm so sorry, Bruce-."

"It's fine... When is the last time you took-. I swore I wouldn't ask you that," Bruce replied.

"I didn't think I needed them anymore... I thought I'd been feeling better lately," I replied. Bruce felt my forehead.

"I've been home for two days, and you-. Jason, I'm sorry for walking out on you. I wasn't trying to hurt you... I'm-. Our bond is different from the bond I have with anyone else. I'm holding on for dear life with you... And I know I'm losing you. I feel like you're slipping away when I look at you.

"I can't take the thought of knowing you suffered because I chose to leave you alone that day. Jason, you're so precious to me... And I'm terrified that if I let you talk about what happened, you'll say what I've been most afraid to hear," Bruce confessed. I wasn't in the mood for a serious conversation, but he was finally willing to speak about what happened to me.

"I don't hate you... And I don't blame you for what happened. I've been trying to tell you all this time," I paused, "I'm sure Dick told you I wanna die sometimes... But you don't realize what I have to experience every day."

Bruce exhaled through his nose. "Go ahead..."

"I wake up under debris almost every day... And then I lie about my nerve pain, which I know everyone can see. By the time I get to the mirror, I'm already so disheartened by the countless efforts I've made to appear normal that I barely notice my scars anymore. When I shower, my skin still hurts like the burns are fresh, and I want to cry, but if I do, I'd never get anything done. Then, I come down for breakfast... And sometimes the medications I'm on make me so sick I don't want to eat, but I know I'd be worse off if I didn't.

"Then I go to school, and you wouldn't believe what they say about me," I swallowed hard.

"Jason-."

"But I endure it because I know I have to... What I can't stomach is the isolation. Don't ice me out, Bruce," I begged. Bruce sighed.

"I don't know how-. I can't pretend that almost losing you didn't change the entire way I had to look at our life. You can't be Robin anymore, Jason, and I feel awful for having to take that away from you," Bruce whispered.

"You're saying our, but you mean mine. How can you expect me to step down from being Robin when you can't even walk away from being Batman?" I asked.

"Jason, it's been over a year, and you're still healing. I can't risk putting you out in the field again. Gotham needs Batman-."

"Bullshit," I snapped.

"Language-." "Oh! Go to hell! I told you about all my issues, thinking you would finally see me, and I realized you're no better than the rest of them!" I yelled. I couldn't help but get mad. I should've seen it coming. He'd never had the guts to say it, but I knew this was his way of shutting me out for good. It pissed me off. I threw my crutches and hobbled upstairs.

"Jason! Jason, you can't-!"

"Screw you!" I yelled as I went to my room. I slammed the door and packed my bag. I almost forgot I felt sick. He saw me as weak. That was the worst thing he could've ever opened his mouth to admit. He was no better than everyone that gaped and gawked at me. I was his walking tragedy, and I'd be damned if I let him treat me like a ghost.

I started packing with tears in my eyes. I wanted to get out of there before I said something vile. "Jason, don't be like this! Please come out and talk to me-."

"Bruce, I need to get the hell away from you before I say something I regret!" I hollered. "And I guarantee that if you follow me, I will never come home! Leave my crutches and get away from me!" I sat down and texted Tim. He was the only person I could trust at that moment. I asked him to come to get me, and he texted me immediately. I waited in my room until Tim texted me, and I left my bedroom. Bruce left my crutches in front of the door and retreated like always. I slung my duffel across my body like a messenger bag, hoping it wouldn't throw me off balance.

I swung the door open and left it like that. Tim took my bag and opened his mouth to ask if I was okay, but he kept quiet. It was for the best because I was in a particularly heinous mood. I fell asleep in the car and woke up in Tim's guest room. He was on the floor with Ives, eating pizza. My head throbbed, and I felt sicker than I did earlier. Ives glanced at me and got up to turn the lights down. "Sorry, were we too loud?" Ives questioned.

"No, I-. How long have I been out?" I asked.

"Thirty minutes... Maybe an hour," Tim answered, "Do you need an aspirin?"

I pressed my palms against my eyelids. "No thanks... Tim, do you-? Who carried me in?" I asked.

"We both did. Tim got you out of the car but wasn't strong enough to get you up the stairs. It was a team effort," Ives answered, "You're heavier than you look." I let out a soft chuckle despite the pounding in my head.

"Know how I asked you to move in with me?" I questioned. "Could it still work if it were the other way around?"

"You wanna live here?" Tim asked. I nodded. "Alright." I was shocked. I thought he'd say no, but he looked thrilled.

[kiragecko]

List request batfamily’s worst hair day ever

[Warning for parasites/bugs in Babs' entry.]

Dick - a witch once gave him his dream hair. Waist length, perfectly straight, stayed in a ponytail without needing to be coated with gel first. Even Babs, his primary Mullet-Hater, seemed to find it attractive! And then it turned out the hair was actually sentient, and sucking out his memories. So he had to cut it off. He sulked for weeks.

Babs - the same witch gave her techno-lice. Little nanobots creeping around her scalp, their skittering feet far easier to feel than normal lice, though they were no easier to remove. Also trying to suck out her memories. She could see movement when she looked in the mirror! Babs isn't scared of bugs, but MEMORY-SUCKING BUGS?! She was ready to take a flamethrower to her scalp.

Jason - one of Ivy's creations mimicked certain puberty hormones. Jason spent hours growing hair EVERYWHERE. It was the height of summer. He had a beard! His whole body itched, he stank, and he had to remove layers to avoid heat stroke so everyone SAW. Just awful.

Tim - secretly, he's enjoyed most of his hair disasters. Doing stupid stuff with his hair and then being very deadpan while his companions suffer is delightful enrichment for him. But he was once at a gala, mildly disguised, and someone mistook him for his mom. Because he'd accidentally recreated one of her Business Looks. He'd been in a SUIT! The idea of Butch Janet has traumatized him for life and that was the worst hair day.

Steph - dyed her hair on a day that SOME Rogue had dumped something into the water supply. It turned out a patchwork of green, orange, bleached white, and black. She was terrified of mind control chemicals, or Joker Toxin, but apparently she doesn't get to have BADASS problems. Just an embarrassing dye job that she couldn't afford to get professionally fixed.

Cass - Wanted to go to her second rave. Got distracted by being Batgirl and didn't have much time to get ready. No hairgel in the apartment, and Tim was being moody and no fun, so she tried to find a solution herself. 'School glue' is not like 'children's markers' - it doesn't wash out after. She did not want to cut her hair off, but roots growing out with weird chunky blobs at the ends does not look good.

Damian - unknowingly wore the same spiked hairstyle as 13-year-old Drake for THREE WEEKS as Robin. He was foolish enough to think it LOOKED GOOD. He can trust no one.

Duke - still isn't sure what happened. He was in one of Ivy's parks, but when she finally turned up to free him she acted like HE was the one who had brought the weird hair-growing mist. Complained about him damaging her plants with his 'mammalian filaments'. Why would ANYONE choose to grow a 3 foot halo of hair that grew AROUND the underbrush he was trying to get out of?? He was stuck for almost 40 minutes! At least she just gave him a shave and kicked him out, it could have been a lot worse.

Bruce - involved alien ... pollen? Slime? Difficult to fit in an Earth classification system. His hair started melting, very slowly. As it melted, it stretched and oozed across his face. And then everywhere it touched also started sprouting wet hair? He has locked the report.

Alfred - back in his pre-butler days. Involved a theatrical wig attached with ENTIRELY the wrong adhesive. By the time he realized that taking it off was not going to work, the wig was half destroyed and he'd lost several patches of hair. There was no recovery by that point.

[brucewaynehater101]

My personal favorite way ppl write janet is when she’s a stone cold bitch. She’s sharp and cruel and manipulative and people fear her. Her marriage to jack is an empty one. But if theres anything in this world that she would reach up to tear the heavens down for, its her baby. Her Timothy, her little prince. Her child who learned how to soften his face and feed other pretty lies and draw them into his web. Her little miracle who she carried and bled for who she taught to manipulate and trick because she saw this tiny, tiny boy and knew he would never pack on muscle but she would be damned if she didnt give him every weapon and card he could ever need. A janet drake who bears a large resemblance to her son, whether its physically or not.(its also hilarious when in these types of fics, bruce is just absolutely terrified of janet/ was terrified of janet when they were kids lmao. 10/10 trope)

Fuck yes. Give me cruel, cutting Janet who dotes on her son.

Show me Janet and her obsessive all-consuming love. The way she teaches Tim to pull strings and manipulate. Her lessons on protecting what is theirs even if it causes the world to crumble at their fingertips.

Perhaps there was a time when she loved Jack, or maybe she was always using them for her goals.

Give me morally grey Janet. She loves Tim even if she's not home enough or her teachings are not healthy. She doesn't need to be a morally sound character, but one that instills Tim with his burning, consuming love.

Janet was always fiercely protective of her son, but her type of protection morphed when she saw her child (maybe six) being preyed on (either by other kids or something darker). She saw how weak and helpless he was and vowed to change him into a Drake.

She showed her son the various masks she wore, the intricate double (or triple or quadruple) meanings behind words, and how to read people. If Tim couldn't physically protect himself, she'd teach him how to get others to do it for him.

That is her child. Even if her love was distant, it was a feverent, vigilant love.

Tim would have whatever tools he needed to be safe.

(Also, agree about Bruce. It is hilarious when fics show Bruce flinching when Tim acts a little too much like his mom)

[stargazinglesbian]

soooo one of my moots @punkeropercyjackson posted these really cool batfam designs using this picrew, and i wanted to do some of my own, although unfortunately i am also cursed with the Must Give Every Character Acne and Moles disease bc i have acne and moles and want to give everyone acne and moles so....

i did Duke, Steph, Cass, Jason, Dick, Tim, Babs, Damian and MAPS (i did age up maps and damian though, because i was wanted to play around with the idea of their future designs) and i also gave them specific places to be because why not

Duke, Damian and Jason chilling on the subway!! Duke is telling a very long story because Jason asked him to help out with the crossword and Damian zoned out 37 minutes ago. i wanted to give damian a long ponytail but there was no option in the picrew, so this is the closest i could get

next, cass and steph, hanging out and makin out. i've officially become enamoured with the blasian stephanie brown headcanon and it will become apart of my own design for her next time i draw her

Tim's playing Dark Souls (or as i like to imagine it's called in the dc universe, Shadowed Spirits). i have similarly become enamoured with the cherokee tim drake hc but i've also loved the idea of him being vietnamese so now he's both, 2 me @ least. i make the rules. also the pearls he's wearing used to be Janet's because i thought that was sweet.

barbara my favourite losergirl. she's waiting for dinah to text her back.

MAPS is wandering around gotham with a friend of hers :)))

and this is prolly the one i diverged from canon from the most. Dick grayson everyone!!! is he trans? is he cis? is he mtf? is he ftm? is he gnc? nobody knows! but what they do know is that he just kicked a guys ass outside of a gas station for catcalling and they are terrified of him.

i enjoyed this immensely. also i'm not gonna bother tagging this w all the characters...

[sepia-stained-sunset]

I know we all like to rag on how fandom distorts and warps characters into a crude mockery of their true selves (for very justified reasons), but there is one case where a certain Fanon interpretation captures my interest fully. That being cutthroat-but-still-loving Janet Drake.

Janet doesn't get much development in canon beyond being Tim's absent mother who fights with Jack a lot and then dies, but the idea of Janet as this cold, calculating woman who nevertheless adores her family and will fight tooth and nail to keep her son safe is something that just feels so much more dynamic to me. Not a Lost Lenore or a tragic Dead Mom, but a vicious fighter whose ruthlessness and cunning were used against everyone but her son (and occasionally husband).

Yes this would just make her a cheap copy of Talia, but Talia at her best is a riveting and compelling character so even a copy of her would still be really damn good. Plus you could have them kiss that's a plot you could use

Terrifying Janet Drake who's also fiercely protective and loving when it comes to her family is one of my favourite fic tropes, especially if everyone gives Tim a bit of a wide berth because they think he can ruin them as easily as she could.

[jube-art]

*throws the door open* PLEASE EXPLAIN THE INFINITY STONES AU TO ME I HAVE TO KNOW—

"You really do live up to your rapscallion reputation," Janet Drake chirps, her hands not so subtly feeling up his arm and chest.

Bruce forces a laugh as he takes one of her hands. She's smiling, slightly drunk. She doesn't notice, too dulled by cocktails, when Bruce slips one of her Valerian gold rings from her fingers and tucks it into his pocket.

"I'm glad that you find my reputation so…" he leans in and she smiles wider. "Tantalizing."

Her eyes gleam with lust and her tugging becomes more insistent. He has no intention of taking this woman to bed tonight, but a passed-out lady of the house makes stealing the priceless artifacts taken from their rightful owners much easier.

"You're as charming as they say," Janet hummed, leaning into him.

"You're more beautiful than all the glimmering things in your house."

He expects her to melt, but instead she goes stiff. Her faces cracks, suddenly becoming annoyed.

"You're lying," she snaps at him, trying to whip around but slightly wobbling.

Bruce suddenly sees his chance beginning to slip. "No, lady, out of everything I've seen, you're the most--"

"You haven't seen everything."

Bruce blinked.

Oh.

Oh.

His doubt faded. He interest grew.

"What have I not seen, my lady?"

She yanks him in a different direction and begins to lead him deeper into her sprawling. They pass magnificent item after, magnificent item and each pass makes Bruce more excited to see what could be hidden behind the thick, impenetrable looking door that Janet clumsily unlocks. Bruce remembers every pass of her fingers, every single thing she did to get past the locks.

The door groaned open into a gold-leafed room. Everything sparkled and gleamed in gold. Fine drapes, silken pillows, exquisitely carved decorations hanging from the ceiling. And, in the middle of the room, a gigantic bed.

Suddenly, Bruce felt his heart drop into his stomach and dread crawl its way up his throat.

A tiny figure on the bed moved, leverage up on his thin arms to stare at the newcomers.

He was tiny, pale, impossibly thin with his bones creating knobby along his body. He didn't have a shirt on, Bruce couldn't even tell if he had pants on, and he could see the boy's breath pick up the moment he laid eyes on Bruce.

He nervously swallowed making the golden collar and leash around his throat bob.

He was nervously looking between Janet and Bruce, taking them in and growing increasing more anxious.

"Miss Drake," he said his tiny voice was thin. "What can I do for you tonight?"

He looked like he wanted to ask anything but that.

"It's it beautiful," she said while staring at the boy.

Bruce couldn't help but note the "it" and scrunched his nose in disgust.

His mouth as dry as he spoke. "What…What's going on here?"

"It's the Mind Stone," she answered. Bruce saw the boy's flinch, the way he seemed to try to melt into the golden covers. "It's been in my family for centuries. All the possibilities of the universe kept right here in our guest bedroom. It can answer any question."

She brightened and pushed Bruce forward.

"Go on! Go! Ask it a question."

Bruce slowly approached the bed.

The boy shuffled, eyes flickering down, trying to appear as small as possible. He flinched away from every movement. He was terrified of Bruce's hands.

Bruce tried to be as much as he could to be gentle as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"What is your name?"

The boy shuddered and shook his head. "I…I don't remember. Someone took it. A long time ago."

"Someone took it?"

He nodded. "T-they said that it was distracting me… because I w-wanted…" His face tightened. "I don't remember."

Bruce chewed his lip, looking over the chains that kept the boy on the bed, the locks on the door to a windowless room. His lack of memories to a life outside of these four walls. A prison. Both physically and in the mind.

"Would you like to leave here?"

The boy's head snapped up. Suddenly, he looked so, so desperate. "Please," he begged. "Please."

(a collective au by the discord, the writing is by @salparadiselost ) (Does this explain anything? no. But it is fun!)