#Nell little

[punkeropercyjackson]

Jason's nicknames for the other Batkids

Dick:Dickardo(when he's peeved at him)

Tim:Skatebreak(to mock him for following the punk skater stereotype.Stephanie is also a skater but she's transfem so Jason can't make fun of her for it without feeling bad)

Cass:None(she wouldn't accept any from him if he tried to give her one and he's smart enough not to try)

Duke:Sun Pocket(Given to him in his Outlaw/Robin days.'You're just a useful ray of goddamn sunshine,aren't you?Like that one song.You're kinda pocket sized too' 'I'm twelve!!!' 'I wasn't insulting you,dulsura')

Damian:Duende(Spanish word for gnome and yes i am an 'Adult Damian is a short king' believer)

Stephanie:Gummy Girl(when they first met,Stephanie offered him a bag of gummy kittens as a distraction that actually worked due to how flabbergasted he was and how hard she punched him earned her his respect so he doned her the nickname to compliment her)

Maps:Sugar(for her sweet tooth and constant hyperactivity)

Nell:Princesa(since she is personality wise with how soft and preppy yet adventureous she is but also because she looks like one too and i don't mean in fashion only)

[fluffykitty149]

Damian as a child being forced to hang out with ‘normal’ kids

Damian with boys his age playing video games: I’m bored.

Damian playing with girls his age playing dolls: THE COURT FINDS YOU GUILTY OF WITCHCRAFT AND YOU ARE TO BE HANGED AT DAWN!

Bruce: Damian no! I’m so sorry about this.

Mrs. Little: No it’s fine. It’s gotten Nell over her obsession with a doll guillotine. At least a doll nose can be made out of some yarn.

Bruce:

Nell: FOOLISH PASTOR, THIS TOWN SHALL LONG SINCE TURN TO ASH BY THEN!

Damian: WE HAVE TAKEN YOUR DEMONIC TOMES! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO USE!

Nell grinning evily: I never said I would be the one to do it.

Damian pretending to be shocked: w-what?

Maps raises a doll cackling maniacally with a cigarette lighter and hairspray: MWUAHAHAHAHA! Surely you didn’t think there was only one witch in this town good pastor. You shall all burn by the flames of hell!

Mrs. Mizoguchi: MIA! I’VE TOLD YOU NOT TO PLAY WITH FIRE!

Maps: But moooooom!

[leoruby-draws]

Some batfam doodles set in my TrWh au, with a bit of a focus on Stephanie Brown!

The first pic with Arthur trying to make Steph his sidekick (probably inspired by Bluejay Jason following Robin around) is kinda meant to be an explanation on why Steph becomes spoiler so early in this comic. While explanations are not really needed because my au focuses on comedy and cuteness, I thought this would just be a little fun bit of background info on Steph and her father Arthur Brown in this au. The pointer name comes from the cw Batwoman show, where Steph is a redhead for some reason.

Also we see that Steph often goes to sleepovers with the other batkids, tho she's really having fun being Starling. I think in another post I was thinking on how to work around the issue of Steph being a 8 year old vigilante without her mom finding out, I even considered the possibility of Bruce somehow fostering her. But I decided that just do the classical superhero identity shenanigans is all I need to do.

Also don't worry about Jason and Cass being tossed, they're having fun there! Kids love being tossed like ragdolls, I should know as the eldest sister myself lol.

Next pic has Steph and Cass switch roles for a bit with Steph being a mini batgirl as 'Batlass', a name I considered for Cass. And Cass is a mini robin as Blackbird, aren't they cute?

Little gag comic with Barbara shrinking into a kid, Steph and Cass look shocked to say the least. Lori Zechlin with often play magical pranks on other superheroes, its can end up pretty chaotic.

More batfam doodles, look at Steph, she's such a little creature!

Lastly a glimpse in a possible future in the TrWh world, with Steph as Batgirl at last with Nell Little as her protege Starling! Perhaps she might have also use the Spoiler moniker as well too. We also see Damian and Tiffany Fox hang out as well, also Cass (as batman?) seems to be mentoring Maps Mizoguchi. Tho I haven't really thought about the details that much, just something fun to draw. Oh, theres also Carrie Kelley but she likely doesn't exist in my au, just felt like drawing her.

Anyways that was a lot, hope you like it!

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Bring Back the Bombshells Batgirls!

In helping a friend of mine map out who all has been Batgirl across various DC continuities, I remembered a little jaunt to TVtropes where it mentioned that in a charming little number called Bombshells, the batgirl identity is shared by a baseball team.

This reminded me to actually go READ Bombshells, and oh. My. GOSH. It is the BEST FUCKING THING EVER!

What is Bombshells?

Basically, almost every male superhero got yeeted from the story or relegated to side character/civilian, while every female superhero takes the spotlight and gets to KICK SOME NAZI ASS (it's set during world war 2). Plenty of people get spotlight, but I'm gonna argue that the MAIN characters are probably Kate Kane's batwoman, Diana of Themyscira's Wonder Woman, Mera's Aquawoman (she hates that name, lol), Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, Zatanna, and Kara Starikov's Supergirl. All the storylines tend to revolve around them.

Oh, also it's super gay. Like, every single character is a lesbian or bi, there's tons of ladies kissing and dating and having implied sex, and at least one character---one of the batgirls actually---is trans.

In summary, go read bombshells it's really good, but today I'm here to specifically talk about:

The Batgirls (and boys)

"One for the ribbon, two for the pearls! Three for the crimefighting---

So first off, Bombshells is an elseworld, so it can do whatever the fuck it wants with backstories and shit.

Subsequently; this version of Kate Kane is a major league baseball player, and her Batwoman costume is literally just a pallet swap of her baseball costume (plenty of people figure out her "secret" identity because of this, but she's not super concerned about it). She uses an actual bat as her main weapon as Batwoman, and it kicks ass. More fanfic writers, and hell, comics writers need to hand the Batfamily some baseball bats, because it gives us scenes like this:

Or this:

(Yes her bat has a gun, it's supplied by Amanda Waller through goverment money, don't question it. Her baseballs are also explosives).

Oh, and also this:

Anyway, point is, Batwoman has a bat and it's great. But this means when Gotham's bat-weilding protector gets drafted into the Bombshells to go fight Nazi's, some new faces have to pick up the slack in Gotham.

And so:

Inspired by their vigilante/baseball hero, Harper Row, Kathy Duquesne, and Nell Little pick up some bats of their own and start busting up crime! The three of them are mechanics, that old car is their batmobile, and they're the best of friends!

Of this original trio, Kathy is "the brass" or the leader, and she remains nominally in charge through the whole thing. Nell is "the brawn" and while every batgirl is good in a fight, Nell is a bit of a demolition specialist. Finally you have Harper, "the brain" who invents their gadgets, works on their batmobile, and also jokes that she's the mascot, as this whole thing was her idea.

They don't stay a trio for very long though! They're quickly joined by "the beauty" Alysia Yeoh, an old friend of Kathy's, in an effort to break Cullen Row out of a prison-like orphanage (she's the t-girl btw):

You may notice another girl crouched in the corner up there too! That's Bette Kane, Kate's niece and the rightful owner of Kane Industries who will forcibly take it over, clean it up, and use it for good on her 18th birthday in like a week!

In the meantime though, she heard about the batgirls and decided she wanted in! She crashes their jailbreak and helps them wreck shop! She mostly shares the "brass" role with Kathy---a leader in her own right.

Anyway, their now quintet quickly finds the awful headmistress of the Pinkney orphanage berating one Tim Drake, who still has a living dad somewhere, but was snatched up by a dirty cop because this whole city runs on Newsies rules (not even kidding, I'll get there in a sec). Turns out Tim and Alysia are old best friends. Anyway, Tim fills them in on the sitch: the headmisstress has been using the orphans as slave labor to build war robots for the nazis.

The batgirls (now including Tim!), bust up the basement and the robots, free all the orphanage kids, including Cullen, toss the awful headmistress and the dirty cop helping her to one Detectice Maggie Sawyer---Kate's wife---and the day is saved!

In the subsequent week, Bette takes over Kane Industries, starts funneling funds into housing for immigrants and refugees and relief and aid and all that good stuff, and also recruits the final batgirl of the team: Felicity Smoak (the chick in braids)! Thus we have a full team!

Who's who in the alt text

I'm only halfway through Bombshells, but the batgirls and their adventures are a recurring plot thread, since protecting Gotham is entirely up to them while Kate is away. They gain lots of other allies and enemies (including one hispanic immigrant Lois Lane who does straight up help them pull a newsies and make their own newspaper with the real news in it at one point), and their sections are probably one of my favorite parts about the comic. It just feels so sweet and high school, while still feeling Batman-esque/Gotham-typical.

Why You Should Care:

Now. I may only be halfway through Bombshells, but I am in LOVE. With the story and the characterizations and everything!!! And the batgirls are a personal fave of mine cuz I'm a sucker for found family and teens fighting crime and bat-weilding superheroes!

But my point is: for all that fanfic loves these tropes too, there is NO fanfiction for them (or at least not on ao3). There's practically nothing for the Bombshells continuity PERIOD, which is a shame, but also to be expected for an elseworld.

But that's why I'm here and telling you about it!

You guys! This is fanfiction! We love flinging the batfamily through alternate universes and making lots of different characters take on the familiar Batgirl and Robin roles!

Why not bring forth the Bombshells Batgirls?

If you're writing your own elseworld, I suggest you nab this adorable team, or something like it! If you're writing an alt universe crossover, feature these guys!

They are the Batfamily found family you want! They CALL THEMSELVES a Bat-family! They all move in together! They loooooovvveee each other! And, as is the nature of the Batgirl mantle, they do what they do largely as independent operatives without adult supervision!

I would really love to see these guys yeeted into an alternate universe and have to cope with just HOW different their continuity is. Not only will they inevitably be flung way into the future, since they're around in the 40s, but in most continuities they're completely unconnected from each other and are absolutely not a team of bat-weilding crime fighters! It would be so baffling for any mainline batgirl and robin to meet a team that is so disconnected from them and so unconditionally supportive of each other and so Badass Adorable!

In Summary:

I may have lost the plot a little with this, but my points are:

Bombshells is really good and you should all go read it

Bombshells has a team of adorable bat-weilding batgirls that has all the found family crime fighting tropes you could want without the bad blood of the mainline batfam

More people should write fanfiction for Bombshells

The Bombshells!Batgirls in particular I think are a great place to start with that. Nab the premise of a baseball team being crime fighters, or Gotham being protected by a group of scrappy children whenever the big bad vigilantes are away, or give these colorful kids their Bombshells!backstories.

Also use the Bombshells universe in particular when you're flinging bats across the multiverse. Yeet these babies into a mainline comics verse and let the juxtaposition and chaos run WILD! There's a million and one of these fics for the Young Justice cartoon, I know ya'll can do it for Bombshells

Also. Take every opportunity to give your Batfamily, and your Batgirls in particular, an actual bat. It'll be so much fun, I promise

Anyway, I'll probably be back with another Bombshells rant later, PEACE!

[dc-sideblog]

I love the idea of Stephcass training the future generation of girl vigilantes in Gotham like Tiffany Fox, Nell Little and Maps Mizoguchi. Could yod draw the five of them in costumes?

I MIGHT do full shading on this later but I got impatient about posting lol. Anyway love that concept! I havent read Future State (yet) but I do believe in the League of Batgirls +one Robin.

[id: four Batgirls and one Robin. From the left, Steph and Cass are leaning into each other. Then there's Tiffany Fox, Nell Little, and Maps Mizoguchi. The three younger girls are all very excited and smiling.]

[kerakeriza]

welcome back to gotham city, batboy

[but-a-humble-goon]

Thinking about Stephanie with kids again. Thinking about how she hard she tries to be the hero for them that Batman never was for her.

[secondgenerationnerd]

who is apart of the LGBTQIA+ community in the omega verse? who are the girls, gays and theys?

So many people my dude 😂😂😂 I’ll go by groups (and when I say someone is queer, that just means they don’t care enough to search for a label, they just know they ain’t straight).

Bats

In the Batfam, like most all of them are at the bare minimum queer. Yes even Bruce, on this page we support queer Bruce and his clear enjoyment of femdoms. (Look at the mothers of his children—Talia and Selina—and tell me I’m wrong.)

Dick is the most chaotic bisexual, Jason’s most definitely queer, Tim is CANNONICALLY BISEXUAL and married Kon in my cannon, Cass leans more lesbians in my mind (yes she dated Kon but a fair amount of lesbians have dated men), Steph married the first girl she slept with and had two sons, Duke just wants peace 😂

Mar’i is Demisexual and Damian finds out Sapiosexual is a thing and is just…..yeah he has no comment 😂😂✨

Flashfam

Listen. Jai Bartholomew West claims that he’s straight, but boy is on thin ice 😂 Bart’s Pansexual. Dawns a lesbian who has said she could have landed Mel (as a joke)

Superfam

Kara Zor-El is gay as the day is long and is married to Lena Luther.

Kon is some form of queer and loves his goblin husband

Jon is forever “Bi-Panic” in his friend group.

Epsilon

Listen. There’s two straight girls on that team, Tiffany and Jenn. All the rest of them like girls to some degree (or no one in Sin’s case)

They read one too many articles calling them “Gal Pals” that had a clear pic of Maya checking out Kathy’s ass. One joke too many and Sin brought in a dildo with the word “Friendship” printed on it.

It hangs in their living area.

Omega

There’s definitely a joke that to be on Omega you have to be Bisexual (Jon, Milagro, Colin, and Lian), a total simp for your partner (Jai, Damian, Mar’i, Irey), or have some unexpected kinks (pick any character 😂)

There’s definitely more, my brain is just short circuiting

[frothy-commissions]

Nell Little Spoiler AU Thoughts Round 2:

▪︎ Nell is the current president of her journalism club and created both the schools new and improved Newsletter, but she and a few other members have quietly created anonymous news platforms to spread information about Gotham and it's happenings. This also includes the New Spoiler going out and distributing zines made by the group.

▪︎ The whole group soncerwly believes Nell whem she claimed that some insider has asked her for help and has led her to or has been feeding her information... Which Nell is not gonna fight anyone one.

▪︎ Colin is the only one explicitly aware of her identity. He was a new transfer to her school and helped hid am injured Nell, when he found her walking home from tutoring at school. They've become close friends, and while Colin does not go out there and use his powers often, he's not above going out there if Nell needs him.

▪︎ He has been forcibly dragged into the Journalism club and was welcomed with open arms.

▪︎ Zines become a huge part of how Nell spreads info around Gotham, while avoiding the police, villains, Batman plus most of the BatFam, and especially Stephanie who just wants to know who stole her moniker.

▪︎ Nightwing has willingly given her information on the corruption surrounding Bludhaven and its politics, in exchange for her keeping him updated on her safety because he figured she was a teenager. Meanwhile, Duke just tells her information and willingly helps her out on the side without telling anyone. Out of all of the BatFamily, they are the ones she trusts the most.

I am going to do more later with this, including talking about her dynamic with Damien and maybe even designing some of her zines.

[purple-crusader]

Ahh I was so excited for this day, partly because I was one of the people who proposed the prompt but whatever. Steph and Cass get married. That's the tweet. They deserve it 👰‍♀️

Hope you enjoy reading!!

STEPHCASS WEEK Day 5: Wedding

Word count: 1,386

@stephcassweek

Cassandra and Stephanie rarely watched romcoms or other sappy films, they'd rather put on a comedy or horror. Sometimes it was just so late into the night and they were too tired to find anything, they'd snuggle up on the coach and watch that was on the cable. This time it was some romance that ended with the main couple getting married.

Cass was absolutely mesmerized when she saw the beautiful woman on screen walk down the aisle in her white dress. She was to a few weddings in her life, but she never felt like she did at the moment watching this scene. She had butterflies in her stomach, she was hypnothised it and one thought appeared in her head.

"You'd look beautiful in a wedding dress, Stephanie." Cass blurted out. Steph, who was even sleepier than her partner, turned her head down to her chest, to which the dark-haired woman snuggled to. A blush came out on her face first, but then she smiled heartly, a bit embarassed, like she did when Cass called her 'the cutest girl in the world' or something along these lines.

"You'd look gorgeous in one too, babe." Steph said "Or some suit. Well you look great in everything, so that should be obvious." Cass smiled at her girl's compliment. Steph turned her head to the TV, but Cass did not finish.

"I think that... and I really want to see you in it." Cass was looking dreamily at Steph when she said this, the sappiness of the film might have gotten to her. Stephanie felt so happy hearing this. She pulled Black Bat's face closer to hers and gave her a kiss.

"Well... can do. Just get me a ring first." Steph said and winked at her girlfriend who started giggling. "I'll get you a ring with the biggest diamond in all of Gotham." Cass begun, sitting on the blonde woman's lap, taking away all of the attention for the film she had left, "Even if it means having to steal it from Harley Quinn."

"Damn, Wayne. You'd do all of that for me? What, are you in love with me or something?" Steph said and their lips were joined together again.

Stephanie might have underestimated the speed of her partner. It took two weeks before Cass caught her unexpectedly with an engagement ring, when they went out on a date to a cute local coffee shop. Steph was a crying mess when she realized it was actually happening and barely managed to say "Yes" to her girlfriend proposing.

Cassandra's family was all hands on board when it came to the wedding planning, especially Bruce and Alfred for whom the topic of their nuptials became the go-to thing they would talk about to them for the months leading up to it. With all the help the women received from their friends and family, the preparations took 4 months before the whole thing was set.

Stephanie was sitting in one of the Wayne Manor's guest rooms before a large mirror. She was already in her white dress with the make-up on. Her hair was tied in a nice bun and her mother was putting the finishing touches on how the veil was attached.

"Aaand now we're done. You can stand up, honey." Steph did as her mother told her to and looked at herself in all her glory in the mirror. She felt a lump form in her throat. Crystal also got hit in the feels as the woman heard her sniffling like she was about to cry.

"Mom, I beg you not to cry right now or else I'm gonna start too and that make-up took quite a while." Her mother chuckled at her joke and they soon embraced each other.

"I'm so proud of you, Stephanie. You know how things between me and your father came out. But I'm sure you made a right choice being with Cassandra. She's such a sweet girl." Crystal said and Steph had an even harder time trying not to cry now.

"Thank you, mom." She said softly, exactly as Tim stormed into the room. As he caught Steph in his eye, he could not say anything for a few seconds, beside mouthing a 'Wow'. He finally caught his thoughts and said, "We have 10 minutes left, so you better get into position!" Steph looked at her mother with a perky, yet determined look. "Let's get this girl married." She said pointing at herself with a smile and they left the room.

The whole wedding would take place on the Wayne Manor grounds. The ceremony was set to be done in the main hall, where Bruce would host the galas, and then the reception in the Manor gardens. There was no media coverage and no paparazzi knew about the event, partly because of the secrecy they managed to maintain, but Zatanna also proposed creating a magical barrier around the house, so that no one from outside would see anything.

Stephanie's heart was pounding like crazy, as she stood in the corridor from which only one pair of doors stood in the way of getting into the hall. She felt so hot under the gown and with the veil on her face. She squeezed Crystal's hand to calm herself down. They finally received the signal to go.

The doors opened and the Gotham heroine saw the beautifully prepared hall with various floral ornaments. The guests were standing on two sides of the aisle, waiting for her to get to the altar. She saw a girl playing the bridal chorus on the piano in the corner of the hall.

All of these things stopped to matter, the moment she saw her fianceé in a white pantsuit, neatly emphasizing the woman's figure. Steph's heart skipped a beat. She walked as carefully as she could in her gown, as it was kinda heavy, especially with the cathedral train trailing behind her, but she looked like a princess and Cass was giving her the heart eyes during the whole walk, so it was worth it.

They faced each other at the altar. Cass felt tears springing into her eyes. She lifted Stephanie's veil. "You look beautiful." She whispered, squeezing her fianceé's hands. A wide smile was not leaving Steph's face. They turned to Selina, as she cleared her throat before starting her speech.

"Hello, family and friends, it's heartwarming to see so many of you here today, as we gather to see Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain-Wayne be linked by the bond of marriage."

She went through the introduction without a hitch, underlining the love between the women. If you weren't crying during Selina's opening speech already or during the 'I do' exchange, you definitely got something in your eye, when the women read their vows. Stephanie herself was almost weeping when reading off her card. Cass' vows were short, but very sweet and Steph needed a handkerchief as her partner finished.

It was now time to exchange rings. Nell Little, the women's Batgirl protegé, stood up from her front sit and gave Selina the pillow with the bands. She took the first one and gave it to Stephanie.

"Stephanie, as you place this ring on Cassandra's finger, please repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed and pledge you my love now and forever, until death do us part." Stephanie repeated the vow and carefully slid the ring on Cass' finger. Selina turned to Cassandra and asked her the same thing. She did as told and carefully placed the ring behind Steph's knuckle, next to her engagement one, tears rolling down her cheeks while doing so.

"As you have proven your allegiance before all these witnesses, I have no other choice than, with the power vested in me by the State of New Jersey, pronounce you spouses for life. You may kiss!" Selina finished her speech and an applause rose in the hall. Cassandra did not waste any more time and dipped her wife to the ground, sealing the deal with a passionate kiss.

"You're a good kisser, Mrs. Cain-Wayne." Cass whispered in Stephanie's ear as they walked together, making her flusttered. "You're not so bad yourself, Mrs. Brown." Steph replied with a seductive note in her voice and stole another kiss from her wife.

[punkeropercyjackson]

The Batkids + their flags(mix of canon and headcanons)

Dick is canonically romani and since the rroma people have many subgroups,i see him as sindhi romani specifically,Cass is canonically chinese and either wasian or full asian depending on the timeline,Tim is cherokee as Janet was from Oklahoma and moved to Gotham in her adult years(his hair is sported as shaggy rather than long here due to still reconnecting to his culture),Jason is black dominican with specific ethiopian and congolese roots because his birthday is the same day as our restoration day and he went looking for his 'birth mom' in Ethiopia which makes way more sense for an afrolatino diaspora kid,Duke is african american and a hood kid(double meaning based on him and Jason being eachother's Robin as in the No52,Duke and Damian reverse chronological Robin spots),Stephanie is blasian jamaican-south korean with a bubble waffles addiction,Damian is wasian chinese-palestinian(not white palestinian for clarification!!Talia is brown/chinese mixed like in canon,the 'w' in his asian heritage comes from Bruce),Maps is japanese and Nell is a black canadian who arrived in Gotham briefly before Batgirl 2009!Also they're all trans and autistic + Cass is a tradgoth butch lesbian dating Stephanie,Tim is skapunk and solarpunk,Jason is afropunk/afrogoth,Duke is afrosolarpunk and glamrock,Stephanie is a punk earthy black girl and a kidcore queen,Damian is a baby bat,Maps is a scene kid and Nell is indie punk🩷

@mayacondotcom @mik3stuff @alternishicons

[justiceallianceunlimited]

[earth489incorrectquotes]

Carrie: Can you come out?

Nell: Yeah, gimme a minute...

Nell: Carrie, I’m gay.

Carrie: I know that. Come out to the car.

Nell: Okay.

Nell: Car, I’m gay.

[doyouknowthisdccharacter]

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[dc-sideblog]

Could you draw Nell Little as a ring bearer bringing the rings to Stephanie and Cass holding their hands?

[id: Nell Little walking down an aisle to present a pillow of rings to Steph and Cass, both in wedding dresses, at the end.]

[kerakeriza]

would you please draw chibi sketches for the ships you like.

CAN DO!!!

i chose my two rarest pairs... thank you...