#Oh my god I bet Gotham's fauna & flora must be WILD even outside the sea

[puppetmaster13u]

Anyway, I bring this back with ART! Technically sketches but still. A full body Selina and a headshot of tiny Damian while he's growing his hair out from the assassin-in-training safety cut. (Long hair + untrained hands with sharp swords and other weapons do not mix well lol)

(Not shown is the many necklaces & other bands of jewelry Selina constantly has lol)

Also can't remember who reblogged with the idea, but you are so right that Gothamites have a lot of skirt-esque clothing for when not actively working. (Goons and Rogues and the GCPD for example need the pants for the extra armor but on days off or when they're not working it's skirt time!)

Bet Galas are the same with dresses (have I mentioned those yet?). Doesn't matter if you're a guy a gal or something else, dresses are usually the norm, which is probably very confusing for any Outsiders joining in the galas lol.

Y'know now that I'm thinking about this once more. So the Gothamites do usually have organs similar to sharks with sensing electromagnetic forces and blood and changes in water pressure, all that. But I wonder if some might also have a basic echolocation of sorts too.

And we've talked about clothing and jewelry and such. But you know what else would be effected? Food.

Fish and dishes on the rawer side. Lots of things seasoned with what should be poison, and is to anyone else. But the Gothamites themselves are twice as poisonous and they think it's great. Some only do a sprinkling while others chose to use it like salt- everything is poisonous.

I bet there's even food trucks and smaller shops that pop up throughout the year that you can't find anywhere else. Fried pufferfish sticks- poison still included! Cuttlefish bagels! Stuffed potatoes & jellyfish! Nudibranch-themed waffles! Dumplings that look like eldritch seals! Anemone stews! Lemonade with sea krait venom! Vegetarian kelp cookies! Like their food has got to have shifted as their appetites have. (Batman & co have also definitely brought food/lunches to the bases and triple labeled their food to Not Eat. Though I wonder if anyone has done so anyway and had the worst time in the emergency room)

pspspsps @f4nd0m-fun I've brought Art :>

Mermay Special Prompt 3

“Are you kidding? No one goes to Gotham, that place is like,” Aquaman made a motion with his hand, a not-quite grimace on his face. “Like things should not be living in the water, like it should be impossible, and things should be dead, but they aren’t and it’s like, like the equivalent of an undead apocalypse over there!” 

Bruce rolled his eyes behind his cowl, taking a sip of his coffee as the others continued drinking. Socialize, they said, it’ll be fine they said. Well excuse him, but the waters weren’t that bad. Sure there were always dumped bodies, and chemicals from the rogue attacks, but it was far worse at one point.

One thing he’ll always be relieved for is how the… curse (thank you broken statuette back in the beginning of his vigilante career that fused with the other many curses of Gotham) made the people of Gotham actually care about the waters around them. 

Though also, he couldn’t help but thank anything that might be listening for the fact that the curse only interacted with Gotham waters, because losing legs with any risk of a drop of water would be downright annoying. 

“No dude, you don’t understand, no one goes there for a reason! That shit is horrific- someone saw a big thing with bits of rebar stabbed straight through it and still chased after a big alligator-thing!” Oh. Oh that had been him. Oops. Hopefully his kids didn’t find out about this, but they were probably already on the cameras. Dammnit. 

[puppetmaster13u]

Pfft. It's less of choosing when to stop aging, and more of just, a mixture of the magic and curses- and the Flash's constant timeline resetting, that they'd very much like them to stop.

Not helping is that they do seem to age slower and randomly. Like mentioned in a previous reblog, no one knows quite how old the Wayne children are. Only that they're young enough to still live with their parent. Or parents after the wedding with Talia & Selina.

Also not helping for Outsiders is that Gotham has a completely different culture compared to their surroundings. The reason so many laws are broken is because well, they're practically a sovereign state, just not legally. And some people experience bloodlust if they haven't gone hunting. Like Dick? Somewhere around nineteen, that's what everyone who doesn't know his age agrees on. Which outside of Gotham, makes him legally an adult. Inside Gotham though, most don't leave their parents, or rather their Pack-Pod, until their twenties. And even then, they usually don't move far, unless they're moving to another pod. It's very strange to Outsiders.

OH! You know what? I bet news doesn't often get out of Gotham like, in a timely manner. Especially things like newspapers. Bet it's a random toss on if they get information a few weeks late to a few years. Hence why everyone knows about how Bruce is an orphan, and that his parents were killed when he was eight, but not when that was. I bet there's people who've tried to calculate it- the man is literally the richest person in the world and famous.

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Bruce probably waves from under the bat-cape. "Hey Bill, need an umbrella?" Like you said, this is a normal day for them. I wonder if the League thinks they got hit with Fear Gas or something at first and triple check back up on the Watchtower because surely that's not right, there must be something in their systems, right? They didn't... actually see what they thought they did.... right?

Though that does raise the question on if everyone knows who the Bat is thanks to well, same eldritch merfolk form. They just also can't do shit because like, Gotham might have the highest crime rate, but most murders are outsiders and tourists. Other Gothamites are hardy AF, and have straight up adapted to the many poisons and chemical attacks. Which is why the rogues keep having to create new and stronger strains.

Pfft. We already know several kids and teens of Gotham are in on the pranking the passing Atlanteans (So maybe it's pranking Gotham-style but still, it's funny!) but are there adults involved to lmao.

Bruce, to one of his work friends: -and then Aquaman called our lovely water a horrid sewer-filled death trap, how rude!

The rest of the workers who came because he always brings snacks from Alfred whenever he comes into work in person: *Scandalized Gasping*

Though if he is known as Batman, that'd mean things like the Court of Owls would have to be taken care of.... At least mostly. Hm.... (Oh dang is this.... plot? In the funny eldritch mer post? I Think it is) (Or does he just smile shyly and bashfully rub his neck as he admits it's a bit too big to change indoors.) .... Oh my god do you think there'd be galas where they show off clothing and jewelry specifically for merfolk forms? Like a pool party but somehow classy?

Also you can't tell me that Gotham doesn't have the largest goth clothes industry. (Ethically sourced & created because No One wants to deal with the giant kelp monster that is Poison Ivy, even if she chills a little once Harley leaves the Joker & they move in together)

Mermay Special Prompt 3

“Are you kidding? No one goes to Gotham, that place is like,” Aquaman made a motion with his hand, a not-quite grimace on his face. “Like things should not be living in the water, like it should be impossible, and things should be dead, but they aren’t and it’s like, like the equivalent of an undead apocalypse over there!” 

Bruce rolled his eyes behind his cowl, taking a sip of his coffee as the others continued drinking. Socialize, they said, it’ll be fine they said. Well excuse him, but the waters weren’t that bad. Sure there were always dumped bodies, and chemicals from the rogue attacks, but it was far worse at one point.

One thing he’ll always be relieved for is how the… curse (thank you broken statuette back in the beginning of his vigilante career that fused with the other many curses of Gotham) made the people of Gotham actually care about the waters around them. 

Though also, he couldn’t help but thank anything that might be listening for the fact that the curse only interacted with Gotham waters, because losing legs with any risk of a drop of water would be downright annoying. 

“No dude, you don’t understand, no one goes there for a reason! That shit is horrific- someone saw a big thing with bits of rebar stabbed straight through it and still chased after a big alligator-thing!” Oh. Oh that had been him. Oops. Hopefully his kids didn’t find out about this, but they were probably already on the cameras. Dammnit.