#Outsiders are just really confused & disturbed by Gotham culture and habits

[puppetmaster13u]

I love when his chiroptophobia is included in things.

Honestly I could see him or the kids having plush bats to 'help Bruce start getting over his fear via baby steps.' In reality they have extra trackers and are also soaked in pack-scent that's probably very comforting, especially if they're away from home.

Oh my gosh do you think that like, those aspects are in each shrine? Like there's bits that are shared between each shrine, but there's also differences for if it's a shrine towards say Nightingale or Cardinal, the robins in general, a specific robin, etc? If that makes sense lol. Idk why but I feel like Cardinal shrines have incense, like not strong scents but things in general usually used to help contact or soothe spirits in multiple cultures.

I absolutely adore the idea of the shrines being treated as holy places by everyone. I bet tourists and most outsiders are not allowed inside. Like they're only allowed inside if they're in legitimate danger. I feel like disrespecting a shrine is a good way to get mobbed by angry gothamites lol.

But oh my gosh you know people have their own favorite large shrines that are safe for them. That they leave little tokens before heading to work or getting home for protection or luck. Children leave toys or drawings or just little notes that the bats love to read even if breaks their hearts sometimes. Gives them easy ways to find out who needs food, shelter, etc.

Pfft, love the idea of Damian getting named Duckling by the rest of Gotham and just peeking out from under his mother's cloak. Do you think the blood-son bit is taken literally in some circles? Like there's definitely some people in Gotham who think they're even more inhuman than the general local people. Like they're the more culty sort of types who are more than a little obsessed probably.

PFFT, oh my gosh Bruce never mentions any of this to the League. It's going to be hilarious when they first hear about it. Probably one of the kids mention it to their team at first, y'know, just idly complaining about patrol and how with their injured leg/arm/etc they had to retreat to one of the shrines. And their teammates are just ????? about this information because, the what now.

Also I absolutely adore your ideas for each of them and I am so tempted to draw. If only my hands weren't shaky T-T

Love how while there's rumours of the others having been human children at one point, that there's only two confirmed to have actually been so. Also adore how everyone is wary because while Crow approached- practically sacrificed himself to- the Bat, the littlest child didn't. I mean, if she's hurt she's probably crying, and if there's the whole religion about the bats going on, she could be crying for something specific too. Honestly who knows, no one can agree on exactly what happened, there's too many rumors going around about it.

Okay I'm going to ramble about Carrie for a moment. So she does have parents but they're severely neglectful, like described as apathetic stoners. She got saved by Batman from some muggers, and ends up buying a knockoff robin costume and tracking down petty con-men. She used a slingshot with firecrackers, and eventually ends up as one of Batman's robins after managing to save him at some point. She was thirteen when this happened, and is/was the same age as Damian.

But well, this Au does seem to have a theme about the kids joining the family's early lol. Which I love. I love it even more when it's feral My Family cryptid sort of Aus. Love every aspect.

Hey mutual, figure the third Omegaverse thing was startin to get long again lol. So I thought I'd respond here instead >:3 (Also have links to the previous ones for easy access lmao) 1_ 2_ 3_

You know what would be kind of adorable? If it was Tim who got all angry at the gossip magazines. Everyone else is used to it and finds it kind of funny after all, since as you said, people outside of Gotham don't know the nuances of Gothamite body language. But Tim has been slowly coaxed into acting like a pup, been reassured that him acting like that is okay and is perfectly natural. So seeing people trying to claim Bruce isn't a good caretaker in a way that straight up targets that behavior? Oh baby boi is going to throw a fit.

Also love the idea of even other Gothamites going, yeah, the bats are more than a little feral, even for us lol. They've seen it all from the gleeful murder-baby first Robin to the trying-to-bite-your-ears-off second Robin to gonna-jump-off-this-bridge-and-take-you-with-me Batgirl. To the big bat himself who will see what could account as a straight up mob worth of people and go yeah I can fight that, and actually does, and wins.

Like that's just utterly hilarious to me lol.

Actually, before I forget, I feel like Damian's and Tim's relationship would be better in this. Seeing as Damian is younger and both Tim and Dick are very familiar with being unfamiliar with pup behavior or being forced to try and stop doing it. Which thankfully it wasn't to the extent of Tim, but still. He's the itty bitty baby of the pack who doesn't want to let anyone go the moment he realizes they won't betray him. Similar to how Tim is once he finally realizes the Waynes won't leave him and actually want him to stay.

Also remind me to sketch out the different fangs when my hands aren't shaking lol

Oh Tim DEFINITELY rips into the gossip mags.

He may be a lil pup and semi-recently got placed with the Wayne Pack, but by GOD is he going to send some angry emails.

Honestly I can see him reaching out to the daily planet as ‘Bruce’ and setting up an interview to clear it all up.

But until that happens, Tim gets scruffed and brought into the nest SO often to calm him down.

Like. Calm down pup! You are TOO angy!

Speaking of Tim and Damian’s relationship- they have the best relationship by far in the Pack. Tim can and will throw down for his new little brother. And the brotherly instincts he never had before (and thusly never had to stifle before) doesn’t help either.

Dami is more or less constantly following either his Mum, Jason, or Tim.

If he has to, he’ll tag along with Dick and Alfred, but in order of his favorite pack members Tim is definitely up there with Jason and Bruce.

He can and will use the fact that he’s just an itty bitty pup and whine and whine to get carried around. He may be an independent pup, and he DOES like to wander around on his own, but he absolutely loves being engulfed by his packmate’s scents.

It’s so very different to when he first left the cloning pod and all he could smell was blood and sterile alcohols.

And finally for how Gotham views the Feral Bats??

It’s DEFINITELY like that. Gotham is in awe over their guardians (and I can’t help but see them putting the Batfamily up as embodiments of the city, Gothamites definitely definitely made shrines for the Batfamily that dot about the city)

The Agent, the one who walked the streets long before the Bat flew for the first time, who holds ears in the highest of places and knows far too much that he rarely shares with others. The one who was only connected to the bats far, far down the line.

The Motherly-Protective Bat who has claws like in the old days, who bares his fangs and rips into flesh with no hesitation to protect his city-pups and actual pups. Who dragged the first of the costumed rogues back to Arkham by sheer force and detective skills.

The First Robin who was gleefully blood thirsty, somehow the most animalistic of the pack as he chirped and trilled and danced in the air. Flying like his namesake as he bares his puppy fangs in a barely constrained aggressive smirk.

The Batgirl (Cuckoo) who nearly flew as well as the First Robin, the one who chirped and warbled and forced herself into the Bat’s nest and first showed the City what happened to those who hurts those the Bat holds dear and who showed what happened to who the Bat deems as unwelcome to his territory.

The Nightingale, the first of the robins to grow up, the one with fangs he never hid and a voice as sweet as his feathers. The one who talks as much as he growls, the one who shreds his enemies with enough cheer and electricity to drown a clown.

The Second Robin, (Cardinal, clad in blood reds and spiked feathers, somehow still in the familiar designs of the First Robin) the one taken far too soon who didn’t quite fly as he did glide. The one who hid in his mother’s cape, only leaving to fight and protect-protect-protect just like his mother. The one who showed what happened to those who ignore that they were chased out of the Bat’s territory.

The Third Robin (Crow, Clad in blacks and shiny feathers but still the familiar Robin design) The one who is too smart for his own good- the one who ended the grip that the Bat’s bloodstained claws held on the city. He clings to his mother, only leaving to find more of his pack.

The Forth Robin, (Starling, purples and blacks and shimmering feathers that seem to mirror your face back at you) The blending of Batgirl and Robin, the one who was dragged into the Bat Pack when Crow wandered too far from his mother and needed her help finding his way back to the nest. All the gracefulness of the Bats and the Aggressiveness of the Robins twirled into one sparkling purple attack.

The Cardinal, the second of the robins to grow up, the one who took the name that was whispered in the alleys as his own. Who came into the scene with a splash of blood as bright and soaking as his initial departure. Who’s eyes glow with Unseen bloodlust and protection that followed his mother’s steps.