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[angelgemy]

De aquel amor de música ligera

[spicy-apple-pie]

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[about-faces]

Oh sure, everyone loves Jason Todd because he’s such a tragic and suffering badass. They love how he was so close to Bruce but felt like Bruce abandoned Jason, let him down, and replaced him with another partner. They love his tough backstory growing up in poverty. They love his former idealism back in the good old days, even when that idealism crossed Batman’s moral boundaries in the name of the greater good. They love that Jason is so traumatized and unstable after his attack that they embrace him even at his worst. They love him becoming a mob boss, killing untold numbers of people with his twin pistols, creating more orphans in his wake, because they feel for his pain. They love him even while ignoring his bad stories, understanding that some writers simply don’t understand what makes him great, especially those stories that go out of their way to make him a villain. Most of all, they love the mutual, strained love between him and Batman, who never stops holding out hope that Jason will come back to him and not succumb to darkness again. They love Jason for all of that.

But when I, Harvey Dent

[plagueislost]

there is a voice inside my head that whispers “wing au” every time i join a new fandom. it is currently winning.

[gaywineauntsstuff]

And to prove a point

Best Damian and Steph moments (I love them)

LOOOK SHES TEACHING HIM OUT TO CHILL IN A BOUNCY CASTLE LOOK AT THEM

Teasing and bickering (also look at how small Damian was and how he’s so big he’s grown so much omg o didn’t even realize until I had to go back to all my old ass screenshots omg)

Pfttttttttttt

The most sibling

Tee heee

He’s such a little shit to her sometimes tho and SHE STILL LOOKED AT THE LITRLE GREMLIN AND WENT - YEAH NO HE NEEDS SOME WORK BUT I GOT IT- IGH I LOVE HER

Life lessons (no I don’t have a less grainy version)

Steph: provides meaningful development and fundamentally impacts Damian’s character

Damian: *slurs*

THE SIBLINGS EVER

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[lisziztaken]

I did an evil thing I had to

Words from “December” by Michael Miller

[shyjusticewarrior]

Tim: Damian, please keep an eye on Jason today. He's gonna say something to the wrong person and get himself punched.

Damian: Sure, I'd love to see Jason get punched.

Tim: Try again.

Damian: I will stop Jason from getting punched.

[superbat-love]

Dick: Clark, if you manage to stay as still as a statue for 10 minutes, I’ll make sure Bruce is free to go out with you this weekend. I guarantee 100% that he won’t be able to wriggle his way out of the date. If you lose, you’ll have to fly me anywhere I want for a day.

Clark: Oh, is this some kind of challenge you kids are doing these days? That’s easy, I can do that.

Steph: Hey, guys.

Dick: Hey Steph. We’re doing the statue challenge.

Steph: Oh, that. Anyway, I need help with writing an essay. What’s the past participle of think?

Dick: It’s thoken. Break, broken. Think, thoken.

Clark: [twitching]

Steph: Thanks! “It’s often thoken that the worst form of punishment was death”. How’s that?

Dick: [looking at her laptop screen] Hmm, you’re missing another “n” in “punishment”.

Steph : Ah, no wonder it looks off. It’s “punnishment” right?

Clark: No, it’s not! Give me that! [snatches Steph’s laptop and aggressively presses the backspace key]

Dick: [high fives Steph] Ha! You snost, you lost!

[damianwaynesutilitybelt]

I love this panel so much

I love this entire short storyline

Just Damian is her entire world. She loves her little boy so much

(Also to add I absolutely love the speaking in Arabic part so much

[outtamynoggin]

THIS. This is Dick Grayson's robin. Gorgeous art and accurate characterization! You're incredible, OP!

I hate them

[gaywineauntsstuff]

Okay I’m gonna drop an unpopular opinion here

I really

Really

Really

Hate the Jason and Damian met in the league and have a close brotherly relationship

I honestly think it detracts from BOTH of their development and makes both the characters a lot more 2D and boring.

And also I think it disrespects my GIRL Stephanie brown. Bc that close personal bickering, anything goes sibling shit? Yeah that’s Damian and Steph all the way.

And yeah I tend to credit Dick Grayson (bc he’s my boy) for a lot of the Growth Damian goes through. But Stephanie brown and him have the funniest sibling relationship in history

And I think to have as interesting of a development as Damian has had you needed characters like Dick and Steph to be his Batman and Batgirl.

Dick who I think we can all agree is objectively the least violent of the bats at a baseline (Richard crash out Grayson moments notwithstanding) as well as Steph. Both have angry moments of doling out justice but BOTH prefer rehabilitation methods and tend to be more mouthy and loud about their thoughts during a battle

Steph CLAWED her way up into her position, she fought for that and held on with an iron grip that left indents. She wasn’t as good as, Dick born acrobat Grayson, Barbara prodigy Gordon and Tim genius Drake. So she worked her ass off and FORCED people to pay attention to her and got good enough that she matches the rest of the bats on the field.

Dick HAS the experience of working with difficult cases. He’s lead teams his age filled with drama, infighting and death successfully, he’s trained kids younger than him successfully on panel.

He’s canonically a very adaptable teacher, who has strength in meeting you where you’re at and getting you to move to where you want to be.

Both these things helped Damian exponentially

Now let me be so clear.

Damian did the work.

Damian put in the blood, sweat and tears into changing his beliefs and perceptions of the world. But that would not have been possible if these two didn’t at least make it known that “hey you can be the kind of person who cares and still have value and not be weak and pathetic”

Damian going vegetarian/vegan bc of his morals, Damian choosing not to kill, Damian choosing to leave Robin, Damian making choices unrelated to mantles, regrets and vengeance. Is due to the fact that he had Dick Grayson and Stephanie brown as examples (now ofc Alfred was also very very very imp but I feel like no one ignores his significance so I don’t feel the need to add him here)

And Jason?

It also imo, FUCK UP JAYS DEVELOPMENT.

Bc if Jason could be this kind, empathic older sibling to Damian? WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK WAS HE DOING WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO GOTHAM? the way he treated the bats and the rogues gallery? Slaughtering all of blackgate to end up in Arkham, making dick watch him fall to his ‘death’.

No absolutely not

This is the ‘pit madness’ nonsense all over again

Jason had to see the world outside of Gotham and work with other people who were anti-heroes who fall into the category.

Bc Jason didn’t start out as an antihero

Jason was a full on villain with a grudge against other villains, he worked for the place he’s in. It’s bc of characters he interacted with, it’s bc of realizations he’s dealt with. It’s because he’s been a little too trigger happy in the wrong place and ended up looking at the grief he caused others and realizing he didn’t want to do that.

It gets rid of Jason realizing HE CAN work with his family.

It gets rid of Jason BECOMING a solid older brother to Tim and erases the Jason who WANTS to have a relationship with his family.

It erases all of the times he’s tried and failed and still got up and tried again

Both of them have grown bc of the people around them and I think if they had each other at that time it would’ve gone 1 of 2 ways

1) a toxic loop re-establishing bad beliefs and practices that damage both of them and leave them more resentful and stuck in their ways

2) they would’ve hated each other and tried to kill each other

In summary

-both these characters didn’t show up nice, they worked for it, don’t erase that

- don’t erase the characters that helped them grow (my girl Steph Brown being left out of conversations she started will kill me)

- Jason can have close relationships with the family im not saying he shouldn’t. I’m just saying that Jay is the cool older brother who very obviously loves you but was at college when you were a kid and now doesn’t really know how to interact with you and it’s awkward but you know you can go to him even if he isn’t your first call in most situations

- Damian was not a good person, he CHOSE to be that’s important to his growth. And with that growth came the ability to form the close connections he now has in canon. Without the growth he undergoes he wouldn’t be able to form the protective loving group of family and friends he has around him

- STOP IGNORING STEPH, I AM LITERALLY A DICK GRAYSON STAN ACCOUNT AND I AM OVERHERE TRYING TO GET CRUMBS OF MY GIRL OHMYGOD

- I would highkey love a short miniseries of Jason and Damian working together and developing a nice relationship both in and out of the masks but until we get that. I’m sticking to awkward brother that loves you but doesn’t get you at all

Also if you disagree/ have more nuanced takes on the Jay Damian sibling arc please leave in the reblogs and comments, I like hearing more nuanced takes and discussing just please don’t be a dick (hehe) about it

[san-fics]

Dick: I used to think that I wanted a girlfriend—to take care of, to spoil her, to play games with her, to love her and for her to love me back…

Dick: Now I look at Damian playing with Titus in the backyard and finally realize that it wasn't a girlfriend I wanted, but a dog...

[azuree1733]

Quick little Jaykyle 😛

[typhoonquixol]

Whelp, guess I'm going to jail

Take a picture, it will last longer

[turtleshelf]

Fun fic prompt that has been plauging me for like a month that I will either end up writing or will fizzle out:

Contrary to popular belief, Superman and Wonder Woman weren't the first JL members to learn Batman's secret identity... it wasn’t even Martin Manhunter. To the shock of everyone who learns this, and they themselves when it happened, it was Flash and Green Arrow.

It went like this: Dick wanted friends. Really he needed a support system that knew him in and out of the mask. Because Bruce and Alfred? They're great, but there are just some things a pre teen/young teen wants to talk to kids his own age about. And sure he has friends at school, but there's a disproportionately large portion of his life that he has to keep hidden that makes it hard for him to get close with people who don't know.

So it's takes some comments from Dick about how cool he thinks Kid Flash and Speedy are, and probably some needling from Alfred too, but for the sake of his sons general well-being and development Bruce calls Barry and Oliver to the Cave one day and drops the bombshell that is his secret identity on them.

This leads to some funny situations as Regular Guy Barry Allen starts being seen hanging out with two billionaires he has no reason at all to know. Bruce lightens up on the two just a little bit in the League, and is generally more friendly towards them. Flash and Green Arrow start to get much better at different fighting styles and stealth that they have never used previously.

It drives the rest of the JL crazy trying to subtly figure out what is happening.