#Racist father

[timothylawrence]

"Wyll is boring" he is the personification of daddy issues. he hides away at a beach TWICE and leaving the tav to go find him because he's not used to having people around who care abt him. he's been running around the sword coast for seven years just killing things and saving people because he got EXILED and chose to prove himself to his father and just help others. he spends his time training kids how to defend themselves. you find out his dad is the ARCHDUKE of Baldur's Gate. he almost drowned once trying to find mermaids. he has a literal devil haunting him that watches his every move. He managed to stop an entire cult of Tiamat AT AGE 17!!!!!!! he loves clowns.

Wyll isn't boring, ppl just haven't taken the time to explore his story and it SHOWS

[erinwantstowrite]

Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by having to edit Stephs relationship with the bats in the fic?

before i read more about her character i assumed she had a more sibling relationship to the Bats and her mentorship with Bruce was different/more parental. i even had one of them refer to her as a sister or vice versa? but i know better now and went back and changed it. though she does comment that dick is like a brother to her i see it more as being good friends with your friend's/ex's/new partner's sibling, if that makes sense. i made a post a while back to clear up the miscommunication with the change but it has been a while

[littlefankingdom]

I read Batman: Venom (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight issues 16-20) to learn about Bruce's drug addiction and him overcoming it, I did not expect the story to be about fatherhood. The thing is the story seems to be before Bruce met Dick, so there are no batfam in this, no Robin, but it still comment on Bruce's views on fatherhood throught his antagonists.

The two bad guys of this story are both fathers who sacrificed their kid for their goal (US imperialism, which is another thing I wasn't expecting. Like, we are going "the US army is evil and the cause behind latin american countries' instabilities" here) They don't value their kid's life, they only see them as a tool, a soldier, and if they die it means they are weak. Also, they are supposed to always follow their orders.

The story begins with the death of the daughter of the first one. Batman wasn't able to save her, which he hates himself for for the rest of the story. Heart heavy, he goes to announce her death to her father, only for the man to not give a fuck. Bruce grieves her more than her father. He keeps thinking about her and remembering her death through the whole story, while her father doesn’t give a damn. His goal and work is more important than her. Damn, it is revealed he used her to get in contact with the Batman, which means he is responsible for her death. She was a child.

The second kid is already a young man, and he doesn't die, but his life is destroyed by his father, who doesn't value him as nothing but a soldier. He is a test subject and if he dies, it means he's weak. His father doesn't give a damn about him, about his well-being or his personality, he only wants a killing machine that obeys him.

Bruce goes through addiction, withdraw and (unhealthy af) recovery through the stroy, but he is also the only one to care about these kids. He fails to save them and he feels guilty about that. He hates their fathers because they are shitty ass father. He beats them firstly for the harm they have caused to their own kid. In the end, he doesn't consider it a "good ending" because, not only multiple innocents died, but these two kids got their life destroyed and he couldn't save them.

As it was written and published in the years following Jason's death, I strongly believe this is also meant to compare his death and Bruce's grief. Bruce did not sacrifice his son, he did not view him as a soldier, as a tool, disposable and weak if he died. Bruce cried him for days, this death deeply scarred him, he couldn't function normally after it. He was ready to kill for his boy and to die to join him. And also, you cannot tell me the child dying just in front of him, so close yet so far, as he failed to save her, isn't a parallel to Jason's death.

[kayooreh]

honest to goodness discussion: is woobifying historical figures that are (rightfully) controversial a marker of "good" morals because it disrespects asshole racists' legacies, or is it a marker of "bad" morals because it prioritizes drawing these asshole racists in cutesy memey internettish ways rather than reflecting on their sordid pasts and the people who were victimized by them?

[a-clarice-dream]

So…. I guess RBR didn’t learn from the first two attempts at dumping an under-experienced rookie into the second car next to max….

[whalehouse1]

“Oh boy, a fun, angsty idea for a Bruce x Talia interaction. Wonder if anyone expanded on this in the replies, reblogs or comments.” … “Well, I don’t know why I expected anything better at this point.”

[mamawasatesttube]

kancer should've joined kon's rogues gallery tbh