#alright yall jump in if i've forgotten someone

[iamthreeracoonsinatrenchcoat]

Enjoy this weird dream I just had and figured I would write it down for yall. Not very clear on some details but still. Also tw: fighting, talks about physical intimacy, attempt at stabbing.

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At an airport waiting to board a plane, sees someone who i don't physically know but in the dream I hate them, from context either exes or Fwb that went sour.

I no know details of where it came from but after exchanging a small conversation (no I don't remember the details just that I was feeling smugness and hate) I admit that I've been horny for the last hour and if they wanna find somewhere to fuck. (I am cannonically way early for flights btw)

We find a door and open it to find a hallway that was lit but like still dim. You could see aways down before it went black. We follow the hallway to another door and open it to (what we thought) was an empty vip lounge.

We enter and start looking around (prev reason forgotten) and the person im with finds a pack of cigarettes from somewhere and lights one. I turn my back to look at the bar when I feel a cold brush past me and I look around. Person I'm with gone and a man standing by an entry way.

He looks at me, no clear view of his face but felt immediate dread as in the voice of Matthew McConaughey says "alright alright alright" (I don't find Matthew McConaughey physically attractive but that line does something to me for no reason)

Instant fight mode kicks in as I grab a knife that was now magically on the counter top and stood ready to fight. No words no nothing i just charge at him. I knew somehow I wasn't getting out of it unless I fought him. I for some reason jump to stab him in the chest as he catches me before I can land it and his hands were under my arms holding me away as I tried to get free.

Then in true undiagnosed ADHD fashion I see 3 huskies/malamutes outside of the entry way and immediately get the "must pet the puppies" zoomies and start moving my feet as I try harder to pull away from the very tall man and towards the dogs. I hear a deep amused chuckle and a bit of a blur and the feeling of petting and being nuzzled by dogs and wake up.

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Welcome to my brain it is crazy.

[bitimdrake]

Do you know if any of the Bats and adjacent characters have extended family in canon? I know Kate Kane is Bruce’s cousin and Damian has/had an aunt. But is that it? Are they all only children of only children? Tim had to make up an uncle. Both Dick and Damian have evil immortal grandfathers. I can’t remember if even Steph or Barbara have mentioned anyone.

Generally the answer is no here. Family members just tend to not be introduced unless they are plot relevant, so we do have a lot of only children floating around.

That intro make make it seem weird that this list is still pretty long, but most relatives here (outside of the Kanes and Al-Ghuls) are very short-lived characters who had one or two plotlines. As far as regular civilian relatives floating out there in the world...yeah, not a lot.

The Kane-Wayne family is a bit bigger, since post-Flashpoint it ties Bruce and Kate together. Bruce has a cousin in Kate and an uncle in her father Jacob. Kate has a twin sister, Beth Kane/Alice, who was thought to die as a kid, before returning in adulthood as a supervillain under the name Alice. Not sure if Bruce has ever interacted with Alice.

In the New 52, they have an uncle Phillip, who died shortly after Bruce became Batman. He and Kate are also related to Bette Kane/Flamebird....somehow. Another cousin? I think??? And there have been a whole bunch of old Wayne ancestors referenced in various stories, but no others I can think of in the present day.

The Al-Ghul family also has a fair few relatives. Beside Talia, Ra's has both another daughter, Nyssa Raatko (major appearance: Death and the Maidens) and a son, Dusan (major appearance: Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul). Dusan was rejected on account of Ra's deciding his albinism made him unworthy, but remained loyal anyway. He essentially died when Ra's took over his body. Nyssa was more opposed to Ra's, but also died late in pre-Crisis in a League power struggle. There's also "the Sensei", father to Ra's, who pops up on occasion, and the "Daughter of Archeon", half-sister to Ra's who appears briefly in Red Robin.

Post-Flashpoint, Dusan has a daughter Mara, Damian's cousin. She is apparently from Teen Titans vol 6, and has definitely met Damian, but I haven't gotten there yet so I can't comment on their relationship, nor Dusan's post-flashpoint incarnation.

Post-Crisis/Pre-Flashpoint, Barbara was adopted by Jim, so she has additional relatives in original parents Roger and Thelma Gordon. Post-Flashpoint, she's just Jim's daughter to begin with. Either way, she has a brother, James Gordon Jr, making her the only batkid to have a biological sibling (and even then, only in post-Flashpoint, as he's her cousin/adoptive brother post-Crisis).

Cass has a few siblings or pseudo-siblings in the kids David Cain tried to train before her. There's a boy only known as "Mad Dog" in her original Batgirl run, who shares no biological relation. Cass finds out about a now dead sister, Annalea, in the terrible evil!Cass arc in Robin. And Cass meets "Marque" in Batgirl vol 2, who is confirmed to share genetics with her.

Stephanie has an uncle Dave on her mother's side, who appeared in a single issue (Batman Chronicles #22) to be creepy and make her uncomfortable. Unlike every other batkid, Steph has never lost both parents or needed adoption, so it's totally possible she could have more extended relatives who just haven't been plot-relevant.

Post-Flashpoint adds Dick's evil resurrected ancestor, William Cobb/Talon, and (apparently, haven't gotten to these yet) reveals Faye Gunn to be Jason's grandmother, adds in Ra's mother as another apparently immoral Al-Ghul, and is currently teasing that Melina Zucco might be Dick's secret half sister.

And that leaves Tim. Technically he had family via his step-mom Dana--at least one sister and two nieces who Tim meets at Jack and Dana's wedding (Robin 80-page Giant). But he obviously didn't know them growing up, and Dana never adopted Tim, so they didn't come up after he was orphaned.....and I assume it's just a matter of time before he gets a shocking secret sibling/uncle/cousin/grandparent reveal.