#anita jean

[wtungsten]

i was inspired by this post to try to make a somewhat coherent guide to the Robins ^^

you can find the full slideshow here :D

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headcannon for all the batfam members

there’s so many.

Helena Wayne

she’s currently nonexistent in the comics, but she’s the daughter of Bruce and Selena. I’m going to put her age as like near Damien’s age as in 10 or 11, let Helena exist she’s cool.

Helena and Damien constantly squabble, but they are pretty close. Jason taught her how to use a bow, because he’s actually a really good marksman and wanted his little sister to you know not be completely useless in a fight. Dick and Tim kinda don’t know what to do, because she just kinda doesn’t like them as much. But they practice gymnastics together and Tim is trying to teach her coding she does not understand it.

She also was taught loads of skills by Selena who is beyond proud of her, yes Selena may be retired from the theft business but she still helps Bruce all the time with break-ins and stuff.

Bizzarro

He’s here, he’s 100% Jason’s adopted son.

He would literally cry if anything happened to him, everyone is incredibly confused by who the fuck this guy is (I’m taking from current cannon and making him a Superman clone) Jason does not explain.

he rocks up to dinner one day with this guy and everyone is fucking confused, Jason stares at them and they all eat together like every Thursday night.

Conner and bizzarro hit it off and become good brothers, since they were both force grown to their age and Luther is their father. Eventually Superman/clark meets bizarro and is like “who the fuck are you” Jason also is there and stares at him and makes sure he plays nice.

Bizzaro helps out in Gotham but he mostly just vibes.

Jarro

Jarro is a piece of the alien evil guy starro, who Batman straight up adopted.

everyone loves this guy, he’s adorable, he’s one of the fill in robins, he mostly just vibes with everyone, starro lost visitation rights, he’s just a cutie.

Tim, and Jarro are the closest no one knows why but Jarro kinda just adores Tim.

Athanasia Al Ghul

Since she and the other Al Ghul kids are from alternate universes, I’m just going to throw them in.

Athanasia Al Ghul Is very similar to Damien except she has a great appreciation for music, she’s an extremely classical composer and composes whole ass ballads so proper that she releases the songs to choirs and singing schools.

Yeah she’s an assassin and yeah she’s kinda evil, but she’s not THAT evil. Red hood manages to punch some sense into her along with Dick and Damian, I’m putting her age as a a year younger than Damien and they manage to get through to her and convince her to not kill them all.

she’s actually from an alternate universe though I’m shoving her in my fanon/canon universe. She, Helena, and Damien are all dicks to each other seeing as they are the youngest of all of them, they gang up on Dick, Jason and Tim and beg them to listen to their stories and music and art.

she’s more of Bruce’s kid, since she literally does not leave his side and kinda adores the positive attention. She becomes well idk what her vigilante name is, but it’d be something incredibly distracting and punny.

Anita Jean

The first robin, technically.

she has 9 Red Robin’s, and loves them all.

had a murderous streak and kinda adores being scary.

Jason after the events of the “robins” run found her and took her in, yeah maybe they don’t know each other but they went through the same shit.

Her vigilante name is “Wren” and is basically Red Hood’s robin, she and penguin are sworn enemies because she loves birds so much and penguin is a dick to them.

Jason, and Anita/Jane kinda just vibe. Yeah we made mistakes we both kinda suck, but we are chill now. They became close siblings.

she kinda loathes Dick, for replacing her and all that but she let go over it after a screaming match.

and uh, that’s all I got!

yay

[noballls]

Jenny wren concept art and sketches I think everyone should see ♥️

She's so cool bro :3

[wildcardjoey]

Anita jean!

ANITAT JEAN!!!

Alright so the Little Wren AU is basically just 'Bruce manages to find Anita after she fakes her death' and she actually does become his first sidekick. She isn't a fighter, Bruce puts her under three layers of armor, and she basically fills a mage and healer role with first aid (mostly for civilians and criminals) and the virtual reality gas drug, the use of which allows batman to remain a cryptid for far longer.

Anita also takes longer to get the hang of grappling hooks because she's less coordinated than even Tim but she does get them probably not too long after Dick comes to the manner since the two can train together. Her inability to use grappling hooks when she first enters the field is why The Whirly-Bat was made, named The Hummingbird in this au because it's Anita's and was named before Dick was adopted into the family and took a bat-gimmick to every piece of equipment in the cave. Before he joined the team, Bruce and Anita were work shopping names for a lot of their stuff but hadn't come to decisions for most of them, so Dick still gets to do that, but not for Anita's Hummingbird.

Rather than the dynamic duo, this au has either a tritastic trio of Batman, Wren, and Robin, or the dynamic duo is seen as Wren and Robin, as Batman's sidekicks. When Tim ends up at the manner, Anita basically tells him he's too tactical to be Robin and gives him the Wren mantle, which she either had already left behind or was in the process of considering it. Steph ends ends up becoming his paired Robin, for much longer than Canon.

Steph initiating that plan that required Matches Malone probably still happens, but with Anita's help she's able to salvage it, but it opens up an entirely new set of problems because at that point Anita was already on the verge of discovering The Court of Owls (because their one give away was a nursery rhyme and she wanted to find out it's origin because it's her hobby) and now The Court sees the bat clan take control of the city basically in it's entirety so those two things combined make The Court release the elite talons. A temporary alliance with The League of Assassins and the timely first arrival of Cass in the city means they just barely manage to win. This is also the family's first introduction to Damian and a recently resurrected Jason is probably also there, but dressed like the rest of the assassins so he isn't recognized.

Anita herself, which is what this au is actually about, is going to be depicted as better adjusted due to not living her life since she was, like, eight alone and eventually dedicated to revenge. She has hyperfixations on birds, nursery rhymes, programming, and tech and is an excellent detective. I already mentioned she's less coordinated starting out but that doesn't mean she's weak, she'd probably be able to beat Dick in a fight when he first gets to the manor since he's at that point just a gymnast but she's been training as a martial artist for like six months at that point.

Speaking of Dick, I really look forward to writing their banter. They are going to be so sassy to each other but very protective of each other. Almost as much as they're both protective of every one younger siblings, which, and seeing some of your posts this may be disappointing, isn't going to be terribly long. Finding a way to fit every obscure batfam character in is for my other dc au, the same one that my ruleset for Claire's powers is for, but I do have Calvin, Charlie, and and Dana (Talon, Misfit, and Strike) as sure-shows for Little Wren.

Long-Term, the au's story-arc will focus on the eventual take down of The Parliament of Owls as the main antagonists, as it feels fitting for an Anita Jean focused story for previously stated Nursery Rhyme related reasons, although I do also plan for The League to be taken down due to Tim still having his globetrotting adventure and then the batfam actually capitalizing on it.

Edit for Addendum: the first paragraph makes it sound like Anita never fights, I should clarify that her role on the team does evolve as she gets older and Bruce becomes more lenient.

[alicepooryorick]

See, I think it's sad batfandom doesn't talk about the various characters that, while yes they were technically Bruce's sidekicks, didn't stick around long? Like I get Lance Bruner appeared in one issue, or Anita Jean didn't really appear all that much. But I want to see them fanonized.

[evelynendar]

Jenny Wren my love <3

“My dearest Jenny Wren,
If you will but be mine…”

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All I can imagine when listening to Lydia the bards “hey there little robin girl” is the one and only Jenny wren singing

Like tell me she wouldn’t have also sang this song during this scene

[citizenscreen]

Anita Loos and Jean Harlow promoting RED-HEADED WOMAN (1932). Loos was brought in on write the script after MGM’s first hire, F Scott Fitzgerald, had submitted work that was too serious.

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Propaganda

Anita Page (Our Dancing Daughters, The Broadway Melody, Our Modern Maidens)— She's as stunning as you'd expect someone once dubbed "The Girl With The Most Beautiful Face In Hollywood" to be, but what makes her stand out for me is the sweetness of her features. She comes across as very genuine.

Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Easy Living, The Talk of the Town)—Always found the best facial expression and the perfect line delivery, so nailed the transition from silent film to talkies (her voice is CRAZY btw- high and overly sweet but also so gravelly she's like a breakfast parfait), then went on to dominate roles in multiple genres well into her 50s. Such a great personality both onscreen and off, and to our end pulls off 'gorgeous,' 'sexy,' and 'cute' all at once (in a word: hot!)

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Anita Page:

Linked gif: https://www.tumblr.com/mtonino/705233953976713216/sidewalks-of-new-york-1931-zion-myers-jules?source=share

Linked gif 2: https://www.tumblr.com/mydailyvintagephotos/691699343097511936/remembering-anita-page-on-her-birthday?source=share

Jean Arthur:

i had to submit every movie of hers ive seen so far because 1) shes GORGEOUS. 2) extremely gifted with comic timing and delivery and whats better than a confident beautiful woman that makes you laugh. and 3) seems to effortlessly blend wit emotion and logic in her performances in a way that sometimes is just so... it tells you as much about the other characters shes interacting with as it does her own (see this clip from mr smith)

Adorable and sultry with a voice that went from urban smartass to sounding, as director Frank Capra described it, more like tinkling bells than a voice has a right to sound

jean arthur wearing bucksin trousers and a little hat in the plainsman was fully my queer awakening. i love that woman so much. she has defined calamity jane for me. also she is adorable and heartbreaking and SMOKING HOT in deeds like everyone needs to experience her, she's everything to me

She's a chameleon, rocking any hair colour and any style, any mood and any genre. And she's got such a fine, captivating smile!

Truly amazing talking voice, like eating pop candy. Played wise cracking gals with hearts of gold. Once got arrested for trespassing because she went to console a dog that was being mistreated. Angel. Star. Baby. Winner!

[clichey]

Anita Vida Paris Fashion Week Couture AW24 - Georges Hobeika - Anita Vida Book┃IG

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Photos taken by Yul Brynner throughout his career.

Mid '50s to early '60s.

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english nerd Jason my beloved

[nerds-yearbook]

Barbarella premiered on October 10, 1968. The erotic space fantasy was based on an Italian comic strip (fumetti) character created by Jean-Claude Forest. Jane Fonda played the title character and her co-star, John Philip Law, also played another Italian comic inspired character in Danger: Diabolik. The film was directed by Fonda's husband at the time Roger Vadim. ("Barbarella", Movie Event)

[noballls]

ANITA JEAN

ANITA JEAN

I am beginning to make my ass fanart of her for me and the two other Jenny Wren/Anita Jean fans out there 🙏🙏🙏 I shall spread the gospel until DC even lightly mentions here again (from now on I will try to use the tag Jenny Wren Posting when making stuff Abt her)

The image below btw was supposed to be a redraw of a shot of Jenny but I got lazy so 😔

(look at her she's so iconic)

[wildcardjoey]

A Little Wren AU update

I came across this idea and had to incorporate it into the au, since The Court of Owls are already the Big Bads and this acts as an early connection the Bat Clan has to The Court if The Court has already been interfering with Dick.

Also included is a section of Chapter 1 that is basically where I want it to be. I may make a lore post tomorrow as well.

The bird song language mentioned is taken from the F'ing Demon Bats Au. I thought it was appropriate with my take on Anita's character.

It was a month later that Anita Wayne would first go out as the vigilante Wren for the first time. She thought Wren was a good name because in the nursery rhyme, Jenny Wren was the one who did all the work and rejected the other character and Robin acted all smart and flashy and then died, so he was more like her old dad. 

But Cormac Dodge wasn’t really much of a father and was also terrible at playing the character of a father. She thought he was good at acting when she was in his care because she only knew of the dads in her fairy tales and nursery rhymes, who are always barely in the story while the kids do all the adventuring. With more ‘frame-of-reference,’ she realizes those dads were either bad or busy. Cormac was bad. He was a bad father playing the character of a good father badly. Bruce was a good father but also a very new father. He was also a brilliant and kind but hurt man playing the parts of a very dense but likable man and a protective but vengeful monster. And a hurt man and new father makes very big mistakes, but a kind man and good father will make up for those mistakes and do better. 

She stood strapped into an ejectable seat behind where Bruce was driving his armored car. The seat had collapsible wings and helicopter blades, designed to be compact and allow her to keep up with him while he swung around since she didn’t have the coordination to pick up all the acrobatics fast enough. Its motor was designed to imitate bird calls. She made sure it sounded like it was an angry bird call instead of a mating call or a call for help. She kinda wished it also sounded like a wren call but it didn’t really sound like any real bird anyway so it wasn’t like it was the wrong bird per say.

Bruce likes vehicles in the same way he also likes bats and metal music and she likes nursery rhymes, birds, and programming. He had a lot and liked working on them. She said they needed cool names and wanted to name them after birds until she remembered no bird looks or sounds like an armored car modified to sound like it's a large animal roaring and growling and sometimes hissing if it made noise at all. Bruce also mentioned how they were all bat themed and so birds wouldn’t make much sense, but conceded he couldn’t think of good bat names for the car either. The plane he suggested could be a flying fox, but her personal helicopter was intentionally not bat-like and therefore harder to pick a bat to name. She wanted to call it the hummingbird for the sound of the helicopter blades and false-wing beats which, despite their best efforts, were currently the opposite of stealthy. 

That fact would actually work in their favor with the plan they had come up with (technically it was mostly Bruce’s tactics made possible with the skills she could supplement.) Tonight, the idea of them as cryptids would be further sumented. A fact she took pride in for making possible. Part of why they could travel in the armored car… (demon car?) more freely instead of reserving it for chases on dark, foggy, or smoggy nights, as Bruce had until then been resigned to, was the SKP tech she had gotten to work on small doses that could be spewed out with the sulfur-scented exhaust. 

The demon car (monster mobile? Monster mobile.) The monster mobile was already designed in such a way that seeing the silhouette would take one’s mind as far away from an automobile as possible. With how the front seat was positioned raised above where the engine sat, and the back… med bay/launch bay… was flanked on either side by long fins styled like folded bat wings that ran all the way the the back along either side of the trunk of exaggerated length. Before their minds caught up, they probably would think they’re looking at a sphinx or griffin float. Or a dragon, since it also could shoot missiles. Actually yea, probably a dragon. A dragon mobile. “We should call it the dragon mobile,” she whistled in a code language that sounded like birdsong.

Anyway, the SKP projections would trick the minds of those who inhaled it into seeing the dragon mobile as a bit more demonic than it physically was, keeping anyone from having the time to actually process the fact it was just a very ‘spooked out’ car, as Bruce put it once. The setup within the batmobile would also mess with cameras to make it far too blurred to be anything recognizable. 

‘Dragon Mobile’ got a soft chuckle out of her father (she thinks. She could only go off of his chest bob and the smile appear on his face in the mirror because of the hearing protection) just before the display came up and he gave a whistle.

At Bruce- Batman’s signal (she had to remind herself to not call him the wrong thing in the field,) she hit a button on her seat that shot her out of the car, then pulled a ripcord vertically across her chest to start the motor as the wings unfolded. That motor didn’t quite start the first time so she coasted on the wings for a moment longer before pulling hard enough that it started properly. She hung back behind him so that anyone who got a good look at her after looking away from the much more distracting giant, loud, hard to make out car quickly turned demon bat rushing on all fours through the street would already be affected by the SKP tech and be treated to a very large bird with ribbing and glowing eyes, instead of a small girl strapped into a small personal helicopter that still managed to be primarily redundancies in composition despite its size. Redundancies that meant she had to rely on her staff as her VR projector while riding in it because they ran out of space to build one in.

Oh yea, she built a staff. One end leaked a mist of SKP drug, the other was a projector, either side would suffice to beat a thug to unconsciousness with.

Batman began circling the warehouse they had come up on as she landed on the roof.  They had found evidence of Penguin being active here and found out a shipment of guns was being moved tonight. She cut the engine, glided into a landing on the roof, and unstrapped herself from the hummingbird and prepared. She unhooked her staff from where it was hooked to the Back of the seat and unsnapped the two ends apart, then unfolding the stilt platform each had.

Right, that. She could go over that now. Her entrance was tied to her costume, so they needed to be explained together. She strapped the now-stilt shoes onto the bottoms of her boots. The staff, for reference, was made for each end to look like a bird’s foot, while her boots were gruesomely stylized like a bird’s legs had been cut off just below the ankle and mutilated in a poor parody of feet. The two slipped together so that her boots were more light platform high heels. She put up her hood, stylized like a wren where the lip of the hood met the collar of her undercoat to form its beak, and made her way to the skylight and picked its lock. She whistled, “breaching,” into her comm.

She slipped in, the guards all too focussed on tracking the roars of the circling dragon mobile to notice her at first. Her dress and two coats, all specially designed to act like layered parachutes but not practical in adult sizes due to the square cube law, slowed her fall and offered enough control to allow her to pick where she landed. The short gliding period will be the closest anyone would get to seeing there was a small person in bulletproof armor under that bird visage, but they would have to have a light and be stood under her for more than a few seconds. The outermost layer was also specially designed to resemble thick plumage when filled with air. She pulled the strings in her sleeves so they would properly resemble wings, and bent her knees behind her because that is where a bird’s legs are supposed to be in flight. The first few goons started noticing her as she circled the landing spot she had picked. 

She landed on a lone crate near the center of the half of the building opposite the penguin in a crouch. She could already prominently smell sulfur from the exhaust, so she should appear more prominently like a giant bird to them. “Wren in position.” The whistling drew the attention of anyone in the building who wasn’t already looking at her. She connected the wires in her sleeves to a hook on the ‘tail feathers.’ Papa… Batman would be cutting the engines in about 11 seconds and she had to hold their complete attention so they wouldn’t notice. The plan they had come up with for this was actually genius, though. She began unstrapping her boots from the stilts so she’d easily be able to take them off later in her little monster act.

“So you’re probably wondering what you’re looking at,” she had to keep whistling as she worked the costume for transformation, and she had already decided on the topic, not that they’d be able to understand her, “there was a programmable drug in the exhaust you’ve been inhaling,” she pulled the inner zipper on her outermost coat down, “which links to a Virtual Reality projector in the… fire breathing lizard? Storm snake god? This language doesn’t really have a word for d-r-a-g-o-n yet…” she grabbed the strings in the ends of the hoodie and pulled them, which pulled the hoodie off in a such a way as to make it appear to be shriveling, revealing her helmet, one that was intended to invoke a bird’s skull that had lost its beak and been broken in several places to resemble a human head poorly, “but the that car. I wrote the code myself… the current rendition anyway. Even invented a new programming language to ensure it couldn’t be accessed. This stuff is kinda dangerous in the wrong hands as you may have guessed,” she stood from her crouching position, unhooked the sleeves of her jacket and slipped them on, pulled one leg up, took off the stilt, which produced a sound like a bone cracking and muscle being torn through in the process, hit the switch that would allow the fake blood to leak from the sole of the boot, set that leg down, lifted the other, did the same, and then connected the two stilts back together, connecting into a staff in a theatrical flurry of sparks.

The costume, in its role to sell just the idea of a large bird mutilating itself to resemble a human, was very well done. The inside of her coat was certainly the texture of the inside of a pelt, the hoodie looked like muscle over a ribcage, the pants were stuffed just as such to resemble bird legs. Add the VR, and it looked to the criminals exactly like that. So much so that they began firing at her. They were all so rattled that it just took one trigger-happy idiot to set them all off. None were particularly good shots, though. Most missed, save a lucky few. They got each other quite a few times, since they were split between the catwalks and the ground and therefore firing diagonally through the air at each other when shooting at her, who was positioned half a story up on a stack of crates. The dress blocked all of it, but one hit her helmet. It also blocked it, but it made her next decision easier. She waited until they all stopped firing, most out of ammo.

“Alright, you’re getting bats,” she turned towards them. As ‘administrator,’ the VR marked everyone who had hit her with a colored glow. The one who hit her in the head was marked yellow. She turned, pointed her staff at him, and pressed a button. She was shown a cone of effect in green that began spreading and covering the area in the room. Everyone else but Batman would see a swarm of bats emerging from her staff and filling the room.  Batman, of course, attacked the lucky headshot goon first. With the bats, whom they would be hearing, and their own spray fire wasting whatever ammo they had left on the nonexistent bats, the rest probably didn’t hear nor see the first guy get knocked out, and may not have realized anything was happening at all until most of them on that side of the catwalk on the way to the penguin… Cobblepot were knocked out cold along with quite a number of others sporadically incapacitated with bat boomerang blades. Blat… bade... bate… no. Bat…erangs. Baterang blades. Bat Bladerags. One of those two. She was supposed to call Cobblepot Cobblepot because The Penguin was an insult aimed at his appearance and dehumanizing and that was something both her and Bruce were working on so they would only use ‘penguin’ for coded message reasons… she should probably go administer first aid to the wounded now that the fight was mostly wrapped up and the green area was shrinking and coalescing on Bruce… Batman. If any of the guys still standing decided to be brave, she’d just tranque them.

@alicepooryorick @rainbow-flavoured-skittles

[alicepooryorick]

TikTok batfan: my favorite obscure batman character is Tim uwu

Me, trying to find one other person who gives a damn about Claire Clovers or Anita Jean: