#arab athanasia al ghul

[fluffykitty149]

So us Arabs have our own dialect per country right? That led me to wondering if the league of assassins has its own Arabic dialect. What would it sound like?

[melonsinthesky]

Here goes nothing, so here are some friends and more family of Damian (Jon's not his only friend)✨️

In case you ever want to read the comics I included some spoilers ig and pictures too!

Maya Ducard (aka Nobody)

So, Damian killed her father. Yikes. He is eventually forgiven in the comic series, Robin: Son of Batman. Which features one of the few depictions of brown Damian

She's his big sister (Damian being 10 y.o. in R:SoB and Maya 14 y.o.)

She was the first person of his siblings that he called by their name.

She helps Damian with undercover missions (as seen in Supersons), is a proficient fighter, also an ex-assassin, and the voice of reason.

Maya is black-latina.

Maya hasn't appeared in the recent timeline, last she was seen with Kathy (aka Beacon) in their own base.

If I'm not mistaken there's one maribat fic that's got her

She's family 💖

Suren Darga

Like Damian, they both are initially interested into following their father's footsteps.

The Darga and the al Ghuls are rivals. But DC hasn't mentioned again since R:SoB

He's arab too! Like Damian.

Suren is a magician too.

If you think the al Ghuls are stuck in past, the Darga's are way more in the past.

He's also pretty exaggerated. I think he was dead but got resuscitated (it's been years since I've read R:SoB and my English wasn't as good as it is now)

Damian relates and cares for him in his own way.

Colin Wilkes

He's an orphan, who's also a meta-human. Colin was experimented on, and when he's using his powers he doesn't look alike, he goes by Abuse.

He's a little bit like Jon, except that Jon is a little shit who never hesitates to fight Damian. Colin is a nice kid.

He appears a lot in Li'l Gotham. Damian takes him to the BatCave, and even lets his friend use a batsuit.

Colin hasnt appeared in a while because DC doesn't like Damian having friends or something.

Mia "Maps" Mizoguchi

She's from the comic series "Gotham Academy" (currently working on a fic that has the GA kids)

I never understood if Maps got a crush on Damian or on his weapon(?) But they're cute together

She's a bit eccentric, likes to wear suits instead of dresses.

Maps like cartography, that's where the nickname Maps comes from.

She gets into trouble a lot. Dreams to be Robin, well she kindda is.

Maps as Robin was a thing during the We Are Robin arc, and on one more newish solo issue which probably means there's more of Gotham Academy in the works!!!

I've read one or two maribat fics that feature her!

Kathy Branden (aka Beacon)

She's actually not Damian’s friend, she's Jon's.

Kathy is Jon's neighbor from when they lived in Hamilton County and he went by Jonathan Samuel White.

She's an alien like Jonny.

Seemingly DC was aiming to pair them.

So, Kathy and Damian develop a friendly relationship and ofc they're allies.

She lives on her own, in her farm along with Maya.

Mara al Ghul

Cousin of Damian

Damian left her blind on one eye while after sparring she launched a dagger at him and he did the same to her but :/

She's the daughter of Dusan al Ghul (aka White Ghost), older than Talia but because of his albinism he was discarded of being the heir.

They have reconciled

Athanasia al Ghul

She just appears in Injustice and she's Damian's bio-sister.

Daughter of Bruce and Talia.

She was kept hidden while Damian was away with Bruce.

I guess, Flatline (a love interest) and Connor Hawk enter into this category too but I don't particularly care for them. Flatline is a new character from the Robin solo and Connor was revived(? for the solo too ig

Here's a pic that's got Flatline, Connor, and Rose too bc she was important too

[bluboothalassophile]

Hi!

Your inbox is open, so can you write a bit about Athanasia Al Ghul's younger years in League of Shadows? I remember your "Failure", but it was long, long ago. You can show some more of her trainings maybe or describe her room or her hobbies or anything you like, but about teen Sia? I'd be great!

Hello,

So I'm terribly sorry about this, but I can't really do that. Failure is set in HfaB, and I haven't fully explored Athanasia as a character, so I'm not super comfortable attempting to flesh her out at this moment. I can tell you the following about her though based off the one shot Failure:

-Athanasia is the Bruce/Talia tube baby storyline, she was grown in the tube with Lazarus Pit waters, and other fluids needed. No, Bruce and Talia are not aware of her existence; they both believe she was their miscarried child, and that miscarriage is what broke them up.

-She was raised as a slave in the LoA, she never had an opportunity to be an heir.

-She trained routinely with Grant Wilson and Jason Todd; she even later helped Jason escape.

-She and Jason are the exact same age, mere months separate them age wise; and I think Jason is still the older one, I'd have to double check my notes.

-Her favorite books are the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Series by Steig Larsson; Athanasia relates to Lisbeth Salander very well, and this is the reason that Athanasia went on to live in Stokholm, Sweden.

-She's a hacker and computer genius, she prefers not to be physical or violent, though she can be. She's assumed the mantel TH3 GH0ST (yes this is a nod to the video games where Bruce held the mantel the Ghost)

-Athanasia was sixteen when she escaped the LoA.

-She is in contact with Jason and Tim (neither are aware she's Bruce's daughter, and Tim doesn't even know her real identity; not for a lack of trying but they have a pen pal relationship exchanging chess moves and intel)

-She's had sexual relations with men and women; and like Jason has a complicated relationship regard sex and her actual sexuality (which is still unknown or not dwelled on).

-She has met and had dealings with Talia; Talia and Athanasia have a very bad relationship as a whole.

-She celebrated Ra's al Ghul's death by going on a three month long bender, in which she does not remember most of, but has photos spanning her travelling the Hindukush to piss on Ra's grave.

-She prefers cats to dogs, but reptiles to cats (I know, my soul evac'ed my body too when I figured that out).

-She is not a fan of spicy foods, but a lover of French cuisine, and Italian cuisine; she despises English food passionately.

-She is a meta, punk rock, classic rock, hard rock, and rock n roll fan (frequenting concerts for her favorite bands), she despises country music, pop music, and techno music; though she does enjoy clubbing and club music

-Her favorite drink is white wine, or sherry, she's an avid vodka drink too.

-She speaks the following languages fluently: English, Arabic (specifically the Pashtu and Egyptian dialects), Chinese, Swedish, and Russian. She understands the following languages: Italian, French, German, and Spanish.

-She likes motorcycles; holding cars in great disdain.

-She is a loner with known antisocial personality disorder as well as severe PTSD.

-She carries a Baretta 92F, and a P-83 Wanad (because she loves Lisbeth Salander), but she's familiar and comfortable with a Glock 17 too.

I hope that helps form an idea for the Athanasia I'll be introducing in Damned Prince of Gotham.

[cdelphiki]

Hm. Trying to come up with a surname for Jason and the kids to use in Jason and the Three Terrors and I’ve been researching for an hour and I’m no closer to figuring it out than I was when I started.  

[dykerachelsummers]

How do Athanasia, Damian and Talia look like?

talia is here

damian wayne/hafidh al ghul

athanasia “attie” wayne / ariyam al ghul

(shoutout to @apollolovebot for helping me come up with their arabic names, including talia’s, and @mellenabrave for coming up with the surname marzouki for melisande!)

[brucewayneargento-moved]

Lucky I’m In Love With My Best Friend

Fic also avalible on Ao3

Summary: Lace (Wallace West II) gets tired of his wedding with Damian always getting interrupted by some apocalyptic crisis so he just asks him to marry him casually after a mission.

He looked around the rubble, trying to make sense of all the people who were there. Rose, Tanya and Avery were making sure everyone was okay while William and Jackson were using their powers to take out the rubble; He turned his head the other way and saw Wally talking to the batfamily, specifically to Dick and meanwhile his fiancé was regrouping the Titans.

He focused his gaze upon his Damian, his Redbird suit covered in dirt and blood, he probably was going to pretend he was fine for a few hours before he collapsed on bed and slept for at least two days.

That’s when it struck him.

“Let’s get married,” Lace said suddenly. But he blinked upon realizing that he said in a really quiet voice and nobody could hear him.

He ran towards his fiancé, transforming into a gray and red blur, he appeared next to Damian making him jump a little, he turned around.

“Let’s get married ” Lace repeated, this time to him “Right now”

Damian’s eyes widened, Nobody, who was next to him, took out her helmet and stared at him with her mouth slightly open.

“Did a parademon hit your head?” Redbird asked.

Wallace frowned: “I’m being serious, let’s get married now.”

“Why?”

“We’re surrounded by our friends and family, the world literally almost ended and because I’m sure we will never have this opportunity again.

Damian opened his mouth to respond, but truth to be told he wasn’t sure what to say, it seemed like his wedding was always interrupted by some sort of apocalypse level threat, so it made sense that his husband-to-be seems to just want to get over it.

“C’mon,” Wallace pleaded with him. “Let’s get married and then I can run us both to Byalia and we’ll be there for a month.”

Damian smiled shyly, Oh what the hell.

“Alright,” The man agreed. “But as long as you propose to me again.” as soon as he pronounced those words his ring was gone and his fiancé was on one knee.

“Damian Ibn Thomas Wayne Al Ghul will you marry me?” he said with stars in his eyes.

“Dude if you don’t do it, I will” Maya said

“mmm,” Damian pretended to think it over for a minute and then grinned. “Alright I will marry you, Wallace Daniel West II.”

They both laughed and embraced each other, then proceeded to kiss, as they pulled away they realized all of the people surrounding them were applauding and cheering.

“We need a priest,” Damian suddenly said. as if he was just realizing how much work came into planning a wedding.

“I can marry you,” everyone turned around and saw Djinn raising her hand. “I have the power to.”

“We also need a band, “ Wallace remembered. 

“I can help with that, me and Dinah can be prepared in no time.” Emiko said.

“I can make an aisle out of will.“ Tai smiled.

“Are you getting married in your superhero costumes?” Maya asked.

“I’ve already called Talia,” Bruce said. “She will bring Damian’s sherwani.”

“I can speed to the dry clean.” Wally said winking at Lace.

Soon enough everyone had a task to do, from cleaning up the area to just simply providing moral support to the grooms. It took them practically all day but the couple couldn’t be more glad for a sunset wedding.

Damian changed quickly into a telephone booth, advised by Jon and went outside wearing a lime green sherwani.  Colin, Jon, Maya and Maps were about to comment until Talia came out of nowhere and started to pass a roll brush on his son.

“No son of mine will look dirty at his own wedding.” She proclaimed.

“This is giving me League flashbacks, but the good ones.” Athanasia said, making everyone jump a little, as no one had seen her sneak in either.

Meanwhile Wally had given Lace the suit, a red one with yellow flower details, and Tanya had given him a scrunchy to tie his hair on a manbun.

“Do we have to stay in our uniforms?” Jackson asked. “Can’t we at least change?”

“We can’t look better than the grooms.” William said.

It was seven PM where the ceremony finally started. As he had promised, Tai had made an entire wedding aisle out of will. With flowers, pews and a podium included.

Djinn was in the middle of the podium with some scriptures written in arabic on the table. At the right side there was: Tanya as the maid of honour, Avery as the groomsmaid, Jackson as the Best Man and William as the groomsman. At the left side there was Jon as the  Best Man, Maya as the maid of honour, Maps as the groomsmaid and Colin as the groomsman.

Bruce was attending the news and the reporters saying that he was sponsoring his son’s wedding since he was supposed to get married in secret today but it had been canceled due to the aforementioned doomsday of earlier that day. After he finished his speech he went to the first row and sat next in between Talia and Harvey. It is unknown if he survived that.

On the other side there was Iris crying with joy while holding out the video camera as Barry had his arms crossed with a sad expression on his face. Probably meditating on how harsh he had been to Damian where he first met him.’

Soon enough Emiko started to play the wedding march on her violin, followed by Dinah doing acapella, giving the whole place an angelic atmosphere.

Everyone turned around to see Damian walking down the green carpet in the middle of the aisle. He pretended as if he wasn’t wrecking with nerves and tried his best to block down his pores in order to not ruin his one million dollar sherwani. He repeated his vows in his head, praying to the New Gods he wouldn’t mix them up.

Damian arrived at the aisle and smiled at his friends on the left side, and nodded as Roundhouse made hand motions to communicate what would happen to him if he dared to hurt Lace.

The wedding song started again and the public and the people on the end of the aisle all turned around again to look at Lace. 

The speedster’s mind was running at a million miles per hour as he walked probably the slowest he had walked in his life.

He finally made it to the end of the aisle.

“Join hands please,” Djinn said. the men did as they were told while grinning at each other. Even after all these years they got giddy at this motion.

Djinn made a purple circle with magic around their hands, both men felt a sorts of electric current running through their veins.

“I will be casting an eternal bond, a sign to the New Gods that you will be declaring each other soulmates,” she explained. “You shall now pronounce your vows.”

Damian went first:

“Wallace -Lace- I can’t even begin to describe how much you mean to me, ” he said, pressing his fingers against the other man. “I have made many oaths in my life but I’m not lying when I say this is the most important-

“I vow to protect you and care for you, I promise to dedicate the rest of my days devoted to you and to your needs, to love you as hard as I can.”

Wallace had tears in his eyes. He swallowed a little saliva to wet his mouth, trying to ease his nerves.

“Damian,” he pronounced every syllable as something sacred. “I don’t know if I can ever say to you how much you mean to me, but I know that I can try to show you, by small and big gestures because you deserve them, you are worthy of all the love in the world.”

Damian looked down, blushing.

Djinn spoke: “Do you both swear by the New Gods that you’ll stay together for the rest of your life? Bonding your souls to each other for the rest of eternity?”

“We do.” they both said at the same time.

“You may complete the ritual by kissing.” She said.

Wallace speeded two inches in front of Damian and kissed him, and spun him to the side to hold him. The crowd exploded in thunderous applause.  Purple butterflies surrounded them both, they pulled away and looked at each other with misty eyes.

[athanasia-alghul]

Al Ghul family fancast

I’ve seen a lot of posts about the batfamily and other DC characters, but there’s an alarming lack of (non-whitewashed) fancasts for the Al-Ghul’s. And since @arabian-batboy totally inspired me, I decided to go for it. So buckle up, kids.

I’m gonna do this

Nadine Nassib Njeim as Talia Al Ghul

Seriously, this woman was born to be Talia. She’s a lebanese actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Her pictures are amazing and she has the elegance to play the role. 

Ayman Amin as Damian Wayne Al Ghul

This guy is a singer and actor. He started his career in the arabic version of “The Voice: Kids” not long ago. As far as I know he’s lebanese (if I’m wrong, please correct me) and he’s fluent in english. He’s not very famous yet, but you can find good pictures in his instagram. 

Ghassan Massoud as Ra’s Al Ghul

He’s a syrian actor and filmmaker. He’s known for appearing in movies like “Kingdom of Heaven” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”. And seriously, this man exists, there’s no excuse for casting a caucasian actor to play Ra’s.

Dive Assad as Nyssa Raatko (Al Ghul)

There’s not a lot of information about her, but as far as I could read her father is syrian and her mother is mexican. She was born in Veracruz, Mexico, and is an actress and writer. 

Stephen Thompson as Dusan Al Ghul

I know, I know, this is whitewashing and there’s no way around it. This man is a model/actor from Brooklyn, so ethnically he’s far from the character. The only thing that they have in common is the albinism. So I wont justify my lack of research for a better cast in this one, and I’m open to suggestions.

I wanted to include Mara and Athanasia, but for now I haven’t found a proper cast  for them. Hopefully when I do, I’ll update the post.

[safitheartist]

How to name character 101 and why calling your character 'the immortal' really is a bad idea.

@mesemania okay settle down fam because here is some serious education needed.

Let’s talk about Athanasia Al Ghul and why this name alone already sounds like a marry sue.

First of all, let’s take a look at why they chosed this name, Athanasia is a greek name that means ‘the immortal’, so basically the name is greek because Damian is a greek name and it means “the immortal” because she is a Al Ghule, that is it.

So what’s the problem?

First of all Athanasia is a uncommon name. That’s always a bad thing to do when you name a character. Do not go for names no person would think of without specifically searching for a name with a certain meaning.

It’s a long name amoung a family with rather short names, making it stick out and not in a nice way.

Talia is a Arab/Chinese woman who is known to be educated in business. If she would chose a name for a girl she would go for a name that is both balanced in meaning and comoness, and just because she gave Damian a greek name doesn’t mean she would give her daughter also a greek name.

The reason why she, a Arab/Chinese woman even gave Damian that name doesn’t at all ad up with this new name.

Damian was named by Morrison after a editor who worked at DC, his choice had little to do with Talia’s character and in general Morrison put little thought to think about which culture the character he flanderized belong to and Damian used to be a self insert character himself, so his name really isn’t something to take into regard.

Patrick Gleason then realized that the name, through a lucky coincidence, has a meaning he could work with that could explain why Talia would call him this despite not having any ties to Greek culture. Damian’s name means 'the tamer’ which is something that is very open to interpretation but still indicates that Talia was planing big things with him.

This is another reason why this name doesn’t work. The meaning is flat. Like 3 day old coke flat. “The immortal” is a way too on the nose, it’s like naming a character linked to the Al Ghuls Lazarus, but at the same time it tells us *nothing* about Talia’s motives and plans or has any real motivation behind it. The name was chosen to somewhat match Damian but in the most lazy way possible.

There are a *ton* of greek names that actually would fit into this family *and* would be less racist due to still being comon in Arab countries.

For example, My own fucking name. My mother (who grew up in a little village in Tunisia and has next to no knowledge about Greek names and their meanings) named me Sofia, a name that is actually pretty comon in the north African arab countries, I know a ton of arab girls named Sofia. And the meaning also would be better, 'the wise’ would leave a lot to interpretation and could even be a reference to Talia’s mother who worked as a fortune teller.

And there are so many other names that could work better.

Basically when you name a character, don’t go into google and search for a name with a specific meaning and put 0 other thought’s into it. Especially when you want to sell that stuff to somebody. It’s simply insulting.

[bamboozledjasontodd]

I'm sure I'm forgetting things but:

-Bruce to have some compassion for all his children and to stop being potrayed as emotionally/physically abusive

-Bruce and Selina to get married and have Helena Wayne be brought into the main continuity

-More about Dick Grayson's Romani heritage

-Mar'i Grayson brought into main continuity and for Dick to be The Best Dad

-More Dick being an awesome big brother to all his siblings

-Barbara Gordon as Oracle. Also just more Barbara Gordon in general because I love her

-Tim Drake to stop being forever 16/17. Also would love to see him working more with Oracle in terms of information distribution to heroes

-For Jason to be declared legally alive, go to college to study something like literature, them to stop queerbaiting him and have him come out as a mlm, show him getting help for all his hurts and maybe eventually moving away from the name Red Hood/going by a new name. Also to explore some side effects of the Lazarus Pit more.

-Damian to be drawn with darker skin, to age into his teenage years, I'd like to see him pick a new name at some point (like his brothers before him), more about his Arabic identity, more about him being a vegetarian (I'm not sure if it is still a thing but I really liked it)

-For Cassandra to be Black Bat and be canonically Sapphic. Personally I'd like her to date Harper Row. Oh also, I want her to be adopted be Bruce. Just more Cass!

-Bring back Harper Row!!! Also include her brother Cullen because they're both wonderful

-Stephanie to become Nightwing eventually but I would like to see her be Batgirl again before that happens

-A Robin that does not have black hair, ideally Carrie Kelley

-More sweet and funny moments between everyone

-Kate Kane and Renee Montoya happily married and being awesome/cool aunt figures to everyone

-Jean-Paul and Luke Fox getting the respect and attention they deserve

-Tiffany Fox becoming Batgirl once Steph is Nightwing

-More Duke Thomas!

-For Athanasia Al ghul to be worked in to main continuity somehow.

I’m curious, what do people WANT to see in modern day comics? Bat-Family related anyways.

[fluffykitty149]

Heey, soo I was just *ahem browsing around and then I came around your blog once again and was just wondering if you....

had some fluffy Athanasia headcanons about her and her bros .... please?

You know I love it when you have asks😉

Now for the batsiblings fluff:

Damian's always been protective of Athanasia, even in the league when he couldn't always show it

There was one mission where she was betrayed by party members and had to make it back on foot

Everyone assumed she was dead but when she got back she got lectured the crap out of her

When she finally got back to her room and cleaned up Damian hugged her and told her to be more careful next time

Despite what the batfam says about Damian not being physically affectionate Athanasia knows better

He just prefers to do it in private, and with people who won't judge him for it

Mainly hugs and forehead kisses.

They always make Athanasia feel warm

She also had the habit of sneaking into his room whenever she had a bad dream/she was scared

At first, it was annoying for Damian as a kid but she did manage to help him kill an assassin so he doesn't complain

The batfam once was panicking because they couldn't find her but Damian found her napping under the piano

While living in the Manor she was one of the few who were allowed to stay in his room.

Even when he was drawing.

She would lay down with Titus somewhere and take a nap

She also went in his room a lot when she missed him after he moved to San Fransico.

After he moved out with the Teen Titans and Athanasia started school she was feeling very self-conscious about her ethnicity and Bruce was too busy to realize

She started straightening her hair a lot and Damian came to visit and saw she was about to use skin lightening cream

She was scared he was going to yell at her but he just picked up the bottle and used it up squeezing 'DO BETTER' on Bruce's bed for not noticing.

He then grabbed her straightener and proceeded to hit Bruce with it while lecturing him during a JLA meeting not giving a shit.

He always brings flowers to her piano recitals and performances

Can't say much else to prevent too many spoilers.

Duke and her have a very good relationship

When she was trying to run for class president he was there to help her with his own experiences and when she won they went out to celebrate

She likes going to him for advice about school because she knows he's not going to make fun of her for it

They bond over annoying classmates and defend each other against microaggressions

She lectures Jason for calling Duke Narrows (not sure if he does this in canon but it happens in fanon) and he sticks up for her to be allowed to connect with her maternal culture without feeling bad for doing so.

He is also very proud of her for the large amount of Valentimes's day cards she received.

He attends her piano recitals and always reminds the rest of the bat fam to attend if they're free.

Prior to finding the contingency plans, Athanasia didn't dislike Tim

Damian mainly saw him as a rival and she didn't really care

During the Battle of the Cowl, she mediated between them so they could all work together

It honestly reminded her of Damian and Mara so she was used to it.

After finding the contingency plan she honestly thought it was a hit list and snapped his line.

Dick was able to later explain what the list actually was but she was insulted that she and Damian were on the villains' side.

She hasn't trusted him since

Still good at getting the two to stop fighting though

It takes a while but she comes around to forgiving him

Stephanie and her are almost joined at the hip

Originally she hated her for taking the mantle of Batgirl and thought Stephanie didn't deserve it but grew to accept it over time

Steph's mad that Damian keeps accusing her of stuffing her bra but Athanasia points out that it mainly started when she accused him of staring at her chest (Damian is both ace and insulted)

She gets them to apologize to each other but finds Super Girl lecturing him on body shaming both very funny and educational

She doesn't go to Steph about school stuff but she does go to her for romantic advice

Stephanie fights the urge to gossip about it by reminding her that she's the one Athanasia puts her trust in this type of stuff (and Aunt Kate)

Stephanie also introduces her to kids' shows and anime (she's the reason Athanasia loves Sailor Moon, Damian found it on his own)

She also introduced Athanasia to Calico Critters/Sylvanian Family

They love going shopping with each other and Cassandra and Stephanie definitely inspired her closet full of prep clothing.

Athanasia straight up idolizes Cassandra

She met her prior to moving into the manor by peering in through a vent shaft.

When Cass saw her she was scared that she was going to tell but Cass never did

She also knows she's the most dangerous fighter alive and really wants to train under her.

When Athanasia first came to the Manor, she was really stressed and scared but having Cass there made her feel better

Cass was also the reason why Athanasia wasn't too hard on Steph

Mainly because Cass is intimidating and told her to stop

She loves picking out outfits for Cass and they even do ballet together.

When she first saw Cassandra doing ballet she was furious "YOU NEED PROPER SHOES IF YOU WANT TO DO BALLET YOU NEED TO TREAT YOUR BODY BETTER IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR RANK!"

Cass goes to her for final opinion on formal event wear.

She loved Jason when she was little

She would sneak into his room late at night to tell him stories and he'd tell his own

Damian was jealous but never admitted to it

Mara knew and found it hilarious

He'd also get Damian and Athanasia to play pretend Batman and Robin

Athanasia preferred Batman and Batwoman instead

She and Damian fought on it a lot

Talia was glad there was someone there to let them be kids

Athanasia wasn't thought of too highly previously and Ras was even making plans to get rid of her

The problem was she was very hard to get rid off

Athanasia didn't know that her grandfather organized hits but she did know he didn't think highly of her and it hurt

Jason personally trained her with guns and when there was an assessment on it, she beat both Damian and Mara with flying colors

It was the first time Ras was proud of her and she was so excited.

When it was time for Jason to go she was very much heartbroken and promised to win a fight against her mother to see him again (like Damian wanting to meet Bruce)

She actually snuck out of the Manor the first time she was there to go look for him.

Even brought the Joker's head and everything

Unfortunately, he didn't remember anything and was dealing with pit madness so he attacked her.

If Cass wasn't there she could have been hurt.

During Battle for the Cowl, she teamed up with Tim, and Damian to take him down

Afterward she put a wall between them but would still sneak into his bedroom to read books from his bookshelf

When he got his memories back from his time with the kids in the League the first thing he did was run up to hug her and apologize.

As much as she was happy he got his memories back she didn't appreciate getting hugged when she was already covered in sewage from a mission gone wrong.

Her relationship with Dick was pretty good but it wasn't as strong as Damian's relationship with him.

She definitally saw him as a better father figure but wasn't that emotionally attached to him.

There are some similarities to Arab and Roma culture and when Dick went to a Roma wedding with them he was surprised to see Athanasia dancing as well as the performance dancers

He was a huge insperation for her to enjoy her culture outside of the League of Assassins and would attend arab weddings and buy Kaftans both casual and for Galas

She would sneak out to do small things to remind her of home like going to a halal store to buy sweets or her and Damian visiting Tarboosh (from teen titans 2016) whenever he visited.

[fluffykitty149]

Mother Daughter Kaftans

lil cuties

[dykerachelsummers]

What does ariyam mean?

it’s an arabic name! @apollolovebot helped me come up with it, as i was struggling to come up with non-westernized names for the al ghuls. ariyam & hafidh are the names talia (tala) gave her children, athanasia & damian are the names their original adoptive parents gave them.

if a character has a / between two names, it means they have more than one name in earth-82!

[cdelphiki]

Jason and the Three Terrors, ch 2, rough draft. 3292 words.

prologue, chapter 1

I love sharing my WIPs, so I’ll probably keep on sharing what I’m doing on this. Everything will get a revision before it’s posted to AO3, eventually, so just keep in mind this is a WIP. :) Let me know what you think, even if it’s you don’t think something is working. (I can take it if you’re nice. lol)

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Mara was blissfully silent the rest of the trek to the cliff. Her blatant distrust and outright snobbery was not, at all, helping Jason’s already frayed nerves.  

This whole whatever was going on better not last too long. Jason would gladly help Talia get the kiddos to safety somewhere, just as long as that was it. He wanted to go back to training as soon as possible, or whatever. He had no idea what he wanted to do with his life, in all honesty. Training was at least productive. Trying not to murder a couple little brats would not be.

When they finally reached the cliff, Jason was annoyed to see Talia hadn’t beaten him there. The fact that she wasn’t there was extra annoying, too, because the boy was. And he didn’t look any happier than Mara was to be woken in the middle of the night.

Damian, Jason presumed, was sitting on his backpack.  He started glaring at Mara the second the two of them turned the corner, around some rocks, and came into view.  Jason kind of wanted to nope it right out of there.  Have nothing to do with any of this.

“Tt,” the kid huffed, as he stood and crossed his arms to address Mara, “What are you doing here?”

And holy guacamole Jason could definitely see the Bruce in this kid.  He was the spitting fucking image of Bruce Wayne.  The only thing Talia about this kid was his eyes.  And his complexion.  

“Lady Talia summoned me,” Mara responded, stopping about fifteen feet away from Damian.  Jason paused with her, although he wasn’t sure why, but he figured the brat knew her brother way better than Jason did. Considering Jason didn’t know him at all.  

Both kids rested hands on the hilts of their swords, and Jason groaned internally. They weren’t going to get violent, were they?

Holy-sibling-rivalry, Batman. 

“My mother asked me to meet her here, of course.  Why she would summon you is beyond me,” Damian said, all but sticking his little snot nose right up in the air.  

“You must be the servant Mother mentioned,” Damian added, turning his gaze to Jason as he looked Jason up and down before rolling his eyes, “You don’t look like much.”

And yep.  Jason was gonna have to work on that not-smacking-children thing. 

“I am not a servant, you little brat,” Jason said, taking his bag off and dropping it on the ground, so he could sit on it, “And that’s no way to speak to your sister.”

“This bastard is not my sister,” Damian declared, at the same time Mara said, “I am not his sister.”

“Wait, what?” Jason said, completely thrown now.

What the fuck did that even mean?  If Mara wasn’t his sister, then what was she? And why did Talia call her one of her ‘children?’ 

It would make sense, though… Since Mara looked nothing like Bruce. Jason would believe Mara and Damian were related, but even then it was kind of stretching it.  That had far more to do with her complexion. And eyes. 

The only two things Damian had from Talia….

Jason would easily believe half-sister. But then they wouldn’t have agreed on ‘not’ sister. 

So what the fuck was Mara?

“I said, this bastard is not my sister, why would you assume-”

“Why are you being an asshole?” Jason interrupted, because sister or not, that was no way to speak about the little girl. “I think you owe her an apology.”

“You watch your tongue, peasant,” Damian growled, scowling at Jason and absolutely not apologizing to Mara, “You will not order me around.”

Oh boy.

“Are you both gonna call me peasant? Cause that’s just rude.” 

“Tt,” Damian huffed, drawing his sword, “I will not be insulted by one of Mother’s servants.”

Jason hopped up and further away from Damian while he held his two hands out placatingly. “Look, kid, I told ya, I’m not a servant, so I’m gonna talk to you however I damn well please.  But it’s no reason to get all stabby, yeah? So how about you put down the sword.” 

“Damian,” Mara said, then switched to Arabic as she said, “He claims he did not know of our existence until Lady Talia ordered him to bring me here.”

“How could a servant possibly not know who I am?” Damian responded in like, and Jason just rolled his eyes. These stupid little brats acting like they could have a conversation right in front of his face.  Yeah right. His Arabic wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t terrible, either.  

“I am not a servant,” he replied, also in Arabic.  If either child was startled he could understand them, they didn’t show it. “Stop calling me one.”

“Then what are you?” Damian asked dryly, crossing his arms as he turned to face Jason. 

“Like I told Mara, Talia trains me.” 

Damian scowled, likely at his lack of ‘respect’ for his mother. These brats thinking they were royalty. And that Jason would even care about that. But then his face softened as he looked at Jason assessingly. “Ah. Then you are Mother’s pet. I have heard of you.”

“Pet?” Jason objected, “I’m not a fucking pet.”

“You would be wise to watch your-” Damian started, in a nasty little snarl as he pointed his sword at Jason, but was cut off by Jason’s current favorite person on the planet.

Because Talia Al Ghul said sharply, “Damian,” from just out of their sight, causing the little brat to snap to attention at his mother’s chastisement.  

“Mother,” Damian said, turning to face Talia just as she rounded the corner, and froze, cutting off whatever argument he had been gearing up to share.  

Right along with Jason.

Because in Talia’s arms was another kid. 

This one was clinging to Talia in a way Jason would expect a kid to do at 3 in the morning, her arms wrapped tightly around Talia’s neck and her face buried into Talia’s hair. 

“Jason is an ally and you will treat him with respect,” Talia said, exhaustedly, as she coaxed the little girl in her arms to sit up and look around. 

Damian scoffed, rolling his eyes and whole head dramatically, as if Talia had just asked of him the world, then motioned at the little girl and said, “And who is she?”

Talia narrowed her eyes at Damian, then said, “He is your brother, Damian, you will respect him. And this is your sister.”  

Jason opened his mouth to protest that instantly, because he was not a brother.  He did not have brothers. Or sisters. Or fathers. No one.  He had no family, and he was perfectly fine with that. He refused to allow Talia to trap him like this into family and all the bullshit that accompanied that.  Especially not with such little brats.  

But before he even got one syllable out, he was shut down by the nasty glare Talia shot him.

“My-” Damian said, then just stared helplessly at Talia for a moment before steeling himself and declaring, “I do not have siblings.”  

“Are you questioning me, child?” Talia said warningly, causing Damian to stand just a little straighter, before she softened her voice and said, “This is Athanasia.” 

Talia set the girl down on her feet and Athanasia didn’t let go of Talia’s hand. In fact, she stepped behind Talia, just slightly, and looked between Damian, Jason, and Mara with a tiny little smile on her face.  After a second, she waved and hid her face behind Talia.  

“Hi,” Jason said dumbly, not sure how else to react.  He’d already met two other kids, so what was a third, right?  But Athanasia seemed incredibly shy, while the other two were aggressively, well… everything. Aggressive. And damn was she adorable. 

When Damian looked at Talia searchingly, rather than speak to Athanasia, Talia sighed.  “I kept her secret,” she explained, her hand carding through the little girl’s hair absently, “so that Father would not take her from me.” 

Damian shook his head, and Jason looked over to see a whole slew of emotions flickering across Damian’s face. Hurt. Betrayal. Confusion. Anger. It was kind of making Jason feel bad for the little brat.  What had he been subjected to that Talia clearly didn’t want Athanasia to suffer? 

“Damian,” Talia said, letting go of her daughter to close the distance between her and Damian. Once she’d knelt down to Damian’s height, she put a hand on his cheek and whispered, “My love,” before pulling him into a very long hug, that Damian clearly found to be incredibly confusing.

If this kid honestly wasn’t used to hugs, Jason would gladly hike across all of Afghanistan, if that’s what it took to get him away from here. Brat or not.  

“Mother, what is happening?” Damian asked, his voice a near whisper. 

Talia pulled him back, placing her hands on either side of his face.  “We are leaving, my prince, so you and your sister may grow up in safety.” 

“We are defecting?” Mara asked, her voice partially incredulous, and partly shaken. 

“Mother,” Damian said in alarm, pulling away from her touch, “We cannot-”

“I will not betray my Grandfather,” Mara said, this time with much more confidence as she took a few steps back from them all.

“We are Al Ghuls,” Damian asserted, scowling at Talia, “Mother, be reasonable.” 

“Silence,” Talia shouted, when the two of them delved into speaking over one another in protest. Both children, amusingly, snapped their mouths shut instantly and stood at attention for Talia, who just sighed. “We haven’t a choice.” 

“What possible reason could we have for defecting,” Mara asked, taking a step back from Talia, as if she were about to turn and bolt to get away from them.

“Father learned of Athanasia’s existence, and ordered her and Mara to face each other in battle,” Talia said, and the sheer bitterness on her face was staggering.  

Then her words sank in.  

“Holy shit,” his whispered, “Like to death?” He wanted one of them to kill the other? 

Just looking at Athanasia and Mara, Jason had no doubt Mara would win that.  But what kind of damage would that cause Mara? Had she already killed? Probably, right? Jason had killed a few times, himself. All while on missions, which were part of his training. It bothered him, a little.  Sometimes. When he let himself think about it. But he was 16. He was 16 and chose this. Plus, all his targets have been adults. Horrible adults, at that. Human traffickers, child rapists, baby killers. All of them deserved it. 

But a little girl, barely up to his waist?  Probably 6 years old, if Jason had to guess? What would killing her do to Mara? She wouldn’t have a choice. She’d live the rest of her life knowing she took the life of an innocent child. Would she be able to live with herself? 

Talia nodded grimly, and Jason could feel the fire in his blood start to burn. 

“I could-” Mara started, only to pale and take another step back, looking up at Talia anxiously, “If it is what Grandfather orders…”

She could kill Athanasia, she meant, Jason was sure.  Of course she could.  

But she shouldn’t have to. 

No child should have to live with that.  Fuck Ra’s Al Ghul for even suggesting such thing. Jason was immensely grateful that he was no where near Ra’s at the moment, because had he been in the compound he’s fairly certain he would have barged into Ra’s quarters and punched him right in the face. As it was, all he had was his duffle bag, so he kicked it as hard as he could.  His knives clanged against each other, and the bag skidded across the snow covered dirt a good six feet, stopped only by one of the many rocks surrounding them.  

“Fuck him,” he growled, clenching and unclenching his fists.  He needed something to hit. All he had around him were rocks, though.  Rocks and children and Talia. He’d either hurt his hands or immensely regret his life choices, so instead he flung himself down on his bag and sat there, trying his best to calm his breathing and chill. 

Everyone was staring at him, he noticed, when he looked up, so he closed his eyes in order to practice meditating in the way Talia had taught him, when she learned of his ‘anger management’ problems. He still had to roll his eyes at that. Since his anger was never unjustified, he didn’t see much of a problem with having it. But whatever.  

“Mara,” Talia said after a minute, and Jason’s eyes snapped open at her her tone. Because she sounded so kind and almost… loving. Jason would expect that tone from a mother to her child, but everyone had been clear Mara wasn’t her daughter. 

It’s a tone he’d heard from Catherine, many times. Jason, darling, she’d say, and no matter the circumstances, or why she was using it, the tone always made him feel safe. Like a warm blanket being wrapped around him, his mother’s words were more comforting, no matter what message they delivered. 

Talia’s words clearly had the same effect on Mara, because her shoulders drop, slightly, as Talia knelt before her and repeated, “Mara, my niece. Do you think so little of yourself that you believe it acceptable to be pitted against an untrained child to prove your worthiness at life?”

Mara froze so visibly at that, Jason just wanted to get up and go murder Ra’s for sure.  Because what the fuck was this. Damian wasn’t used to hugs, Mara wasn’t used to hearing someone affirm her worth in life, and Athanasia was standing off to the side, clinging desperately to a stuffed cat that apparently materialized out of no where. Perhaps she pulled it from the backpack she was wearing.  

In fact, Athanasia looked downright terrified, in all honesty. Talia must not have told her about the whole battle-to-the-death thing. Her little body was trembling, and her face was ghost white as she looked pleadingly at Talia, whose attention was still on Mara.  

“I-” Mara said, then paused and shook her head.  

“Tt,” huffed Damian, rolling his eyes as he took a step closer to Talia and Mara, putting himself within arms reach of Talia, “She is not.”

“Damian,” Talia hissed, and Jason had enough of this.  

He stood slowly, so not to draw attention to himself, and slowly made his way over to the trembling little girl lost in the background.  

He knelt down next to her, earning only a wary glance before he said, “They’re pretty loud, huh?”

Athanasia nodded slowly, as Damian started ranting about their station and honor or some other nonsense. Talia was pinching the bridge of her nose, and Jason was suddenly glad he wasn’t the little brat.  Because he was fairly certain Damian was about to get told off.  Or maybe even smacked.   

“So you’re my little sister, huh?” he asked, suddenly wondering whether the little girl spoke much English.  If she were kept secret from everyone, it was unlikely she’d had much of an education.  “How old are you?” he asked, in Arabic this time.  

“Seven,” she whispered in Arabic, so Jason figured he’d just stick with it. 

“Seven, huh? That’s a good age. I’m sixteen.”  

When all the little girl did was take a deep, shaky breath, Jason inched a little closer.  “Hey,” he whispered, resisting the urge to reach out and hug her, “There’s no reason to be scared.” Athanasia turned her head to look at Jason, so he added, “Not with me around. I’m your big brother, right?”

She nodded. 

“And do you know what big brothers do?”

“No,” she whispered, pulling her stuffed cat up closer to her face. 

“We protect our little sisters and make sure nothing bad happens to them.”

The tiny little smile Athanasia graced Jason with made him just grin wider.  He could already tell he was going to like this kid. She was just so damn cute.  

“Does your cat have a name?” he asked, after looking over at Talia and seeing her speaking quietly to the other two kids, still. He couldn’t make out what she was saying, but both of them were absolutely entranced by her, so he figured she was getting through to them and convincing them to ‘defect’ from this damn cult.  

Athanasia held her cat out so Jason could see her better and said, “Kitty,” in English.  

“That is an excellent name.” Jason reached out and ‘pet’ the cat before Athanasia snatched it back and hugged onto it again.  “Do you know how old Damian is?”

“He is eight,” she said, louder and more confident now. She’d quit shaking, too. Jason still had that urge to just hug her, though. Maybe she wouldn’t stab him, if he did.

“How old is Mara?” he asked instead.

Athanasia shrugged.

“Jason,” Talia said, successfully gaining his attention as she stood to address all of them, “We should get moving, we do not have time to waste.”

“Sure.” Jason stood and slung his back over his shoulder, then smiled down at Athanasia as she followed him to join Talia and the kids. “So what’s the plan?”

“We will hike to Kabul and fly out of there,” Talia explained, pulling out a small device from her bag, which appeared to be a GPS of some sort.  Which was good, because Jason knew for a fact there were no roads anywhere near them. 

Which… just meant this was about to be one hell of a hike. Because most of it was going to be through mountains and desert… 

“Mother,” Damian said, shuffling to catch up as Talia began walking southwest, “That is a week’s hike.”

“Yes, my son. Father will be expecting us to cross into Pakistan or Tajikistan and catch a ride, so we will not.” 

Jason slowed, a little, so that all the children were walking ahead of him, and took up the rear. Athanasia grasped onto Talia’s hand, and Damian just scowled at the little girl.   

Oh boy, he thought. The next week was going to be hell.  

“Do we have enough supplies for this,” Jason asked uneasily, mentally cataloging everything he had in his bag. Which was mostly weapons, clothing, and very basic sleeping supplies.  No food or water.  He did have an empty water bottle that he could fill, if he wanted to risk drinking melted snow, which he didn’t.  Hopefully they’d stumble upon enough springs… 

Talia waived their concerned off with a simple, “My pack is almost entirely food, do not despair.” 

Looking at her backpack, Jason had doubts. While it was a decent size, he was having a hard time believing she had enough food for four people for a week. Maybe if it were entirely protein bars… 

“Do you not trust me?” Talia asked harshly, apparently sensing his hesitancy. After sighing, she added, “If you are worried, we will encounter a village in four days where we can replenish our supplies and perhaps sleep for the night.” 

“Where will we fly to, Lady Talia,” Mara asked, as she trailed along behind Damian.  

“N-” Talia started, then halted throwing her arms out in either direction to stop the rest of them from walking forward. “We have been found,” she whispered harshly, turning and pushing them all in the opposite direction, “Run.” 

They didn’t have a chance, though.

Because not even a step into their retreat, the sound of a gun firing engulfed the previously quiet mountain soundscape, the bullet whistling right past Jason’s ear.  

And when he looked back, he saw the smug face of Deathstroke grinning back at them.