#batfams avatars and gargoyles

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Love the implication that Bruce is aware of the Gargoyle's sentience and still chooses Goliath as his brooding spot anyway.

New crackship unlocked? Did Bruce decide to adopt the Gargoyles?

I mean, according to Gargoyle custom, technically Hudson is the only orphan. Since all hathclings are the children of the whole clan, technically the boys have 2 living dads (Hudson and Goliath) and two living moms (Demona and Elisa). BUT that is irrelevant. Bruce adopted Tim and Steph, he can adopt them. Bruce and Goliath are now co-parenting Angela the boys.

Bruce and Oli now have a dedicated rival billionaire with equally fancy toys. They try to take down Xanatos. Maybe that's how Bruce meets Goliath in the first place. Maybe Xanatos figures out Bruce's secret identity at some point, but he's a man of honor, and he doesn't say anything. Or maybe Xanatos and Bruce knew each other from their overlapping times with R'as al Ghul and the League of Assassins. This would seem to mesh with Xanatos' fascination with the occult pretty well actually. Either way, they start off as enemies (with all the homoerotic subtext - Bruce, Xanatos, and Goliath are now a divided polycule). BUT when it comes to Lex Luthor, Xanatos and Bruce are begrudgingly on the same side. And when Nezha starts stirring up trouble, Xanatos' grasp on magic and the occult becomes an indispensable asset.

I need Brooklyn and Jason Todd beating up thugs in the street and then grabbing burgers on the way home. I need Tim and Lexington geeking out over new tech and solving mysteries and drinking way, WAY too much coffee (Tim quickly finds out that Gargoyle caffeine tolerance is way higher than a human's after watching Lex mix up a concoction that even makes Tim anxious, and then fall asleep over his work not even 10 minutes later.) I need Broadway and Dick having noir movie marathons with Barbara and devouring enough popcorn to put a circus out of business, and Damien absolutely losing his mind over the preciousness that is Bronx. Damien and Brooklyn would be obsessed with Avatar.

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Batfam x TMA au

Bruce - Avatar of the Dark

Bruce was first marked by the Darkness when he fell into the tunnels under Wayne Manor as a child. (In canon this is when he developed a fear of bats) He doesn’t really accept the Darkness til after his parents die, after that the Darkness is the only place he’s safe from the eyes of the media. Bruce truly becomes an avatar shortly after becoming Batman though. Throughout his life he was also touched by the Desolation and the Web. (The Web tried to claim him too but the Darkness beat it to it)

Powers: His suit is literally made of shadow and he can bring shadows anywhere he goes. Lights also tend to mysteriously turn off when he’s around.

Bro is never going to be able to beat the vampire allegation now. 

Dick - Avatar of the Hunt

Dick was basically marked from the day he was born. Both because of his potential future as a talon and his never ending drive to be the best at everything he does. (I fully believe that Dick’s toxic perfectionism came from the circus not Bruce, after all, we saw what happened if even one mistake occurs during a performance) Dick would fully become an avatar after his parents died. He could already hear the Hunt calling to him before their deaths, and afterwards it was the Hunt that gave Dick the ability to break out of Juvie and the Manor to find and kill Tony Zucco. It was during this that Dick was fully turned. Throughout his life he was also touched by the Stranger. (I thought about the Flesh as well since one of its characteristics is objectification and the fear of SA probably falls under the Flesh but that felt a little to real, you can add it in if you want but it kinda feels like walking in a minefield)

Powers: He has enhanced senses, speed, stamina. He’s able to see in the dark. When he’s pissed/stressed/agitated his grows claws, fangs, and his eyes start glowing yellow. He also has a were-owl like form has only ever come out once, when he killed the Joker. (In this au he stays dead because Dick didn’t beat him to death, he ate him. The rogues have been terrified of Dick ever since.)

Barbara: Avatar of the Eye

Babs was kinda like the Gertrude Robinson of the family. Constantly around the different entities but never letting one get to her. That changed after she became Oracle. At first when she felt it she was horrified and quit being a hero to try to avoid it. But she couldn’t bring herself to abandon her second family like that and willingly became an avatar of the Eye to help them. She was also touched by the Web shortly after becoming Oracle.

Powers: She is able to see through every camera in all of Gotham and is also able to see through the eyes of the gargoyles around the city. Sometimes when all of the knowledge she’s absorbing becomes too much for her, she ducks underneath Bruce’s cape because the Darkness is only place she can get a break from the Eye.

Jason: Avatar of the Desolation

Jason wasn’t actually claimed by an entity until he died, but while in the Lazarus pit he was claimed by the Desolation. Bruce and Dick had always told him that he did not want to be an avatar, no matter how cool it might look from the outside. Jason never took their warnings seriously until he was turned himself. Now he knows how horrible it is and is horrified by the prospect of anyone else having to go through the process. When he sees Tim as Robin he makes it his mission to scare the kid away before an entity can claim him. (Little does he know that Tim had been turned long before he was ever Robin) Throughout his life Jason was also touched by the Buried and the End.

Powers: Jason burns anything he touches, the angrier he gets the hotter his skin burns. When he’s happy he’s warmer than normal but not painfully so. But when he’s angry his blood literally starts to boil in his veins as a green fire that burns in his chest heats up. Making his eyes glow green and a green glow to come from his chest and the back of his throat.

(Dick uses his body heat as an excuse to cuddle in the winter, Jason acts like he hates it but the fact that Dick’s skin isn’t melting off his bones when they touch says otherwise)

Tim: Avatar of the Lonely

Tim had only been free of the Lonely one time in his life. The day he went to Haly’s circus as child and meet Dick for the first time. After that thinking about that day was the only thing that gave him any relief from it. He was sure that if he meet Dick again it would make the Lonely go away (if only for a few minutes) and he was actually right, however by the time he really meet Dick again he has already been a full avatar of the Lonely for a few years. During his life Tim was also touched by the Eye.

Powers: Tim has the ability to trap people in a pocket dimension for as long as he wants. Time moves differently in these pocket dimensions so even though they are typically only in there for a few minutes, it feels like years. The people trapped also don’t age while in there so that they can really feel every second passing. These pocket dimensions normally take the form of a foggy open field with nothing around but it can change to be anything really, the only thing that is consistent is the fog. Tim is also able to conjure fog around him in the real world and the temperature tends to drop a few degrees when he’s around.

Steph: Avatar of the Spiral

Steph doesn’t even know when she became an avatar, though her best guess that it happened sometime after becoming Spoiler. She actually is pretty okay with the whole avatar of an unknowable horror thing and she actually kinda vibes with Micheal and Helen. Her first encounter with the Spiral though happened when she was a kid and had first run away from her father. She had saw a door that she didn’t recognize and ran in trying to hide in from her father. Instead of being afraid of the endless doors and hallways, she was just happy to be safe from her father. The Spiral basically did the ‘who is this sassy lost child’ meme before deciding that Steph was its sassy lost child. No other entities have tried to touch Steph, the Spiral wouldn’t let them.

Powers: Steph has the same powers as Micheal and Helen do, however she still looks mostly human. Lacking the knife fingers and extreme height the others have. Her body does glitch sometimes though. She can have the full avatar of the Spiral look that Micheal and Helen do but it only comes out in extreme situations, like Dick’s owl beast form. Steph, like Tim, will lock people in the Spiral for a while before letting them out.

Cass: Avatar of the Stranger

David Cain had known about the Entities before Cass was born and when she was a child he did everything in his power to make her an avatar of the Slaughter, it did not work and all of his efforts only made her the perfect person to be claimed by the Stranger. The Stranger had turned Cass in to something more resembling a life sized porcelain doll than a human. Even giving her ball joints, painted lips, and glass eyes. The Stranger had also given her a new voice box after David Cain cut her vocal cords. After becoming a bat she was also touched by the Darkness.

Powers: Cass might look like she’s made of porcelain but she is not fragile, quite the opposite actually. She’s incredibly strong and durable. And she’s able to tank a lot of damage that the others can’t. Cass is also able to change out her voice box so that she can sound like anyone she wants. The other bats always make sure that Cass has any voice box she could possibly ever need.

Damian: Avatar of the Extinction

Damian would not have become an avatar of the Extinction if his mother and grandfather hadn’t forced it on him. Both Ra’s and Talia are also avatars of the Extinction and they believed that Damian needed to be one too. If left alone he would have probably been an avatar of the Corruption, however that didn’t happen. He has also been touched by the End and the Corruption (obviously).

Powers: Unlike the others, Damian doesn’t have any powers that are useful in a fight. Instead if he concentrates on a certain species, he’s able to see what the world would look like if that species went extinct.

Duke: Avatar of the Darkness

Duke is a special case when it comes to Darkness avatars. He doesn’t hide from the light (obviously man works day shift). Instead his meta gene makes both light and dark bend to him. This makes him an incredible choice to be an avatar for the Darkness. Duke’s ability to see into other timelines had also gotten the Extinction’s attention but the Darkness suited him better. Throughout his life, Duke has also been touched by the Desolation and the Extinction.

Powers: Dukes powers don’t actually change from his canon ones, but he does get the ability to blind people.

[kuriquinn]

Hi Quinn, me again! I'm interested to know if you've ever read/watched any titles below: - Akatsuki no Yona - Banana Fish - Kimetsu no Yaiba - Young Justice - Gargoyles - Avatar Legend of Korra - Dragon Prince - Inuyasha (BTW, sequel is coming) I like the female portrait of those series and Im curious if you are familiar with them. In Banana Fish, I like how the relationship is natural and human, not played for fujoshi pleasure. So, if you haven't, please consider unsolicited suggestions.

I’ve followed Young Justice (actually, I blame Young Justice, along with random Batfam tumblr posts for my sinking into the DC fandom) and both love it and hate it for the way it’s played with canon. There could be so much more Batfam interaction tho...

Gargoyles was soooo long ago for me. Like, to the point where I remember being in elementary school and we all watched it and would play it on the playground lol. I barely remember the story, but I remember I liked it. 

I liked Avatar when it started, but when I found out Zuko/Katara would never be a thing, I stopped watching. Which is too bad because Katara was a bad-ass, but I’ve tried three more times to watch it in spite of how I know it will end and I can’t get into it. *shrug* Can’t force everything. 

 Dragon Prince is AWESOME! Like, I have yet to find anything about it that I dislike, it’s just...ticked all the boxes! (I was a little iffy on the major romance subplot because it felt a little forced before, but by the end I was like, okay, that’s kinda cute). I absolutely LOVE Aanya she gives like zero fucks and will not be intimidated by pretentious adults. And I’m so desperate for Claudia to get a clue, because she’s this bad-ass, quirky character and she’s just...ugh...her father did a number on her and she deserves better. And Soren! Soren needs hugs, and protection and some himbo-loving troublemaker (guy/girl/whatever!) that will love him and defend him from people taking advantage of his feelings forever!

Inuyasha was my gateway manga. It’s the thing that started me collecting manga again, and eventually discovering Naruto lol. I had to stop following the manga and series for a while because it was taking too long to get anywhere, but when I came back after a couple of years everything turned out how I hoped it would :) And hell YES I can’t wait for the sequel (if only to find out who’s the mother of Sesshomaru’s daughters

I have not seen any of the others, but I will definitely add them to my ever-growing list of stuff I need to check out :)