#bruce harbours zero suspicious about danny

[tiredmortal]

Absolutely love these tags.

I feel like the majority of the batfam would be enamoured with this weird but strangely cute child. They come to the realisation later that their current moniker for him is fucking subpar when they realise that he’s a possible baby eldritch being?

Tim and Bruce however would be suspicious as fuck, their paranoia kicks in and goes into overdrive. They’re both just squinting over the top of their coffee mugs during family meals coming up with conspiracy theories in their head.

I like to imagine that Tim is the one who finds out first, and it’s either entirely by accident or when he tries to subtly question Danny he’s just nonchalant and is like:

Oh no, you are entirely right to be suspicious of me.

And Tim is just standing there because this does not compute:

Why would he reveal that so easily? Does he think that no one would believe Tim over him? Or does he plan on killing him so that he can replace him with a clone or maybe an alien and bury his body in the forest just off of Wayne Manor where probably no one would discover his remains?

While Tim is contemplating this— completely sleep deprived by the way— Danny gets weirded out by the way he’s just staring at the wall, expression blank, hands cradling a a coffee that’s probably to hot to be holding it the way Tim is and just sort of leaves. Tim comes find him later to demand an explanation, ready to full on interrogate this tiny child, and Danny just tells him. Tim is suspicious of his willingness and just a tiny bit disappointed that he didn’t get to enact his plan, or his back-up plan, or his back-up, back-up plan.

Anyway, I see this going two ways, either Tim:

a.) Believes his story wholeheartedly, and is like— yeah, okay, that checks out. That is a thing that seems entirely plausible.

Or—

b.) Is just very disbelieving about what whole thing and dubious of Danny’s explanation and proceeds to ignore said explanation and comes up with his own theories and assumptions, either assuming that maybe Danny was brainwashed. Children are very susceptible to it after all. He reasons to himself, or maybe he’s like:

No. My alien theory fits better and I will die on this hill if you attempt to convince me otherwise.

And Danny is exasperated and done with everything and:

Fine, Sure— whatever. This is a thing now.

Tim then leaves after nodding, and Danny is just staring after him. Tim goes to say fuck you to Dick, because there is definitely no such thing as too much paranoia and his reasons were completely justifiable before also leaving once again, humming while he nearly skips to find Bruce so that he can inform him of the alien that they’re currently harbouring illegally.

De-aged Danny sitting at the Wayne Manor dinner table struggling with his meal:

Batfam: you good there bud? :3

Danny, muttering under his breath: why are my hands so small?