#but yeah i havent watched btas really in years but i just remembered how often dick and bruce would bicker

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The BTAS batfam, minus Terry cuz i already drew him with the other group, but yeah my sort've interpretation of the whole, dick, bruce, barb situation and the tim drake/jason todd thing under the cut because bruce timm is weird

-But yeah I'm not really a fan of much from the comics but im taking a little bit from them- So... Bruce and Babs never dated... because no

I'm imagining that in this universe the Drake family fell from prestige and went bankrupt not too long before the Wayne's were murdered. Jason may or may not have ever existed, or maybe him and his mom are just better off, and therefor never runs into batman. Tim never had money in this timeline. He also probably has/had a different mother due to the different life of his father

The Joker Jr situation still happens the same originally, Barbara partially retired from batgirl and Dick moved back to the manor to try and help with Tim, occasionally helping as Nightwing. After a year or two Tim and Bruce are fighting constantly and Tim ends up moving to Bludhaven with Dick and Barb stays in Gotham to help Bruce and her father.

When Tim turns 18 he tries to move back to the manor but finds his relationship with Bruce extremely strained especially with batman taking over bruces life and bruce refusing to let tim back into that part of his life, and ends up moving in with a girl he meets in his college classes (might be this universe's Stephanie, I'm undecided, we do know his wife is blonde tho)

When Jim retires from being the commissioner Barb decides to try and rekindle her relationship with Dick and moves in with him, with her eventually becoming pregnant. Her and Dick begin to fight however when he insists she stops being Batgirl immediately, while he himself refuses to put Nightwing to rest. Barbara ends up going on one last mission, but ends up miscarrying later in the night.

Dick becomes even more infuriated at Bruce blaming him for the loss of their child, and after weeks of the fighting Barbara breaks up with Dick, citing that he cared more about fighting Bruce than making sure she was okay, and claiming that Dick was just like him.

Dick continues as Nightwing in Bludhaven, and ends up picking up a job in social work, mostly helping with foster kids. While the work is very fulfilling for him it further drives a wedge between dick and bruce especially when dick retires nightwing but bruce stays as batman. the last real time they interact is at Tim’s wedding, and maybe a few of bruces first health scares. I would say at the point of Bb that dick is less bitter and more just exhausted with bruce. He doesnt have the energy to be mad at him anymore but he also doesnt have the energy to be the first to reach out. I get the feeling hes had closer relationships with a few foster kids, maybe even taken in a few at some point but i do think one of the major themes should still be that dick and bruce are still two sides of the same coin, in this verse especially.

Barbara moves back to Gotham and enrolls in the police academy a year later, taking law classes at a nearby college on the side where she meets Sam Young, her future husband. After the two begin to date seriously, Barbara finds that she's infertile, and the doctor informs her that this was due to a birth defect, and not anything that could have been helped. She informs both Bruce and Dick of the fact, hoping it could at the least resolve some of the tension between them, but gets no response. When her and Sam marry, only Tim and his girlfriend show up, however Dick later shows up that night, and formally apologizes, wishing her and Sam the best before leaving again. Bruce later sends her a letter, doing similar, however rarely reaches out.

In terms of bruce the dcau timeline is a bit scrambled due to the years certain things aired but i imagine his last real romantic relationship he had wouldve been with Diana, partially because she mostly interacted with batman and not bruce which we know to be a cornerstone of this verses issues, wheras characters like selina tend to make him try and be both. I imagine it wouldve ended for the same reasons as to why he tried the lazarus pit in BB, not to mention his unrelenting need to push others away.

Also personally im not a huge fan of the cadmus reveal but its important to me that terry does at least Look like bruce either way, just because its funny and i know itd cause drama. On the other hand if he is half bruce then id be suprised if they didnt swap marys dna with someone elses (probably diana) either, why go half way. There is also notably no other wonder people in this verse altho its more due to those old licensing issues than anything else. Plus terry is sometimes confusingly strong outside the suit (yes im talking about him kicking over the lava lamp in rotj, that thing was fucking huge)