#cryptic batfam

[guesswhoisofftheirmedsagain]

Cryptic Tim AU

In which Kon is his normal, kryptonian self, currently dating his semi-cryptic boyfriend from Gotham. Tim has a human form that’s very conventionally attractive (he think he look average, he is very wrong). His true form is a freak of nature/ very unsettling. Kon knows about his other form, but he has never seen it for himself.

Tim is so, so scared that Kon will leave him the moment he sees what he really looks like, he is terrified of it. (aka ✨insecurities✨)

After a lot of convincing, begging, promises, words of affirmations and love, Tim finally reveals his true, creepy as hell Cryptic form to Kon, who immediately discovers many new things he really, really like about his partner.

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Bruce died once

It was his early days of Batman, before he had littles running around the manor or joking across the field

He died after a slow night (for those first couple of years it was considered a slow night anyway) and went to the manor to get ready for a WE meeting

Alfred was out shopping

He cut a corner too sharp and stubbed his toe

He kneeled over a few minutes later and just

Died

It wasn’t for very long or anything

Bruce Wayne is a stubborn man and fuck you if he’s going out from a stubbed toe

No one knows about it

No one asks why he doesn’t use that hallway

[wellensittich01]

Dick 9 times out of 10 failing to hide a severe injury from the rest of the batfam because without fail when he’s tired or drugged or generally not firing on all cylinders his native accent comes out as thick as the day he met Bruce.

- - -

Bruce: Dick come down for a check up I saw you take that hit for Tim.

Dick, halfway towards the cave exit and still going, in the quietest voice possible: im fine

Bruce: Say squirrel and you can leave.

Dick:

Bruce:

Jason:

Tim:

Damien:

Dick: …skweeerrehl.

Jason: Get him boys.

[webshood]

Bruce and Talia in their on-off arc, where sometimes Jason would wake up and Talia was at the manor, they would play happy family for a couple of days before things went wrong again, Talia managed to fill up an entire album with pictures of the three of them, valentine's day, Jason's birthday, their skiing trip for the winter holidays – Dick went too, but refused to have a good time, he was just there to make sure Talia wasn't poisoning Jason's mind.

Talia later on re-created these moments with Jason and Damian, he was catatonic for some of the photos, but after she got Jason's stuff figured out it was all smooth sailing. So while on his murder tour, Jason had to go spend a week with his pseudo-mom and a five year old Damian, because she wanted to keep record of her boys growing up.

She has a album full of infant-toddler pictures of Jason and her, "mommy and me" style that he has no idea how she managed to get done.

[froldgapp]

Casual Batfam* scene of Jason diligently working through his favourite weekly cryptic crossword only for Tim to drift by and immediately solve a sticky, awkward and tenuous clue with a single glance**.

[mattiebluebird]

I keep seeing a lot of posts saying that Duke started a gang, but like. No He Didn't. The Robins existed before Duke ever joined them -- and Duke only joined because of Alfred's interference. The We Are Robin comic starts with Duke searching for his parents and stumbling onto a Court of Owls meeting, then the Robins show up and save him at Alfred's behest. Duke didn't start a gang, the gang found & adopted him.

[nicomoon69]

the batfam thinks tim is autistic and are like “yoo he’s like me frfr”

in reality he’s a cryptid (and autistic)

[celaenaeiln]

Nightwing: We need to get in but picking the locks is going to set off the alarms.

Red Hood: Time to blow it wide open. I know you’re gonna say you-

Nightwing: Good idea.

Red Hood: -hate it. wait what?

Nightwing: Good idea.

Red Hood: For real?

Nightwing: Yeah

Red Hood: Y-yeah. Yeah of course it is, I came up with it. *excitedly* I got my batbombs handy just for this.

Nightwing: *pulling a bazooka out of thin air* no need, I got this handled.

Red Hood: Where did you get that?!

Nightwing: On the count of three. One, two, three-

Nightwing: Fire in the hole!

Red Hood: Yo dickhead, that was pretty cool!

Nightwing: thanks *yeeting the bazooka at Jason*

Red Hood: *touched* You’re giving this to me?

*Batman descending moments later in righteous fury*

Batman: RED HOOD! HOW DARE YOU BLOW UP THE BUILDING, YOU COULD’VE INJURED THOSE INSIDE!

Red Hood: Wha- it wasn’t me! It’s Dick’s! He just handed it to me!!

Batman: *turning to look suspiciously at Nightwing*

Nightwing: *tilting his head at Batman* *then sighing dramatically and pathetically* yeah, it was me…

Batman: *staring* *turning back to Red Hood* YOU ARE FORBIDDEN FROM EXPLOSIVES AGAIN FOR A MONTH.

Red Hood: IT WASNT ME! IT. WASNT. MEEEEE. AND WHAT’RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!

Batman: OR ILL TELL AGENT A ABOUT THE GARDEN INCIDENT

Red Hood: FUCK YOU!

Batman: *storming off in a flurry of vengeful shadows*

Red Hood: YOU.

Nightwing: *wrenching the bazooka back from him* No explosives, little wing.

Red Hood: YOU DID THIS.

Nightwing: *darting in to give a quick hug and backing out before Jason can react* it’s for your own safety, little wing, you got hurt last time when you blew up that warehouse in Bulgaria. Nothing personal. Love ya! See ya! *grappling away*

Red Hood: ……..

Red Hood: *scream of utter rage*

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Reading the spoiled brat fic and just imagining if Jason told Tim to his face that he was selfish and didn’t care for anyone for himself, and making myself cry think about all Tim sacrificed for them and specifically what he’d sacrificed for Jason.

OH HO BUDDY- You are giving me ideas and I LOVE IT.

Seriously out of everyone Jason would and has proven to be my favorite for dramatic irony. But also insensitive enough to say something like that in the heat of the moment without knowing the bigger picture.

But as a treat- Let me just say we are far from done with the circumstances around Jasons death vs now non death, a sacrifice was made- but just not in any way you'd likely imagine.

Thank you for the ask my dear anon <33 (@op-sys-chaos, I have ideas about how we got to #1)

[plagueislost]

holy shit. i’m so smart.

…updates coming to bruce’s wing au design soon (not that soon i’m still swamped with schoolwork)

[obsessionexpert]

Damian Wayne is absolutely trans

So much trans energy

So I propose Trans Fem Damian Wayne with they/she/he

Gender:

Gender is more some foggy but solid quality, but in there is some feminineness, hence them identifying with trans fem as a simple label she slapped on so that they didn't have to question longer since it didn't feel wrong.

Discovery:

I don't think he'd spend much time thinking about her transness. Only reason she discovers it being that her dysphoria gets really bad, so they embark on a secret quest to figure out what's bothering her so she can no longer be a potential liability especially if this thing gets worse. "This thing" being transness.

They come out to Dick by announcing she is neither girl nor boy and he shall respect that. Then struts out of the room to avoid conversation. Next time Dick sees Damian its while Dicks talking on the phone about Damian (for some unrelated things) uses they on the phone, notices dami, mutes himself, asks if that pronoun set is okay. Damian is like "tisk is it not obvious" and Dick asks if other people can know, and about damians name. Damian clears up that yes everyone can know (tho not the general public) and yes she's fine with their name.

Finding out he's trans fem is a different story that probably involves a late night conversation/confession/pondering of transness. I'm leaning with Tim.

Pronoun Elaboration:

Damian wouldn't put that much effort into pronouns. She ponders what pronouns they'd be okay with for thoroughness because obviously they can't leave their research half-done, but caring about pronouns is an additional grievance that others can use as a weapon and it'd be weak if something so insignificant others don't really care about became something that could be used to harm them.

I do think Damian would end up using she more as Damian and the people around him, get more used to seeing her as trans fem. Especially as they transition more visibly (btw when I say transition I mean all kinds of transition. Damian's transition is mainly social for a while but this applies for when he does medically transition too)

Dysphoria:

He doesn't really get social dysphoria, it's a lot more bottom dysphoria, physical dysphoria in general, and even the way she internally genders herself, but they do like being included in stuff like girls night and other groups/activities intended to be exclusive to girls. Damian doesn't really get how others (Like Jason who I also head cannons as trans) can be bothered by the wrong pronouns and stuff other than being a pride thing (Like it would mostly be for her).

Physical Transition:

Damians transition goals aren't really that physical. Maybe way farther in the future he might consider going on E but since that could decrease his physical possibilities they probably won't want it anytime soon. It might change depending on how canon goes for him. She figured out she was trans too late for puberty blockers, but he does want bottom surgery as soon as they discover transness. (Which isn't happening. I don't have an age yet for when this happens but they're not a teen yet). Damian as a teen goes through a phase of trying to build more lean/less bulky muscles but that ends somehow. The influence of muscly woman in her life and the general shattering of that traditional framework combined with Damian prioritizing what's needed for vigilantism.

Social Transition:

They tried wearing breast forms but some light hearted remark, embarrassment, and dysphoria led to them never trying it again. Damian doesn't want the general public to know, but everyone she deems as important enough to know personal info about him does. (Probably a pride thing and plus who wants the Gotham upper crust to rag on you *cough* what happened to Dick *cough*) Damian does give in (Begrudgingly they insist) to getting more traditionally feminine clothing and they definitely wear it. At first to kind of challenge the batfam, because really how far are they going to let him go? Surely they won't keep up with this when she wears a skirt? It's less out of any real desire for this to be in her wardrobe, but lo and behold it ended up mingling a bit with the rest of his fashion. They end up growing their hair out in a still short (The style only goes down halfway to his neck at the longest) but more androgynous haircut. Damian also employs the use of a plain dark green headband to "push back the longer hairs blocking her sight" even though he would never let his hair grow long enough to block her sight and really the hairband is for aesthetics sake more than functionality most of the time. The headband is a gift from Alfred.

Conclusion:

Holy shit I have so many trans batfam head cannons. Expect a part 2 to this probably

[guesswhoisofftheirmedsagain]

Going to go ahead and make a list of my posts, because if I don’t do it now I’ll never do it

Kon El Rockstar AU (TimKon)

Post 1: The Meeting

Post 2: Dates

Mini Post: Villain AU of this AU

Mini Post 2: Meet the parents?

Mini Post 3: Identify Reveal

Post 3: First Kiss

(to be continued)

Royal / Wings AU (TimKon)

Post 1: Kon’s POV

Post 2: Tim’s POV

Mer Tim AU (TimKon)

Post 1: The Rescue

Post 2: The Tower & Sushi Dilemma

Mini Post: NEWS!

One Offs: (For now)

The Swap (TimKon)

Cryptic Bats | Tim (TimKon)

Alternate Dimension (TimKon)

Teacher Jason (Jason & Tim)

Performer Tim / Bodyguard Kon (TimKon)

Kon Discovers Ao3 (Implied TimKon)

Shapemates | Idea Concept + TimKon

A Dead Birds Chick (Jason & Tim)

Wattpad Universe

Small Head Cannons

Post 1: Pearl Necklace

Post 2: Food Differences (TimKon)

Post 3: Purring (TimKon)

Post 4: K-12 scrapbook

Post 5: Kon knows sign language

Bite Sized AUs

Post 1: Ghost Kon El (implied TimKon)

Post 2: Vampire Kon

Post 3: Caught in 4K (TimKon)

Post 4: Fake Wings (Batfam)

Post 5: Shipping Square (TimKon)

Post 6: Joker Hunters Club

Post 7: Randomized Powers

[mikeluciraphgabe]

I love it when artists draw Batman as a vaguely shaped ball of justice

[doerot]

Maybe I'm just a sucker for haunted houses, but the idea that Gotham is alive, a living breathing entity with a beating heart, one that has been sick long before anyone has ever shown up, is intrinsically tied to how I read batman comics. And if one was to spend a whole lot of time in a deep underground cave system, well. Whose to say really.

[cryptid-crow-writing]

I’m just dying laughing cause Clue could be off the table too because it just ends way to quickly. So if they really wanted to play the game they would have to spice it up and set it up as a game through out the whole Manor and Bruce is just off to the side pouting because he is the murder victim, every time. Rarely is it someone else cause other wise it isn’t worth it. Essentially in the end it ends up as a weird mix of Among Us and Clue made live action and a lot more chaotic. Occasionally if one of the bat sibs get really hurt they get victim so that they don’t need to move as much as the others.

Game night at the manor is fun, until it comes time to choose what game to play

Twister? Nope. Not with Dick in the house.

Scrabble? Jason knows more words than anyone. Not to mention he's a world class bullshitter so they never know if he's making them up off the top of his head or not.

Poker? Cass somehow beats everyone. Every time. She also refuses to tell anyone who taught her the rules.

Monopoly? Alfred banned Monopoly. Forever. It was also the night he almost banned Damian from carrying weapons in the house.

Uno? Nobody can agree on the rules, and 'draw four' cards have resulted in stitches.

Jenga? Babs is world champion. No question. No contest.

Trivia? Steph and Duke teamed up and wiped the floor with every other team the last trivia night. Bruce has still not recovered.

Cards against humanity? Tim destroyed the deck after the last time they played turned into a therepy session.

[ghostiebird]

i feel like Tim's the kind of person to say random cryptic bullshit just to fuck with people psychologically. especially post-timestream, with his new Red Robin reputation.

Tim, sitting silently at the Batcomputer, working a case:

Dick, fifteen feet away training:

Tim, suddenly slowly turns to look at Dick: "They know." *walks out of the Cave*

Dick, terrified and trying to follow him: "Tim? What? Tim, what do you- Tim, Timmy, what do you mEAN-"

Jason and Tim on patrol:

Tim: "Do you see them, too?"

Jason: "Who?"

Tim: "Them, of course. They see all, but few see them." *points behind Jason, then slips into the shadows when he looks away*

Jason, seeing nothing, turning to find himself alone: "Tim, what the fuck-"

Batfam at movie night:

Tim halfway through: "They're watching." *again, leaves (for more popcorn, but the others don't know that)*

Everyone, thoroughly disturbed: "Tim, what the fuck does that mean get back here TIM EXPLAIN-"