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WIP Wednesday: baby edition 2 electric boogaloo
More jondami, more or less following on from this snippet! Jon gets a continuation of The Talk from his dad. It's honestly a nice, wholesome chat, but he's still having a terrible time because he's 12 and mortified and of course he is, that's his dad, ew. (Bless him, it will only get worse from here lol)
His dad settled in next to him, still looking uncomfortable. “Okay. So, uh, Jon. I just thought maybe we should talk after yesterday.”
“After what? Nothing happened,” Jon grumbled. Which was true. Nothing had happened, and Jon had been acting like a total freak anyway. He’d had Damian in his room a thousand times already, but this time felt really embarrassing for some reason, and he hadn’t been able to keep a lid on it. Damian had given him a few weird looks, but he’d apparently been happy to ignore it since he hadn’t brought it up. But obviously, his dad would have noticed the way Jon’s heart was thumping away in his chest, even though he and Damian were just hanging around playing video games and eating ice cream like normal.
Having Superman for a dad was mostly really cool, but sometimes it sucked.
“Sure,” his dad agreed, in that way he did when he was obviously trying to be nice and talk around things. “But I wanted to check in anyway.”
Jon burrowed his chin into the neck of his hoodie and mumbled, “M’fine.”
“Right,” said his dad. When Jon glanced at his face, he looked uncomfortable and hesitant, like he was still trying to figure out what to say. “Well…I’ll be honest, I’m still trying to figure out what to say here.”
Despite his discomfort, Jon couldn’t help but snort out a laugh. His dad was kind of a dork sometimes.
His dad smiled a little, and went on, “So, Jon. I’m not going to make you talk about anything you’re not ready to talk about. But I need you to know that there isn’t anything you could do that would make your mom and I love you any less, okay? Anything at all.”
It took him a moment to realize what his dad was getting at. But then he twigged. It wasn’t just about Jon maybe kinda sorta liking someone for the first time. It was because Damian was a boy.
“I know, Dad,” he mumbled. He hadn’t really been thinking about Damian’s gender in all this, since he’d been too busy panicking about Damian. But now he was definitely thinking about it. Did this mean he was…gay? Or, uh, bisexual? Or maybe he just liked girls, like most boys did, and Damian was just the exception?
Jon didn’t really know. But still, it was kinda nice to hear that his parents probably wouldn’t mind either way.
“Good. And I said this before, you if there’s anything you wanna talk to me or your mom about, or if you’re confused or having trouble, you can always come to us. Growing up is tough for everyone, but you don’t have to go through it alone. Is there anything you’d like to ask me?”
Jon shook his head. It was only partly a lie: he really couldn’t think of anything he wanted to ask. He had questions, sure. For example: yesterday he found out that ice cream was just as dangerous as yoghurt. Now Jon was really starting worry that none of that was normal after all. Maybe he didn’t like boys after all, he just had some kind of weird "thing" for food, like some of the kids at school said Quentin Tarantino had a "thing" for feet. Jon had never actually seen a Quentin Tarantino movie because his dad wouldn’t let him (even though he’d seen way more violent stuff as Superboy, so it seemed kinda pointless to be honest) but he did know that having a "thing" wasn’t good.
Those kids had all giggled and said it was creepy. Jon really didn’t want to have a "thing".
...There was literally no way he could ever ask his dad about that, though.
#dc#my fic#damijon#jondami#jonathan kent#clark kent#damian is only mentioned#but his ghost haunts the narrative so to speak#this will be a persistent theme for the early parts of this fic
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I know that people love to headcanon Tim as a child of Athena, I personally like to headcanon him as child of Hades due to his similarities with Nico and the fact that dead seems to follow that kid like a motherfucker but never actually reach HIM.
But hear me out.
Tim as a child of Dionysus. And he gets claimed during the Bruce-quest.
When he was in Gotham monsters were a usual thing. You never knew that they were there for your godly blood, you just thought that they were things created by pollution or something like that. And when he became Robin fighting things that wanted to kill you while saying weird things was more usual than a hug (not that that was a hug standard for Tim).
But then everyone started dying. His parents, Kon, Bart, Steph, BRUCE. Everyone. Every. One.
And Tim…Tim couldn’t seem to reach madness. I mean YEAH he wasn’t doing great by any standard, but he knew madness, he grew up in madness, and he wasn’t going mad.
The cloning was just a treat.
And during the Bruce-quest, everyone thought he was crazy, he was casted away because everyone thought he was crazy CRAZY Tim can’t he crazy! He knows that! He knows that in his blood that going crazy isn’t a chance for him. He made everyone crazy when they were around him (hence Jason. He knew that Jason was mad at him from the start, but going near Tim lighted a flame inside him that Tim is sure isn’t completely Jason’s) but Tim couldn’t go crazy. He could ACT crazy. But never too serious.
And then, in the depths of Greece, he met his dad. His real dad.
He always knew that Jake wasn’t his dad. The blonde hair his mother forced him to dye since he was 5 and the purple eyes his father forced him to hide with contacts told him that. But Tim grew up looking up at Jack, even if Jack didn’t love him, he was the dad that decided to (figuratively) stay. And Tim loved him till death.
But when that man appeared, Tim knew, with only a moment of stares, that that man was his father. They talked a bit, too. The man knew about everything Tim was doing, and that creeped Tim out, but when the man made appear a glass of wine for Tim (and one side for himself) and Tim drank it, he knew what he was.
Something on the flavor, on the feeling. It was Tim. It was home. Something he hadn’t feel in a long time.
He spent the rest of the quest feeling sure that he would make it, because somewhere on the heavens his dad was looking out for him, he promised he was. And this time it wasn’t a figuratively sentimental bullshit. His dad was really helping on the heavens. And Tim was gonna make it.
He saw him again when the quest ended. He appeared in all of his godly glory while Tim was living in the nest. He opened a can of soda and sat on his couch like he wasn’t a man Tim has only met twice, but that was ok, because that was his dad, and he was choosing to visit him. (Also, he wasn’t going to say no to a literal GOD) .
He yapped for two hours about the kids at the camp his dad forced him to work at ( “HE IS SUCH AN A-HOLE SOMETIMES TIM YOU DONT UNDERSTAND-“) and the more he talked about that camp, the more invested Tim got. At the end of it the man, his dad, just looked at him in the eye and said “y’know if you were there we could do this more often. Yer a better listener than that centaur. Also, I think your brothers would like having you there”
He leaves immediately for camp after that. The family thinks Tim decided to leave them for not believing in him, so it’s a shock when he comes back after the summer being great with a sword and with a Tan his skin haven’t known before, not even after fighting crime during the hottest days on San Francisco, and he was happy, like actually happy. A kind of happy he never was with them.
Tim made friends there. He was friends with Annabeth, a girl from the Athena cabin, who honestly thought that Tim was one of them after they had a talk about strategies on the field and all that, and was about to fist fight Dionysus for claiming one of her brothers. She still called him brother, but now she understood that Tim was a Dionysus kid. And her boyfriend Percy. They talked all night about the weight of being a leader and having your people die without you being able to do anything. Percy talked about a boy named Ethan and two girls named Zoe and Bianca. Tim talked about Steph, Kon and Bart.
Tim told him about the Bruce-quest, and Percy told him about the time he was ready to fist fight a good to get his mother back from the underworld.
He also fully loved his brother. Pollux was great and made him feel welcomed to camp. They talked during lunch and Pollux showed him every single thing that made camp especial. He also teached him how to make fun of their dad without turning into a dolphin, so yeah. They got along like a house on fire.
He also made friends with a girl from the Aphrodite cabin. Her name is Drew. She was kind of an asshole and tried flirting with him, and THEY DID GET TOGETHER FOR A BIT, but after some time they decided they were better as friends. And friends they were. Best friend even.
He never told the Batfam any of this.
So after some months in Gotham there’s a cult going around calling themselves “Children of Dionysus” and doing atrocious things.
Duke walked in on Tim trashing the training room of the cave, and later on Jason walked in on Tim having his fourth bottle of wine.
Tim was FURIOUS. Not only that was disrespectful to his dad, but to his brother and himself too. He was going to pick every part of that little cult and trash it.
There he meets Bernard. Then they get on a relationship.
When a sathyr comes to take Bernard to camp Tim goes with him, excited to have his dad meeting his boyfriend.
Dionysus has never been more uncomfortable than when he had to claim his son’s boyfriend in front of him. It wasn’t that hard before! But now they had those things against incest on the human world and he knew this wouldn’t be pleasant to any of his sons.
#tim drake#dionysus#percy jackson#annabeth chase#castor and pollux#batman#bruce wayne#dc comics#dick grayson#Pjo au#bernard dowd#jason todd#duke thomas#dc robin#batfamily#stephanie brown#damian wayne#kon el#bart allen#THEYRE ONLY MENTIONED SORRY FOR USING THEIR TAGS IF UR LOOKING FOR ONLY THEM :(#Tim: dad this is my boyfriend Bernard#:He’s a demigod from Gotham like me!#Dionysus: it might seem crazy what I’m bout to say…
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Damian: Hello, Mother.
Talia: Greetings, Son.
Selina: Hi Dami!
Both Selina and Talia dead-glaring each other.
Talia: It's my Son. My flesh and blood!
Selina: And it's my stepson!
Damian: I'm afraid what since you and Father broke up I'm not your stepson anymore—
Selina: Huh? No, it's not about Bruce, I'm married to Talia.
Damian: What?
Talia: Yes, sorry I forgot to mention.
Selina: So that means he is my stepson!
Talia: I am not ready for you to call him so yet!
#This ship lives in my head😭😭😭#Does it even have a name like...I dunno#CatTalia#Because that's the only idea how ship can be called what goes into my head#Catwoman × Talia Al Ghul#Selina × Talia#Selina Kyle × Talia Al Ghul#Catwoman×Talia Al Ghul#Selina×Talia#Selina Kyle×Talia Al Ghul#Catwoman#Talia Al Ghul#Selina Kyle#Damian Wayne#Damian Al Ghul#Mentioned:#Batcat#BruTalia#Batman#Bruce Wayne
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I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry
#ramblings of a lunatic#dc comics#Jason Todd#batfamily#it's just a fun quirk! it's a fun lil detail and I simply cannot slight ppl for enjoying and incorporating it into works#like obviously jason isn't the only one. I'm a big believer in the batfam having over lapping interests they refuse to bond over#i know dick canonically used the robin hood stories (which are pretty flowery in their language far as i can tell) as inspo for Robin#and i know babs was a librarian and even tho her area of nerddom is characterized as more computery she probably knows quite a lot-#-about literature as well#duke is a hobbyist writer i believe? i saw a fan mention that- which if so is great and I hope he's also a nerd#(i mean he is canonically. i remember him being a puzzle nerd in his introduction. but i mean specifically a lit nerd)#damian called Shakespeare boring but also took acting classes so i think he's more of a theatre kid.#Tim's a dropout and i don't think he's ever shown distinct interest in english lit and i can't remember for Steph?#I'm ngl my brain hyperfocused on musician Steph i forget some of her other interests I'm sorry (minus softball and gymnastics!)#and then Cass had her whole (non linear but it's whatevs) arc about literacy and learning to read#went from struggling to read in batgirl 00 to memorizing Shakespeare in 'tec and is now an avid read in batgirls!#she's shown reading edgar allen poe but we don't know if it's his short stories or his poems#point to all of the above being: i know Jason's not the only lit nerd in the batfam#but also i do need him to be writing poetry in his spare time and reading and reviewing it#jason at the next dead robins society meeting: evening folks today I'll be assigning all of us poems based on laika the space dog#damian and steph who have been kidnapped and brought to jasons warehouse to hangout: LET US GO BITCH#speaking of^ random poem i think jason would like: space dog by alan shapiro#wake up one morning in an unfamiliar more mature body with a profound sense of abandonment. the last four lines. mmm tasty
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DPXDC Prompt #50
Danny had everything going right in his life for once, his parents knew he was Phantom and had accepted him and he was the high king of the infinite realms. The ghosts left the town alone for the most part, he would still train to keep up with his powers and training, and he was working towards peace between the realms. Makes sense that when everything is at its best that it would go wrong.
Suddenly his twin he hasn’t seen in years shows up on his porch claiming that the league of assassins is going to assassinate high king phantom.
#dp x dc prompt#dp x dc#dc x dp#danny fenton#danny phantom#danny and damian are twins#Only his parents sister and friends know#ghost king danny#All of my prompts are free to use#I probably won’t make them myself#I have limited DC knowledge but I know everything about DP#DP was my special interest I didn’t talk to anyone about as a kid#Have I mentioned I have like really bad imposter syndrome?
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Civilian Gothamites realizing they can get vengeance through Sword!Robin
Gothamites figuring out if they happen to mention a rogue treating animals poorly within hearing range of sword!Robin that rogue will be in custody with at least four fractures and a concussion and Damian being completely aware that like 63% of these people are lying but it’s the only way he can get experience with the nonlethal takedowns he’s experimenting with bc everyone keeps complaining about how he treats his opponents and allies
Like he’s guiding a civilian to safety and they mention that “this would be the worst thing to happen to me today if riddler didn’t stab my fucking cat” and this civilian does not own a cat but they did own a car that was just paid off but riddler fucking crushed it with a stupid ass hot air balloon that’s shaped like a fucking question mark and Damian is aware of this bc he was the one that verified the insurance claim (but he’s been looking for a reason to punch Nygma in the throat since his last Arkham escape when he called Damian a moron)
And he also knows that if he plays along with it and says ‘as if I’d let that gaudy and tactless imbecile get away with committing such atrocities’ when prompted that he’ll get away with barely a slap on the wrist like he gets three half hearted but long lectures he’s not going to listen to and an online sensitivity training seminar he goads Tim into completing (Damian and Tim 100% try to trick each other into doing work they don’t want to do and full heartedly believe the other has no idea what they’re doing)
Bruce’s tendency for finding small crashouts at risk of becoming future rogues in Gotham and deciding they need love & supervision but what actually happens bc he’s so fucking awkward is they get almost the same amount of supervision just with like an hour of intense helicopter parenting a week but honestly besides that they just have more money and resources to do fuck shit
Tim 🤝🏾 Damian: using the manipulation tactics they learned from their mothers then later improved on with help from an assassin cult and bat/cape interrogation questioning techniques on the homies
#Both central city and gotham are referred to as crashout central and no one’s ever sure which city is being mentioned unless a cape is named#random Gotham civilians outsourcing a rogue getting their ass kicked to a middle schooler with a katana is fucking funny#Damian & Tim 100% try to trick each other into doing work they don’t like and definitely believe the other has no idea what theyre doing#Whenever damian gets benched the civilians protest until he’s back on duty#and are just generally unhelpful like ‘answer your questions?? That’s crazy I got a question for you: where’s my guy??’#Random gothamite: Batman’s so mean like free my guy 😔 he didn’t even do anything?? He’s just a little guy#Their friend visiting from out of state who’s pretty sure they saw that kid fuck up a dinosaur with no backup: 🤨 ikyfl#the loa ninja who came for a welfare check: you’re joking right???#Sword!robin#robin 5#Robin V#gothamites definitely tried to count the robins but they change names heights & costumes so often that no one’s really sure#so there’s angry!Robin nerd!Robin emo!Robin blonde!Robin and sword!Robin#but there’s also the theories of robin being an amalgamation of every child ghost in Gotham or a shapeshifter with an emo dad#only in gotham#dc civilians#Damian Wayne#Damian Al Ghul#Damian Al Ghul Wayne#dc robin#robin#dc comics#Civilian Gothamites: that polite young man!!#The bats & everyone else that knows Damian: 🤨#Damian currently using psychological warfare against scarecrow a rogue w/ a doctorate in psych and winning: dr crane?? more like dr cringe#Damian: sometimes I just get the urge to weep inconsolably not out of fear but bc I know you believe yourself to be a threat & that’s false#Insurance companies in Gotham either make so much money it’s insane or every employee has 746 hits out on them at all times
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such a struggle making character playlists bc most of the time they’re young adult men who would be into stuff like classic rock and punk but my music taste is not diverse enough in that almost all of it strictly features “pop” as a suffix so idk anything from the genres that the characters WOULD listen to and when i try to make a playlist that would fit the character based on my music taste im staring at it like. “he wouldn’t even know who that is.” as a result i look like one of those stupid fans w terrible fandom brainrot acting like their 37yo grown ass man murderer pookie would listen to sad indie pop like pls be serious rn but plssss im self aware pls i know what it looks like!!!!!!
anyway i just swallow the pill and turn these grown men into teenage girls that spend too much time on tiktok (me) but just know that i know. i know that jason todd would not fucking listen to mitski. i know that uchiha sasuke would not fucking listen to taylor swift. i know that leo hamato in the bad future timeline would not fucking listen to the steven universe soundtrack.
#my only consolation is my very shallow furrows into emo/emo adjacent namely panic at the disco and paramore which add some spice and#normalcy not seen elsewhere#btw the songs for the characters mentions r jason todd and stay soft by mitski#sasuke and haunted by taylor swift (im being so fr when i say it fits so well)#the one w future leo is a stretch bc it was a playlist based on a fanfic but it was love like you (reprise) from steven universe#jason todd#sasuke uchiha#rottmnt leo#red hood#dc jason todd#uchiha sasuke#sasuke#leo hamato#leo rottmnt#future leo rottmnt#rottmnt leonardo#dc#dc comics#batman#naruto#naruto shippuden#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#sorry to be annoying but i’m also gonna tag the other characters i’ve made playlists of#dick grayson#tim drake#damian wayne#yaptown
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tbh it's kind of frustrating how so much of the online batfam media (eg. movies, TV shows, ect) show dick Grayson and Tim drake and Bruce Wayne more than anyone else
#this is brought to you by my desire to see jason todd#the only media i have is thr UTRH movie and the titans tv show#which i hate for a number of reasons#they did not get the characters right at all#and babs#anyway#its very frustrating and something i hope they fix in the battinson universe#i got thinking about it and theres very little media with steph and cass#and damian#no media with duke#jason is mentioned more but he isnt shown very often#idk that much about it though#i hope they pit babs in it as well cause shes mentioned more but not a lot#tim drake#jason todd#dick grayson#bruce wayne#barbara gordon#damian wayne#duke thomas#stephanie brown#cassandra cain
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i don't even think duke and bruce have a strictly father/son relationship because they're a lot more like what bruce and tim were doing while bruce had temporary guardianship over him but that still keeps duke as a core member so im gonna keep pushing him in conversations that ignore him for no real reason lol
#hes clearly not in the same position as steph or babs okay. he has parents but for the time that neither was able to care for him...bruce#was his primary guardian. until dc wanted a quick way to get him out and boom a new family member who wasnt mentioned up until now. yay#bruce was never the primary guardian (or a guardian at all) for steph or babs. he only did that for dick jason tim cass damian and duke#it puts duke in a different group from the ones who arent bruce's kids. so he is and he also isnt. just like tim was for quite a while
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Blessed is The Fruit of Thy Womb
tw: pregnancy, violence, dissociating
Inspired by @cyrwrites 's prompt which is just too good to not write about Talia being pregnant from the exposure from the Lazarus Pits. Saw the tag about "Damian having a complex due to danny's whole "Child of Lazarus" thing he's got going on" and ran with it. Also the religious allegations thing was inspired and I am so here for it. Ended up longer than i planned tho. Would probably add more to this. Enjoy.
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Damian Al Ghul was born a prince. An heir. The blood son of Batman and Talia Al-Ghul. The grandson of the Demon Head.
He is to have the world presented to him in a silver platter even before he reaches his majority.
And yet... that's not quite right, now, isn't it?
Because for all the gift of genes he has in his body, for all the training he has ever endure ever since he learned how to walk... that is all he'll ever be.
A genetic experiment on how to get all the appealing genetic material from both parents and make it into a child.
His mother did not even bear him!
Pregnancy is too much of a hassle, too restrictive, too dangerous for her line of work. She need not be bothered to undergo the burdens of pregnancy when she can create a perfect child in a test tube.
Yet for all her complaints and stilted explainations, why...
Why does it seem like she cared more for the Child that grew itself in her womb?The one that came out of nowhere. The one she birthed herself. The one that Damian seemed to keep losing everything to.
Ever since his mother's womb grew with child with a distinct energy only felt in the Lazarus Pits, she has became estatic and raving. She had claimed that the Lazarus Pits has Chosen her to bear the fruit of its power. The one true heir. The Incarnate of Immortality and Power.
She claims all the honor and the pains that came with it. She became obssessed with the Child even before it was born. Even more when it was born male and familliar feeling of power emanating the infant. The Child opened its eyes with glowing Lazarus green eyes and the scent of death clinging to its blood covered flesh. It did not cry when it was born but just opened its eyes seemingly judging the worth midwife's life in the mortal realm. It must have deemed it unworthy as it is said that the stare looked straight to her soul and drove her mad. Damian never really knew who did the final blow. Was it his mother, the midwife herself or if it was his... brother just as rumored. Damian did not care to know any of that only that the midwife and several other helpers did died that day screaming and bloodied. Their corpses dumped over to the Pits as an offering.
The first time Damian had looked upon those cursed eyes where the first he had ever felt real fear in his life. In the very young age of 10 was he formally introduced to the Child. It looked like a human but distinctly not at the same time. Like an entity thats trying too hard to appear human but forgets what humans look like half the time.
The Child unsettles Damian.
It began its training about the same age as Damian did and unsurprisingly took on the skills easily as breathing. With abilities that seems to only get stronger with time and added training. It is not as perfect as his Mother praise it to be as it is said to go off in bouts of mad rage that seemed to only calm after blood has been spilt. This stopped being a problem after they found out that constant baths in the Pits have a similar enough effect without thinning their forces from the whims of the Child.
Slowly, no matter how hard Damian trains, no matter how successful he is in each obstacles or tests thrown his way, he will never get that Honor he was raised to believe was rightfully his. He was put to the side. Once a future leader now in a role of a follower.
Damian Al-Ghul is a prince. A warrior. An assassin. A spare. A bargaining chip against his father.
For all that the Child is younger than him by a mere year, Damian, with his obvious superior combination of genes, is less than the Child of Lazarus himself.
No matter.
There is one thing the Child cannot claim over him.
He is the blood son of Batman. Not him. Never him. Batman has no claim to the Child either as his mother ravingly repeated over and over again. (As if to remind him of his place.)
He is the only blood son of Batman after all. Not him. Damian need not share what is rightfully his.
No. Of course not.
That is why when his mother told him that he is to pack up his belongings to live and train with his father, Damian did not hesitate nor did he looked back.
His father will be different, he knows this. He will value him more than some demon child from the pits, he is sure. Even if he has to prove himself for it.
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Danny is dissociating most of the time and feels like this is a very detailed hallucination post vivisection and cannot (dont want to) accept to awknowledge what is happening. He doesn't know what to do with himself if this was real. He has killed people here and sometimes in blind rage too. His core is very fragmented which means his memories are all over the place. Add that to his willful ignorance of the development of his apparent reincanation, he is very Messed Up.
To him, he is Danyal Al Ghul. Heir to the Demon Head, son of Talia Al Ghul, and Child of the Lazarus. But he is more than that, isn't he? He sees flashes of life before this. Of flight and action. Of family and friends. But that can't be right, can it? He feels like something else. Like someone else. But how can that be?
He emanated death energy all over because he can't control his emotions and powers as much as his teenager self. The ectoplasm in the air in the LOA's lair comes from the Lazarus Pits which is so corrupted from the amount of death, corpses, and heavily concentrated emotions, that it messes with Danny's head. He tried to get as much distance from the Pits as possible but Danny can't survive without ambient ectoplasm especially with his core being fragmented like this. When the stress got too much (which was often) he ends up in blind rage that only stops when someone dies and he hungrily absorbs up the ectoplasm from the freshly new corpse. And it goes over and over again until Danny decides that enough is enough. He doesnt want to not have complete control of his body nor does he want to kill more than what his new family is already making him to. He just has to suck it up and get his ectoplasm from the nearest available source: the Lazarus Pits.
After that, he stopped randomly killing people whenever he gets pissed. Being so hungry all the time, the ectoplasm from the pits started to become delicious to Danny but still. He tries to limit his consumption to the very minimum because it messes his head a bit wheter he notices it or not. So like 2-3 times a month. He stopped being deathly hungry.
His apparent "skill/genius" is just a abnormal one up from a normal child who had not lived half a lifetime growing up with a black belt ghost hunter mom who trains them to fight as mother-son bonding time. He didn't really go about it easily either. (Damian is just an unreliable narrator) He just instictively knows the basics and the theory but had to relearn how to do it in his new body that the League just polishes and sharpens to the max blinded by the idea of Danny being the Child of Lazarus. (Them being a cult and all) His hair becoming flame-like wisps and glowing eyes when angered did not help this theory. Nor did his inhuman strength and ghostly powers or his sharp teeth either. He seems to be able to use his powers even in his human form but ra's pissed him off so much one time he reverted to his ghost form...which became so twisted as the years has passed from all the trauma he has experienced and turned into a giant eldritch monster with way too many eyes and teeth, a cloud-like expanse of space and stars, and an Aurora Borealis encircled above his head like a crown. Ra's learned some lines drawn in the sand that day. He is overcome with both fear and poorly contained greed. His eyes dilated from the show of sheer power from this Child. Oh, how he hungers for it.
Danny, despite his nonexistent efforts, became a momma's boy. How can he not when his new mother showers him with love and affection near obssessively? His core subconsciously purrs in satisfaction from the attention despite the overall creepiness of the situation. His core imprinted on the woman already. Who cares if she's a bit crazy? His mother has always been a bit crazy. His memories of past!Maddie (pre-discovery/vivesection thingy) get muddled over and mixes up with memories of Talia which makes him latch onto her more. (Which Talia definitely encourages.) Because his mom is finally paying attention to him again :) she says she loves him :) and she doesn't want to rip him apart molecule by molecule :)))
(He knows. He asked! Although the words may have got tied up on his tongue and the question may have sounded more like a threat than what was intending to ask. But its all good! Surely his mother understood what he was trying to say because she immedietely hugged him and told him that she loved him very much and asked very nicely not to kill her. He is sure that they became closer after that. Talia is just thankful that her Child continues to recognize her as his Mother/Bearer and spared her from his usual rages. She is, of course, worth more than these other lowly mortals. Danyal is hers and hers only after all.)
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Damian, on baby's first crisis: I am the blood son of Batman. The ONLY son of Batman. Surely I don't have to share him with others :)
Me, nervously looking over my shoulder to see a line of robins and robin-adjacent children that had at one point dressed up as a caped traffic light or another: ...uhhh...
Me, looking at the other side seeing Terry Mcginnis and Helena Bertinelli/Wayne playing rock paper sissors : yeah... about that...
Damian is very biased here. Because how the fuck is he going to compete with a fucking demon pit incarnate??? He's got a lot of thoughts about being replaced here which ha! New flavor of trauma for my baby bird. :)
Love giving Damian a complex :) Wanna put him in a jar of pickles and shake it :)
Also would love to see Damian will arrive ready to prove his worth only to find out that Batman is dead/missing/stranded in the timestream and how it will affect his new flavors of complexes and issues. Lol Oh to be a fly on the wall of the batcave when that happens. Wait dont they have bats there? Flies would get eaten—
Lol someone calls Damian a demon child once and he gets geniunely offended. He hisses back that he is not a Lazarus Pit Baby and thats how the batfam finds out about danny. They all panic at first thinking that not only did Bruce have another secret child but said child is apparently still with LOA. And boy would that do wonders to Damian's buried insecurities. Damian is going going to experience some Emotions and he's going to make it everyone's problem.
Like mother like son.
Talia and possibly Ra's POV next
Anyways, here are them tags:
@emergentpanda-blog @skulld3mort-1fan @rosecinnamonbun @ver-444 @learning-to-fly-on-my-own @dannyphantomphan @yasminerd00 @blep-23
#DPXDC#DCXDP#Child of Lazarus!Danny#Talia got pregnant from being exposed to the Lazarus Pits and immedietely assumes shes like a Chosen One or smthn#talia gets pregnant and makes it everyone's problem#<=that tag was from the prompt and it was too funny to not add#test tube baby!Damian#creepy ras al ghul#obssessive talia al ghul#like mother like son#tw: pregnancy#tw: violence#tw: dissociating#only mentioned
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Bruce Wayne, who can't cook to save his life but can bake better than even Alfred. The catch? He can only do it in the night after being awoken by nightmares. No one knows about his extraordinary skills other than Alfred and Dick, because everyone assumes that the baked goods in the kitchen are made by Alfred. Dick knows because when he was younger and couldn't sleep because of nightmares, he used to join Bruce in the kitchen and watch him work.
Dick Grayson, who is an absolute disaster in the kitchen because he keeps getting distracted, but give him a microwave and a dream and he'll prepare a solid three course meal that actually tastes decent. He's also an excellent cocktail maker, which is funny since he prefers to have his alcohol straight without any mixers (he still puts the little umbrellas in his glass though, don't be mistaken)
Jason Todd, who is an ACE in the kitchen because he refused to ever be helpless with food again after getting off the streets. He was going to eat, and he was going to eat WELL. Especially since he finally had the resources to be able to actually experiment with what he likes and what he can do with different foods, instead of just what's cheapest or most easily found. The one thing he can't do? Crack an egg with only his hands without getting any of the eggshell pieces in the food. He needs to use one of those little egg cracking tools. The thing that pissed him off the most about this is that the one thing Dick can do brilliantly in the kitchen, is crack eggs with one (1!!!) hand only.
Tim Drake, who is definitely not michelin star level (the Drakes had a cook for Tim's entire childhood so he never had to learn), but has learnt to sustain himself with instant meals and those little ramen packets. He somehow always makes them taste good though, adding toppings and making sure they are some form of nourishing, even if that just means adding a fried egg on top and calling it a day. He also knows the difference between all the different little types of tea that alfred likes to drink just by taste, and is the only other person in the house that can make a perfect cup (that is Alfred approved). It always shocks everyone else, because Tim is notorious for hating the taste of tea.
Cass Cain, who has no culinary abilities and does not want them either. Her skills in the kitchen start and end with making sandwiches. But whenever she goes out to eat, she always goes to a chinese restaurant and gets something that she hasn't tried before, because she was never introduced to any foods of her culture and wants to taste them all now. Oh, and she can do super complicated tricks with the knives, her and Dick have constant competitions about who can do the coolest thing.
Steph Brown, who lives off of takeaway for most meals, but can make better breakfast foods than most people in the house. Waffles, pancakes, bacon, eggs, toast, you name it and she can make it. Only if it is traditionally eaten before noon though. She also worked as a barista part time for a while, so she knows all the fancy coffee recipes.
Damian Al Ghul Wayne, who doesn't care to cook other cuisines, but taught himself how to make almost every middle eastern and south asian dish he could get his hands on, because it helped him feel closer to his home and his mother when he first moved in with his father. His fondest memories of his mother are of her feeding him his cultural foods and telling him about their origins. It was the only time they did not speak of work, or his training, but instead about what his father was like as a person, about the things his mother has seen on her travels over the years, about his maternal grandmother, about his interest in animals.
Duke Thomas, who can cook enough for a 15 year old but doesn't touch the kitchen of Wayne manor very often, not unless he's just sitting on the counter watching others or helping minorly. His memories are still fresh enough to bleed when touched and all his memories of him cooking in the kitchen have his parents happily dancing in the background on Sundays with loud music blaring through the walls as they teach him how to chop onions without crying or knead dough.
Alfred Pennyworth, who only had the most basic culinary skills when he began working for the Waynes, just enough to keep him alive when he was in the military, but was forced to learn how to cook when he was unexpectedly given custody of an 8 year old. He can cook better than most professional chefs in the world now, but he still hoards Thomas Wayne's old cookbooks like they're the only tangible part left of the man who once filled the halls of the manor, even though he knows that's not true. He'll pass them down to his grandchildren one day...just not today. Today, they're still his.
#bruce wayne#dc#dc comics#dick grayson#tim drake#jason todd#batfam#4sh-n4#batfamily#alfred pennyworth#stephanie brown#duke thomas#damian wayne#cassandra cain#i think that the relationship people have with food is so beautiful#because food holds memories and culture and ancestory and community and distraction and joy and new experiences and so much more#and then for some food holds so much pain and hurt and insecurity#its different for each person and its so interesting to me that such a universal thing can be so deeply personal#but this post isnt about relationship with food its abkut relationship with making food with cooking#and really for a few of them it isnt even about that because its just about their skills not their memories#i might need to follow this up with a more in depth relationship about cooking and why they have the skills they do#and maybe one about only how they feel about food in general#but let me know if thats something anyone would want to read!!#can you tell that i love dick by the fact that i ended up mentioning him like thrice 😭
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Tim knew what it was like. To sit and listen to Dick or even Bruce get angry about how his parents raised him. He knew the confusion and the frustration because no his parents weren't perfect but they're still his and they loved him dammit-
He remembers. And now watching Damian looking at the ground with a blank look that spoke of someone far far away from the conversation at hand, Tim knew that Dick was once again giving unwanted opinions about a child's upbringing.
You'd think for someone who prides himself on reading people so well, Dick would know when to shut up about someone's complicated relationship with their mom but alas.
Or, Dick is a bit of a Dick, Tim has a bit of a backwards view on his childhood and passes that mentality to Damian. Idk being abused as a child but still caring deeply about the people who hurt you is very complicated. Read it though it's good I promise
#dc#dc comics#dc universe#batfam#batfamily#damian wayne#tim drake#robin damian#dc robin#fanfiction#batfamily fanfiction#fanfic#tim drake is a menace#tw#child abuse#child neglect#-mentioned only#but still#dick grayson
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The hatred I have for Tim drake (mostly his fans) should be studied because I don't even really fuck with the Batman that much.
For some reason he is everywhere and not that interesting to read about. Even his fanon version is boring asf.
#i only look for damian wayne content#which is hard to find for some reason#like hes in the weird limbo of being popular enough to get mentioned multiple times in other character content#but not popular enough to have his only personal content that doesn't also get intertwined with another character#like for duke or steph#they dont have a lot of content#but its like a clear division for them simply being a side character and a main character#almost forgot#anti tim drake
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the fact that bruce is shown to be a good cook after alfred dies makes me want to scream.
who do you think took the first step? maybe bruce says to alfred, "i want to be able to cook family dinner. i want you to sit at the table with me and eat a meal that you didn't make yourself." and maybe alfred accepts, not because he doesn't want to cook dinner, but because he can see that bruce has noticed him equating food with love, and bruce asking is an 'i love you' as much as alfred accepting is an 'i love you too'.
maybe alfred says to bruce, "i'm not going to be here one day, and somebody needs to make sure that you're all fed well and healthy." and maybe bruce accepts, not because he really believes that alfred is going to die someday, but because he can see that alfred's noticed his tendency to plan for the worst with such intricacy, and alfred offering is an 'i love you' as much as bruce accepting is an 'i love you too'.
#and maybe bruce started to plan the perfect family dinner for alfred only for bane to arrive first#and maybe bruce didn't so much as step into the kitchen for months after that#until damian mentions missing a specific dish that alfred had been teaching bruce#and maybe bruce finally enters the kitchen again and he can hear alfred's voice guiding him through the steps#and maybe when times get tough bruce finds himself in there going through every page of alfred's cookbook#bruce wayne#batman#alfred pennyworth
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Jon tries to prove that he knows Injustice Damian by mentioning how much Damian loved Dick, and while I think it's silly for Jon to automatically assume that his Damian and Injustice Damian have the same feelings for Dick, I can still find some satisfaction in the knowledge that, in the main universe, Damian's love for Dick is apparent to others, or at least, obvious to Jon. (Sure would've been nice if they had actually shown Jon making that observation between Dick and Damian or if he could tell based on the way Damian talked about Dick. Alas, DC didn't make time for such a thing.)
Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #4
"I know how much you loved Dick Grayson and what losing your brother could do to you. And I know you never would have intentionally hurt him."
#it's funny because injustice damian looks exactly like dick here lmao#also it annoys me that the only scraps of dick and damian content we've gotten recently have been from tt's runs#they appeared together in son of kal-el during some kind of potential future scenario#and then now their relationship is mentioned in adventures of superman which is also written by tt#Jon Kent#Damian Wayne#Dick Grayson#tuesday spoilers
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Wayne adopted him?? Bruce Wayne???
I can't imagine him being stable enough to be a parent.
In school, he was erratic. He did what he wanted regardless of the consequences.
He abandoned his company. His family's legacy. The only reason why Wayne Industries is--was staying afloat was because of Mr. Fox.
The mobs were hungry for his wealth and power. Wayne industries was the centre of a power struggle and the only heir just left!
And now he's in charge of my son? The man at the epicentre of violence and danger?
... I don't know.
It's been twenty years. I dont recognize the woman in the obituary. Maybe I wouldn't recognize the man who adopted my son.
Despite my reservations... he was always concerned with what he believed was right.
The problem is, a person who would do anyhing for their beliefs is dangerous.
#I dont even know who my son has become.#do I even have the right to be concerned?#tim mention#batfam mention#bruce wayne#dc red robin#tim drake#batman#batman and robin#dc robin#dc rp#janet drake#tim drake wayne#dc comics#dcu#gotham#only in gotham#dick grayson#jason todd#damian wayne#nightwing#red hood#tim drake robin#robin dc#homebound arc
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