#deaged duke thomas

[ky-landfill]

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[punkeropercyjackson]

Duke as The Outlaws' Robin🔛🔝

[yeetus-feetus]

Duke is a much smaller Duke one day, he's lost all his memories beyond the young age he is now and he's scared and confused.

He doesn't know where is. But then there's Tim, his Robin! And suddenly everything is ok.

The bats have no idea what's going on, but Duke refuses to go to anyone but Tim. He's also a little ball of energy bouncing off all the walls, and Tim is SO tired. "Robin- Tim, come play tag with me!"

One night Tim ends up passing out at his desk, a sleeping Duke cuddling into him on his lap.

Except when Duke wakes up Tim is small too.

And he doesn't remember who Duke is!!

So Duke reintroduces himself and Tim let's himself be dragged downstairs to the actually Batcave!

Bruce is looking at them in absolute astonishment, they're so small!!

Damian laughs at Tim's smallness and Tim gives a cold glare. Maybe age can't change some things.

"where are Nightwing and the new Robin?" Tim asks.

"I'm Robin."

"no, I meant Jason!" Tim huffs and crosses his arms. Ah, he's so young he still believes Jay is Robin.

Duke is still clinging to him, but Tim can't bring himself to mind all too much.

Bruce doesn't know how to handle these boys, between a hyperactive Duke and an absolute menace Tim.

Dick tries to help, but even he can't keep up with the mischief and shenanigans they get up to together.

"dick pick us up!"

"yeah! Pick us up pick us up! And swing us around until we get dizzy!"

"again!"

"again!"

It's time to bring out the big guns, and by that they mean calling Jason over to the manor.

Tim settles immediately, but Duke remains overly weary around the large man with guns strapped to his thighs. He's kinda scary.

But Tim likes Jason well enough. At some point he ends up cuddled up with Jason who's stretched out on the couch, and Duke is just a little bit jealous.

"hey stop hogging him! Tim is mine," Duke pouts.

Jason raises an eyebrow at the boy, and Tim tilts his head. "You know there's enough room for both of us up here, right? Jason is a lot bigger than he used to be."

Duke considers this. "Mm okay, but only because you're up there". And he climbs up into Jason's lap to cuddle into Tim's side.

It's calm for a moment, until Duke starts to fidget, not able to stay still for too long. Jason let's put an annoyed noise and looks at them over the top of his book. "Would you quit it I'm tryna read here".

"what are you reading?" Duke asks.

"Macbeth."

Tim scrunched his nose up. "Why are you reading that?"

"I like it. Reminds me of school", and Tim catches something in his tone that Duke absolutely doesn't.

"it sounds silly. Will you red it to us?"

Jason looks at the both of them for a very long moment before signing. "Sure, but you've gotta stay still, your knees are already in my ribs."

The three of them all end up falling asleep like that, tucked into the lounge and curled up together.

Except when they wake up in the morning, Jason is scrawny little boy, even smaller than Tim and Duke.

Tim explains what he can to the tiny Jason as Duke sneaks some snacks from the kitchen cupboard for them.

Cass catches them stuffing their faces with junk food and squeals. "Three baby brother's now!" And scoops them all up as the quick and try to squirm away.

"gotta tell B"

"wait who are you exactly?" Jason asks.

"big sister", Cass smiles and pets his curls.

"no way! Really? That's so cool, I've never had a big sister before", he exclaims.

Cass carries all three of them down to the Batcave because she's so strong and awesome! And Jason can't believe he ends up with such a cool sister.

"Batman!!!" Jason shouts in pure excitement, and Bruce turns around and almost cries.

Because look how small!! Oh baby Jay lad!! So precious and smol!

"I think the de-aging syndrome may be contagious", Tim speaks up. "You should have us all properly quarantined until you can find a cure."

quarantine is fun, for Jason and Tim at least (tiny Tim is plotting revenge on whoever caused this, Jason is reading and occasionally shouting at the characters). Duke can't stand having to stay still in the same one room for so long.

idk where this is going, but consider this awesome 3am idea of mine

[speedforce-zoomies]

You know… I can’t stop thinking of a specific type of deaged Tim Au

One where Tim blinks awake and instead of Bruce and Alfred and Dick and Barbs in the cave with him it’s Bruce and a tall man in a red helmet, two teens, one in yellow and the other in a Robin suit. There’s also a couple of girls, one blonde, one with short black hair.

And everyone’s starring at him but Tim’s pretty good at rolling with the punches, so he sits up and waits for Bruce to make introductions and he looks at Tim and Tim looks back unflinchingly and so he does, “This is Jason,” and Tim looks at Bruce for confirmation. The man nods so he offers his hand and when Jason hesitantly shakes it, Tim says “Welcome Back” Jason blinks, in surprise? and just nods in response.

“This is Damian, my son” Tim looks at him and cocks his head, he doesn’t let it show on his face but he’s trying to put the pieces together, was he in the future? Has he been deaged? Has he been in a coma for several years? He doesn’t ask any of that, just “Talia?” after a moment and Damian nods, and Tim smiles at him, hand out “It’s great to meet you, hope our transition was smoother than all the other legacies” he jokes and Damian grimaces as they shakes hands and Tim laughs, not really amused, “Yeah, guess it wouldn’t be, would it?”

He ignores the weight of the silence and heavy the tension in the air.

Bruce nods to the other teen, who’s already reaching over to pat Tim’s shoulder, “Hey, Duke,” He introduces himself, “We’re all glad you’re alright man. Try not to do that again, will you?”

Tim nods, “I’ll do my best,” he promises, amusement clear. It’s reflected in Duke’s expression.

“My daughter, Cassandra” Bruce introduces the young woman with short black hair and she and the blonde hug him without much warning, “and her best friend, and one of yours, Stephanie.”

So not a coma, then. That makes sense, his body doesn’t feel different enough from… whenever he last was… actually…? He kind of wishes that they’d focus on introductions after telling him what’s going on.

He nods even as he relaxes slightly into the hug.

There’s something Bruce isn’t saying, something off about the way he’s emphasizing my but Tim chooses to ignore it.

They break the hug and Tim tries to be still, to be patient, to relax amongst the stranger’s surrounding him.

He doesn’t ask about Dick, or Barbara, or Alfred or Helena, even though he really, really wants to.

He is about to ask what happened when suddenly Dick is sliding past the door that is also a clock and racing down the stairs, skipping steps, and Tim lights up.

He’s older, his hair is different, but he’s Dick.

Tim jumps off the cot, stumbles a bit, but shrugs it off, even as several pairs of hands reach out to steady him and runs and throws himself at Dick.

He face plants into the others chest and Dick gathers him close, laughing in relief as Tim relaxes his weight fully, trusting his brother to keep him safe in a place that that’s never really had enough people to fill it up before but now feels suffocating.

Tim lets Dick pat him down, checking for injuries without much complaint.

The computer flickers on and Oracles green face pops up on the screen… there’s something that pings in his head when she breaths out his name but he ignores it in favor for pulling away from Dick to wave at her brightly, she says his name again but it’s happy and tearful all at once, telling him how close of a call it was… whatever it was that happened to him.

He then throws himself backwards where Dick is already ready to catch him and he laughs at Dick’s exasperated but fond exhale.

The others stare, in silence.

Tim avoids Bruce’s eyes, to be polite, the man is older and wearier than he was before, and Tim tries to not show it on his face.

Dick ushers him back to the cot and sits down on it with him, letting Tim rest against his side, arm around the fourteen year old’s shoulder.

Bruce isn’t the man he remembers him to be, a shadow in his eyes that Tim has never seen before, even as he kept the man from completely sinking into his grief with stubbornness alone.

There’s something off about Barbara, her voice subdued.

Alfred is notably missing and no one brings up Helena.

The blonde, Stephanie, is typing furiously, shoulders hunched like she was trying to hide behind Cassandra, though of course, she couldn’t, really, telling Tim there were others, even more people who wanted updates.

He feels off footed.

He says nothing.

He curls up to Dick whose talking, what he’s saying is important because it’s coming from Dick, but it’s not relevant to the situation he finds himself in currently so he lets his bother’s voice mostly wash over him as he takes in his ultra vigilant audience, tracking their movements and taking notes of their expressions.

There’s something off about these people.

He keeps it to himself.

At least Dick is here.

[loraliewritesthings]

Family reactions :

Dick is in the yard and bam starts ugly crying. Like Jason doesn't even have to explain

Duke is straight up confused. Poor guy has not been here long enough to process this. Does pick up tiny b

Alfred sees tiny Bruce and immediately covers everyone's ass by calling them army friends. He then excuses himself. He never got to say goodbye to the sweet innocent child Bruce was and he may be crying

At this point everything has been explained in the amazingly encrypted group text.

Tim being surprisingly good with kids tells Bruce his parents had to fly out for a buisness meeting, and tiny itsy bitsy Bruce says "it's ok, I'm used to it. You can go home if you wanna." And Tim's heart just breaks

Cass sees him next and he straight up called her the coolest. She is smug, very very smug.

Steph plays babysitter. And decides to never let it go. Bruce will never condescend to her again. She takes pictures. He will never ever live this down.

Barbara waited for a childish wheelchair comment but it never came.

This whole time Damian is incredibly nervous. It's a strange feeling when your dad is the same age you are. He would rather die then admit it but he's worried that young Bruce won't like him. Bruce takes one look and decides he's his cousin.

At some point Jason excuses himself to go smoke and tiny b burst into tears "I don't want you to die uncle Jason, I don't, I don't i" the kid cut off hyperventilating and suddenly Jason felt like a younger more innocent child too. Slowly he set down the cigarettes and excused himself to the bathroom.

AU, where Bruce accidentally gets de-aged (physically and mentally), and the first person he bumps in is... Red Hood.

To Jason's defence, he didn't connect the dots at first. He was just patrolling around his usual turf, thinking of nothing in particular, when he saw a small child in a ridiculously serious suit, sulking around Crime Alley. He looks distraught, and considering that he looks rich, it is no surprise - that is not a place for him. So, he is either lost or something happened, right?

He takes the helmet off, as he usually does when he is dealing with kids (they got scared easily) and carefully approaches a brooding baby.

'Hey, shrimp. Where are your parents at?'

That said shrimp turns around, his big blue eyes looking confused and lost, and Jason thinks he looks awfully familiar.

'I am not shrimp,' he protests instantly, pouting at him. 'And they are somewhere... here. We just left the movie theatre together!'

Jason glances at the abandoned movie theatre, back at the little rich boy with a familiar frown, and it clicks. This is his fucking dad. Suddenly, a kid - but it is fucking Bruce Wayne, for sure.

'Was watching Zorro by any chance?' Jason still asks, just to be sure that he is not going insane.

Bruce - and it must be him - beams at him.

'Yes! This is a great movie, by the way.'

Oh, hell. At least, he didn't witness his parents' death just yet. Jason wasn't sure he would be able to deal with his father being so small, and mourning his mom and dad. He would probably cry himself at some point.

'Hey,' Jason calls out for him slowly, squatting down; God, who would've thought that this little shrimp would become so tall and big in the future. 'Aren't you... You must be Thomas's kid, right?'

Okay, yeah, Jason is going to lie to this kid. Because there is no way he manages just to steal Bruce as a stranger to bring him back home; it is still a kid, even if it is his father. Right?

'You know my dad?' Bruce tilts his head, little fingers tugging on the hem of his jacket; suspicious.

'You could say that,' Jason nods. 'Alfie... I mean, Alfred called me. Asked me to pick up a kid, since Thomas and Martha got an urgent call.'

Fuck his life and stupid life choices. What the hell he was even doing? He looked like a mugger; or like a psycho. But Alfred was his best bet - he could call him, after all; ask, well, support his idiotic made-up story.

'No one calls Alfred Alfie but my dad,' Bruce pouts in a very, very spoiled manner.

'Well... I do. We served together in the army,' he blurts out.

His armour, apparently, is enough a proof for the kid to nod slowly.

'Okay. But you gotta take off your strange mask first,' Bruce folds arms on his chest.

...???

Did this kid just agree for an unknown man to take him home? Like this? Who could've thought that this pouty child would become the most paranoid man alive in the future?

'Uh, why?'

'So I can remember your face and do an identikit, if you turn out to be a bad guy,' Bruce smirks stupidly. 'Duh.'

Jason is going to cry. This kid is so cute.

'Yeah, duh,' Jason huffs, but despite his better judgment takes the domino mask off as well. 'Go on, take your time. My identikit should be the prettiest, shrimp.'

Bruce... gawks at him. His eyes are comically wide now, mouth open, and then, he jumps a little closer to him - oh, God, he is jumping when excited? - putting his hellishly cold hands on Jason's cheeks.

'Woah. You look like dad.'

'Uh,' Jason nods awkwardly, and because he is an idiot, adds a joke: 'We are brothers, actually. Just don't talk much.'

...Apparently, little Bruce can't take jokes. Because he lets out an adorable gasp, and throws himself on Jason as if they knew each other for ages now.

'Uncle? That's so cool. You look like Zorro!'

Damn this little kid, and this stupid family. Damn Joe Chill and the night he killed this kid's parents. Damn it all. Bruce might be an asshole sometimes, but he was so... cute and innocent.

'Thanks, shrimp,' Jason slides a domino mask back on, picks up little Bruce with one arm, and grips a helmet with another. 'Come on, let's go home. Alfred will make your favourite tiramisu.'

'You know my favourites?!'

Jason sniffles.

'Yeah. Yeah, I do, kid.'

If he gets so emotional over this kid, he has no idea how worse Dick is going to be once he finds out.

Oh, this is going to be one hell of a night.

[megaaceofspades]

hmmm deaged duke thomas REFUSING to let batman nightwing or red hood near him because when duke was a kid batman had just lost robin and was super violent on the streets, nightwing was in blud so duke wouldnt really know him and red hood has guns??? what??

and duke (this is the kid who reads people flawlessly and also trained to beat the riddler from an young age) is evading capture at every turn. his powers are erratic and hes starting to get scared, the manor will not let him out, and where are his parents-

when suddenly there he is. duke thomas’s robin, and his most trusted protector, tim drake.

just more of duke thomas with the tropes the other brothers get hit with all the time, and also more of tim being dukes robin please!!!

[caffeinatedvigilantewriter]

MASTERPOST

Editing as I post more :))

This is not in any order, just randomly listed

⭐️ next to my favorites :))

DC X DP PROMPTS

Dani is Dicks older sister

Tim x Danny Coffee Shop AU

Danny, Dani, and Dan joined different hero groups (check reblogs lol)⭐️

Dan get reincarnated as Bruce Wayne⭐️

Trans!Danny is Steph’s daughter

Dani x Damian Collage Professor AU

Dani as the eldest Wayne/Bat

Older brother Danyal AU

Dani joins the JL + more kids for Bruce

Tucker and Duke are cousins

Demon Twins AU with a twist

Team Phantom tries to kill the Joker

Dani x Damian + deaged Danny in Gotham⭐️

Sam Manson? More like Sam Wayne

Liminal Damian Wayne

“Immortal’ Dani joins the JL

Dani joins the LOA willingly

Haunted Forest grows around Amity Part 1

Haunted Forest AU Part 2

Halfas can’t use their powers while human AU idea

Team Phantom gets deaged and adopted by separate batboys⭐️

Deaged Dani in Arkham asylum

Dani x Dami: soulmark AU

Government Coverup

Sam Manson Demon Twins AU

Dani is Bruce’s never before mentioned eldest child fic

Secret Ghost Royalty Dani Wayne

Damian and Dani stranded in Quarantined Amity Park ⭐️

- Part 1

- Part 2

Combat-Trained Casper High in Gotham

Dani x Dami: Bitter Soulmates AU⭐️

Dani x Dami: Plane Crash AU

Dani x Dami: Anon Singer AU

Dani adopts Billy Batson

Dani joins the Teen Titans

Danny x Duke: Missing Person AU(??)

Dani is working in Ethiopia and saves Jason

Dani is Damian’s ‘sister’ and ‘magic’ trainer (check reblogs) ⭐️

Demon Twins with ‘civilian Danny’

Batman Beyond w/ immortal Dani

They used to be…

Dani x Dami: henchman x boss AU, academic rivals AU, vigilante x antihero AU + Love Hexagon ⭐️

Dead Serious w/ deaged Dani

Damian and Paulina are twins w/ Dead Serious

Dani x Dami: Secretary x Boss AU

Dan becomes a cop in Blud (Dick x Dan)

Danny is Ra’s son

Dani x Bruce + Deaged Dan

Sucked in a Video Game⭐️

Bruce and Dani are twins⭐️

Bruce, Danny, and Dani: The OG vigilantes

Ghost King Marvel

Teacher Danny x Bruce

Billy x Danny: Ghost Marriage AU fic

Dani bursts into flames

Missing Amity

Dani x Dami: Boy Next Door

Legally Latina

Immortal Aunt Dani v.s. Duke Thomas

Demon Twins + Assassin Dani

The First Waynes

Black Lantern Dani… well, kinda

where Dani gets a green ring

Danny is the least powerful Halfa

Dani as Jason’s messenger

DANNY PHANTOM (DP)

Dani Fenton: Clone of Fenton and Phantom

Underpowered Danny (compared to his siblings)

MCU X DP PROMPTS

Dani joins the x-men

Ghost King Danny vs Thanos

RIORDANVERSE X DC

Damian in Camp Jupiter

RIORDANVERSE X DP

‘Halfblood’ Dani

DCU (MOSTLY BATFAM)

Public Service AU

[dying-isnt-good-for-your-health]

Masterpost!

Just most the things I made in a list before my blog becomes an untraversable jungle

(Starts under cut)

DpxDc Twitter Au Masterlist: Here

DpxDc

Danny is Dick's Clone

Danny runs away and can't talk

Wes convinces everyone Danny is Damian's twin

Danny + Batfam play Never have I ever

Danny is Clark's neighbor

Freakshow is the Joker's alternate self

Danny and Jason meet in the GIW base

Less utilized Dp characters poll and drawings

Tucker Fic

Amity Parkers are trolls, your honor

Tim is trying to find out who Phantom was

Green Arrow is apparently, mentor shaped

Fall through the floor RIGHT into the Daily Planet

Danny Phantom

Danny with curly hair

Danny gets captured by the GIW scenario

Dani drawings and headcannon

Danny screenshot redraws

Danny screenshot redraw AGAIN

Adam, the background character

Dc (General)

Billy + Jason used to play Pokemon together

Billy + Mary's birthday!

Bernard in the sun

Bernard + Tim thing

Batman + Scp 3008

Bernard in an outfit

Kon + Bart panel redraw

Captain Marvel + Spy Smasher drawing

Batfam

Deaged Robins

A Joker Junior Drawing

Tim + Damian Sleeping outside Bruce's door

Bernard selfie + Jason doesn't remember it

The main legal kids head shots

Tim + Jason in the vast darkness of nothing

Bernard + Tim ice skating date

Adopted/Acquired early Au

Roombas

Damian + Duke cosplaying

Tim Drake is anti Maga

Lance Bruner drawing

Duke tortures Jason:D

Damian drawings

The middle children!! (Jason, Cass, Duke, and Tim)

Bern holding a cat:3

DUKE THOMAS IS COOL AND AWESOME AND- (drawing)

Polls

Dani + Danny relationship dynamic

How well do you know Cassandra Cain and Duke Thomas Poll

Miscellaneous

Jesus riding a velociraptor

Batman meets Poppee the Performer

Gordon Ramsey Hotel Hell

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

As someone who (when I write good dad bruce) subscribes so fucking hard to the fact he refuses to confirm any of his kids are his

A l l just random mentees who may or may not be tied to Gotham.

But when hero gossip spreads it probably wouldn't take long for a bat to go "Yeah well- B never had the chance to deal with any of us as babies, but being able to lift a car means he wont heistate to coddle his adult children :D"

Meanwhile JL is like "TF YOU MEAN HIS CHILDREN- PLURAL"!?!?

Can someone write a fic where Bruce is on a JL mission and they somehow get a baby that they need to take care of until they find their parents. And all the JL members just cannot stop this baby from crying (this is before Clark has Jon so he’s pretty clueless with babies still) and eventually Bruce is like, “give them to me.”

And the JL is like “uhh, we don’t know if we should trust BATMAN with a baby, but at this point… fuck it.” And hand the baby over to him.

And Batman tucks the baby into his chest and softly bounces them, talking to them gently in a deep rumbly voice. “It’s okay sweetheart. Shhh, you’re safe.” And eventually, the baby doesn’t just stop crying, but falls asleep.

And the JL just stand there, gobsmacked. Because what the fuck??? Why is the Batman so good with babies??? And the rest of the mission Batman just has the baby because a) they don’t want them to wake up and start fussing again. And b) because Batman looks genuinely happy (as happy as Batman can be without deeply horrifying the JL).

[punkeropercyjackson]

For realsies Duke and Jason platonic soulmateisms got nothing to do with Jason glazing,i just want Duke to have something for once.........Instead of being advertised as 'the first black Robin' only to not get his own solos,not even be kept in the core Robins for THAT long and becoming Robin not through Bruce adoption but in one of the most demonic way's you could to a black underaged teenager by JOINING A GANG and giving them themes of 'self-relience' as 'empowerment' when they're a fucking child.We Are Robin,they could never make me like you as a Duke origin,especially because you didn't even include any black girls and gave Duke a nonblack love interest

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Glimpse Into the Future

by batling_out_of_hell Bruce pissed off a witch who cursed all his children back to being 5000 days old. Of course they all remember that time they got slingshotted into the future. This story was always inevitable. Words: 2170, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake, Duke Thomas, Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Alfred Pennyworth Relationships: Batfamily - Relationship, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Age Regression/De-Aging, deaged batkids, wayne family specifically, Angst, Drama, Comedy via https://ift.tt/iNp2WaA

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

How do you think the rest of the Batfam would react if bruce got de-aged to be a kid again? imagine Jason not realizing it's bruce until someone tells him/he figures it out, and by that point, he's already grown attached to the kid. he goes into a hamlet level internal monologue about it when it's revealed.

YES! They’re all little drama babies, but the drama is strong with this one, and Jason would definitely monologue about it. On the inside, sure, but probably out loud at least a couple times.

Barbara would ensure there was photo and video evidence aplenty.

Dick would not be able to get over how cute little kid Bruce is, and he too would ensure he had plenty of things to hold over Bruce for forever. “Hey Bruce, you know, when you were a little kid again you said we should absolutely get another dog so…”

Cass? Obviously little Bruce is the cutest. She enjoys getting him to start rambling about something he’s excited about. She’s already planning how to get him to do that as an adult again because it’s fun.

Steph encourages the consumption of way more amounts of sugar than adult Bruce would ever eat. She claims it’s to combat the brooding of adult Bruce.

Tim? Somehow got stuck with being responsible for feeding Bruce for a day. Did not understand why Bruce didn’t want all the healthy food he prepared. Tim didn’t exactly have kid food as a kid, so has no idea what to feed another kid.

Duke? Loves how many questions Bruce has about his powers and happily answers every single one as Bruce follows him around like a little puppy.

Damian? Horrified when little kid Bruce trips and scrapes his knee and starts crying. He has no idea what to do in this situation, so he imitates Dick as best he can and that seems to work. Also kid Bruce choosing the Superman bandaids over every other kind is not something he’ll be letting his dad forget ever.

And yes, Jason is attached to the kid before he ever figures out it’s actually Bruce. At first he is under the impression it’s yet another child Bruce somehow acquired, but immediately decides this is the best one yet. He is genuinely excited for a new little brother that’s this cute and fun and then he finds out (or figures out himself) that it’s Bruce. Cue internal crisis. Still can’t let himself say no to Bruce wanting to snuggle on his lap during movie time though, and he’s not-so-secretly proud of the fact that he seems to be the favorite. Forever after Bruce returns to being an actual adult Jason will mutter that Bruce was much cuter as a kid anytime he gets annoyed at Bruce.

[rt-nique]

ITS LIKE A PLEASANT SURPRISE THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!!

de-aging au

Duke is a much smaller Duke one day, he's lost all his memories beyond the young age he is now and he's scared and confused. He doesn't know where is. But then there's Tim, his Robin! And suddenly everything is

The bats have no idea what's going on, but Duke refuses to go to anyone but Tim. He's also a little ball of energy bouncing off all the walls, and Tim is SO tired. "Robin- Tim, come play tag with me!"

One night Tim ends up passing out at his desk, a sleeping Duke cuddling into him on his lap.

Except when Duke wakes up Tim is small too. And he doesn't remember who Duke is!!

So Duke reintroduces himself and Tim let's himself be dragged downstairs to the actually Batcave!

Bruce is looking at them in absolute astonishment, they're so small!!

Damian laughs at Tim's smallness and Tim gives a cold glare. Maybe age can't change some things.

"where are Nightwing and the new Robin?" Tim asks.

"I'm Robin."

"no, I meant Jason!" Tim huffs and crosses his arms. Ah, he's so young he still believes Jay is Robin.

Duke is still clinging to him, but Tim can't bring himself to mind all too much.

Bruce doesn't know how to handle these boys, between a hyperactive Duke and an absolute menace Tim.

Dick tries to help, but even he can't keep up with the mischief and shenanigans they get up to together.

"dick pick us up!"

"yeah! Pick us up pick us up! And swing us around until we get dizzy!"

"again!"

"again!"

It's time to bring out the big guns, and by that they mean calling Jason over to the manor.

Tim settles immediately, but Duke remains overly weary around the large man with guns strapped to his thighs. He's kinda scary.

But Tim likes Jason well enough. At some point he ends up cuddled up with Jason who's stretched out on the couch, and Duke is just a little bit jealous.

"hey stop hogging him! Tim is mine," Duke pouts.

Jason raises an eyebrow at the boy, and Tim tilts his head. "You know there's enough room for both of us up here, right? Jason is a lot bigger than he used to be."

Duke considers this. "Mm okay, but only because you're up there". And he climbs up into Jason's lap to cuddle into Tim's side.

It's calm for a moment, until Duke starts to fidget, not able to stay still for too long. Jason let's put an annoyed noise and looks at them over the top of his book. "Would you quit it I'm tryna read here".

"what are you reading?" Duke asks.

"Macbeth."

Tim scrunched his nose up. "Why are you reading that?"

"I like it. Reminds me of school", and Tim catches something in his tone that Duke absolutely doesn't.

"it sounds silly. Will you red it to us?"

Jason looks at the both of them for a very long moment before signing. "Sure, but you've gotta stay still, your knees are already in my ribs."

The three of them all end up falling asleep like that, tucked into the lounge and curled up together.

Except when they wake up in the morning, Jason is scrawny little boy, even smaller than Tim and Duke.

Tim explains what he can to the tiny Jason as Duke sneaks some snacks from the kitchen cupboard for them.

Cass catches them stuffing their faces with junk food and squeals. "Three baby brother's now!" And scoops them all up as the quick and try to squirm away.

"gotta tell B"

"wait who are you exactly?" Jason asks.

"big sister", Cass smiles and pets his curls.

"no way! Really? I've never had a big sister before", he exclaims.

Cass carries all three of them down to the Batcave because she's so strong and cool! And Jason can't believe he ends up with such a cool sister.

"Batman!!!" Jason shouts in pure excitement, and Bruce turns around and almost cries.

Because look how small!! Oh baby Jay lad!! So precious and smol!

"I think the de-aging syndrome may be contagious", Tim speaks up. "You should have us all properly quarantined until you can find a cure."

quarantine is fun, for Jason and Tim at least (tiny Tim is plotting revenge on whoever caused this, Jason is reading and occasionally shouting at the characters). Duke can't stand having to stay still in the same one room for so long.

idk where this is going, but consider this awesome 3am idea of mine

[covertblizzard]

do you ever think about how tim grew 4 years in 40 years, dick grew like 15-18 years in 80 years, damian grew 4 years in 15+ years, duke grew maybe 2 years (?) in 8 years, jason grew 3-4 years in 5 years (and then 3-5 years in the 15+ years after resurrection), and cass and steph are just floppy ages sometimes i guess??

growth rates:

tim: ~10 irl years / dc years

dick, damian, duke, and post-resurrection jason: ~4 irl years / dc years

robin jason: ~1 irl years / dc years

steph and cass: i think it’s approximately the same as tim when they’re not aging them down (?)

[outoftheframework]

Hey! I was wondering if you had any ideas for a younger!batfam??? I hope you're having a wonderful day!!!

Ohh!! I can sure try!

So logically, the youngest we can get is about 12-13-14 years younger (whatever age Damian is). For the sake of consistency, let’s say 14 years younger, as based on this post of mine.

Ages:

Damian: New born (~1 month)

Duke: 3 years old

Tim: 5 years old

Steph: 6 years old

Jason: 8 years old

Cass: 10 years old

Dick: 13 years old

Babs: 15 years old

Alfred: 58 years old

Bruce: 28 years old

So let’s make this make sense. So, keeping the canon steady of Steph and Babs not being Waynes, Bruce would have to adopt/have 6 kids by the age of 28, which is pushing it a little bit (even for him). But let’s go with it anyway.

Dick Grayson has the same backstory and was taken in by a 23-year-old Bruce at age 8. Starting with that fact, all the rest of the kids would have to have come into Bruce’s life in a span of five years. Adoption is a long process, so it may make more sense for some of the kids to be “wards” or foster children of Bruce’s still in the process to be legally adopted. That being said, he loves and protects them all the same.

A year later, Batman finds a toddler (2-3 years old) wandering by himself in crime alley. He quickly discovers the kid is very intelligent for his age and babbles non-stop. Bruce cannot help but warm up to the child, and “banters” with the babble until he makes the grim discovery of the fate of the child’s mother. He stays with to kid until the police arrive, and a little bit after that, electing not to disappear into the shadows quite yet. As Bruce Wayne, he learns the name of and tracks down Jason Todd in the foster system and starts the legal process of adoption.

Not even six months later, a 6-7 year old Cassandra cain seeks out batman by breaking into Wayne Manor. Bruce almost has a heart attack coming home after work to see another child sitting at his dining room table with his two. She has come to ask Batman to train her, but instead Bruce does all in his power to remove her from her toxic home situation. She becomes close with Jason and Dick, who had been learning ASL in school and were excited to make a new friend. Soon, she’s on her way to becoming their new official sister.

Bruce gets one and a half years with his three musketeers before a frantic knock at the door gets their attention. They’re in the living room playing a heated game of Uno with extra made-up rules when Alfred leads a crying toddler into the living room, along with a pair of lawyers and a social worker. The trio leads Bruce away while Alfred tries to calm the child. “The Drakes had no suitable next-of-kin to take Timothy in. You’re named as the god-father. But we understand if-” “I think this house has room for one more.” Bruce had known the quiet boy from his gala appearances where his mother passed him around the other socialites while he held a straight face. He’d been suspicious of the Drake’s parenting from the first month they had Tim home, where he saw them leave to catch a plane without him. He’d been practically raised by nannies. Was it an impulsive decision? Yes. Does he regret it? Absolutely not.

Bruce and his growing gaggle of children were familiar with the Thomases; Mrs. Thomas did consulting work for WE and the younger ones’ favorite playground was in Duke’s neighborhood (Bruce can easily assume that Duke’s being there was a main reason for that specific playground to be their favorite). When his parents are tragically infected with Joker gas, Bruce is one of the first to know. He consoles a confused and traumatized Duke, who does not let go of Bruce’s shoulders when the social worker comes to speak with him. The Thomases don’t have any family on this side of the country, and Duke isn’t in any state to be moved a long distance away from his parents to live with people he barely knows. So, Bruce is the best choice to take care of Duke, and he does so happily. 

Well, his entire family wasn’t “planned” per say, but Damian was certainly the most unexpected. Talia was at his doorstep for maybe 30 seconds, uttering only: “Teach him to be like you.” Bruce had experience with children, but none as young as Dami. He called in other heroes to watch over Gotham while he stayed up all night with the baby: consoling, feeding, and changing when necessary. The other kids were fascinated by their little brother, and often begged to hold or feed him. Dick always excelled at his position of older brother, but has a special bond with Damian. 

I kind of love this. Hope it was what you were looking for!

Lemme know of you guys want any of this expanded upon.

[bluboothalassophile]

3 Lil’ Birds, 2 Lil’ Bats, & 1 Lil’ Demon

Bruce made it to the Cave, after having getting Damian in a diaper, and buying Dick and Tim ice cream to keep them occupied and in the Batmobile while he was getting the diapers for Damian. Now he was carrying Damian in his arm, Tim was clinging to his cape and giggling, and Dick was securely in his grasp as he looked around.

"Whoa! Is that a Dinosaur!?" Dick demanded with glee.

"Yes," he answered uncertainly. Bruce didn't really know what to do with children this young, even when Dick had been nine the first time around. But the first time around Dick hadn't been like this. Makind Bruce think that Dick had been regressed to before his parents' deaths when Batman was a scary shadow to fear in Gotham.

"Huntress, Signal, and Batwing are on the hunt, I haven't gotten ahold of Batwoman, and hello!?" Barbara gasped as he came into view. "Wow, they really got blasted."

"You're pretty!" Dick blurted out. "Are you an angel? Why do you have these? Do you like to go real fast down hill on these wheels? Why are you in this chair? Can I show you my triple backflip!?"

"I forgot he was a talker the first time around," Barbara chuckled.

"Batman!" Tim giggled behind him.

"I'll leave them here, I'll join the hunt for Jason, Cass, and Steph."

"Leave them!?" Barbara sputtered as Dick leapt onto her lap and yanked her arms around him.

"I have to find them!" Bruce grounded out. Jason would survive, he was good at that. Cass too, and so was Steph. But they were children! Stephanie a toddler! Bruce knew that while these three were high on survival instincts they were still children. Which meant that they were vulnerable.

"Ah, Master Bruce, I see the young Masters are… younger," Alfred said.

"I have to go find the others," Bruce said handing Damian over to Alfred before running to the Batmobile. Leaping for the driver's seat, he started the engine before gunning it out of here.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Jason looked up at the ninja, who had appeared with clothes. Which he had yanked on then he had shoved the tiny toddler who hadn't let his leg go into her clothes. Now he hoisted up the toddler, kept her in his arms now as they crept through the shadows. They would need to be warm, he knew that.

The ninja pointed to a warehouse, and he jogged after her. Slipping into the warehouse, he set the toddler down and he looked around. Food was the next thing on his list, looking for it he started exploring the warehouse slowly.

They weren't batfood, no, no they weren't. Nope. He wasn't no bat's food. Especially the Bat.

"Bat!" the toddler giggled.

"No! We're not batfood!" Jason shouted as he looked for some food. He picked up a can, it looked like food; but how did he open it?

"Batty Bats!" the blonde giggled with delight.

"No."

~~~*~*~*~~~

Barbara sighed as she furiously typed. Jason was a street kid, Cass had never interacted with people, and Stephanie was… Stephanie. Oh god they were in trouble, they were probably going to be killed or dead!

Three kids alone in Gotham, they were going to be killed!

Oh God, she couldn't live with that as she furiously typed away and tried to think about where Jason would go to be safe.

Shelter would be his priority, Jason hated being cold, and no Gotham spring was warm.

With that in mind she started narrowing down the places that he would go on foot wit two little girls with him.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Okay, Duke was going to be completely real about this, this family was insane! Seriously! He was now in Gotham looking for his big sisters and big brother who were now his little sisters and little brother and everyone was acting like this was a regular occurrence.

He didn't know what these people thought was normal, but getting de-aged was not normal.

Duke looked over his shoulder when he heard a cluttering and saw a shadow in the window. It made him think of Cass which had him internally groaning.

This was a bad idea.

Swallowing the bad idea; because he was now in a family of bad ideas, Duke leapt for the window.

Tiny Cass, he pleaded, please don't kill me!

There was a tiny battle cry and he saw the shadow move fast as she came at him.

"O! I got them! Send HELP!" Duke screamed as he tried to fend off tiny Cass, only for tiny Jason to wrack his shin with a bit of wood.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Bruce leapt from his car at the signal where he had gotten the call from and came running into this warehouse to see his newest son, gasping for air, Cass was tied up and dangling from the rafters, Jason was duct taped to the post, and Stephanie was hugging Jason leg growling.

"I got 'em!" Duke gasped, wiping his bloodied lip.

Jason roared behind his duct tape and struggled vainly against the wall.

"Are you alright?" Bruce asked clasping Duke's shoulder.

"Yeah, they're a handful!" Duke gasped as he stood up straight. "I'll meet you at the Cave." Duke said before jogging out and leaping for the street.

Jason's eyes narrowed on him, Stephanie glared at him, and Cass also gave him the evil eye.

Bruce sighed, this wasn't going to be easy. None of these three were easy to begin with, and these three were easily his most dangerous children (minus Damian). He started with Stephanie, scooping her up she bit him, he would have dropped her had he not expected this from her. Getting her in the Batmobile was challenging, Stephanie didn't want to go into it, but once he had her in she sat very quaint.

Collecting Cass without massive injury was easy once she saw Stephanie was alright.

And that brought him to Jason who was glaring at him with bright green eyes duct taped to the post of the warehouse.

This was going to hurt.