#dick and cass bonding over how they both enjoy stretching and falling asleep in the strangest positions

[clarisse-doodles]

Cass + ballet 🩰 (ft. supportive siblings and good dad Bruce)

I love the idea of Cass enjoying dance. It's an outlet that allows her to express herself without words, and I think she would enjoy the highly technical aspect of ballet combined with its storytelling and emotional side. and as a former dancer I always have fun imagining my fav characters do ballet :)

[batfam-headcanon-blog]

how would the batfam doing a family yoga class together be like?

It was probably Duke and Stephanie’s idea because they want to do a bonding activity where there can’t be much damage done. Cass agrees right away because she loves yoga, Tim agrees because if Steph and Cass are doing it, why not? Bruce agrees next because it could be fun and he convinces Dick to do it because he can show off his circus skills and Dick instantly agrees. Damian agrees because Grayson is doing it, and Jason sees it as an opportunity to annoy all of them by not trying anything so he goes too. They all pile into the car and when they get there Luke and Kate are already there. Luke apparently goes to this class twice a week and Kate agreed because Cass invited her.

They all wander into the class together. Luke goes and takes a spot because he knows what is expected. Bruce sits next to him, then Dick, and finally Damian and they make up the 2nd row. Duke, Steph, Cass, and Tim pile into the third row while Jason and Kate take to the fourth row. While the rest of the class piles in the instructor comes in and both Kate and Jason move up to the first row because it is a cute girl.

The class starts pretty smoothly. It’s just a beginners class and most positions are pretty simple and everyone but Tim (who isn’t flexible) can do the poses.

Things start to go wrong when they have to do Garland Pose. Tim’s muscles don’t bend that way and he starts getting all red in the face because he is pushing himself too hard to hold this position for too long. Stephanie tells him to do a normal squat because that is what their instructor said to do but he refuses because “mind over matter or whatever”

Next up is bridge pose. Kate pretends to not know how to do it so their instructor has to help her. Once she gets the pose down she says “thank you” with a lip bite and the girl blushes and quickly makes sure everyone else is doing it. Dick is doing a back bend instead of a bridge, Damian is just laying on his back with his knees bent, Tim is turning red because he keeps forgetting to breathe, and Jason goes “hey hey, what does this look like” and starts thrusting his hips back and fourth in bridge pose

Next they do happy baby pose which Tim immediately goes “Damian should be good at this” in which Damian shoots up immediately and goes “what did you just say?” Duke pulls Tim down and Dick does the same to Damian. Dick tells Damian to ignore him while Duke tells Tim not to start anything and just do the pose

They move onto cat and cow pose which makes Damian smile. Jason asks Dick if these positions are familiar to him which earns a snicker from Tim. Cass asks Steph what she means and she tells her she will explain it later. 

After cat and cow, they go to downwards dog, which Bruce can’t do for the life of him. The instructor tries to help him at which point he goes “my hamstrings just don’t stretch like that, I’m not young anymore” and decides to do his own thing instead. Whenever the instructor walks by, Kate sticks her butt out just a little further and catches the instructor checking her out sometimes. She smiles to herself but Jason takes this as competition and wants to get the instructors attention to so he calls her over and asks if he is doing this right. She takes a long look at him and goes “yep!” super cheerfully and he decides he will win the flirting contest against Kate

From downward dog they morph into sphinx pose which Luke makes into cobra because he can. Dick sees this, and does the same even though Bruce is giving him a dirty look. Damian is torn between making it cobra but decides to follow the rest of the class. Kate takes the opportunity to stick out her chest so Jason decides to bite his lip and give the instructor his best sexy look the entire time of the pose. Meanwhile Tim is grateful that it is sphinx and not cobra because he is not sure he can bend that way. Duke and Steph take a minute to make fun of Kate and Jason’s ridiculous contest and Cass is the only one focused on the task at hand.

The instructor has gotten pissed by this point and tells them to knock it off or they are going to be kicked out so the rest of the class is pretty quiet. Jason and Kate keep up their flirting contest but keep it low key, noises come out of Tim that should not be coming out of a human, but overall nothing more happens.

Finally the class is over and they are in Shavasana. Tim and Damian end up falling asleep while everyone else is just enjoying the calm. Eventually people start to get up to leave, Luke is one of the first, apologizes for his family, and thanks her for another great class. Kate gets up and gets the instructors number and shoves it in Jason’s face before throwing it out (she doesn’t want to cheat on Renee or Maggie she just wanted to prove a point) and Jason feels defeated but shakes her hand because she is a worthy foe. Bruce carries Damian back to the car and Dick shakes Tim awake. 

Everyone goes back to the car surprisingly more calm. Stephanie and Duke fist bump because they would consider it a success overall