#he is unaware that Gotham wants to claim him through Babs

[zerogravityinq]

Gotham doesn't claim all of the Colony and Coven. She wants to and she should but she just cannot.

Tom, Harry, Neville and Conner are more tied to Hogwarts than Her.

Bludhaven has Dick.

Bruce, Jason, Babs, Duke, Tim, Harper, Cullen, Terry and Steph are Gotham's and she claims them most viciously.

Damian is a bit of a loose end since his connection was broken due to his time with the League and then he was off to Hogwarts. No place really has claim on Damian nor Abigail.

The twins and Jazz are claimed by the Infinite Realms.

Cass is also a non-claim. She goes to Hong Kong a lot but always returns to Gotham. Gotham wants her. She wants her so much.

[jeromevalseka]

What are all of your jonathan/bruce headcanons 👀👀👀

alright so i put my (rambling, awful) headcanon for how they meet (because the show hates me and has purposefully kept them apart) above the cut, and below the cut i put more general (no less rambling or awful) headcanons but This is not Nearly all my headcanons or even close because i don’t know how to do things half way ty for enabling me

the first thing that’s important to understand is that bruce and jonathan know about each other already. jonathan is The Scarecrow. he held the city hostage with the other members of the league of horribles, he wears a patchwork scarecrow costume, he carries a scythe around. he’s not exactly incognito.

bruce is better at the whole operating secretly thing.

marginally.

the point is that bruce’s transition to batman isn’t as secret as he would like it to be. sure the average citizen in gotham has no idea who he is, but before bruce was good at the operating secretly thing, he was really bad at it. so bad, in fact, that for most of the criminals in gotham it’s not hard to connect the dots.

(which leads to an interesting rouge dynamic that i will avoid talking about now, however much i want to)

anyways the point is bruce may think he’s being subtle and jonathan may be a dumbass (i say with great love) but jonathan also knew, worked with, was, potentially, friends with jerome valeska.

jerome valeska who had a minor (at least when looking back retrospectively, when considering jeremiah, when considering the state of the city) obsession with bruce wayne.

jonathan and bruce knew about each other. that’s key. they knew bits and pieces, miscellaneous crimes and acts and character traits all gathered through second-hand sources. they knew about each other. let an idea build up about what the other was like, but when they meet

it’s not like they expected.

they meet when the city begins reunifying with the mainland. bruce isn’t exactly isolated but circumstances have made things fraught. (bane broke alfred’s back, jim has his hands tied between working with the government and little barbara, selina is as complicated as ever) so bruce isn’t isolated but he is alone and throwing himself headlong into dangerous situations.

one of those situations happens, of course, to involve jonathan crane.

it’s pretty standard. jonathan is trying to steal medical supplies from someone’s private stockpile. bruce is trying to stop him. they banter. they fight. they click.

bruce ends up leaving him handcuffed to a fire escape, his henchmen knocked out around him. later, that will be a joke they share. at that moment, though, it’s the igniting incident.

they usually meet in dingy, rundown dives around town. it doesn’t matter the circumstance (arkham breakout, generalized chaos, mob war getting out of hand, failing a psych midterm, etc) that’s where they’ll be.

jonathan knows bruce is batman (as established) but bruce doesn’t know that jonathan knows

that’s important, especially when considering that post-reunification a lot of records on arkham inmates were lost and bruce, ever a good person (and also in the wake of everything that happened with jeremiah) decided to use wayne enterprises infulence to push rehabilitation of the most at-risk inmates

listen. all i’m saying is that bruce pays for jonathan’s undergrad degree and his masters and his phd.

(jonathan being a doctor is something very important to me and also to bruce i guess)

inevitably this leads to the fun scenario in which jonathan flirts with bruce knowing that bruce is batman, fully aware that two nights ago they beat the shit out of each other, while bruce is unaware that he knows and is left floundering wondering if it would really be that bad to flirt with the scarecrow because he might, unfortunatley, have some feelings about him

you can imagine how that goes

jonathan calls bruce “baby” A Lot. all the time.

bruce likes to play with his fingers, hold his hand, casual intimacy

sorry but i just love the idea of the media having no idea that jonathan is the scarecrow or that bruce is batman so they’re constantly reporting about bruce wayne and his boyfriend doctor crane attending a charity auction for victims of the [insert some disaster that jonathan caused]

(was jonathan ever publically revealed to be the scarecrow? like obviously jim and the gcpd know and the government/any arkham employee left, but was it public knowledge? let me pretend that it wasn’t)

when jonathan’s arrested and tossed in arkham bruce has to play the teary eyed boyfriend who just wants his poor johnny to get the help he deserves. cut to bruce, two hours later, throwing him in a dumpster and yelling

overall, i think they probably managed to keep their relationship a secret in its early stages (especially early on in reunification) but i love the idea of literally everyone who matters finding out at the same time

jim would lose his shit like completely. so would alfred, probably.

jonathan doesn’t have any friends really (jervis tetch does not count and should stay away from jonathan entirely) so i’m going to put it out there that him and bridgit would be great friends and would definetly shit talk their respective bf/gf (because bridgit and selina would be dating in this perfect world ofc)

for angst consider that one time when bruce gets sprayed with his fear toxin, jonathan doesn’t escape right afterwards and instead stays and listens as bruce cries out for his parents and he, somehow, ends up in the position of holding bruce as he rides out the effects (he leaves before bruce comes back to his senses fully but still. the sight of bruce like that affected him more than he would care to admit)

you know what jim would definitely make some dumb joke about how his daughter is going to be surrounded by criminals forever when he finally reconciles with bruce, but he;d still put his foot down and would not let bruce babysit babs if there’s a chance jonathan would be around

one time, i don’t claim to understand the context of this, at like a christmas party or something in the iceberg lounge they makeout in front of everyone (the rouges and jim/lee and whoever else i never claimed to plan things out well) and idk i just think its neat

bruce will take any excuse to rip jonathan’s mask off. he hates it. he wants to see his face god damnit

in this ideal world bruce will have ace the bat hound and yes, jonathan may be more of a cat person, but damn that dog helped keep them together when they first got started

listen this is already long so i’ll shut up but consider: what does jonathan’s accent do to bruce?