#holy ooc batman

[gothxmcitysirens]

Oh no… i think I’m adding a Felix Catton muse 🔥

[t4tails]

batman and joker fighting to death in the tunnel of love. who knew frank miller was such an ally

[nerditudes]

so i'm watching the third part of crisis and HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME DC. YOU CAN PRY THE DCAU FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS YOU BASTAAAAAAAAAAAARDS

[cannonfullofcanons]

Looks like we'll be heading out of state for the funeral either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'll be using mobile mostly from then on so if my formatting gets kinda funky I apologize. Gonna try to keep writing while I'm gone. I know I'm not doing a lot, but it's helping. I'm just sorry I'm so slow with it.

[cranephdr]

Jon's "Injustice" intros are so fucking disrespectful lmao

[hopefuture]

You know its kinda funny how the most character-focused and Bruce relevant Arkham games are the ones not developed by Rocksteady

[tealeavesandthorns]

//So evil!Maria was born from mirror!Maria in the Star Trek universe and she's a bit of a Lady Macbeth with none of the guilt and all of the twisted enjoyment of blood and helping her man get to power.

Because of the way she is, it only really works in specific circumstances and usually with a ship where I can really see it working. I adored her in her mirror!Trek verse because she was so ruthless and crazy, but calculating and she didn't want power for herself she just wanted to sit alongside it. She still loved incredibly fiercely though. She might not admit it but the reason she helps those into power is because she loves deeply. She's an all encompassing sort of crazy love at the same time though.

AND I have just watched the 3 episodes of the penguin and I am obsessed because in THAT Batman universe Evil!Maria can sort of thrive.

It doesn't really work for Gotham!Maria because Gotham is still soft edges, it doesn't work for Nolan!Verse Maria because there's still this sort of JUSTICE thing in there. But HBO's The Penguin!Maria, that Batman verse. Well fuck me that works brilliantly.

So catch me between replies writing a drabble because no one be playing characters from that HBO verse as far as I can tell. Catch me writing a drabble about Maria becoming devoted to penguin and getting him to call her mommy.

Evil!Maria WOULD have worked in The Boys Verse too but I was much more interested in a slow corruption of her there......

[countercharmda]

Gamers I survived

[gothxmcitysirens]

So I fucked up my knee at work and it’s got a horrific bruise and I can’t really sit comfortably… so I might not be online to reply to things for a few days while on the mend. That being said, i am chronically online and here if you want to chat or whatever. I do desperately want to be writing tho 🥺

[glory-hasnoplacehere]

@swampwitchtonx @dethqveen @/ everyone

elon musk should kill himself elon musk needs to kill himself elon musk would make society as a whole better if he killed himself now

[husky-draws]

Drawing idea, hurt comfort, but wade is being comforted, that man has issues and body pain, so much to get hurt by

⚠️⚠️MAJOR WARNING FOR BLOOD AND DEPICTIONS OF SELF HARM⚠️⚠️ W/ POOLVERINE. KEEP YOURSELF SAFE

Holy comic strip, batman. This took SO fuckibg long 😭 I hope yall enjoy the angst :) and if they're ooc IM SORRY I draw I don't write.

[cannonfullofcanons]

Finally home! I think I'm gonna work a bit on bringing back my single-muse Rebecca blog before I get to things here, shouldn't take much to get it back up & ready to roll!

[ruestheday]

Wait, what mean thing did Alfred do to Tim on his 16th birthday??

oh boy

see, this is an instance where i’d be fine if people ignored this happening, because bruce (and therefore as an extension alfred) are like weirdly horrible. even doing my mandatory googling to make sure im remembering everything correctly quickly brought me to posts about everyone agrees how insanely ooc this was for both (even on reddit, which has some of the most comic-obsessed fans), but it still happened unfortunately.

so, for tim’s sixteenth birthday, bruce decides to gift him with surprise training.

tim has a birthday party, and at the end of the night there’s a weird box there. tim freaks the fuck out and takes it to bruce to check out, he does, blah blah blah.

it ends up activating when tim’s alone, and it’s a hologram of alfred in the (apocalyptic) future saying that someone on batman’s team has gone bad and the worlds fucked because of it (and then immediately gets shot and killed before he can finish). tim’s half like “well obviously this is bullshit” and half “HOLY SHIT ???!????” and doesn’t tell bruce because he’s not sure if it’s real or not.

i’m going to summarize, but tim thinks it’s fake at first, and then thinks it’s real (because the guy he was blaming it on was in jail) so he’s like ok cass goes bad (since she’s the newest batfam member — side note: cassandra predates damian as a batfam member so put some respect on her name) and when he decides it’s not cass he tries to figure out how it could be dick.

future!alfred then appears before tim and tells him that yeah he died, but it’s all chill they bring him back, and starts delivering more bad news until tim’s like ??? Ur not real! and rips off future!alfred’s mask to discover it’s just real alfred underneath.

tim’s immediately like upset and disgusted. he demands answer from bruce who is like “just training, get good kid” (and also implies tim is stupid bc he believed it) and tim is like Fuck this. Fuck all of you. I’m out. (he does eventually come back obviously)

he also gets to tell bruce to go to hell. now im a bruce wayne glazer but that was deserved because what the fuck

this is some crazy paraphrasing and i’m positive there are 10x better breakdowns out there. but long story short alfred helped gaslit tim drake into having a mental breakdown on his sixteenth birthday because bruce said to.

i also really don’t like this from bruce’s side because literally what the fuck was that. prime example of the 90s-2000s comic wanting bruce wayne to be a bad guy to appeal to angsty male readers (which was an actual phenomenon and explains a lot of why bruce is so batshit [ha] insane to his family during this era)

edit: this is 1993 robin #116-120 btw

[johncon]

There was a blinding flash of light as the transformation took hold- only taking mere moments for everyone else, but ages to Constantine. Horns grew, curving above his head elegantly, and he felt the burst of feathers spring from his back- so that was why Lucifer had requested his outfit have his back bare, the magician realized- spreading into a phoenix-red fan briefly before folding and settling neatly against his now-purple skin. A tail flicked out as well, and wasn't that a supremely odd feeling. His ears twitched at the swell of sound, murmurs of surprise as the light faded and he grew visible, and a hand came up to cup one. A sort of fur-feathers covered the long, delicate points, and Constantine realized he could probably swivel them like a cat's if he so wished. Something to figure out. Pink freckle patches dotted his skin, and vivid pink eyes blinked up at Lucifer uncertainly. It was still Constantine, but- different. Not more or less than he had been, but different.

The Unholy Matrimony

Wedding Hub

The tower where the ceremony would take place was lit with softly twinkling, floating orbs in a rainbow of colors, moss and ivy crawling up the cracked walls. Rows of velvet-cushioned benches lined the majority of the space, to hold everyone comfortably, and vases of Casa Blanca lilies decorated the aisles- the center aisle between the rows of benches, as well as two more shorter ones at the front that led to the ancient stone podium in the middle.

[fanonimus]

My brother is obsessed with TTG, and I am baffled. We binged it, and I looked around in the... Fandom? I know the show is lighthearted, but I'm a psychology nerd.

Btw I binged it with him in the name of sibling bonding.

Tw: Abuse, neglect, shitty people in general, mind conzrol and trauma. Progress with caution.

Not many people talk about the abuse Robin faces. I don't understand why is there basicaly no angsty content.

I also want to scoop that boy up and hug him and take him away from those people that surround him.

This boy has no positive influence in his life. Get him a therapyst.

He's neglected. I was sick watching this.

WHAT THE HELL DUDE this was genuinely hard to watch, and even the colour coded idiots aknowledge how badly he was treated.

Oh but they don't get away scott free. The little idiots.

They constantly hurt him (which I noticed is a reocurring joke, but it happens to him so constantly that it's not even humour. It's just... painful.)

What the fuck was that prank?

Considering I know his backstory pretty well (look, I watch enough dc), this prank just makes me want to cry. He smiles. His smile broke my heart. I genuinely started crying, alonside Robin. It was not a nice experience.

So they clearly don't have a problem with triggering traumatic responses.

Robin is also almost always the butt of the joke, even tough he is the leader nobody respects him.

Which would be understandable if he didn't try his damn hardest. He's resourceful and can make the best of a situation.

Like the time he got dance powers (which is just amazing, holy shit I want dance powers).

He found great use of an othervise "useless" pover.

Speaking of useless, his "friends" look down on him because he has no powers. Even though he is capable of beating all of them without it.

Yknow, like in the movie.

Oh yeah, nice recall to the movie the one where they competed with the Super Hero Girls team (love that show).

Y'know, where it started like this

And ended like this in like, five seconds.

Abandonment issues go brrr:

He's my angsty boy.

Also, the fact that he answered mind control on the last question, and it wasn't even on the board, broke something in me.

Him being a "control freak" is also played up for jokes, which I personally hate, but you can also go with the route of the Titans just not listening, ever, and Robin, still raised by the batman even if differently than in canon, in a city where if you are not on top you are dead, it's obvious that he developed an instictive need for control. He had gotten used to being on top of every situation, so when he felt that control slip, he grasped it and held on. This behaviour is not good, but he can't help it, and without proper consuling, he won't be able to stop this behaviour. He could, if he just let go of the illusion of control he clings to, a safety net, and we all know one can not simply just do that.

(I was someone people called a "control freak". I worked on myself, and I changed, but it took years after I noticed. Letting go is the hardest thing people like me and him can do because letting go means losing control, and that can be the scariest thing in the world. So I have experience, yes.)

For the hitting... Wild hot take and shit: Since Batsy was not a stellar dad, he kept robin in line by means not so family-friendly. (He hit his kids in canon, it's really OOC for him, but we have proof that happened) And it was really effective. Children of abusive parents go a lot of ways, but repeating the parents' mistakes is one of them. So maybe Robin decided that violence might be the thing to keep his teammates in line. (We are circleing back yeah.) But it clearly didn't work.

(Yes, I also have experience. No, I am not going to talk about it, but it wasn't physical, don't worry)

Edit: Holy shit I just realized that this Robin is all of the worst qualities of the other Robins. Obsessive, Controlling, full of himself, violent, and then throw their insecurities into there too (Abandonment issues, parental issues, anxiety, paranoia). Holy lady.

Edit2: Thank you, Yurki-posts, for pointing out some things my little rant was missing. I shall update it now.

[frownyalfred]

Ever since I read two fics about Bruce's kids being in the tower when it's falling, it's made that scene a million times tastier. Like, in one fic, the kids all lived and helped other people, and Bruce was a terminator trying to get to them and make them leave but they kept helping others to his great pride and anxiety. In one they all died and it fucked me up, particularly when Bruce told Clark after the events if BvS, and holy shit, I was crying like a little baby like that shit just hits different.

Just, grieving dad Bruce, who doesn't have superman and Tim to stop him from killing, trying to avenge all five of his kids like 👀👀👀 it was so good!

Yeah!! Not to get too weird about BVS (again) I think there are some serious parallels between 9/11 and the attack on Metropolis that critics really intentionally overlook -- not just that the destruction is similar, but that Bruce's anger/fear/etc closely parallels the US reaction in the immediate aftermath.

He lost a whole skyscraper of his employees -- people who were supposed to be safe in Metropolis, safer than they would probably be in Gotham. And yes, in certain fics, he loses not just his loyal employees, but his kids, too.

I will be the first one to mock BVS (for a variety of reasons) but the whole "oooh Batman started killing and acting OOC out of nowhere" thing always seemed kind of silly to me.

There's a reason his first adult on-screen introduction in that movie is literally him running into a dust cloud in shirtsleeves and loafers -- it's not about Batman. It's Bruce Wayne lifting beams and dragging children out of harm's way.

The Black Zero Event/Battle of Metropolis likely resulted in the death of thousands of people -- several times the destruction of 9/11, though I'm not sure if anyone ever gave an exact number.

It's strange that an event that is clearly presented to evoke that parallel is taken as a mediocre or misguided motivation for any character, much less Bruce -- who is in a unique position as a vigilante to actually do something, however small, about it.