#i’m looking at you bruce wayne

[d-1hater]

man who can most definitely afford therapy decides instead to do something dramatic to avoid facing emotions

[greenarrowschili]

when your favourite character is so popular that everyone mischaracterizes them

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

It’s not that Jason forgot, per se.

But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place that’s also child friendly… well, it kind of slipped his mind that he’s supposed to be… dead.

Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne

[redkelpfish]

Jason Todd is a damn good example of how superheroes can’t be parents. I’m not saying heroes should be forbidden from having children, but the moment you do, you choose one or the other. You either cease to be a hero or you must fundamentally fail your child.

Because that’s the basis of being a parent—choosing your child. Day in and day out, no matter what. There is no bigger picture, no greater good. Between a bus full of people and your kid, your kid has to count on you to be the one person in the world who would let the bus fall. A hero can’t do that. A hero shouldn’t do that.

Jason Todd so desperately wanted Bruce, his father, the one person he needed to let the bus fall. But Bruce had chosen “hero” two decades ago, and there was no room for Jason Todd, son. So Jason Todd, Robin died a martyr with no one left to carry the cause. An unfortunate casualty. He came back as the only thing left, the only version of Jason Todd that a clown didn’t beat to death in warehouse in Ethiopia. Jason Todd, son. And there was no father. He kept reaching and reaching and there should have been something to meet him. But Bruce Wayne was a hero. And Jason Todd was a son.

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Fun little thought I thought I’d share 😋

Imagine, it’s the big showdown between Red Hood and Batman, Joker’s unconscious form slumped nearby, completely bound.

Red hood, Jason, demands that Batman kill him. That after everything he’s done, all the people he’s killed, he pleads with his dad to kill the Batman (although he’d never admit that he still loves the man as a father, not yet).

There’s some dramatic back and forth where Batman refuses and Red Hood insists pleads that Batman Bruce kill the joker, until Bruce rips off the cowl and reveals that he did!

He did kill the Joker! He wore his favorite suit and grabbed two $1000 watches and used them as brass knuckles and beat the fucker to death! He burned his body and buried the ashes outside of the goddamn Fortress of Solitude so no one would find them! He folded up the bloodied suit and boxed them with the broken watches and put them a hidden compartment in the base of Jason’s memorial in the cave, where no one would ever touch or find them! He waited until Superman was off world so he wouldn’t stop him again and told no one of what he did!

And how that ends is up to y’all. I just think that it’s interesting how there are canonically 3 Jokers (possibly more if dc changes their mind) and wouldn’t it be fun if Bruce knowingly murdered one of them only for another to pop up and make him suicidal to the point where a little Timothy Drake needs to blackmail his way into being Robin so he doesn’t kill himself?

[l-just-want-to-see]

devils that you know / raise worse hell than a stranger (THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT + Jason Peter Todd)

the black dog / Robin / Peter / the smallest man who ever lived / who’s afraid of little old me?

[kittykatninja321]

dc worse dad poll is seemingly on hiatus but i am impatient and desperate to know how this matchup will shake down so:

feel free to go crazy with the propaganda in the notes, write essays, provide panel evidence , etc etc get in your lawyer bag

[timblrdrake]

What the fuck, how?

(context, the language quiz)

…i’m well read?

i like words

[norttinson]

‘my child is fine’ your child just rewatched fight club and spent an embarrassing amount of money on tyler durden and the narrator funko pops

[leaflettucesstuff]

DC is not ready to face the truth that battinson simply cannot have the traditional Bruce v. Jason angst

[littledead-ridinghood]

Bat fan: Oliver Queen is a billionaire, irredeemably abusive father who doesn’t give a shit about his kids

Arrow fans: I hate to break it to you, but you are, in fact, projecting

[lemeblogs]

Batman #138

STAB ME. GUT ME. CURSE MY PILLOWS, THROW A DEER AT ME. IM NOT OK. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? I AM NOT OK RN. Y’KNOW WHY? I MAKE A POST TALKING ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO SEE IMPROVED FROM DC, ONLY A FEW WEEKS AGO, ONE OF THOSE THINGS BEING, GUESS WHAT, BRUCE NOT BEING A SHIT DAD? IKR? SO FUNNY?? HAHA HA??

AND DO YOU KNOW HOW DC RESPONDS?

FUCKING BATMAN 138.

WHAT IS HAPPENING. BRUCE. EXPLAIN YOURSELF. WTF ARE YOU DOING TO JASON.

IM SOBBING. IM SNIVELING. I CANT DO THIS. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO US??????

[ghost-bxrd]

"You're a kid whos mom was obsessed with a cult, and when you were just 12, she sacrificed you. You end in hell and expected to be tortured for eternity, but turns out the demon wanted a child of his own"

by WRITING PROMPTs

Maybe Bruce?

Aweee now, just imagine!

These cultists? Totally an accident that they for the ritual right. Jason doesn’t die so much as he just seem to kind of vanish into smoke and—

wtf.

Ok.

There’s- there’s a whole child.

Right at Bruce feet. All of a sudden.

A human child.

In hell.

And look, they couldn’t have chosen a worse demon to send a sacrifice to because Bruce? He’s a protector of children.

Because there’s something that so many story and demonology books get wrong.

Hell is for the bad people to be punished for all eternity.

And Bruce? And all the other demons populating hell? Well, they exist solely for one reason:

To punish sinners for the crimes they committed in life.

It’s a jail. Bruce and his fellow demons are the jailers. They don’t guard the doors of hell because they don’t want anybody to get in, they’re guarding them so nobody gets out.

But children, children have no business being in this place of torture and agony. Not ever. There’s a whole ass system in place to keep the good souls from accidentally wandering where they shouldn’t be.

So Bruce sees this tiny, starved child crying and screaming and— fuck. This is a Dick situation, isn’t it? He needs to go to earth. Again. And drag some people down to damnation all early and piss off death again. But you know what? Tough shit. They want a demon? They’re gonna get one.

(Jason is soon introduced to another strange human after he mysteriously pops back up on earth. His name is Richard “Dick” Grayson, and his teeth are too sharp and his pupils look almost reptilian in the right light, but he takes Jason to a big ass house with a real strange butler and lots of food.

Jason thinks he’s seen the weird Brucie guy who introduces himself as Dick’s dad somewhere before… but Jason is cool with not looking a gift horse in the mouth. After all, what are the chances he’ll fall into another cult’s hands so soon after the last?)

[frownyalfred]

Song rec for Superbat? About one, about the other or about both? :D

Never Be Mine — Kate Bush

[kierancaz]

Me when a girl and her dad in media:

[kittykatninja321]

DC characters who run into each other at the support group for parents who have lost children

Bruce Wayne

Slade Wilson

Adeline Kane

Roy Harper

Jade Nguyen

Donna Troy

Garth

Wally West and Linda Park (they go together)

Clark Kent and Lois Lane (they also go together)

David Cain

Floyd Lawton

So I know half of these people would not be caught dead at a support group of any kind, and that many of these kids did not stay dead, but this is more of a “imagine the chaos when they all show up to the same meeting” imaginary scenario. Also feel free add who I’m missing