#its gonna be jason-centric if anyones interested lmk and i will share little blurbs

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Literally, bc ollie for all his faults legit tries to be there for his family and even if he doesnt get it quite right, steps up for them however he can.

Like ‘oh, my teenage son is being teen angsty and wants space? Okay. Ill uh…. Ill be right here. I will aggressively remind him im here on occasion and just watch and uhhh….. ope hes going too far so nooe, sorry kid, hi yeah no you dont get to tell me to fuck off this time nice try’

And bruce gets like…. So personally affronted by it. Like… teenage dick being a teenager??? And angsty??? And wanting and having friends and to be his own person? ‘Okay fine then bye leave the manor and you are no linger my robin’

Like wtf?????

Now i do enjoy fanon good dad bruce, i like those stories where bruce actually has a good grasp on what mental health is but like…. I find the ones where hes toxic AF and his kids eventually force him to see that post time stream incident are way more realistic imo. Idk. They just seem more true to him.

I also love it when fics have more than the bat fam in them and those other people call them out on their absolute bullshit. Like…. Please do. Please inform them of how fucked up this all is.

I also honestly prefer fics where it focuses on the kids and leaves bruce out of it bc like, lbr…. Bruce was always Batman. He wasnt really much of a dad. I think theres moments where he kinda tried that with Jason but he never fully got there and then jason died and it wasnt until damian that he kinda tried to be a dad again. But even then it was meh.

Idk these are just my thoughts. Theres things i like abt fanon but. Yeah.

Literally all the other mentors seem to care more about their sidekicks/proteges than B does. Like don’t get me wrong i think Bruce does care, but I also just think he doesn’t have the capacity to really truly show them and care for them the way a dad should. Not really.

Like again, i do enjoy a good good-dad-bruce fic but. They are very clearly deeply rooted in fanon with a pinch of some of these events happened in canon at some point. Like Jason dying.

(Which, i know, part of that is bc what on gods green earth is the canon continuity, you really gotta not squint too hard theres too many conflicting timelines so to an extent you have to just kind… mash puzzle pieces together but also…. I feel like it’s a thing that a lot of good dad bruce fics really stretch that to the extreme.)

So yeah. Thats my comments. Im running on like enough hours awake that Tim starts getting concerned looks and comments about how sleep is a good thing so take my ramblings with a grain of salt.

becoming a fan of non-bat characters really will suddenly make the batfam seem insufferable and render 99% of batfics unreadable😭

"bruce takes in roy and shows him what a REAL father figure is" i think oliver should go tell bruce to shoot himself