#just a normal day being Dick Grayson I guess

[allovesthings]

This panel just hurt my feelings ? He just looks so tiny and alone !

Also, I am dying to know what he told both Kori and the Titans as a whole when he came back from seeing Bruce with another injury that wasn't there before on his body.

Let's be real,it's Dick so he probably didn't say anything but I wanted them to know so they could be angry on his behalf.... Because truly someone has to.

[suzukiblu]

WIP guessing game: "Robin"

Superboy has existed for about six months at best (five months, two weeks, and six days, but who's creepily spying on their fellow heroes and vigilantes? not Tim, for sure) and was created in a lab full of extremely niche genetic experiments whose creators very rarely bothered making look human, which is probably why he has some weird ideas about certain social norms.

Tim assumes that's why the guy just decided to drop a very annoyed Catwoman on him out of nowhere, anyway.

"The fuck?" he says, though through his vocoder it comes out more like the incoherent screeching of the damned. That being, well, the whole purpose of the vocoder and all. Superboy grins down at him from the nighttime sky all bright and sunny and weirdly adorable, for being a lab-grown weapon and a guy who is technically capable of disassembling Tim down to his individual atoms with, like, a touch and about two seconds' worth of thought.

Not that Tim has been creepily spying on anyone or said anyone's Cadmus files, again.

Also Superboy might not even know he can do that yet, so it's really not a smart thing to mention right now.

"Hey, man!" Superboy greets cheerfully. "She was breaking into that big museum a couple blocks over, figured you'd care about that. As opposed to, like, breaking into some rich asshole with insurance's penthouse. Figured you would not have cared about that."

"The museum also has insurance, for the record," Selina informs him sourly as she makes an art of getting off her unceremoniously roof-dumped ass while looking like being on this roof was her idea to begin with. Because, like: Selina. "And has not properly sourced the artifacts in their new Bast exhibit."

I know, that's why I was on my way to the museum to keep an eye out for you, is what Tim does not say, since Robin is supposed to be a splintered aspect of a mysterious all-knowing city spirit given human form and not just, like, a really dedicated teenager surviving on semi-legal energy drinks and conspiracy-board detective work and the occasional occult ritual to summon the Batman.

What he does do is jerkily cock his head and say, "Preyyyyy?", and let his vocoder horribly mangle the word into a sound usually best described as "unholy avian screeching". Superboy beams, which is not a normal reaction to hearing Robin's voice. Selina just rolls her eyes, but Selina of course knows about the whole "really dedicated teenager surviving on semi-legal energy drinks and conspiracy-board detective work and the occasional occult ritual to summon the Batman" thing.

Like she's never summoned the Batman for anything, geez. Or "Bruce", as an eight year-old Dick Grayson had once upon a time decided to randomly dub him. Tim still can't call the eternal and unsleeping eldritch protector of their city that without feeling like he's going to spontaneously combust, but it is in fact a thing that the Batman will answer to.

Might as well call Pennyworth "Alfie", though.

Jason was even worse at names than Dick, Tim is pretty sure.

"Yeah!" Superboy says, sounding still more cheerful and floating down the rest of the way to the roof to land lightly in front of Tim. Selina eyes him in a way that would end very badly for anyone who was not functionally invulnerable. "I mean, she seems cool and all but I dunno, figured the Bat wasn't big on Cats in his territory. And also the criming. Definitely also the criming."

"How . . . find Robin?" Tim asks. Superboy doesn't have enhanced senses, as far as he knows, so . . .

"Oh, I've been stalking you," Superboy explains. Tim blinks behind his unblinking mask and feels several ways about that statement. "That's what you Bats all do when you're interested in somebody, right? So I figured you'd like it if I did it back."

. . . Tim feels several ways about that statement.

[glitter-stained]

Character design ideas for Dick Grayson, just for fun

(some of these may be canon I'm just picking from stuff I've seen in comics and my imagination sometimes I forget which is which)

-birdlike head-tilt. All the time. He's thinking deeply about something/ appraising you/considering what you're saying/being off-putting on purpose/etc.

-forward spinal arch a la Simone Biles

-mole under the eye

-one chipped molar from early Robin days

-smooth skin. In my head that mf has the smoothest nicest thing and his routine is just. Bar soap. I'm extremely jealous.

-glow in the dark tattoo (for Donna's death?) in his lower back

-in one of the pockets of the Nightwing suit is a pouch full of human teeth. He refuses to elaborate as to why or how they got here. One time in an undercover poker game against some mafia don he added the teeth to the pile as a power move.

-rings. Idk why I like my civilian Dick design with a bunch of metal rings that hurt like a bitch when you get punched but also look cool (imo he has super pretty and long fingers)

-I like workaholic human disaster!Dick, so coffee stains on clothes and dark eye circles, but also, crumpled beautiful dress shirts in need of extreme ironing from after falling asleep headfirst on the couch after a gala.

-he has one piercing, something simple, maybe a nub, but wherever you guessed it is, it's not.

-dimples

-emergency secret compartiment sewn inside his thigh because that's something normal people have in case they get kidnapped or stranded in space (no it is not. What the fuck, Dick.)

[secretsandwriting]

Part One: Mishaps and Foreign Words

The Edutzal.

A species known for their ruthlessness and destruction. With an unimaginable amount of strength and power they were a species you didn't want the attention of, so why were there three of them spotted on Earth.

Prologue -- Masterlist -- Next

Translation List

Nightwing slipped. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but he slipped 1000 feet up in the air at the edge of the building. He had just gotten out of a brutal fight and was low on supplies, he didn't really  have much he could use to stop his fall or even slow it down. He was essentially screwed. His shoulder was dislocated so he couldn't have done much even if he did have supplies.

Halfway down he was caught by someone. Hissing as his shoulder was bumbed he heard the soft apology from them and glanced up. Only to be met with the gray eyes of one the Edutzal, the only male in the trio. Dick looked away when the Edutzal's arms under his knee bumped a scrape.

"You should probably be a little more careful when so high up Tiapr." The last word was foreign. Something clearly in another language, chances are it was the Edutzal's native one, He was too tired to remember the name of it. He was set down on a bench and let the man in front of him fuss over him for a bit. When he stepped back, Dick grabbed his hand, stopping him for at least a second. 

"Who are you?"

"My name is Siuqgux, yours is Richard Grayson correct?" Against his better judgment, Dick nodded. "Well, some of your teammates are coming, I shall take my leave." With that, he flew off. Gone in less then a second. 

Siuqgux.

He would have to see if any of the others recognized it.

He would also have to let them know that they knew his name and see if any of them knew what Tiapr meant.

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Tim wasn’t sure what was going on, one second he was in a losing fight trying to figure out the best way to get out alive when the guy he was fighting was just whisked away by a black streak? He rubbed at his eyes, hoping it wasn’t an illusion and the guy was just waiting for a chance to finish him.

“Is there something in your eyes?” He whipped around to be met with one of the Edutzal. From Dick’s experience he wasn’t as worried, but they were considered the most powerful beings in the universe so he didn’t feel like taking too many chances.

“I don’t suppose you're here to tell me my name and catch me if I fall?” Maybe, he shouldn’t test the powerful being right away but what else was he supposed to do. Thankfully she just snorted.

“Nope, came to see what was making all the noise, found your fight, recognized the guy from the Gotham newspaper, killed him, talked to you for a bit, and now taking you home so you can get those 5 broken ribs, broken arm, and internal bleeding taken care of Paeqian or if you prefer Tim Drake.” 

“Wha-” He didn’t get to finish his sentence before he found himself airborn. Within seconds he was at the doorway of the manor and the Edutzal was nowhere to be seen. 

Another word to add to the translation list. 

—-----------------

This wasn’t going well. He was out of ammo and surrounded… Or was surrounded? Half the goons were gone, all the goons? The flash of black gave him all the confirmation he needed. One of the Edutzal was there. Tim wasn’t lying when he said they were faster than the supers. The last of the goons were added to the tied up pile and he was face to face with the third one.

“I take it, you know my name too?”

“Of course Gaujieqn. We figured out the identities of everyone in the Justice League our first day here.” 

“What's your name ad the name of the one Tim met, and what the hell does Gaujiegn mean?”

“I’m Vehutran, she can tell her name when she wants too, and guess. Anyways, your back up is about 5 minutes out. Can you find your way out or do you need help?” He didn’t need help, but if he got help maybe he could get more information.

“A guide would be nice, but you are not flying me out!” 

“You’re going to make me late for dinner plans and Siuqgux hates it when we’re late… This way.” She led him down some halls, floating the entire way. Jason was beginning to wonder if any of them could walk, they always seemed to be floating. 

“Why are you here?”

“Because we like it here.”

“Why are there three of you?” 

“Because we like being around each other.” 

“What are you planning on doing to earth?”

“Not much more than we already have.”

“Why do you keep helping us?”

“Because we get bored and all of you seem to be in constant fights.”

“What do you want from Earth?”

“A place to live.”

“Wh-”

“Continue straight down this hall and you’ll be out Jason Todd.” With that the Edutzal was gone.

Notes

1. After 10 months i'm finally posting the parts!!! 2. Anyways, we got some weird words here, any guess as to what they mean?

Taglist:

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[thenyoumightaswellwrestleangels]

It isn't always easy (but how lucky I am to be known)

comfort came against my will - series masterlist here

pairing: dick grayson x reader (gender neutral)

length: 1.1k

genre: fluff, emotional comfort

warnings: reader is vaguely mentally ill, dick is insecure but it's ok in the end

a/n: this can be read on its own. lil bit more about reader and what they do in life. I don't know if I write stories or just weird character studies anymore. whatever lemme know if you like it

"Are you sure you want to go to this, baby? Dick asks you gently as you stare at your reflection in your bathroom mirror, smoothing out your hair one final time.

"I don't really have a choice, babe. The gala is for my company - it looks bad if I don't show." You sigh before spinning around to face him, leaning against the counter and looking up at him, cupping his cheek in your palm and smoothing out the worry lines in his forehead with your thumb. "I'll be okay," you assure gently.

Dick sighs in defeat and presses a kiss to your cheek, content to go with you and keep an eye on you. It had been… one of those days. One of those times when your brain just doesn't work the way you want it to, when your own mental illnesses wrap around your throat and strangle you from the inside out. Most days, he finds himself impressed by the way you strong-arm your own psyche into bending to your will, but he knows it can't always happen. He just wishes the world would understand that, too.

Dick continues to think this as your car pulls up outside the gala, your door opening and you sliding out, him in tow. It mesmerizes him always, the mask you slip on, the way you smile and charm and stand tall in front of the never-ending flashes of cameras and pushing questions of reporters. He's always been impressed by it, but he finds himself even more swept off his feet now that he knows what's come before. It's difficult, sometimes, for him to put this image of you next to the one he'd seen this morning - the one of you with tear tracks down your cheeks and unable to get out of bed.

You turn briefly to him to make sure he's still close by, and although you both know the press will see it as nothing more than a second of love between a couple, Dick knows what you're doing. He knows that you're holding him to his word - making sure that he meant it when he said he'd be by your side the whole night. He doesn't mind that you're checking. He has no intentions of breaking his promise.

The night progresses normally, flutes of champagne being passed around and small talk floating through the air. You charm and dazzle and glide around the way you normally do, but the grip you keep on Dick's hand serves as a constant reminder that you're not okay. When you go to pull your hand away from his, he finds himself unconsciously holding it tighter, not wanting to let you go.

"I have to go up and speak," you speak quietly in his ear, nodding towards the raised stage and the microphone that sits ominously atop it. Dick knows how these things go - he's been to enough Wayne galas growing up and has accompanied you to enough of your own that he knows the host, at some point, has to go up and make a speech.

He just wishes, tonight, that it wasn't your company, and that it wasn't your speech.

But he kisses your hand gently before releasing it, letting you stray too far away from him, and his stomach twists with something akin to panic.

And the feeling doesn't go away as he watches you speak. You're as poised and clear as you always are, the epitome of a successful leader - and if he didn't know that something was wrong, not even he would ever be able to guess that you're struggling.

The panic in his gut, he finds… twists into something else. Doubt, maybe. Insecurity, probably. How well does he actually know you? If you can slip on masks this easily, who's to say you don't have more hidden underneath? 

Dick tries to shake the thoughts from his head, reminds himself that he's your partner and you love him and you've never done anything to make him doubt that. But as you waltz off the stage and people clap and you flash commanding smiles toward people, he finds he can't banish his thoughts as easily as he could.

But then you're back by his side, gripping his hand in a way that makes him think you need him, and the night must go on. He pulls up his own mask, making polite conversation and flitting around like a socialite with you all night and he wonders if he's really any different from you. And then he wonders why he suddenly thinks that's a bad thing.

By the time the night ends and your driver pulls up and lets the two of you into your car, his face hurts from smiling and his feet ache from standing, but you squeeze his hand tightly before letting it go so that you can slide into the back seat and his stomach twists again as he slides in beside you, the door closing behind him.

But then… you change. He watches as you pull up the divider so that your driver can't see you, and then you exhale heavily, letting your shoulders drop and your eyes close as the formal pleasantness melts off your face. Your hand searches for his again and he takes it quickly, squeezing it to remind you that he's here, even if his head is spinning from the removal of his own mask.

"What are you thinking about?" You murmur, your eyes fluttering open to look at him with a flash of concern. Dick takes the hand that's not holding yours and cups your cheek gently, smoothing out the worry lines in your forehead with his thumb. 

"Just thinking about how much I love you," he murmurs back, and his heart thumps loudly in his chest as he remembers how true that statement is - how much he loves you and how honoured he feels that you take off your masks for him. He kisses your hand where it's interlocked with his own. "I'm just thinking about how lucky I am to be the one who gets to know you like this."

You smile lazily at him, a knowing look settling in your eyes. 

"Ah," you begin. "This isn't always easy, I know."

Dick exhales at your words, wondering how you always pin what he's feeling so easily. You bring your hand up to brush your thumb along the apple of his cheek. 

"I'm the lucky one, Dick. I should be thanking you for wanting to know me like this."

Dick smiles at your words, wrapping an arm around your shoulders to pull you closer to him in the back of the car. "We're both lucky to have found each other, I guess," He murmurs into your hair, pressing kisses to the crown of your head.

"Yea," you smile. "I guess we are."

[linkspooky]

What’s your thoughts on teen titans 2005 blackfire?

This is actually a complicated question to answer because I do love the Blackfire we get from the Teen Titans cartoon, but it isn't really my favorite adaptation of her character. Part of the problem is she's only in two episodes. If Starfire got her own season then Blackfire would probably have to be fleshed out more just by necessity.

I guess my main issue boils down to the difference between personality and character depth. Which is something I just made up on the spot but, a character can have a lot of personality but not be a particularly deep character and vise versa. More under the cut.

Cartoon Blackfire is so overflowing with personality that she's an incredibly memorable character despite only appearing in two episodes. The cartoon adaptation does a good job in general of streamlining the more complicated comic book versions into easily recognizable personalities that fit into the animated adaptation, where you still get the gist of the original.

Robin is trying too hard to be Batman, reflective of early Teen Titans Dick Grayson's habit of overworking himself and his insecurity as leader. Starfire's personality focuses on her fish out of water aspects which was a big conflict for her originally. Cyborg's portrayal leans into the disability representation aspect of his narrative and how like an ablest society has taught him to hate himself or think of himself as less than human for his cybernetic prosthetics.

The show communicates these deep ideas in more simplified personalities compared to the comic book counterparts (they have to it's a 20 minute cartoon versus a new teen titans run with over a hundred issues).

Then we get to Blackfire who also has a strong personality that immediately communicates a lot about her character. Number one she is the archetypal big sister who makes her little sister feel inferior about everything, it's like being in middle school when your sister is a high scholer. From Starfire's perspective Blackfire has always been cooler, stronger, more adult. That's something the audience can understand pretty easily because they most likely have big sisters too who seem cool and untouchable.

On top of that though as the episode progresses we learn that Blackfire isn't just making Starfire jealous on accident. Like it could have been an accident sometimes you hang out with a new group of friends and immediately grab the attention away but it's just a misunderstanding you're just trying to integrate yourself into the group and newer people tend to attract more attention. Borrowing your sisters clothes, hanging out with their friends and taking attention away, those could all just be a normal sibling conflict.

Then you find out that Blackfire's doing this on purpose, she's just trying to edge out Starfire and steal her place with her friends. It's not just because she wants to hide out from under the law and stick Starfire with the blame to get the police off her tail, no this is something she constantly does in every interaction with Starfire. She's always insisting that she's the better sister. She's reinforcing this sibling rivalry and always trying to come out on top.

Blackfire constantly antagonizes Starfire and turns everything into a competition, whereas Starfire doesn't see things that way she just sees them as sister. There are times where Blackfire is mentioned offhand and Starfire tells stories of her growing up like (Oh, my sister went through puberty and she turned purple for three days). So the rivalry thing is also pretty clearly one-sided on Blackfire's side. Even Blackfire's attempt to conquer tamaran and marry Starfire off to some ugly alien, it's a pretty clear attempt to just hurl egg in her sister's face.

Blackfire personality-wise also has that bad girl thing going to her. She's the quintessential mean girl to Starfire's naive nice girl. Her introduction episode where she immediately takes away the attention of all of Star's friends by coming off as a cooler version of Starfire, and the night club scene where she's wearing Starfire's clothes, and dancing also calls to mind Faith, Hope and Trick, the BTVS episode where Faith the other slayer is introduced to serve as the main character Buffy's darker foil. The "Bad Slayer" to Buffy's "Good Slayer."

This is what Blackfire is set up to be, she's not only a rival / antagonistic sibling she's supposed to be the "bad sister" to Starfire's "good sister". It's a pretty shallow role but Blackfire has so much personality that she plays it really well.

The show itself doesn't really dig any deeper than the sibling rivalry and the good sister / bad sister aspect, though. Which isn't true for the comics. Which is why I consider cartoon Blackfire a good adaptation of her PERSONALITY, but one lacking in character depth.

What makes comics Blackfire such a fascinating character to me is that she and Starfire are a pretty nuanced breakdown of the golden child / scapegoat dynamic. It's something a lot of adaptations miss out on. Even the debatably canonical Teen Titans GO! spinoff Comic of the show that ran at the same time the show was running kind of misses out on this element in their origins.

"Starfire was more liked because she was kinder and prettier..." this oversimplification that their parents did love all their children equally, Blackfire was just a bad seed / bad child who was unpleasant and hateful from the start. THe archetypal jealous older sister / cain to Starfire's Abel.

That's not how it is in the comics! Blackfire is disabled in the comics, and because of that Starfire's parents heavily favor their abled child. Blackfire's narrative is a disability narrative, she's unable to fly in her world so her parents strip her of her rightful inheritance and treat her far worse than her abled children, for no other reason than she can't fly.

I'm going to borrow heavily from another post about a character with a similiar disability narrative, where they are actively abused by their ableist parent: Toya Todoroki from My Hero Academia.

Touya, as a kid, is undergoing this painful disability, and rather than acknowledge his hand in that - because Endeavor brought him into this world for selfish reasons, without thought or care to the possibility of the Incompatible Outcome - Endeavor just turns him away and refuses to see his pain. He doesn't try to accommodate or mitigate or treat the disability, just pushes the disabled child aside and minimizes how severe the disability is. [...] Endeavor then keeps attempting to have "non disabled" children to "make up for" the disabled one. [...] Touya, however, in all of his grief and his anger, can only see that once again, he is not seen, his suffering didn't matter to his father. His disability is made to be his fault and his failure, which Endeavor, despite having a shrine to him, has cleanly wiped his hands of it. This new child is not disabled; this child is perfect. This is similar to how disabled older siblings may initially fail to emotionally connect to their abled baby siblings, and fail to see the way their parents may hurt or otherwise not nurture them; resentment at what is, real or perceived, better treatment and more displays of love, care, attention, etc builds inside.

Blackfire is born with a disability, and rather than try to accomodate for her, her parents just turn away from her refuse to see her pain and then push her aside for their "non-disabled" children. Starfire is not disabled, Starfire is perfect, and Blackfire knows that their parents treat the two of them differently.

Which is why in her pain and desperation for her parent's attention Blackfire has never truly connected or noticed Starfire, because she's incapable of seeing Starfire as anything other than the "abled" sibling in the household and the "favorite." Which isn't Blackfire or Starfire's fault, it's a conflict that's forced upon them by their parents. If Blackfire's parents had just treated her like a normal child instead of scapegoating her for her disability, Blackfire would have no reason to compete with Starfire.

However, there's an added element to this which makes the Blackfire and Starfire dynamic so good, is that Starfire does not understand that she's the golden child. She thinks their parents are perfectly normal, loving parents, and that Blackfire is the problem. Starfire refuses to ever see that Blackfire was abused and from the start believes that Blackfire just came out of the womb petty and jealous.

To be fair Blackfire does commit sibling abuse when she's younger, and even eventually ends up selling out their entire planet, and her sister to her the enemy. If Starfire resents Blackfire for her actions she's justified, but Starfire reduces Blackfire in her mind to a mustache twirling villain.

It's like if Starfire saw a pair of parents abusing their child in a wheelchair, screaming at him for not being able to walk, Idk, pushing him down the stairs she'd get angry and think they're horrible parents, but she can't see that the behavior is bad in her own parents.

Once again Starfire is a victim of Blackfire's lashing out, but at the same time imagine it from Blackfire's perspective. Imagine knowing that your parents are abusing you, and having no one to confide in because even if you told your sister how you'd felt she'd take her parents side and say "it's your fault, why don't you just try behaving better?"

In the comics themselves Blackfire's intense rivalry with Starfire is really her attempt to "earn" back the love of her parents by making up for the disability she was born with.

It's also sort of ironic - many disabled children (physical, intellectual, mental etc) often continue pushing themselves to achieve their parents dreams- whether it's sports, academics, work, etc - as a way to garner attention or praise or love or "make up" for being a burden/disabled until they collapse in some way - mental health crisis, irreversible body damage, etc.

Blackfire becomes violent, obsessed with strength, because her parents have taught her that there is something wrong with her that she needs up to make up for her inherent weakness by being strong. Blackfire is who she is in reaction to an inherently Ableist society that demonizes her for her disability, and parents who punish her and a sister who (cluelessly) joins in on that.

It's a good golden child and scapegoat dynamic because as awful as Blackfire is as an adult, she didn't have to become that way. She was pointlessly scapegoated as a child, pushed, pushed, and pushed because apparently it was just too hard for her parents to love a disabled child. It's also probably one that a lot of readers don't understand because it's a little hard to swallow the idea that some parents will just treat children as subhuman for having some disability, but then be perfectly capable of loving their abled children.

What makes it such a great one though is that it eventually breaks free from assigning Starfire the hero role, and Blackfire the villain role. One thing I hate about most "Good sibling vs Bad sibling" conflicts is that they'll make the bad sibling the one who got abused. Like, wow the abused sibling that didn't get any outside help is angry and violent... no duh.

As the comic goes on they break out of their roles because Blackfire becomes a much deeper character than she initially was. She's no longer just a power hungry dictator trying to grab a throne that wasn't hers out of jealousy, she eventually wins the throne of Tamaran because she is a better ruler than either Starfire or either of her parents. We learn that the reason she's so motivated isn't because she came out of the womb a little hater, but a genuine patriot.

She's violent and ruthless not because she has to be, but because she genuinely believes it is the only way to accomplish her goals of a better Tamaran. It is really the extreme end of what her parents did to her as children. Blackfire became violent, volatile, and determined because she wanted to earn back the love from her parents. Blackfire decides she has to be strong, cold and a killer because she has to work hard to earn the love of her planet.

Her backstory all ties into these goals, and through that we can see why Blackfire treats Starfire that way. It's not just that Blackfire is jealous of Starfire, but also that Blackfire represses her need for love. Her parents never loved her, so why would Starfire? She spent her entire childhood trying to earn that love and never got it, so she tried to deny that she ever wanted love in the first place.

Blackfire is actively killing off the part of her that desires love from people, that wants a family, because she believes it will make her lose sight of her goals. If that means she ends up turning against her family and fighting Starfire, well, oh well then she never had a family in the first place.

However, she's never completely able to get rid of her desire for familial love which is why she has this weird obsession with Starfire in the first place. Starfire's basically the only one who tried to love Blackfire and have a connection with her, even if Blackfire didn't reciprocate. Which is why Blackfire is simultaneously always trying to put Starfire down, but at the same time she can't let go of Starfire either. I think Blackfire desires that relationship with her sister too, but one it's hard not to be jealous when you see your more abled sibling receiving the love and care you want, and number two Starfire has consistently all their lives sided with Blackfire's abusers over her.

Which is why instead of the sibling relationship they both want, which is to just be normal sisters and equals they're constantly forced to fight against each other. Neither of them actually wants this, it's their parents, it's outside circumstances, and it's their own inability to overcome their emotional flaws that makes them constantly fight. Which is just sad because Starfire has no connection with her younger brother, and her parents are just as ready to sell her out as they were Blackfire so the only person in her biological family who loves her is Blackfire... albeit in a twisted way.

They both miss out on the chance to have a close connection with a person who they grew up with, and will understand a lot of their lives especially because Blackfire and Starfire are actually pretty similiar (the same person in two different fonts) because neither of them can get over this conflict.

It's tragic. They miss out on the chance for a loving sibling relationship that they both want because they can't overcome the cycle of abuse that started with their parents.

Anyway, if you want a show that dissects the golden child and scapegoat dynamic between the two of them better you can watch Season 3 of the HBOMAX TItans Adaptation. Their Starfire and Blackfire are fantastic and the season actually shows the two of them reconciling.

[temperamentalaquarius]

any thoughts on batman: black mirror? i really enjoyed it (as a non-batfamily fan) but i'm wondering if there is a difference of opinion with people who are actually acquainted with the context behind black mirror, i guess. which parts did you find the strongest + which parts did you find the weakest?

anyways, im a huge fan of your comics-posting (which is both, in the best way, entertaining and insightful). have a great day!

Ahhh thank u!! I'm glad I'm not the only one having fun 😁!!!

Thank you so much for sending this, I loved the dick!bats era and I liked The Black Mirror!!

I thought it was a decent Dick story, and I loved that it had Babs and Tim as the supporting cast. It was good to see them back(mostly) in their 90s early 2000s element.

I thought that the A plot was better than the serial killer B plot-; it had a lot of personal connection for Dick without being about the Graysons and orcas(which are some of the most vicious and borderline cruel predators that terrify me to my core and it was really cool to see them get some use)- even if I didn't find the ending super satisfying.

I thought James was interesting, and his story was more linear but the addition of the Joker into the situation was kind of just...messy and not entirely necessary? It kind of killed it for me. Idk I might just have Joker fatigue. I did like the coloring and a good portion of the art better in that part of the story, tho. I thought the mood they set was really cool and a little scary.

My high points were all (unsurprisingly) character based:

I loved the way Tim saving Dick from his own shit here

Kinda paralleled this scene in NW 96

But more mature. Watching them go from Dick mentoring Tim to them having a much more balanced relationship where Tim can fully have Dick's back has always been super satisfying and seeing it making a come back after their little fallout was cool

I also like the attention paid to the differences in Bruce and Dick's philosophy (specifically here:

) and the difficulty that Batman presents Dick because of it. Part of the appeal of Dick being Batman is the reluctance and the chunk of flesh it takes out of him and I think this story really got the tone of that right. He's making mistakes that he wouldn't normally, he's not sleeping; you can really tell that everything is getting to him. He feels like the walls are closing in on him with no way out (sometimes literally) and it makes the whole story kind of..weary? It's as much man vs man as it is man vs self. Love that many of the action sequences in the book happen in enclosed places that have an unstoppable deadly force converging on him with no way out and how that emphasizes the theme

OH and my absolute favorite analogy for the mindset that dick operates w/ is in this book

And how that works with his parents rules for survival

There's like... a debate on whether Dick plans or if he acts on instinct and I like the way that this breaks it down to: yes, he's planning from the start and if it seems like he isn't it's because that's what he wants you to think- but he understands that leaving space to bob and weave is a part of that process. Ultimate planner that is liable to start behaving erratically as fuck at any moment is such a fun look

Favorite fight was probably the horror forward snap at the auction, with honorarable mentions going to Dick v.s the compactor, Dick v.s. the orca, and of course Dick v.s. The bends

Worst was by far this one:

There is no way he should've been able to waltz into Babs' hideout without her knowing I'm so sorry it's just not realistic, like, that's Barbara Gordon???

[daddysfangirls-dc]

The Making of Three (3/3)

Pairing: Wally West x Dicky Grayson x fem! OC

Warning: angst, fluff

1 - 2 - 3 -

They decided to meet outside of the manor, on more neutral ground. An old diner within the city of Gotham was chosen. It was mid-morning, and the three of them sat tucked away in a corner booth in that back. Very few people were there. Wally and Dick sat on one side, and Alice sat on the other.

Alice nervously picked at her sleeves, avoiding looking at the couple across from her. She stayed up all last night thinking of the many different outcomes of today, what to say, and what to do, but now sitting here in front of them, she knew nothing.

The boys were in the same situation, not knowing where to begin or what to say. Sure they discussed it with each other they knew what they wanted to say but now how to say it or where to begin how to speak without making it worse.

They say in silence. Awkward, tense, suffocating silence.

"Drinks?" the waitress asked, breaking the silence. Even she could tell something heavy was happening even if they weren't talking.

"um, how about orange juice?" Dick asked, looking around no one objected "Three orange juice"

"Alright, I'll give you some more time with the menus" and to handle whatever drama they were dealing with.

"I'm Sorry," Dick said once they were alone again, " Yesterday, I went about it the wrong way. I shouldn't have kissed you like that I wanted to show you how I felt but I shouldn't have done it like that. I'm sorry"

She didn't look up.

" Do you remember the first time we all met? I do." Wally said, "I was 13, and you guys were 11. I remember being so excited you guys were the first, and despite being the youngest, you were veterans compared to me, but you still didn't treat me as such. And I got to know you, and I guess it brought you down to earth more normal."

Alice smiled a bit.

"I remember when I fell in love with you," he continued, " I fell in love with Alice first "Her head snapped up in shock, but Dick just chuckled " Yep, I was 14 when I realized, well, I felt it, but I didn't know what it was at the time I just knew I felt for you, It was that one time where Flash and Superman collaborated. Remember, they took out the bad guys, and we handled the hostages and civilians. And the old man, remember? He was telling those awful jokes, but you laughed anyways. Your laugh was beautiful. "

Alice could recall the moment, she had been nervous it was her first collaboration with The Flash clan she wanted to impress, but she was nervous. The old man saw her nervousness and being a father and grandfather to many, sought to calm her nerves without some light awful jokes. It worked. To this day, she still remembers that old man and looks into him and his family occasionally.

"I fell in love with the sound of you. You sound so beautiful. And- "

The waitress returned with their drinks "Are you guys ready to order?"

Hoping for more privacy, the trio quickly ordered their meals.

"I fell in love with your touch," Dick said once the waitress left " I remember how when I first came to the manor, and I was still grieving... you used to hold my hand at first, we didn't really know each other at first, then you'd hold and hug me. I honestly don't think I would have been able to survive those days without you holding me, grounding me." Dick wiped a few spilled tears.

"But that's not- that's not the only reason you're more than that. And our relationship is more than that. I'm saying that I have feelings for you, and I realized those feelings were love when you touched me. When you absent mind, grab my hand, subconsciously scooch closer, when you crawl into my bed without even asking."

Alice remembered when Dick first came to the Manor, this was before she was a full-time resident Bruce had asked her to be there when Dick came to make it easier having someone his age around. She remembered he was full of anger and sadness. In those sad moments, she held his hand when the anger faded, she held him.

His sadness was as prominent anymore it didn't control or hold him down. But she never stopped holding him.

"I think we both realized we were in love with you at the same time." Wally chuckled "It became somewhat of a competition after that. Which one of us was worthy enough for you"

"Sometimes it felt like neither of us was worthy of you," Dick confessed.

Competition?

While she could say she saw Wally trying to impress her, that wasn't abnormal or something new Wally was always trying to impress one female or another, always wanting some female attention. She never thought to put more reason behind it than that.

As for Dick, she could not pinpoint any change in behavior or dynamic between them. She could not remember a moment of him trying to impress her. Probably because she was always impressed by him. His ability to impress him was effortless. Not that she'd ever said that out loud.

"I think that's how we sort of fell in love with each other," Dick said

" How do you figure?" Wally asked

" We both had some kind of love for each other before we realized how much we both loved her. We knew how important she is to us, and we are to her. And just... we wouldn't have been so close if we didn't love her first."

"We bonded over our love for you and ended up falling in love with each other too." Wally said "Our love for you hasn't faded though"

Bless this waitress she could feel and see the tension the trio was giving off but still served them properly. Bringing them their food and refilling their drinks. She told them where to find them if they needed her, but honestly, she knew they wouldn't or hoped they wouldn't. The tension was suffocating, and she was smart enough not to stick and choke. Although she wasn't smart enough to go into the kitchen and gossip with the cook instead of the counter window.

The trio began to eat in silence. Alice focused on her food and avoided eye contact with the boys. Dick picked over his food, uninterested. And Wally, well, Wally needed to eat tension would not stop his metabolism.

They ate in silence for a few minutes.

"Please, just say something, anything. Please," Dick begged, pushing his plate away.

"You remember the day you came out to the team"

Of course, they did, they had gathered the whole team in the cave and announced not only their sexuality but their relationship as well. It was a day of congratulations and celebration.

"I had chosen Wally that day, I was going to ask him out to dinner and a movie," she confessed.

It took her a while to build up the courage to ask one of them out, then she took time to pick which one to ask, weighing the pros and cons she had chosen Wally in the end.

"He was the safest option"

"Safest option?" Wally questioned she could hear the offense in his voice.

"I was pretty sure you were going to reject me. If you did, I could have run home. If Dick rejected me, we live together my home is his home."

While being rejected by Wally would hurt just as much as being rejected by Dick, it would not have as much impact. Alice frequents the Manor a lot enough to be seen as a near-permanent resident, a home for her. Being rejected by Dick would mean changing their at-home dynamic, straining her relationship with Bruce and Alfred ( she's sure they'd take his side), it would mean losing a safe space she had since she was a child BEFORE Dick. She didn't want to risk it. Wally's rejection would have hurt, but it wouldn't have affected her family as much as Dick's would.

" It didn't matter though in the end, you got him..." She lost her appetite "What do you want from me?"

"I love you," Dick said as he scooched closer to her.

"You also loved Wally and are in a relationship with Wally."

"Yes, but we were thinking," Wally said, his plate now empty, " maybe we could add you to our relationship. I love you, Dick loves you, and you just admitted to having some feelings for the both of us but being unable to choose."

"So don't choose, have the both of us. We're willing to open up our relationship, ourselves, we're willing to share." Dick said as he took her hand, she didn't pull away, so he took that as a good sign.

Alice dreamed of this before of all three being together sexually and domestically. Though she never considered it to be an actual possibility, it was always a fantasy to her, something she wanted but could never have or reach because none of it was realistic. A desire but not a reality. Relationships were between two people. Plus, if they loved each other so much, why would they need her.

She couldn't comprehend the idea of them wanting her.

"Why me? No- I mean... this is all very confusing and overwhelming," she said

"In a few words, we're asking you to be our girlfriend," Wally said

What a way to shatter her expectations and reality while making her dreams come true.

"Girlfriend?" she whispered in disbelief. " I've never been anyone's girlfriend before."

"I know," Dick said as he chuckled

"I don't know what to do"

"You can begin by saying yes," Wally said as he reached across the table for her other hand, she accepted.

"Okay, yes"

With the speed of lightening in his feet, he speed onto the other of the booth and kissed her. Alice was shocked but quickly fell into the kiss.

Wally pulled away first he chuckled as she chased his lips.

"I've been waiting to do that for years" It truly was a day of confessions.

"I'm guessing you guys want the check now," the waitress said as she approached them.

"And some to-go boxes"

[taxi-cab-to-slowtown]

Core Disaster Week-- Day 5

Mission Report: May 25, 20XX

Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne, Robin

Mission Completed: Young Justice Mission XXX

Summary: Look, weird things happen in our line of work, but this was weird even for that. We got transported to a universe where there was no such things as superheroes or superpowers, and let me say, it was trippy as all fuck. 

Notes: I find it really interesting that in this universe Bart was Barry’s son and not his grandson, it lends credence to my developing theory that Bart might be from the future, but his true intended time is the present. It would explain why Kon and I are his soulmates despite being from what would seem to be his past. If in a universe where time-travel does not exist he ends up in this time period anyway, maybe this is the period he’d meant to be in. 

Tw: Dick, don’t read this. You don’t want to know some of the stuff that happened. For everyone else, TW for child abuse. 

Notes For B: This is going to be weirdly sentimental and you can completely ignore it if it’s out of line, but that you for being my dad. I just got a look at a world where I never ended up becoming Robin or a part of your family, and it sucked. Robin, and this family, is such an intrinsic part of who I am that I wouldn’t be the same person without it. So, thank you. 

Report: I woke up this morning in my old bed in Drake manor. At first I thought it was some kind of prank– Jason has been known to randomly move me when I sleep and put me in weird places to take pictures on my phone and then make fun of me for being such a deep sleeper– but then I noticed that there were things off about the room. 

A lot of my current hyper-fixations and special interests were laying around the room. Books about coding that I didn’t own before now,  and a few time-travel theorem books. Turns out I always end up researching that, even if my soulmate isn’t a time traveller. There were other things there too. There was a Deadpool poster on my wall, which was weird because I’ve always had trouble getting into comic books because of how different they are from reality. There were also multiple school awards on a shelf that I was never able to get because I was always so busy. There was also a photo of me kissing a blond kid that I faintly recognised from school. 

Anway, really, really trippy. 

I grabbed my phone to call Kon or Bart, but didn’t find their names in my contacts. That was okay because I had their numbers memorised anyway, so I called them. 

Bart, it turned out, was the son of Barry Allen and Iris West. Iris was still a reporter, but Barry was just a normal forensic scientist who never had a lab-accident involving lightning. He also told me that he didn’t have superspeed. His soulmark was still on his chest– as was mine– and everything else seemed the same, but neither he nor Barry had powers, and it seemed that he hadn’t travelled through time. 

Upon further searching, we discovered some more discrepancies, the worst of which being that Wally West had never gotten out of his abusive household and had been beaten to death when he was a teenager. I guess that without super-speed and realising that Barry was the Flash, Wally would never have survived. Bart cried for a while after that, demanding that we find a way to get back home. 

Then I called Kon. Who, in this universe, was still the son of Lex Luthor and Clark Kent, but Clark was trans and the two of them were together. His name was also Conner Luthor and he was the Lexcorp heir. He said that it was really tripping, and that when he’d first walked in and saw Clark and Lex being lovey-dovey in the kitchen he’d almost died of shock. He also didn’t have his powers at all. 

We got Kon to steal a jet from his father and pick us both up so we could find a way back into our universe. I broke into Wayne manor in hopes of finding the Batcave, but it wasn’t there. I did discover though that Dick Grayson suffered from severe depression and was labelled insane after he murdered a man in cold blood when he was eight. Apparently, he’d lost both his parents, killed Tony Zucco, was confined to the manor for the rest of his life, his little brother was murdered– not by the Joker, but by some guy trying to get to the Wayne fortune– and then figured out that either his soulmate didn’t want him or was dead. I couldn’t exactly tell him that I knew who his soulmate was and exactly what had happened to him. 

We got out of Wayne manor and managed to track down a device that Lex was making to try to travel through universes. We broke into Lexcorp in order to use it, but Lex caught us. He asked Kon what he was up to. Kon told him that his machine worked and we were from another universe, before flipping the switch. We got back to our bodies just fine, but I’m sort of worried that Lex Luthor from that world might be in the body of our Lex Luthor. 

Follow Up: Keep an eye out for any weird behaviour from Lex.

[dudethatsmyundeaduncle]

Reblogging my own post cuz I have more to say! (PT. 2)

To me the most poignant part of this Reverse Robins idea is that without Dick Grayson you don't have Robin.

Cuz when you get down to it every Batkid has worn the Robin costume, with the exception of Cass. (BECUZ Duke WAS ROBIN read We Are Robin 🙄)

Meaning every single one of those kids, in cannon, is chasing after the ideal kid-gilante that Dick Grayson left behind.

Every. Single. One.

And then a Reverse Robins AU asks you to think about those same kids without the shadow of Robin. Which is incredibly interesting! Because while I don't think Damian would create a worse or inherently less appealing/impactful first sidekick for Bman, on the contrary I think a young Damian would make an incredibly compelling and heartbreaking sidekick, he couldn't/can't create Robin. It's not who he is.

The same goes for Duke, Tim, and Jason who would follow after him. None of these kids could create Robin.

Fundamentally they can't, Robin's creation so singularly belongs and is unique to Dick Grayson, it's LITTERALLY the name his mother gave him.

But beyond that, the reason it's so poignant to me is that even after the RR Batkids have grown out of the roll of Batman's sidekicks, learned their own lessons, and moved on, I think the first time they see Robin still has to be a life changing moment for all of them!

So much of these charcters development belongs to or is in part because of the time they spent as Robin, because Robin meant something special to all of them.

For Damian it was legacy, for Duke it was the power to make a change, for Tim it was his childhood dream, for Jason it was a chance to fight back.

And I think while they still reach those developments being whatever version of Bman's sidekick that they were, when they see Dick Grayson's Robin they all think " I wish I could have seen Robin as a kid."

Because that's Robin's magic! He makes you feel like you can do anything! Like everything's gonna be ok!

Like grown up Damian,whose probably nightwing, feels, down to his bones, that if he could have brought a fraction of that magic to being the first Batkid maybe the early days would have been better. So he works hard to make sure Robin is safe to be that Symbol now.

And grown up Duke, whose the Signal, probably walks around in Robin merch and hands out Robin stickers to kids on patrol because he knows that Robin makes them feel powerful/strong. (Even if he's still probably looking out for mini fans of his own version of the batkid sidekick)

Tim, who I think definitely has to get lazrus pitted or joker jr'd in RRverse, at all of 19 sees Robin fly in his first days and thinks "I would follow that kid anywhere." Like Tim sees Robin and knows that if he'd seen Dick Grayson dashing across rooftops laughing as a kid he probably would have turned out so differently.

Jason, whose just barely growing out of the batkid sidekick mantel, sees Robin and yeah probably feels insecure about this little kid prodigy but also feels this very embarrassing sense of awe. Like at some point Jason just has to shake his head and make sure his astounding little kid brother doesn't brain himself and gets to keep the magic around a little longer.

Anyway much food for thought I guess, as you can see I'm very normal about this thanks!

The thing I love about a Reverse Robins AU, but I never get to really see fleshed out, is that Dick Grayson's Robin changes everything about being Batman's sidekick.

Like you can make up ur choice of bird or bat themed sidekick to ride along with batman during their tenure at his side and that's cool but the title is Batman&Robin. Like they are thee dynamic duo.

So what I'm saying is, in a reverse robins AU no matter whose sidekick is the first and what name they take inevitably the best team up is Gonna end up being 40+ yrold Bruce Wayne and 8 yrold Dick Grayson.

Like the drama there y'all!? Not just in sibling rivalry, because I'm sure they were all good sidekicks in their own right, but Dick and Bruce together are just different.

Dick as Robin comes out of the corner with a steel chair leaving everyone stunned because he's the best of them. It's not even a competition. If he's not the first then everything from the way he moves, the way he quips, the way he fights, makes him the last.

I can't imagine getting a new little sibling who is just suddenly like a fuckin prodigy out of nowhere. And like yeah obviously he's gonna make mistakes and get into fights with Bruce and constantly be learning.

But can u imagine those older Batkids getting to stand back and watch in awe as Batman&Robin is born. As this little kid who lost everything, home to no place but a circus cart and with nothing but the clothes on his back, creates a legend in Gotham. A legend the city holds their fuckin breath to see born because Robin is magic.

Just...like can u imagine how devestating and amazing that would be as a previous batman sidekick? He's not even a replacement for you because he's so different he's, dare anyone say, better.

This kids in a league all his own and he's your little kid brother Dick Grayson and that's terrifying.

[shadows-of-a-memory]

neal caffrey

back to white collar masterlist

romantic

one-shots

the high might be theirs (but all the bottles were mine)

(technically a two-shot) you’re in love. in love with danny brooks, your childhood best friend. when it turns out the affection is mutual, you two begin dating. then, danny finds out about his past: his real name is neal, and he was moved to witness protection when he was two due to his father being a dirty cop. you’re left alone, abandoned, unloved. a few years later, though, danny-neal shows back up, and you’re forced to figure put how to handle his reappearance. based off of “nothing else i could do” by ella jane

series

of small mines and subtle misdirections

(top gun!crossover) (bradshaw!reader) your life is pretty much perfect. oh, you have your bad days, your struggles, your fights, but you’re married to the love of your life, have the best kids you could hope for, and work with your best friends at a job you love kicking criminal ass. but when a case takes you out to san diego, familiar ghosts come back to haunt you and you find that sometimes running from your past only makes its shadow longer.

dawn ‘til dusk (and through the night)

(dc!crossover) (series of oneshots) you’ve been in love with pining a normal amount after neal caffrey for… far longer than you should. it’s part of why you’re the only person that figures out his real identities as both dick grayson and nightwing. this, as one might guess, causes a lot of conflict… both with suspicious superheroes and your paranoid coworkers. at least it can’t get any worse than this.

of refractions in reflections

(mcu!crossover) (stark!reader) when the universe was destroyed following the four infinity snaps, somehow instead of dying you find yourself having traveled back in time—just in time to fix things on the front end and sace the world, right? wrong. you’re exhausted. you’ve tried to save the world too many times to care now. so, instead, you create a new identity, separate from your family legacy. create a life, a niche, in an equally new and old world. unfortunately, things don’t always work out that well, especially not for a stark—no matter how hard you may try to run from the name.

pulling out the fray ‘til it comes undone

(national treasure!crossover) (no y/n used) Your mother was a crappy parent, the picture in the dictionary beside “negligent”. Your neighbors ended up raising you, taking you in but not adopting you after her death when your father decided against doing so. Not that you expected differently—he was absent. You had had time to resign yourself to your situation and his lack of involvement—but decades later, a chance encounter that may not be chance per se, means you might find out that all you lived was a lie.

platonic

one-shots

none yet

series

you're saying your goodbyes (before you've arrived)

So, why would you run, dear? When all that you'll find You had what you need, but you just couldn't see What was already there the whole time The problem with running your past is that somehow, someday, it always catches up. And following suicide mission after suicide mission, it certainly could have picked a better time to come knocking. Because when does anything go the way you want?

the life and times of y/n caffrey

multiple series’ following the adventures of neal's younger sister, in order: *nothing they say is enough (so they don't say anything) *walk away *to be added

everything money could buy

(mcu!crossover) (dc!crossover & dick grayson!neal caffrey) bruce wayne is… maybe not the greatest dad. so far, the number of you hiding from him in new york city has reached three, which is only 37.8%, but thats basically 40%, which is basically 50%, which is basically 100%. so yeah. you’re totally justified in living your life with definitely no thoughts at all to your father. you’ve moved on. except… when tragedy hits, you find that maybe you haven’t, after all.

when the sun clouds over (will you be by my side?)

Loyalty is probably the most important thing for you. With how many times you’ve been betrayed, knowing that the people by your side will stay there no matter what, is one of the most sacred things to you. It’s a belief held that only increases when you join SHIELD and enter the game. When your brother, the person who you trusted above everyone else to stick by you, betrays that trust, will you be able to learn how to trust the others around you once again? And when he comes back, needing a favor, will you be able to put aside the knife in your back and assist him, or is that too much to ask on his part?

[suzukiblu]

Fic concept! AKA another soulmate AU. Working title: "kidnapping your soulmate for fun and profit".

Tim meets Superboy--Robin meets Superboy--and it goes, like . . . fine, he guesses. It's fine. They fight Metallo and Poison Ivy and don't die, though Superboy kinda looked like he wanted to when the kryptonite ring was happening to him.

Tim is a thorough little Bat-bastard, of course, so the day after all that goes down, he breaks into Cadmus. Well--breaks into their system, anyway. He figures knowing more about Superboy for the inevitable next time they meet up won't hurt, considering. Fully understanding potential allies' capabilities is--

There's photos in Superboy's file.

This would be completely irrelevant to everything, if those photos weren't specifically of Superboy's soulmark, which is so invasive and offensive that Tim feels kind of sick.

And also if that soulmark weren't the exact same one that showed up on him a few months back.

Well . . . okay, that's a . . . thing.

Tim has several sexuality crisises at once, then remembers platonic soulmates exist. But also he immediately had the sexuality crisises instead of ever thinking of platonic soulmates as being an option, which does not bode well for the "platonic"-ness of this particular soulmark.

Well, that's a whole thing now, he guesses.

Then he remembers that Poison Ivy kissed and mind-controlled Superboy. And also that Superboy, like, lives with his manager. His creepy, not very responsible, easily-blackmail-able manager. And also just . . . everything else he knows about the guy's life. Everything. All at once.

Tim has several more crisises and then calls Dick Grayson to freak out on him.

Tim: Is it ethical to kidnap your own soulmate and does that even matter if they're not legally a person and so you couldn't actually be charged for anything anyway? I mean, B can't get mad at me for doing it if the courts can't get me for doing it, right?

Dick: I'm sorry, Superboy's not legally a person?

Tim: Nope! Which neither Cadmus nor the sleazebag selling his likeness for a living has in any way tried to correct, for the record. Technically he's classified as intellectual property, but Cadmus forfeited legal possession when Superman turned up alive again, presumably to avoid Superman ever finding out that they'd had said legal possession, so technically if I went and kidnapped him it'd be more like . . . salvage, maybe? Like, in the eyes of the law, I mean.

Dick: Yeah, okay, in that case kidnapping your own soulmate might be less an ethics question and more a moral obligation.

Anyway, Nightwing-assured Tim immediately grabs his go-bag and goes to Hawaii to make his kidnapping plans. Like, he's just gonna start soft-planning something, nothing concrete yet. Obviously it's going to take a lot of work to get a cocky half-Kryptonian teenage clone with authority issues and an inflated ego kidnapped by a lone Robin, and--

Five minutes later "normal civilian" Tim Drake meets Superboy on the street after a supervillain attack and Superboy's soulmark is just on full display where his suit's ripped.

And a Bat knows when to take a perfectly-presented opportunity, obviously. He still can't actually kidnap Superboy yet, but he can tell him they're soulmates as a "civilian" and then--

Five minutes after that, Tim's on a plane back to Gotham with a perfectly agreeable and actually much more chill than he was when they were fighting supervillains together Superboy, and just does not understand his life at all.

Also maybe he should've, like . . . called Bruce about the apparently very ride-or-die Kryptonian that he's currently moving into his city? Just . . . at some point . . . ? Possibly?

Whoops.

[hannibals-favourite-meal]

There is this trend on tik tok basically friendzoning your husband and I would to very kindly ask dick Grayson smut where he fucks the shit out of you very respectfully after your prank friendzone him, you are the best love your work, your girl is very stressed and if you could very kindly provide some serotonin I would be very thankful 🥰🥰

Friendzone

Dick Grayson x plus size reader

DC Masterlist | Main Masterlist

You pull a prank on your husband and he doesn’t appreciate it

Warnings: smut, Dick doesn’t appreciate being called by his name, slight breath play, oral (f receiving), unprotected sex, Dick is strong as fuck, no use of Y/N

WC: 1.5k

Minors DNI

Sundays were for relaxing, that was the rule you instigated when you moved in with Dick. Every week, no matter what, you would just have a day at home, just the two of you. Everyone knew not to bother you on Sundays or face your wrath.

Dick was lounging on the couch, lightly dozing as he watched an old re-run of his favourite show, wearing only the light grey sweatpants he’d had since college that he refused to throw away. The light material showed a perfect outline of his cock that you had to tear your eyes away from every time you saw him. Even though Bludhaven was now in the middle of fall, your husband always ran hot so, when he could, he forewent his usual tight shirts just to sit around half naked. He always pretended to be surprised when you would snap and jump him, furiously trying to get him into bed, or wherever was closest, but he knew how wild seeing him shirtless made you.

But the hanky pinky could wait. You both were exhausted from the week, too tired to even have a quickie in the shower like you normally did when getting home from work in the hospital. It had been a full week of overnight shifts on your end, and nights of crime fighting in Gotham for Dick since Bruce had broken his leg and was out of commission for a while. Each time either of you got home, you greeted each other with a small kiss and immediately fell into bed, falling asleep as soon as your heads hit the pillow.

So, it had been a week since you’d done the horizontal tango and you were so ready for your beautiful golden retriever of a husband to fuck you like he hated you.

You were sitting at the kitchen table, trying to concentrate on the copy of Dracula in your hands but not having much success when your phone began to ring. You picked it up without looking at the number. “Grayson’s Mortuary. You stab ‘em we slab ‘em. What can I do for you?” That earned a little chuckle from Dick.

“Jesus, you’re fucking weird.” A gruff voice came from the other end. “Hi Jay. What’s up? You don’t usually call me on Sundays.” “You forgot, didn't you. Well, let me remind you, you wanted to pull a prank on Dick after you saw that TikTok.” “Fuck sorry man I’ve been so busy with work.” “Alright alright just get this over with. He in the room with you?” You hummed in agreement, glancing at your husband who had gone back to his show.

“Ok so what are you up to?” “Oh you know, just hanging out with a friend.” You concealed your smirk just as Dick whipped his head around, eyes wide. The idea had been born from late night scrolling on TikTok when you saw a series of videos of wives referring to their partners as friends or calling them by their first names instead of a pet name. So with a quick text conversation with your brother-in-law, a rough plan had been made and promptly forgotten.

Your husband gave you a side-eye and you had to stifle a giggle as Jason continued to speak. “So I’m guessing he’s listening in.” “Yeah, I agree man, sometimes it’s so nice to just chill with a friend, that’s what I’m doing today and it’s so refreshing.” Dick’s crystal blue eyes were slowly getting darker with a mix of rage and lust. “Hey Dick, do you think you could grab my jumper from our room?” Apparently that was the last straw because your giant of a husband vaulted over the back of the couch and ripped the phone from your hand.

“She’ll call you back.” He growled into the phone, angrily hanging up. “First of all, my name is Dickie, baby, baby bird, bear, hubby or sweetheart to you. Not Dick. Secondly, I put a ring on it so I will always be referred to as your husband. Now bend over and pull your pants down, it’s obvious you’ve gone too long without my cock since you’re acting like such a brat.”

You smiled brightly, quickly shucked your pants down your thick thighs and bending over the table so your plump ass stuck out. Dick grunted and shifted you more forward so your feet dangled in the air and your entire torso was resting on the cold marble. “Right. Now let me have my dinner.”

Dick’s knees hit the hardwood floor with a thump, his huge calloused hands spreading you open. He leaned forward, tongue flat, and licked your slit in one long, slow motion, gathering as much of your juices as possible. “Delicious.” “Oh god!” You moaned loudly when he buried his face in your pussy.

“Yes! Right there please!” He alternated tongue fucking into you and sucking your clit. After two years of marriage and three years of dating, Dick knew your body better than yourself and knew exactly what you needed. Using two fingers, he rolled your clit between them, pinching slightly as he ate you out, devouring all you were giving him. “Holy shit holy shit.” You chanted, your orgasm coming on fast since you had gone a week without one. “So close, please baby.” You were panting, eyes shut, the pleasure building in your tummy threatening to crash over you at any moment.

“No.” The growl rumbled through his chest as he pulled away, giving one last lick to your cunt before standing, pulling his sweatpants down just enough for his cock to spring up, slapping his toned stomach. “You’re not getting off easy tonight my love. You won’t even remember your own name when I’m done with you.”

Without warning, he shoved forward and buried himself to the hilt in one stroke. You screamed as you came, your pussy fluttering and clenching almost painfully around your husband’s length. “Oh fuck baby girl. So fucking tight.” He tucked his face into the back of your neck biting down on the skin harshly to stop himself from blowing his load too soon.

“That’s my good girl. Cumming just from getting a cock stuck in her. You’re my good girl right?” You groaned in the affirmative. “No no. Words my love. Need to hear that beautiful voice.” As he thrust slowly into you, angling perfectly down to hit your g-spot, you found your voice again. “Yes! ‘M your good girl! ‘M yours!” “That’s right. My fucking wife.” He spoke through his clenched teeth, jaw locked, muscles straining as he pumped into you faster.

Your body was being pounded forward, hips digging into the corner of the counter but you couldn’t bring yourself to care, not when your husband was pulling every bit of pleasure from you as he could. No doubt, there will be massive bruises along your stomach tomorrow.

“Touch your clit baby. Need you to cum one more time.” “Can’t” You slurred, your vision becoming tunneled. “Fine. Guess I’ll do it myself.” A huge arm wrapped around you, spanning the length of your torso, forearm resting between your breasts so his hand could encircle your throat, applying only the slightest bit of pressure so your breath only came out in small puffs.

Your eyes rolled back into your skull as he picked up the pace once more, supporting all your weight on his forearm, hand squeezing your neck tighter, bringing your body back towards him. The crude slaps of his hips against your ass and his deep moans drove you higher and higher, your orgasm looming on the horizon.

Dick’s cock twitched wildly inside you. “God, gonna cum.” His other hand wedged itself beneath you and with a slight flick of his fingers against your clit and the loosening of his grip around your neck, you exploded. White dotted your vision, your mouth dropping open, a high pitched whine escaping you with each punch of his cock against your cervix.

“Fuck yes!” His pelvis met your ass as he released himself into you, groaning beautifully into your ear, a warmth spreading through you. He laid a sloppy kiss to your cheek and pulled out, his seed spilling from you and slowly running down your leg. “Oh god. I needed that.” You breathed, voice hoarse. Dick pulled his sweatpants back up, not caring about the wet spot appearing from the remnants of his cum.

“Me too baby. I love you.” “Love you more bear.” You muttered as he pulled you up, scooping you into his strong arms and striding into your bedroom. Placing you on the bed, he pulled off your shirt and sports bra as well as his own pants, depositing them in the hamper in the bathroom. He paused in the doorway, just looking at you.

“What are you doing over there, lover?” He chuckled. “Just looking at my beautiful wife.” “Then come over here and give her some lovin’ Dick.” You smirked as his eyes darkened again and his dick twitched. “Oh you’re in for it.”

He kept onto the bed, pinning you down as your giggles turned into moans.

You’d have to send Jason a thank you gift for putting up with your shit.

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[sunhighriptide]

Okay, I'm going to add to this and do my own version. With a bit of detail.

Gotham is strangely attractive to many dieties, and beings connected to one pantheon attract others of their kind.

Bruce is a son of Hades and Martha Kane. His loathing of death makes this interesting. This is also where he gets his ability to disappear into the shadows. And his supernatural durability. He has no idea he is a demigod. He just thinks all these weird things that keep happening are normal in Gotham. He attracts the bizzare and unusual.

Kate is a daughter of Ares. That means she is technically not Bruce's cousin, but oh well. They are still related on the godly side. She is super good at combat and battle planning. She is also a little supernaturally strong. I think her father did visit her at some point, probably when she was kicked out of the army, to tell her he was proud and the people he kicked her out were dumb little shits.

Dick is a son of Aphrodite and John Grayson. His mom was fully aware of this. Aphrodite had courted John before, impressed by his acrobatic skills and easily captivating charm, but he had turned her down because he was in love with Mary. They desperately wanted a kid. They prayed to multiple gods for help, and Aphrodite was so taken with their love that she made a baby with John Athena style. Dick has a natural charm bordering on supernatural he isn't even aware of. People are helplessly attracted to him and want to listen when he speaks. Aphrodite is incredibly proud of him, and she coos over all his relationships but also judges them all. She feels protective of him but is also not good with time or reality. After his parents died, Tony Zucco and his associates were cursed. Not one of them went on a good date or found a fulfilling relationship after that. In fact, all of them would now desperately desire love, but no one would ever find them attractive again. His parentage is also half the reason all his relationships are so passionate but messy. Dick is entirely unaware of his parentage, but I think Raven has guessed.

Barbara's mother is Themis. Jim has no idea. He thinks she was just a lawyer who died. Themis is the divine arbitrator of justice and associated with oracles. She is also nearly impossible to hide from.

Jason. Jason is difficult to place. If I had to pick one of the main twelve, I'd pick Zeus. He just has the vibes of a lot of power he doesn't realize he has, and he has the spirit and strength. I also like the idea of him being a son of Hemera, who is day. Just the idea fits with baby Jason very much. And with Nyx being his grandma, I imagine he connects with her in the lazarus pit and then chooses to follow the path of Nemesis. But I don't see him as the son of Nemesis outright. He doesn't start off with revenge or retribution being close to what he cares about. I could totally see him accidentally connecting with all of his aunts and uncles while in the league and back in Gotham, and he is unintentionally wreaking all kinds of divine havoc. He just switches between primordial dieties that he unknowingly calls on.

Helena is probably a daughter of Nemesis. The goddess of justice and divine retribution. This makes her Jason's cousin, and when he comes back, kind of an honorary sibling.

Tim is probably an Athena kid. Athena kids have way too much on their mind. Athena kids can never be still or stop trying to make improvements. Athena kids don't sleep. Athena kids get obsessive. His dad probably used to be less of a prick, but he was never warm. I imagine he wanted an heir and perhaps purposefully tried to attract Athena's attention or was pleased by it when it came. This is a big reason why his mother does not care about him. Athena is severely displeased with his father's failure to raise him and subtly steers him towards Dick and Bruce, two semi-competant demigods in the area.

Steph is a child of Dionysus. She is probably both relieved and conflicted when she discovers this. She has a complicated relationship with Cluemaster, and discovering he isn't her biological father would tilt her worldview quite violently. I imagine Dionysus reaching out when she has that near death experience after being Robin. He tells her he loves the Spoiler costume. Purple is also his favorite color. They develop a hesitant relationship after that. She is great at causing chaos, her energy is infectious, and she can get a party started with hardly any effort. For someone who doesn't really drink, she is an insanely good mixologist.

Cass is either the daughter of Ares or Guan Yu. Argument for the latter is that it is nice to have some variation in pantheons. Guan Yu is a Chinese and Daoist war god. However, he is a symbol of peace, and uses violence only when necessary. He is also known for bravery and high pain tolerence, which makes sense for Cass. None of that feels right for Shiva, however, so we are going to stick with Ares. Cass is one of his favorite children. It never occurs to him to inform Kate and Cass that they are half sisters. Kate will probably figure it out eventually. Cass will be thrilled.

Damian. We'll come back to this, because both his parents are very important and spoken for. Which means Talia must be a demigod instead.

Talia and Nyssa both have different mothers. I looked for a slavic goddess for Nyssa, but I could not find one that fit. I decided to jump over to Norse Mythology and made her mother one of the wave maidens, divine forces of the sea. It might be more useful to her if she spent more time at see, but they were also spirits of adventure and conquest.

For Talia, I jumped back over to Greek. Her mother was apparently Chinese and Arabic? But Nanda Parbat moves around, so whatever. I kind of wanted to give her a Kemmetic/Egyptian mother. I considered Heptet, goddess of renewal and ressurection, I think, but I went for Anat, who I am more familiar with. She was worshiped across West Asia as well as in Egypt, represents war, warriors, and hunting. She is a very intense divine force, and whatever she goes after, she accomplishes. I also briefly considered Bast, but I couldn't see her going for Ra's.

This means Damian is descended from the Greek and Egyptian Pantheons. A grandson of Hades and Anat. Which makes him, if anything, more powerful than his parents. Maybe the hunting part also has to do with his animal attachment? I think Bast would like him a lot though, and he would develop a relationship with her and Sehkmet. (Like a professional patron/follower relationship.) But also a little bit adoptable.

Duke I could totally see as a child of Apollo. Partial origin of his light powers. Meta gene plus god blood.

Harper is either Apollo or Hermes, you guys can figure that out. Apollo would make her Duke's half-sibling.

Luke has undeniable Hephaestus vibes, but his dad is clearly Lucius Fox. And also I am running out of steam here.

Selina is a child of Mercury, but has rejected him and follows the cult of Bast. This is the thing thay originally endears Damian to her.

That's all for now?

Oh wait. Yeah.

Alfred is a god. He hasn't told anyone. But he also hasn't aged in the last fourty years. So that's kind of on them. Probably a minor one? Not sure. He is the only one who fully understands what is going on.

Prompt:

Demigods edition!

Dick — son of Zeus or Aphrodite

Jason — son of Hades or Thanatos

Tim —son of Athena

Steph — daughter of Hermes

Duke — son of Apollo

And Bruce is a god who pretends to be human and accidentally keeps adopting demigod children, regardless of which deity he’s pissing off by doing so.

[bruhseidon]

✨Your Relationship with the Batboys as Songs✨

Dick — The Other Woman, Lana Del Rey

“The other woman will always cry herself to sleep. The other woman will never have his love to keep.”

It’s a hard pill to swallow, but Dick will always love Barbara. He often chooses her over you. You’re practically the other woman in your own relationship. Dick Grayson is very dreamy, that’s true, but is he worth the pain? Are you happy?

Jason — More Than A Woman, Bee Gees

“Here in your arms I found my paradise. My only chance for happiness. And if I lose you now I think I would die. Oh, say you’ll always be my baby, we can make it shine. We can take forever, just a minute at a time.”

More Than A Woman is the song that played during your first dance with Jason in one of the Wayne Galas sometime when you were younger. (Yes, you were the one who pulled him to the dance floor). You two dance disco-style whenever this song is playing. Even up to this day. Onlookers be damned.

Tim — You & I, One Direction

“You and I, we don’t wanna be like them. We can make it ‘till the end.”

You two have been at each other’s throat since you debuted, you as a villain and Tim as a hero. I guess somewhere along the way you developed feelings for each other. The million dollar question is: will you and Tim make it as a couple despite being from different worlds?

Damian — Check Yes, Juliet; We The Kings

“Run, baby, run, don’t ever look back. They’ll tear us apart if you give them the chance. Don’t sell your heart, don’t say we’re not meant to be.”

Obviously with Damian being the heir of the League of Assassins, Ra’s and Talia hold a high standard for his partner. You don’t fit the criteria, unfortunately, being a normal civilian and all. Damian will fight for you two until the end, though. That’s how much he loves you. He always convinces you to not give up.

[nightwings-circus]

Stuck together

A/N: thank you guys for being so patient with me as I got better both physically and mentally <3 I’m back and really excited to write more

Synapses: you get stuck in an elevator with your least favourite person Dick Grayson and the tension finally gets to you guys 👀

Request for @stxrrryskygrayson

Warnings: smut. Oral (m! Receiving), I think that’s all? 18+

Just when you thought your luck couldn’t get any worse, it did. Every fucking time.

Not only were you stuck in an elevator, you were stuck with none other then Dick fucking Grayson.

You had just finished a quick run out before steeping into the titans tower elevator, hoping for some peace and quiet, but then someone ran up behind you and got into the elevator aswell.

That someone was Dick, the oh so frustrating smirk not plastered across his face like it usually was.

It annoyed you to no end, In truth you didn’t know why you and Dick argued so much compared to anyone else. You stood there in silence as the elevator slowly climbed, then lurched, then stopped completely.

“What the fuck is going on?” You snapped slightly at the Him.

“Don’t fucking talk to me like that I’m not in the mood.” His usually cocky tone was replaced with genuine hostility, something that you weren’t familiar with from him, even if you were always getting on each others nerves.

He started to press buttons, but the lights just dimmed. There was a static noise before the intercom started.

“Power outage in surrounding areas due to a collision. 45 minutes until emergency power generation.”

Just fucking great.

So you stood there, trying to get service as dick just stood there grumpily.

“Who shit in your cereal this morning?” You taunted him slightly, if not for you then to get him at least back to normal. The anger was freaking you out.

“Me and Kori are done, not that it’s any of your fucking business.” He crossed his arms, leaning against the wall as he closed his eyes.

“What is your fucking problem with me Grayson?” You snapped, you could feel the adrenaline building in your nerves as the words left your mouth.

“You wanna know my fucking problem?” He growled, eyes flying open as he looked you up and down

“I have to spend every fucking day with you taunting me and then eye fucking my little brother. I have to watch you and Jason in the living room nerding out over fucking books and basically dry humping over them.” The hostility in his voice was thick, and was that a hint of jealousy?…. No way, it couldn’t be, right?

“Are you fucking kidding me? Me and Jay? I don’t like him Dick. We’re friends. And why is that your fucking problem anyways what are you my dad?” You didn’t mean to sound so harsh, but the thought of him going after you because of your friendship with Jason made your blood boil.

Dick closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, the sound made your heart flutter. Why was this effecting you like this? You shook your head slightly and leaned against the opposite wall, trying to relax and ignore Dick.

“I’m sorry about you and Kori,” you said softly. You meant it, you knew it probably was hurting him.

“Thanks I guess,” he sounded hostile and it made your anger start to bubble again.

“You’re a fucking cocksucker you know that? At least Jason is a decent fucking person to me” You snapped. You knew bringing up Jason like that was dangerous, but you didn’t care.

Then all of a sudden he was against you, lips on yours and hand on your waist. It shocked you, sending lightning through every nerve in your body as you slowly started to kiss him back.

He shoved you against the wall and then hit your neck, making a soft moan escape your lips.

“Don’t fucking say shit like that Y/N. you drive me fucking crazy. I shouldn’t like you and I do and you bringing up Jason like that? god it makes me want to go kick the shit out of someone.” He was growling as he pulled away and ran his hands through his hair.

You slowly moved closer and ran your fingers down his chest and abs, pressing soft kisses to his neck as you grabbed his hard cock through his jeans, earning a primal growl from him as you lowered onto your knees

You unzipped them and pulled them down before hooking your finger in the waistband of his boxers and pulling them down too, his massive cock hitting his stomach as it was free’d from its restrictive cage.

You licked the tip, earning a moan from the frustrated man. he looked down at you as you took him into your mouth inch by inch, until you couldn’t take any more.

You swirled your tongue around him as you sucked, dick’s fingers tangling in your hair. He was moaning and letting out strings of mangled curses as you picked up speed, choking on him as he gripped your hair and pushed it deeper into your throat.

“Fuck Y/N I’m gonna cum,” his voice was thick with arousal and his eyes were so blown out in lust you could barely see the crystal blue they usually were.

He came undone with a loud moan, the bittersweet salty taste making you drip with arousal, you pulled away and smiled as he looked down at you, eyes droopy from the intense pleasure you had sent through him.

“Ya know we should fight like this more often.”