#mentor!jason todd

[bluejaysandblackbats]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman Beyond, Batman (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Terry McGinnis & Jason Todd, Matt McGinnis & Jason Todd, Warren McGinnis & Jason Todd, Mary McGinnis & Jason Todd, Terry McGinnis & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Terry McGinnis & Warren McGinnis, Mary McGinnis & Matt McGinnis & Terry McGinnis, Warren McGinnis & Matt McGinnis, Jason Todd & Original Character(s) Characters: Jason Todd, Terry McGinnis, Matt McGinnis, Warren McGinnis, Mary McGinnis, Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Protective Jason Todd, Good Sibling Terry McGinnis, Hurt Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, Father Figures, Fatherhood, Mother-Son Relationship, Memories, Mentor/Protégé, Tired Jason Todd, Family Feels, Family Issues, Family Secrets, Second Chances, Parent-Child Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Reunions, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, semi-retired Summary:

Jason Todd is ready to go into semi-retirement after fifteen years working with troubled youth, but one case in particular forces him to confront the sins of his youth and painful memories from his past.

[flamingpudding]

Little Snippets #4

Danny knew he had screwed up and that he was going to be in so much trouble as he flew hurriedly through the streets of Gotham.

"Old man is going to be so pissed...." he muttered as he zigzagged through the buildings. He had just gotten back from a side mission with Clockwork when he learned that one of their villains had gotten their hands on portal technology. Not his parents mind you, no one could read their chicken scratch besides Danny or Jazz. No but Vlad's, who was supposed to be a redeemed man but apparently some of his inventions still managed to get onto the black market.

Danny hat been in the Ghost Zone when they had that found out and the old man pinged him to get back sooner. And oh boy was Danny in for a portal mess when he got back to Gotham. He instantly went out to help the old man. Batman was out on his own and Danny had been trying to give him support when he got tangled up and ended up thrown through a portal.

Yeah, he knew his the old man would give him a good lecture, like the day he had gotten taken under the other mans wing. So now after Danny finally made his way back to Gotham he flew through the streets in search of the old man, it looked like the portal problem had resolved while he was trying to find his way back but still Danny had a weird feeling about Gotham now.

"OLD MAN!" He yelled as he spied Batman on top of a building. Grinning brightly he came to an stop directly in front of the other waving happily. "Sorry it took so long but I am back and in one piece! No injuries! See!"

Danny grinned brightly despite not getting an instant answer or lecture back. Though he paused when he noticed the kid in colourful clothing and others like one with a red face covering helmet, one themed in blue and one in black and red. "Did you get help from others? And I thought you didn't like kid playing hero?"

He tilted his head confused as he studied Batman before his eyes widened. "Hey, since when is your insignia not red...?"

It was in that moment that Danny realized he messed up big time somehow and slipped up as he uttered his next words. "You're not old man Thomas...?"

[dukeofthomas]

Can't believe Bruce canonically picked up a random 12yo homeless child who had no intent to become a vigilante and suddenly thrust Robin onto him without asking if that's what he wanted because he missed Dick (whom he fired because being Robin was too dangerous) and people still act like any take that's not "all the Batkids became vigilantes on their own completely independent of Bruce (who tried so hard to stop them but sadly just couldn't do it)" is a complete idiotic bad-faith take and that you're crazy if you disagree with people saying that Bruce has never ever absolutely NEVER picked up a kid for the purpose of making them into a vigilante.

[jasonsbruce]

[kiseiakhun]

Jayroykyle would NOT be Roy and Kyle fighting over Jason, it would be Jason and Kyle fighting over Roy. Not even just because Roy has the best dick or whatever (although he does), Jason and Kyle would fight over anything. They'd fight over a paperclip. They fight over who gets to keep Roy's discarded arrows even though both of them don't really want them. They fight over who gets to shower first in the morning. They WILL take any excuse to bite each other. They fight over Roy but Roy is not the damsel in the middle of a love triangle, he is the handler of two spicy dogs who keep trying to bite each others dicks off.

[fantastic-nonsense]

most of the discourse surrounding the question "are the Robins child soldiers?" could be solved if people simply read other comics. like, do y'all have this energy for Flash and Green Arrow and the Marvels and the Teen Titans? Do you call Donna Troy and Jaime Reyes child soldiers too? I am begging people to simply accept genre conventions and set yourselves free from this nonsense take

[tiger-grace]

(Screaming in the background)

Teen Titans on call: dude is everything okay??

Dick: no it’s just my brothers 😊 thank you for your concern but they love eachother! ❤️

Teen Titans: there’s blood on the walls?

Dick: I’ve gotta go make sure another one doesn’t die! Don’t forget to smile 💞💫

[aro-in-danyl]

DP x DC Prompt #2 - Fenton Cafe

Inspired by that one underground bar post @stealingyourbones

The Fentons move to Gotham to support Jazz at her new college and open up a small cafe on the first floor of their blimp house to earn money. 

Now the Fentons moved to a sketchy part of Gotham cause that’s the only place they could land safely. It doesn’t take long for rogues to slither in looking for easy cash. 

And promptly get blasted by the Fenton anti-ghost Defense System. They wake up to Maddie and Jack tending to their wounds and shoving a tin of fudge into their hands, respectively. The goon/rogue gets booted by Danny after being forced to listen to his parent’s ghost rant for several hours. 

Weirdly, it doesn’t take long before the cafe becomes a safe haven for rogues and goons alike to relax. But then the bats arrive to get a handle on the new ‘villain hideout.’

The Fenton’s don’t discriminate. The bats get the same treatment as the rogues all the way down to the complimentary fudge. No one comes into their house with that kind of attitude. 

It’s a Violence-free unless you’re a Fenton zone. 

But It’s a real party when Danny’s rogues start showing up. 

[breadandblankets]

read Wayne family adventures and want a more accessible path into comics than a billion issues reading lists?

scared of what you heard about Bruce in comics?

curious as to what duke fans get all huffy about when a new wfa issue comes out?

introducing:

[yuripira4e]

I love the trope of “kid without a mother/father figure discovers magical world and gains 4 of them”

[k2ntoss]

i'm thinking a lot about constantine's sidekick!reader and jason dating, at first you try to explain him everything she has learned about john and everything related to the supernatural beings you've seen and fought but jason is messing with you by telling you there's no way on earth demons and ghosts exists, you have no idea the little shit eater can use magic too but he loves pestering you and making you frustrated.

y/n: i'm telling you, jason! i've summoned demons!

jason: no fucking way, demons aren't real and you must use magic to summon something like that, magic isn't real.

he's enjoying himself and while the jld is having an important meeting batman and john try to understand their kids, the problem is that john isn't going to tell you that your boyfriend is just messing with you, he's just going to mock you endlessly.

[flamingpudding]

Nice Cosplay, dude!

It was supposed to be a simple mission. Just get in, beat the criminals, dismantle the bomb and get out again, preferably with no injuries so they all would get to enjoy Alfred's cookies at the end of the night.

But no. Of course things couldn't be simple. Not when Constantine suddenly enters their coms, screaming something about a multidimensional rip and then Jason shouting something about seeing a whirlpool of green that feels very very bad and then Dick started cursing at B being stubborn and....

Tim buried his face in his hands. At least thanks to Jason seeing that Lazarus Pit like Portal everyone believed him this time that Bruce was still alive but this time not lost in time but apparently thrown into another dimension. Though that wasn't making the situation any better. Because Tim was sure Alfred was the only reason the Manor was still standing otherwise his siblings and himself included would have destroyed it by now.

Damian's enraged shout echoed through the Cave, followed by another death threat made by Jason and then Dick's attempt at being the voice of reason. Dear god, they needed to figure out where B was or someone might die.... or at least get maimed by his siblings be it a criminal or one of them.

Hopefully Constantin or anyone else of the JL Dark will have figured out in which dimension B had gotten thrown into.

Meanwhile...

Batman was staring down at the white-haired kid with Lazarus green glowing eyes wearing a jumpsuit and still had green splatter on his cheeks. The kid was grinning at him with big round eyes that reminded him of Dick when he was younger.

He would have believed the kid innocent if it weren't for 1. The glowing green eyes that reminded him of his second oldest phases of pit madness and 2. The fact that he had just watched the kid beat up a ghost like being he, Batman, had not been able to land a single hit on before imprisoning that being into a thermos.

The kid clearly was a vigilante in the working and for a split second Bruce wondered how his children would react to an interdimensional sibling if he mentored the kid. First of all... the boy needed more protection. That flimsy suit was not offering enough of that. Second the kid should wear a mask. Running around with his face openly in view would only spell trouble for the boy and thitd training the kid needed to learn-

"Wow dude, that's an awesome cosplay of Batman! It looks like it's right out of the comics!"

Batmans thoughts on mentoring the kid came to a screeching halt as he stared at the kid. And gruffly repeated. "Comics?"

[cologona]

The bats cornering Jason and ripping into him for getting another child (Sasha) involved with his villainy when he threw such a fit about there being another Robin.

Sasha: You guys know I’m wanted for murder right? If I weren’t with Jason I’d be in Arkham.

Dick, or someone else idc: What?

Sasha: He’s also… maybe 3 years older than me, at most? If you only count the years he was conscious we’re the same age…

Dick: What?

[frogaroundandfindout]

Nightwing being scary around his brothers

[bruciemilf]

I’m begging for you to expand on your no robins concept, it’s so cute 🥺

I simply adore the image of Battinson modifying toys into looking like gadgets when they're, In fact, not gadgets. Jason thinks his squeaky shoes make him invisible.

Dick thinks his cape makes him fly without questioning why he needs to have his eyes closed first (Bruce puts his squirrel costume to good use)

They have their own utility belts. Filled with candy, bandages stickers, markers and crayons, epi pens (even if Jason insists he's not allergic to peanut butter. Peanut butter is too delicious and holy to be allergic fo)

snacks and WE business cards for the homeless, and yummy homemade treats for stray cats and dogs!!

They'll also pull at Bruce's cape (the fact that he's in the middle of fighting someone is irrelevant) and demand he comes look at their chalk drawings, or just to pet dumpster cats

[arabian-batboy]

I have seen some disclosures in the past about how fandoms force a non-existence "found family" dynamic between the characters then forcibly turn that found family into a "nuclear family" where they will make one character be the "dad" while one character is the "mom" and everyone else are siblings when that's not the case and while I definitely know what people mean by that and have seen it happen before, I feel like in the context of the "Batfamily," some people are taking it too far into the opposite direction.

Like first of all, depending on how you divide them, the "Batfamily" is made up by characters who are either literal family or just close friends/lovers, so I can understand why grouping all of them together and labeling them as one big family may sound confusing (but always remember, Wayne family =/= Batfamily)

Characters like Barbara, Stephanie and Duke (I might even throw in Tim & Cassandra, since they both were only adopted at 17) absolutely have an "unconventional" familial ties to each other and to Bruce, so I personally don't think you should be so eager to fit them all into a stereotypical nuclear familial roles, especially since all the characters I mentioned above (except for Cass) have one or two loving parents who have raised them all on their own without the help of Bruce and are still alive and present in their child's life (except Tim, whose parents canonly died a couple of years ago in-universe).

With that being said, sometimes characters just so happen to fit the bill of a stereotypical "nuclear family" in canon and not wanting to accept that because the children are adopted/not related by blood to their parents is fucked up.

And I say that mostly about Dick and Jason, who for for all intent and purposes were both fully adopted at 9 and 11 respectively (ignoring rectons that aged them up or the fact that Dick was a ward at first only because single men couldn't legally adopt in the 40's), so it doesn't matter how you go about it, Bruce is 100% their father and they are 100% his sons, no ifs or buts.

For me, I have seen too many people trying to down-play the fact that Batman is canonly a dad (maybe because they don't think its cool? Idk) by pretending that him and his literal children are just a found family or just partners and accusing anyone who refer to them as parent-and-child of diminishing this found family and forcing them into a "nuclear" family when that's not case with them.

Referring to an adult man who fully adopted a young child to raise them as his own as that child's dad isn't forcing them into a nuclear family, because he's LITERALLY their dad? That's just common sense.