#robin is also there ☝🏾

[pcktknife]

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[himejoshiangels]

AND ANOTHER THING ☝🏾 I also really like Gotham. like I loveee Gotham, any stories about the people there, the local lore, the gritty details of living in the Doomed city the fucking pocket gas masks etc etc I love THAT. and a lot of what drew me into we are robin was That. was the look into non-bat life in gotham and the blackhole influence Batman and his mission has on Gothamite culture. My FAVVVVVorite batman stories are ones that utilize Gotham and it's mythos as a reflection of HIS mythos and internal state but also the state of the mission as something much larger than himself like Kings of Fear does.

ALL this 2 say.. I like the idea of Duke as a medium for that. bcs of his explicit in monologue ideas abt gotham seeing the city narrated from his perspective sounds like actual heaven like a dream. Imagine a panel displaying the aftermath of a busy and hellish gotham night, of Duke doing emotional and physical "clean up duty" and getting a look into the lives of the people the Bat protects, how they cope, cultural shifts and dynamics and AAAAAAAGGHHH

I think a huge part of the appeal of Duke as a character, for me, is his ability to carve out his space and unabashedly be himself. I think that's why post batman and the signal + fanon characterization really get to me. I joke abt him being an asshole (which he can be but I don't think he is often) but I think what I'm really trying to voice is the admiration I have for his kind of character, one who knows who they are and what they want from the start and is loud and completely unashamed in that knowing. the timid, nervous, people pleasing, validation seekinh duke in fanon just isn't him to me. he's insecure at times, yeah, but DC leaning into it just pisses me off because the way they portray his insecurity and replay the same song over and over is just repetitive and boring. more than that, it goes against the characterization of him i came to love and appreciate.