#single foster / adoptive father jason..................................he need a child

[empressgeekt]

Fic Series Idea - "There is no Escape Once Cradled in the Bat's Cape" Saga, or Gotham had just as much as an adoption problem as their champion.

Buckle up people this is going to be a long one...

Okay, So I've been looking in to Batman crossovers, and I've noticed that there is a large majority of MLB, DP, and Spider-Man ofr the crossovers. However, I have also found a very small percentage of cross-dimensional adoption fics, with Zuko from ATLA and Keith VLD, two dark angsty boys who definitely need the love of the batfam.

So, I'm planning out a multipart (At least on AO3) Saga, where, we can watch Zuko Keith, And Jet from ATLA get sucked up by Gotham, whom is a manifestation of darkness, insanity, and empathy and stands as the spirit in control of the land that both Gotham and Buldhaven would be eventually be built (much like Agni is for the fire nation).

1) The first installment would be Zuko's origin in the Batfamily.

After Agni can't stand to watch the soft hearted price suffer through his fate again, the deity of the sun calls a meeting with Gotham, begging sanctuary for the boy. After some rather harsh words, Gotham agrees, and swipes up Zuko right out of the Royal infirmary, mere hours after the Agni Kai. All While Iroh watches in horror. Left in the Prince's place is a single scroll, written in the language of spirits, the only part that Iroh can understand, is that in order to find his nephew he had to restore the honor to his nation and aid in the champion of the four nations, for that is a the only way that Iroh will ever find Zuko again. So, Iroh starts his quest for the Avatar.

On Zuko's end, Gotham dropped the prince in an alleyway, and lured a Robin!Jason to his location. Upon discovering a child laying in a dumpster with half of his face charred black, Jason phones Bruce and Zuko is taken to the Batcave. Even though the young prince is underneath the care of the incredibly skilled and patient Doc. Tompkins, Zuko quickly falls victim to infection, and his condition is touch and go for days. Bruce would go through all the identifying tests he can think of, but none of them even give a name to the dying kid in a quest room upstairs. The batman is honestly at a loss of what to do with the child. He can find no living family, no ID, no documents, no name. There's no where he can send the child, The foster system is out of the question, even if Zuko survives, he's be horribly scarred and likely disabled, not to mention even at 12 he'd be too old to good chances of getting adopted. All signs point to Bruce most likely becoming a father of three. Jason is fine with the idea of Zuko Staying. He's 15 at this point, old enough to be a good big brother.

Though things become a whole lot more complicated when Zuko is conscious enough to start talking...And he can't understand a lick of English...Our dramatic sparky boy, wakes up to an unknown world, in a utterly luxurious house, with people who are too pale to be water-tribe but have blue eyes, and wear weird robes. Zuko figures he was banished to this place, but he doesn't know what for, or what he can do to regain his honor, and these people are being so nice and gentle with him. Cue, confusion and panic.

Jason starts teaching Zuko English once he's conscious enough. The two grow closer, even if Zuko only grows more confused by learning. Once his bandages are removed, poor little prince ends up having a break down after seeing his reflection, one that Bruce walks in on. Que Overprotective BatDad, learning from a Zuko with Broken English skills, what, or who, gave the boy his scar. And yep, This kid was Bruce's now.

Zuko continues to heal, and eventually the holidays roll by. With the holidays came Dick Grayson, whom while still a hothead is trying to make a truce with Bruce for the sake of Jason, well, lets just say someone for got to tell him about the 12-year-old now living with them. Dick's temper gets the better of him and Zuko Get's spoked accidentally firebending at the Original robin. No one was hurt but Zuko still ran off, disappearing into the labyrinth of the manor. This situation is eventually resolved, and Zuko learns about the Batman, as Bruce offers to ask around the super community, and still very young Justice League, if there are other pyropaths who can help Zuko with learning control. Zuko doesn't want to at the moment as He's still getting used to everything else.

Eventually, Bruce makes Zuko his foster kid and with the help of the faked paper trail, gets him in school. He does well in math, as it is a universal (mulitversal lol) language, but Struggles with the other subjects, due to the language barrier and the fact that he's only ever had private tutors before. Everything is going well...

Then April rolls around. Jason and Bruce's relationship becomes strained, and eventually Jason learns about Shelia haywood, and goes looking for her. Jason says goodbye to Zuko before he leaves, and that he'll be bring a mom for them when he comes back. But everyone knows what happened. And instead of his brother Zuko gets a coffin. (sorry)

Months pass. Bruce trains Zuko, Just to make sure that his current youngest can protect himself, as Zuko refuses to put on the robin costume. Dick ends up spending more time at the manor, really trying to mend bridges after the tragedy. They live in this odd fog of grief, until one tiny Timothy Drake breaks into batcave with a resume and powerpoint explaining the need for a robin and offering himself to the position. Dick and Bruce pretty much go, "We can't just ignore this." because this kid is clearly being neglected. Tim is trained for Robin, wanting to follow in his hero's footsteps, and Zuko eventually decides to dawn his own cowl, as the Blue Spirit, because he can't let another Robin Die. that's where the first book ends.

2) second's installment is Keith's origin story.

Gotham after Zuko, starts to keep an eye out for souls they believe would thrive underneath their champion's care, even in worlds beyond their own. Gotham comes across one Keith Kogane, and right before Keith rams his fighter into the force shield at the end of season four, it isn't Lotor that comes to his rescue. Instead Gotham plucks the boy right out of the pilot seat and the pod still goes flying into the shield.

Keith is dumbed into an abandoned building, right in front of one on the run Cassandra Cain. Our angry little halfbred cupcake, has no idea, why a smoky person named Gotham has saved his life, or how they teleported him back to earth, but once he learns that this silent yet super sweet girl is being hunted by assassins, but he's not going to leave her alone. Besides she had seen him in his Blade uniform, and something is off with him. His fingers and jaw began to itch and ache, the odd vocal ticks he used to have as a kid come back with a vengeance, and his eyes water at night and whenever he looks at a light.

The two teenagers continue to travel, keeping out of sight from assassins and bonding. Keith for once has to be the talking one in a conversation, and Cass can obviously keep a secret, so keith doesn't hide anything from her. Besides once his teeth fall out and fangs grow in their place, his fingers bleed from growing a second set of retractable claws, and he gains a third eye lid, he can't really hide his mixed blood. Keith, talks, and starts to teach Cass how to read once he realized that she couldn't.

Eventually Keith learns about the city of Gotham, and feels a pull to go there. Once they are on route to the city the assassins, and stalkers get more and more intense, almost like they didn't want Keith and Cass to go there. This just makes Keith more determined. As the people after them won't want to follow them anymore if they were inside to Gotham territory. Sadly keith was wrong, the Assassins did follow them into the city, but now they were there to kill no capture, during the attack Batman, Robin and Blue Spirit show up.

At the end of the Keith finally has the pent up breakdown that has been right at his heels since the start of the story. Shouting about how his life doesn't make sense anymore, every since that smoky Gotham person snatched him, and Zuko goes, "you met Gotham?"

In the end, Bruce takes in both Keith and Cass, because both are sad traumatizes dark haired orphan even if both are legal adults his CAD (Compulsive Adoption Disorder) demands he keeps them, and while they don't know the motives of this Gotham Spirit, they create the code "Rapunzel". If any member of the family calls that code, it means that Gotham had dropped off another soul. Keith and Cass, become vigilantes. Cass is Black Bat, and with some modifications to his blade suit, Keith becomes Blade Bat.

3) Third installment! Jet's inclusion!

This one opens with Gotham watching over Jet while he dies from internal bleeding, and then the dark spirit vanishes away to make a deal with a certain other spirit...

Next thing Jet knows he's waking up in a Lazarus Pit. A woman with long dark hair and bright otherworldly green eyes, or as we know Talia Al Gaul, is pulling him out of it. She claims Jet as her own, even if Jet can't understand a word of what she is saying or what is happening.

Jason is also confused as to where Talia has found this frizzy-haired kid or why they were put in the pit or why Talia was training them with him. Once more Jason starts to teach a younger teen to speak in English, while Talia teaches, Jet Arabic and League speak. Jet struggles with Pit Rage, its even worse for him then with Jason. Mostly because Jet is much more frustrated with his situation. The sixteen-year-old wants to go home, he wants his troupe, the family he made after tragedy, he doesn't want to be here in this place, with a creepy woman who told him to all her mother, and a bunch of guys with way too many swords.

Jason is usually the one who has to deal with Jet's Rage, as Talia made them share a bedroom, and his big-brother instincts are slowly kicking in having been long dormant, it doesn't help that Jet is the age that Zuko would be if Jason had stayed at the manor. However, just as Jason is starting to connect with Jet, things go horribly wrong.

And here is where I'm going to take very heavy inspiration from the fic, "Jason and the Three Terrors", by, Cdephiki. I highly recommend this piece.

Talia runs into the boys' room in the middle of the night, waking them and telling them to pack. Ra's is getting to close to her plans and she doesn't want him to interfere with her children any longer. So, she gathers up Jason, Jet, Damian, Mara, and Athanasia and they flee into the mountains. Sadly though, Deathstroke catches up with them, and Talia is killed, leaving the Children to escape on their own. Jason and Jet have to navigate caring for three young children while running across Europe and Asia, meeting check point Talia had set up to help them disappear. At one of them Talia has left the Red Hood gear and helmet, and a nameless suit for Jet.

Eventually the League catches up with them, and they are forced to return to Gotham, (and on the plane ride, Jet learns that he gets Air-sick). Jason manages to get them a small apartment in Crime Alley, and they set up. He isn't comfortable with bring in the children into Bruce's care with the Joker still Alive, and Red Hood protector of Crime Alley is born, only this time he has a partner. His own dark reflection of Robin. Jet becomes White Hawk. The children are safe, Jason is cleaning up his home, Jet is more and more stable by the day. Things are good.

Until Ra's makes a reappearance. Assassins raids their apartment, and Jason and Jet are forces to run with the children in tow. Batman, Nightwing, robin (tim), Black Bat, Blade Bat, Spoiler and Blue Spirit intervene, thinking that Jet and Jason are kidnapping their own siblings. They get into a small scuffle, Until Ra's himself makes and appearance, with a bout a team of twenty assassins behind him. Once learning that Ra's wants the children and their connection to himself, Bruce completely forgets any ill will with Hood and Hawk and fights beside them in the presedeing brawl between the Assassins and bats.

Jason is run through during the chaos, and the bats retreat to the cave. for treatment. Bruce doesn't think twice about taking five children in at once, and he isn't about to be a deadbeat to his two bio children. Sure, Ra's will still be trying to hunt them down, but the Assassin's were beaten back for now. All is well..

Until Zuko takes his mask off...and Jet sees his golden eyes...

PTSD and Pit go into over drive and suddenly Zuko trying to die at the hands of Jet's blade. Keith, Bruce, Cass, Dick, and Tim, all jump into action holding Jet back. All of the younger kids are confused and on edge. The situation gets so bad that Bruce has to put Jet in a separate room, to keep the kids from killing each other, and to allow Thompkins to do her work and Save Jason.

Jason is stabilized (still knocked out), and Bruce takes control of the situation. He talks to the younger children first, getting their names and ensuring them that they'll be safe here. Alfred would make rooms for them, but everyone just wants to be by Jason's beside at the moment. Zuko approaches Bruce before, he leaves to speak with Jet, explaining what happened behind the attack. Zuko learned because Jet had slipped into Earth Kingdom Language during the attack, and Zuko recognized it, and all that Jet rambled about. Bruce reassures Zuko that he isn't at fault for Jet's trauma; he would've been a child during it after all. Then goes to speak to know a not Pit flooded, but still pissed off Jet.

They have a very informative discussion regarding, the differences between, vengeance and Justice, and Jet is of course emotionally adopted.

Later after Bruce, Dick, Zuko, and Jason reconcile and reunite. Zuko seeks out Jet, and apologizes for the fire nation's actions. There's little Zuko can do and what he has done isn't much, but he wants peace in his home, and him and Jet fighting would stop that. Jet Agrees to be civil, but they would never be family. Zuko is fine with that.

The next will either be the fourth or fifth installment, because I might do a self-indulgent, Jason/OFC fic in between these, but that remains to be seen....

4) Fourth/fifth Installment - Thomas Wayne, Flashpoint Batman

Gotham is watching one of the flashpoint time lines, watching crumble and shatter. For while Thomas was a good substitute, he would never achieve the full potential of the proper champion, forming an unstable reality. Only this time they don't allow Thomas (and maybe Martha I'm still 50/50 on whether she survives) to perish with in his reality. Gotham offers a second chance at family, or Thomas can go the way of his dopplegangers.

I think we all know which choice he takes...

There's nothing that groundbreaking that happens in this installment, just Thomas reconnecting with Alfred and Bruce, meeting the children and bruce's fiance (I ship BatCat and the relationship will be subtly developed on the side of the series). Thomas hangs up the cowl and works a more support team roll in the family, Tompkins isn't always available after all, and someone has to help Alfred watch the little ones who are either benched, injured, or not patrol ready.

5) Fifth/Sixth installment - Batman Beyond

Yep Terry is getting on this crazy train-wreck of the family, not just him though...Dana, Max, and Matt get swooped up too.

Once more Gotham is watching as a Beyond timeline is slowly breaking apart. The city is crumbling from non-stop earth quakes, satellites are zapping everything and Terry barely has had the time to rescue his loved ones from the chaos. Max was ready to go when he came for her. Dana needed more convincing, and Terry had to take his mask off to get her to come with him. Matt and Ms. Mcginnis....Terry only managed to get Matt out of the house, before the place went up in smoke.

The cave was the only place he could take them, but the batmoblie is shot out of the sky, just as they enter Wayne property. Terry yells at everyone to run into the manor, telling them to get to the cave through the clock, before confronting the one that shot them down. Blight (I think that's Powers' name), whom is supposed to be dead (fic taking place like mid season three) leaps out and he and Terry clash. During the fight, Terry's cowl get pulled down, and his suit is punctured. Blight eventually gets the upper hand to terry having already been injured in the crash, pick the teenager up by his neck and flinging him across the battlefield. Gotham steps in by this point, killing Blight by devoring him slowly with a swarm of supernatural bats. Terry makes a break for it running inside the manor.

Inside Old Man Wayne, explains what's happening, the timeline is breaking down, and there isn't anything the can to to stop it. Gotham appears in the cave, and Wayne recognizes them. He asks Gotham to spare the children, Gotham agrees after all Wayne has served as her faithful champion for decades, its time they pay him back. Terry tries to argue that he should saved too. Wayne disagrees, saying that he has sins to pay for and he doesn't have long anyway. After a farewell, Gotham, takes Terry, Max, Matt, Dana, and Ace, whirling them away to another more stable dimension.

The group lands in crime ally, in an ally (heh). It's late at night, and cold out. Terry barely makes it a few steps before the adrenaline wares off, and he collapses. Dana stays with him, while Max, Matt, and Ace go looking for help. Long story, short, they get jumped, but Red Hood and White Hawk don't allow kids to get hurt in their ally. Max sees the bat on Hood's uniform, and asks if he knows batman. Hood said he's bat adjacent. And Max grabs his arm and starts to drag him to where Terry and Dana are. Hood is so confused by this action he just freezes, but he's running full speed once he hears Matt say his brother's hurt.

They pretty quickly deduce that Terry's outfit is not a costume, and they call a code Rapunzel. Bruce rushes over to the scene, and after determining that Terry is stable. Takes, them back to the cave (Red Hood and White Hawk riding behind them on Hood's cycle). Bruce gets the run-down of what happened from Terry, during the ride, though Bruce does try to tell him it can weight until after he's seen a doc. Kid doesn't listen, only continues to talk until he's hit with a wave of nausea.

Once at the cave, Terry is handed off to Thomas, and Bruce takes care of the minor cuts and bruises the others have. Max takes up the role of explaining everything, as she was closest to the batman beyond team, other then terry...Then Thomas comes running out ordering everyone to take a decontamination shower. Jet and Jason take Matt while Cass (who was in the cave) took the girls into the respective locker rooms. Thomas diagnoses Terry with acute radiation sickness.

The rest of this fic would be terry slowly recovering and the others adjusting. Matt would be coming to terms with his mother's death, and getting close to his new siblings, especially Damian, Athansia, and Mara as they are the closest in age. Max meets Oracle, begins to train underneath her. Dana, feels out of control and after talking with Selina agrees to get training so she can protect herself. It would end, with the whole family playing rooftop tag on Terry's first patrol.

The next two installments

they would pretty much be follow ups to Zuko/Keiths realities and how they plan on getting their angsty boys back.

Iroh, would get Aang to translate the scroll that Gotham left behind, and a very reluctant John Constantine, sends the Gaang to Gotham.

On Keith's side, Lance and Matt are really ticked off by Shiro (kuron) behavior, and this leads to them digging to find out what is really going on. Red contacts lance through his dreams and tells him that Keith is still alive, and Black is waiting for him. This only furthers Lance and Matt to push forward, Krolia joins them after learning about the name of the former Red Paladin and leaves her mission to go find her son. Eventually they get the real Shiro back, and all he wants to see Keith. The search continues....

Well that's all the planning I have. I did play around with the Idea of Mirabel from Encanto getting picked by Gotham but I'm not sure if it would work. What do you think? is this a good idea to dive deeper into.

[a-little-robin-told-me]

Reverse Robins AU but instead of just the Robins it's the entire Batfam. I'm talking switch Alfred, Bruce, Dick, Babs, Jason, Tim, Steph, Cass, Damian, and Duke and watch what chaos ensues

Wise grandfather Duke dispensing life advice left, right and center

Batman!Damian raised by assassins only to choose a better way, completely dedicated to his mission and equally awkward around kids (Richard! What has possessed you to climb on that thing?)

Perfect oldest daughter Cass, the one who made Damian think he could maybe handle more kids

Genius Tim, BFFs with Cass, who just needs love and attention so badly and is so good at finding trouble on his own... Joins the family unofficially

Wild hellion second child Steph (eventually becomes Red Hood) who makes Damian realize he absolutely should not acquire more kids

Mischievous third child Jason, who watched Steph fight to save her hometown and wants to follow in her footsteps as well as he possibly can after her "death"

Unstoppable Babs, who puts on a costume under her father's nose whether they want her to or not. Also joins unofficially

Wild fourth child Dick, a pure ray of sunshine and bad puns

Quiet and intense Bruce, Damian's biological son who lost his (previously unknown) single mother in an accident that might not have been so accidental

And finally... Youngest adopted/fostered sibling Alfred, British snob and horrible influence extraordinaire

[titanslayer]

single dad au jason,

[f1nalboys]

Anon asked:

Hi I was wondering if you could do headcannons for the slashers finding child reader and seeing some marks on their bodies that means they've been abused by their guardian or parent? And maybe slashers being the reader's new guardian and parent? You can add fluff in this if you like.

Hi, thank you sm for the request! I had such a good time writing this lol, just imagining some of them as parents was *chefs kiss* I hope you enjoy this! (And, if you or anyone reading this is dealing with abuse, please call or text the hotline * and remember you are strong, brave, and do not deserve what is happening. <3 )

*This hoteline is only for the U.S states and Canada, but please don’t be afraid to search up the hotline for where you are or to tell someone you trust!

WARNINGS: implication of abuse

MICHAEL (RZ)

‘What is this gremlin and why are they around me?’

Honestly would be treating you like a pest as a first instinct, he doesn't really get why you're around him in the first place like where are your parents…

I mean once he loses you he's gonna follow you around because he needs to know who you belong to lol 

During his little stalking hours he starts to recognise his own behavior that he exhibited in his childhood to yours and he gets this sick feeling in his stomach

When he sees your guardian he is immediately filled with rage because he knows exactly why you're doing the things you were

He is killing whoever it is that very night he doesnt care whos around of the chances of him being caught

There’s a 50/50 chance of him taking you in himself. I really think it’ll depend on your age and how you act, you know? Michael isn’t going to want to or be able to take care of a toddler or kid in a way he sees fit so he's just going to drop you off at a neighbors house 

Now if you’re older and more reserved/independent he might be more willing to watch over you but I still think it would be really hard for him to do so

As long as you’re in Haddonfield though he’ll be checking in on you and just making sure you're alright and safe

Boogieman got your back basically

Billy Loomis and Stu Macher

‘Why is this unattended child out at night and why are they hanging out around us?’

They’re psychopaths not assholes, they’re gonna try and help you lol

They’re surprisingly good with kids, especially Stu, so you’re immediately comfortable around them

Billy is the first to notice your behavior and any bruises and immediately connects the dots. He’s had his fair share of bruises and knows exactly how you got them

Once he starts asking questions, Stu will catch on and get just as mad as Billy, if not more so.

They both have already come to the same conclusion: whoever did it to you is not going to be surviving the night

Take you to Stu’s parents house (who welcome you with open arms and doted on you) and leave for an ‘errand’

Gone for a few hours and when they come back (they made sure to stop and get you some snacks) they let you know that you're safe now

When they take you to the police station in the morning they promise to make sure you’re alright and Stus parents offer to foster you (they’re going to adopt you don’t worry)

Big brother Stu and Uncle Billy :,)

Thomas Hewitt

Personally I think they have a strict no children policy (they’ll kill them if need be but they try to make sure it never comes to that) but Tommy and Luda Mae are very strict enforcers of this rule because if Hoyt had his way it wouldn’t matter what age you were; food is food

The moment Thomas sees you being hurt in any capacity he is going straight to his mother to tell her and lets just say Luda Mae is pissed

Thomas becomes a protective older brother to you, Luda Mae is acting like your mom, and Hoyts your weird Uncle but Tommy make sure he isn’t too harsh on you lol

Your abuser is staying alive until Thomas knows exactly what they did to you because he’s going to return it tenfold

Hoyt would bug you about getting revenge but Tommy really wouldn't want you to do so because you’re a kid, you shouldnt be exposed to that sort of thing (he knows eventually you’ll have to learn about the family business but he wants to stop that from happening for as long as possible)

If you say you want to, though, he’ll be with you every step of the way

He is going to teach you sign language you don’t know it because he wants to talk to you and let you know everything is alright now

Found family at its core babey

Sinclair Brothers

Lesters the first one who notices. He saw what happened with Bo growing up and seeing how you were acting when you were in the car, shrinking into yourself, he got angry

And when Lester is angry, he is angry… the man is hard to piss off so when Bo sees him pull into town with you in there and sees his face he knows something happened

God, speaking of Bo, he was furious. It took so much willpower to not kill your abuser right then and there

Bo is good with kids, i don't care what anyone says, he’s cracking jokes and letting them look at the car’s engine with him, stuff like that

Made sure you didn’t see or hear what happened with your abuser but will introduce you to Vincent (who might be more inclined to show you his face if you think his mask is scary) and he lets Vincent know that these people aren’t to become statues under any circumstance

He tells you the people you were with left and that they apologized for what they did and he doesn’t think you believe him but you seemed so relieved he didn’t want to tell you the truth

Most likely to take you to the next town over to the police station to get you somewhere safe because he and Vincent agreed that it wouldn't be safe for you in Ambrose

But if you begged enough to stay Vincent would convince Bo that it’d be alright

No matter how much Bo grumbles about you being there, eating him out of house and home, he’s actually pretty happy you're around because he can be a father figure to you (even if it scares him half to death)

Vincent will teach you how to sculpt (obviously not with humans, maybe when you're older if they ever tell you (or when you inevitably find out))

Cool Uncle Lester teaches you about bones and lets you ride around in the truck with him

Jason Voorhees

Witnesses it during his daily rounds around the camp  and neither he (or Mrs. Voorhees) is happy

Kills them then and there; there is 0 hesitation, he lowkey forgets you're even there and that you’re witnessing it 

When he notices you he feels so bad and actually feels worse when you seem to be happy they’re gone

Is afraid you're going to be scared of him because all he wanted to do was protect you but he’ll try and explain to you through sign language or through writing into the dirt with a stick

Actually wants you to stay in the camp with him so he can watch over you but has no hard feelings about you going back to civilization (he doesn’t even know how he’d be as a father)

Obviously he can't go and drop you off somewhere because he’s literally s zombie lol but he will go as far as he can to make sure you get somewhere safely

Worries about you even weeks after you’ve left, like how are you doing? Are you with someone trustworthy? Do you remember him?

If you stay, however, he is gonna be the best god damn dad ever, if not a bit overprotective

You’re not allowed to leave the designated area he’s ropped off outside of the cabin because god forbid some campers stumble across you

Tiffany Valentine

We all know my wife has no qualms about killing kids but she’s way too sympathetic once she figures out what's going on with you

Meet your new goth mom! She’s great!

She is the most qualified out of all of the slashers to take care of a kid regardless of the age (I mean, remember Glen/Glenda and how accepting she was? How much she cares for her kid?)

She’s killing your abuser without a single care in the world, she’s not wasting any time either. She lets you know you’re safe with her and that nothing will ever hurt you again

Get ready to be pampered; she is treating you to everything you could ever want. You won’t be spoiled, of course, but you’re going to be comfortable

You will be the most well-adjusted kid being taken care of by a slasher (maybe losing to Billy and Stu but that’s just because of Stu’s parents) so congrats for that!

[slashy-ashy]

The bat brothers have their own secret language, Dick and Jason just say what seems to be random words to each other but they're keywords to them because they think it's fun, when Tim comes along Dick teaches this to Tim, and once Jason comes back they both take turns teaching him because he can faintly remember having some kind of secret language with the others but when he brought it up to Bruce, Bruce didn't know what he was trying to talk about and dismissed him because he was working on a case. I just want to see the repercussions of Bruce not always being the greatest father, in the terms of him not helping his children in creating bonds with each other, he just adopted kids and then didn't do anything to help foster a bond between them and he barely sees any repercussions in the fandom for this and we see the boys get blamed for not being close to each other when 1.) Dick was blindsided by the fact that Jason was adopted in the first place, he learned about Jason through the Newspaper because his father/brother and I'm going by father only. After all, when Dick was created it would have been socially unacceptable for a single male bachelor to raise a child, didn't tell him in person, and quite frankly didn't have the chops to tell his own son 2.) he had no helping hand, in my opinion, fostering a healthy relationship between the two, 3.) he still didn't help Tim and Dick bond he just assumed that Dick would just do the bonding himself, and 4.) his most valid excuse was that he was dead when Damian came along because it would have been the same of the brothers having to forge those bonds themselves. And if you still don't understand just imagine your parent or guardian just walking into the house with another child, they don't say anything except “this is your new sibling” then just walk out the room, and let's be honest your new sibling has some trauma that you don't really know about yet because you barely know them and you accidentally step on a mine and you have to deal with the fallout of that and your parent/guardian blaming you for not being a good proper sibling to your new...stranger. And you're also jealous of the new sibling, you're jealous of what they have with your parent or guardian because you used to be close to them but now you're strangers and they're not even trying to reconcile the relationship with you so you have to grow up and realize it'll never be the same between the two of you and you still need to be there for this new sibling and oh let's not forget that you're barely an adult but you still have enough emotional maturity to know that now is not the time for your feelings or you just realized that no one cares about your feelings

Bruce Wayne is human and he most definitely makes mistakes and I believe that this is a big one. We barely ever see him get blamed or even any repercussions of him not helping to forge any bonds with the boys to each other, in every fanfic you see the boys make the first steps but never Bruce. You don't see him setting up days of where he'll take the boys out somewhere just to talk with them about things outside of the mask and outside the company, you don't see him ever asking the boys if they talked to so and so because they seemed down and maybe they told them about why they feel down, you don't see him ever tell the boys how glad or happy when he sees them getting along with each other. It should have never just been on the boys to forge these bonds together as siblings on their own, Bruce should have played a much bigger part in that.

Give Dick his dues

Give Jason his dues

Give Tim his dues

Give Damian his dues

They deserve them and so much more.

So let's see fanfics of Bruce being confused because Jason and Dick periodically go out for a night out in town and they invite Tim and Damian along as well because “this is a tradition that started when Jason was still Robin” Bruce assumed that the two weren't close to each other when Jason was Robin, Jason and Tim just reading with each other or Jason reading books while Tim is just reading comic books near him and this should feature Bruce being again surprised by their behavior, and Tim helping Damian bathe the animals of his own accord and Damian silently accepting the help and once again Bruce was expecting the worse, and Damian inviting Tim and Jason into just drawing with him and Tim and Jason saying yes, but not before teasing him for having so many pictures of his animals and Dick in his sketchbook, and once again Bruce didn't know how close his sons truly are because he only ever observed the fall-outs and he hadn't helped to act as an almost buffer between them when was required to properly facilitate their relationship in a safe and loving environment which 100% was attainable he just never truly tried to create those conditions for his sons and that is so heartbreaking because we can see him do this for them individually but never for them when they're together.

[bigskydreaming]

TFW you’re trying to explain to people that the reason you stan the juvie origin for Dick Grayson so hard is not because you’re addicted to the angst, but because its literally the only version of his origin that doesn’t make Bruce Wayne a child trafficker and Dick bought and paid for with bribes.

(How many people casually reference Bruce greasing the wheels of beaurecracy with his money in order to get custody of Dick? And don’t realize this is literally like....the definition of child trafficking? Which is not just with older kids and teenagers for sex, but also includes paying bribes to speed up the adoption process even with babies or skip past key checks into the prospective parents/guardians’ suitability to assume custody of a child? 

Which is something that Bruce Wayne would ardently FAIL without bribes or using his social influence as capital, not because he’s a single man, not because of his age, but because of his carefully and deliberately cultivated persona of a dim-witted, constantly drunk, irresponsible socialite in order to keep people from connecting the dots between him and Batman....but which also makes him like, the LAST person anyone would ever willingly give sole custody of a grieving, traumatized child to....UNLESS he had leverage? 

Which either takes the form of....money....OR, in the case of the juvie origin, allows Bruce to remain FIRMLY and unsullied in Dick’s corner as an advocate and champion, RESCUING him from the city’s massive fuck-up.....which still makes the process of handing Dick over to someone who on paper is entirely unsuitable as a guardian unsavory as hell, BUT it at least puts all the responsibility for that ENTIRELY on the city and its officials, and refrains from pulling Bruce down into that mess with them, allowing him to be simply exploiting the city’s own irresponsibility and the consequences thereof, rather than....being willing to engage in the buying and selling of a minor. 

No matter whether WE know Bruce is a good person, as readers, and WE know his intentions are pure, THAT DOES NOT MATTER, because the second Bruce bribes someone to gain custody of Dick or even just to speed up the process or circumvent a couple of at-home visits, rather than just threaten to expose the city’s handling of this child or hit them with lawsuits.....the SECOND Bruce’s money changes hands in an extra-legal capacity to ANY degree.....you are having him validate the very idea that Dick Grayson is up for sale in the first place. And that’s VERY NOT GOOD. 

The not-so-secret origin of the Batfamily for decades, and still when taken outside of the juvie origin, is child-trafficking. With the later kids its different, as Bruce by then has Dick to point to as an example of his child-rearing capabilities and thus an actual case to be made for himself as a guardian and father.....but with Dick himself? Not a judge in the world would grant Bruce custody of that kid UNLESS something unsavory was going on......and that unsavoriness can be ENTIRELY the fault of the city and its officials....OR Bruce can be complicit in it himself. 

Those are the only two options. There is no third one. 

Even in the instances where Dick initially goes home with Bruce because he’s being targeted by Zucco as a material witness and the police figure due to Bruce’s security he’ll be safe there....doesn’t matter! Because that’s still a FINITE situation, the custody process would still have to be undertaken once Zucco was behind bars, because the police like, do not have discretion to facilitate the longterm placement and care of a child. 

Not so incidentally, this is also why I rage so much about the matter of Dick’s adoption, because part of the process of obtaining custody of a child, even just to foster them, is like....COURSEWORK and such. Dick being initially resistant to the idea of being adopted in the immediate aftermath of his parents’ murder, or even still a couple years past that....but then as the years go by, eventually wanting and NEEDING the security of knowing that he’s more than just a foster placement in Bruce’s eyes, he’s actual family....this is NOT an unforseeable or even unexpected development....its NORMAL for older orphaned children as they move from the grieving process to often still very much wanting and needing an actual parental figure in their life rather than just a custodial guardian. 

And this is the kind of thing that prospective guardians are EDUCATED on during the process of obtaining custody of a child....what to expect here, how to keep abreast of a child’s changing or evolving feelings on this subject, how to raise this subject later down the line as necessary. 

Which makes it very very much Bruce’s responsibility to address this matter, and why I lose my shit at people who act like Dick’s angst about not being adopted is his own fault because he was the reason Bruce didn’t offer to adopt him earlier, lololol NO - because either: 

a) Bruce DID receive this education during the process of gaining custody of Dick, and still failed to ever bring it up later in Dick’s childhood due to his own issues. 

or 

b) Bruce DIDN’T ever receive this education because during the process of gaining custody of Dick, as things were brought to his attention as steps to be undertaken, he either decided he already knew everything he needed to know or else could figure it out or research it on his own, or he deemed it nonessential information because HE wasn’t viewing Dick as an actual or even potential future son yet and didn’t think he ever would, that this would ever be part of their dynamic, and thus skipped out on crucial information that would have informed him that its normal and expected for a grieving child’s feelings on these matters to change over time and he needed to be cognizant of this and prepared to address it. 

Which makes Dick’s angst about not being adopted earlier purely Bruce’s responsibility, and demands that either this be resolved by revising canon so Dick is adopted earlier in life - with the acknowledgment that this would inevitably alter various parts of Dick’s own narrative such as affect whether or not he was estranged from Bruce for as long as he was due to being fired as Robin, as well as his dynamic with Jason and how close Bruce, Dick and Jason were or weren’t as a family unit pre-Jason’s death - OR it has to be addressed as what it is...Bruce’s responsibility to educate himself or be educated in this matter as Dick’s lawful guardian throughout the entire rest of his childhood, and his failure to do so being a mark against Bruce, NOT Dick, as some people somehow make it out to be in ways that make my head spin both in confusion and also a little like that chick from the Exorcist.)

BUT I DIGRESS.

[indigomasquerade97]

Brothers Abducted

@brothersapart

Chapter 2 - Lost Boy

Bing.

Takota sighed as he sent another message, pacing along the kitchen counter. He’d been calling his bondmate for the past ten minutes now, but he hadn’t answered. What is going on, he thought. It wasn’t strange for Jason to go out for a walk like this. He’d been doing it more and more lately. But he never just… ignored Takota’s texts.

Why is he so sad? He wondered. He groaned, sinking into his couch. He’d felt a sharp pain through their bond, and it made him worried. Jason was by no means stable. If something had happened-

Woosh!

Takota looked up to see Jason walk into the apartment. Well, that solves his whereabouts, Takota thought with a sigh. Then he growled as he jumped up from his couch, hands planted on his hips. He could be relieved later. He had a giant to reprimand.

‘And where the hell have you been?’ He demanded, causing the larger shifter to flinch from the sharp tone, ‘I have been calling you for ten minutes. Why have you been ignoring me?’

Jason bit his lip, glancing down at his cupped hand. He strolled over and placed it down, sending an apologetic look Takota’s way.

‘Sorry Mouse,’ He said, ‘I was… preoccupied.’

Takota stared at the small child that was sitting in Jason’s palm. Wide hazel eyes stared in shock as the boy took notice of the only other small person in the room.

‘Jason,’ Takota said, glaring at his mate, ‘Why do you have a kid? Where are his parents?!’

‘That’s what I’m gonna find out,’ Jason declared, tilting his hand slightly so the boy would slide onto the counter, ‘He’s hurt. Think you can take care of him until I get everything sorted out?’

‘Yeah, sure.’ Takota said, turning and bolting to the wall. The entire apartment had hidden rooms for smaller folk, stocked with emergency food, tools, weapons, and medical kits. One of the perks of living with a paranoid bastard. He grabbed one of the kits and rushed back even as Jason marched out of the apartment.

Takota stopped at the miniature table in the corner of the counter, unzipping the large kit so he’d have easy access to the contents. The boy hadn’t moved from where he’d been placed, rubbing his arms as he watched Takota work.

‘Why don’t you sit down?’ Takota asked, nodding to the only seat. It wasn’t often that the bondmates got guests, especially those who were Takota’s size. They were always too nervous of the thought of being in close proximity to a giant. ‘What’s your name? I’m Takota.’

‘Sam.’ The boy said as he ambled over, taking a seat.

Sam stared at the medical kit even as he spoke to the other man. He’d seen these kinds of kits before. His father had needed Dean to patch him up many times in the past, so Sam had gotten a clear look at the contents before. He could recognize the usual items; gauze, alcohol, scissors, a needle. But there were also a number of clear vials with multi-coloured contents. They didn’t look like the usual anti-septic creams Sam was used to.

‘Right. Where are you hurt?’ Takota asked. Sam hesitated, then held out his hand. Takota gently took his hand, running a finger over the gash. Sam flinched at the stinging sensation.

‘Okay, clean the wound, sterilize, then cover.’ Takota muttered to himself. He grabbed a wipe and began gently cleaning away the blood.

‘So, Sam, where did Jason pick you up from?’ He asked as he worked.

‘Outside. He stopped some snake-thing from biting me,’ Sam explained, then looked up at the man, innocent hope now lacing his words, ‘Was he telling the truth? Will he find my big brother?’

Takota looked up at the boy in concern. Outside? And he had a brother, who was still lost?

‘Oh Sam,’ He said, ruffling the boy’s hair, ‘Of course he will.’

‘But it’s so big out there. How will he find Dean?’

‘Hey. The big guy may be an idiot, but he is annoyingly good at his job. If anyone can find your brother, it’ll be Jason.’ Takota promised, putting down the wipe and taking out the alcohol, ‘Now, this may sting a bit.’

…

‘This is ridiculous! We don’t have the resources to just- ‘

‘I’m not leaving until I know that something will be done!’

‘You have already taken soldiers out on this unnecessary search – in the DARK, I remind you – and all for what? A single lost child? We have more important matters to attend to!’

Jason was having a very hard time not reaching out to dismantle the mech before him. While the planet was mainly home to Shifters, the world still originally belonged to the U’Boltan people, and any major tasks were to be passed through their Council. While they were adamant to the Manimal cause – to protect and serve those who needed assistance – they were still robotic beings who ran on logic and statistics. Coupled with their stubborn nature, they could be difficult to work with.

But human nature was just as stubborn, if not more so, and Jason would not back down. Not from this.

‘Don’t make me pull rank on you, Turnout!’ Jason hissed at the Council head, who just stared back, unaffected by his show of aggression. It didn’t help that Turnout was a tank-based mech, standing over twelve feet tall, and Jason was barely five foot.

‘Okay, you two, knock it off!’

Turnout straightened out, arms crossing in salute as the Original leader entered. The Council may have had power over the planet’s proceedings, but ultimately their rule could be overturned if the Original deemed it necessary.

‘Heya Ash.’ Jason called, giving a quick two-fingered salute to the woman. She sighed, a clipboard in hand. She rubbed her face, trying to clear her thoughts.

‘I have five important meetings to get to in the next few hours. Not to mention the peace treaty with the Skra. I am swamped with paperwork, tensions are building, and I haven’t slept in two weeks! Now tell me, what was so important that you two needed me to mediate?!’

The two at least had the decency to look sheepish at her words. Jason looked to the floor, holding his hands behind his back under his cloak. Turnout made a noise like a spluttering engine, which Jason could only assume was the U’Boltan equivalent to clearing his throat.

‘Forgive me, Ms Ronswan. Mr Metetta wishes to divert resources to locating a family unit to a previously unknown individual who is now on base.’ Turnout summarized. Ashley raised an eyebrow, glancing at Jason.

‘I found the kid in the Silver Woods. He’s lost, scared, and hurt. I left him with Takota while we’re trying to find his missing brother,’ Jason explained, scuffing his boot against the floor, ‘Mouse has kept me updated with what the kid’s been telling him. But we haven’t got a lot of facts yet.’

‘All we know that he is from off-world. There was no record of his existence in our files, so he didn’t arrive with the Skra rescues. The officers in the field have found no evidence of a second Skra, so his story is inconsistent at best,’ Turnout said, glowering down at Jason, ‘Right now, the evidence suggests he was planted as a spy by our enemies. It’s not the first time they have coerced Skra’s into-‘

‘I don’t think he’s a Skra.’ Jason interrupted. He held up his arm, activating a small hologram that showed an image of said child. It showed the pale boy with sandy hair, a stark contrast to Takota’s own darker colour scheme.

‘The entire Skra race have had exposure to our kind before, but the kid has never seen anyone like us, I’m sure of it. Besides, he doesn’t have the same complexion,’ Jason explained, looking earnestly at Ashley, ‘It would not be the first time a child had stumbled upon a transportation relic. The kid is scared, and we could help him.’

‘And how could we help?’ Turnout asked, optics rolling in a very human-like fashion, ‘The universe is almost infinite. The odds of us finding his home are astronomical.’

Ashley hadn’t said anything, and was just looking at the image of the lost boy. She was grimacing. Probably thinking about her daughter, Jason thought. As logical as Turnout’s argument was, in the end, he would never truly understand the impact of motherly instincts on the commander he respected.

It was, after all, organic, and the mech could never truly understand that.

‘We can have an automatic checklist out on all spatial explorations,’ Jason proposed, pressing his advantage in his case, ‘Every time we find a new world, we categorize them for the database. I’ll ask the kid about details of his world, and if any new discoveries match, we’ll check them out.’

‘That will take time,’ Ashley mused, looking over to him, ‘What will we do with him in the meantime? We can’t just send him with the Skra rescues.’ Jason shrugged.

‘I dunno. Maybe Takota and I can foster him til then?’ He then snorted as another message was relayed to him, shaking his head, ‘In fact, we probably will. I think Takota just officially adopted the kid.’ Ashley raised an eyebrow skeptically, and Jason could only shrug back.

‘Alright then,’ Ashley sighed, turning to Turnout, ‘We will deal with the details, Turnout. You’re dismissed.’ The mech nodded his helm, then rolled out of the room. He had other duties to attend to. The Shifters could handle this.

Ashley sighed heavily as she glanced down at her board, then at Jason.

‘Boy, you owe me, big time!’ She declared vehemently, turning to stroll out. Jason couldn’t help but chuckle.

‘Thanks, by the way,’ He said, quickly rushing over to walk with her, ‘So, I can get the paperwork settled then?’

‘You do realize what you’re getting yourself into, right?’ Ashley asked, cocking her head to the side, ‘This isn’t gonna be like your cases, taking care of this boy.’ Jason scoffed, rolling his eyes.

‘Come on, Ash, he’s just a little kid. A little kid, who can fit in my hand,’ Jason stressed, grinning, ‘How hard can it be?’

[psychefm]

talk to the hand [ booboo stewart ], [ deon damgaard ] is the new kid on the block around here. at [ twenty one ], the [ demi boy ] works at [ chuck e cheese ] in the mall and, like, [ he ] totally reminds us of [ travis birkenstock ]. oh snap! what? their favorite movie is [ addams family values ]???? so is mine! (pepper, she/her, twenty three, est )

ABOUT THE MUN. hey demons, it’s ya gurl pepper

tumblr still hates me, and yk what i hate it right back. 

BIO. i need a himbo! i’m holding out for a himbo at the end of the night! he’s gotta be strong, and he’s gotta be fast, and he’s gotta be dumb and polite! suicide tw, depression tw, death tw !!!

Deon Damgaard was born from a tryst of passion. In other words, an affair. A very exciting affair, if that makes things any better. Said affair was between his mother, a talented young pianist, and his father, an influential, very much married businessman. You see, his father saw his mother play once and instantly fell in love. He came to every single one of his mother’s performances after that, and every time he did he left her flowers. Extravagant, beautiful flowers, the kind of flowers that make an impact on a woman, apparently. And they must have, because before long Deon’s mother was falling just as in love with Deon’s father as he was with her. And obviously you know what happens next. Deon.

Now, the thing about passionate love affairs is that they’re love affairs for a reason. There’s the love part of course. But there’s also the affair part. And that’s where things get complicated. Because despite being utterly, and completely in love with Deon’s mother, his father was still married. And he had no intention of ending his marriage, even for love.

But Deon’s mother didn’t know that at first. You see, Deon has inherited his mother’s easy optimism. The woman was in love and she believed with absolute surety that the love of her life would ultimately choose her. And so she waited for that day. And waited. And waited.

She spent most of the first few years of Deon’s life waiting, but the longer she waited the less Deon’s father even bothered to come around. The thing with falling in love hard and fast is that you can fall out of love just as quickly. And that’s exactly what Deon’s father did. He fell out of love like it was nothing.

So there was Deon’s mother, with a baby she shared with a man who didn’t love her anymore. One that carried his last name against his wishes, one that even had the name that he’d said he’d always wanted to give a son. One that she loved, truly. But that love wasn’t enough. Because Deon’s mother was in pain. More pain than a little baby like Deon could understand. Enough pain to end her own life.

Deon was six at the time. Not old enough to know what was happening, but old enough to understand that something was wrong. Especially when he quickly found himself in an orphanage. His father never claimed him of course. Deon doesn’t even know if he mourned his mother. Or if he wanted to come to her funeral. All he knows is that he wasn’t there.

There’s not much to be said after that, or at least nothing as poetic as the beginning. Deon was put into the foster system and he was never really wanted again. Well. Maybe that’s not completely true. The truth is no one ever wanted to adopt him. But he always hoped someone would. He’d be passed from family to family to family, bright eyed and hoping like the optimistic child he was. But they never wanted him. Some said he was too hyper. Others said he was too curious. More than a few just said he was too odd, and Deon always found that strange. That he was too odd to keep. Too odd to love.

Of course most of them didn’t expect Deon to be eavesdropping when they said these things so Deon couldn’t really fault them. They didn’t mean to hurt him. And so he could never truly hate them. He couldn’t find it in his heart to. But it was painful, to get his hopes up each time only to have them dashed away. Whether that be by being tossed aside like nothing but a nuisance or tossed around like nothing but a rag doll. It always hurt to seek love and give love and yet never get any in return. 

Deon moved to Strawberry, Nebraska at thirteen to be fostered by a cold, gruff couple who didn’t really have much of an interest in him other than the checks he provided. It took a while for Deon to realize that and even longer for him to accept it, and honestly some part of him still hasn’t. Even to this day Deon will try with them, just optimistically hoping that this one extra act of kindness, or one extra attempt at bonding will be the one to break the camels back and make them like him. It never is though. But at the very least Jack and Barb Finchum never got rid of him. They kept him around for the money, and due to this Deon got to stick around Strawberry. Strawberry is the place he’s been the longest in his entire life. 

And after Deon realized that he might be around for good he started trying harder than ever to make friends. Prior to Strawberry Deon had never really made many, and honestly he  tried to see it as a blessing. I mean, could you imagine having to leave not only your family but also friends time after time? It would be too much to bear. So Deon did his best to see it as a good thing. But now that he had the opportunity Deon was trying harder than ever to find his people. Maybe a bit too hard. Honestly Deon was probably known throughout town for being the weird loud kid, and he was pretty okay with that. I mean, he didn’t know it but he would be okay with it if he did. 

Was the guy you’d see at every house party, the guy who would make an elaborate plan to skateboard down the stairwell railing of the school on a dare, who would do your big chemistry project for nothing but a couple of joints and a taco, because that’s another thing, despite being a complete idiot Deon is also somehow a genius. Like he’s stupid, but he’s good at school, mostly because Deon quickly learned that everything in life had a price: food, toys, family, but school? School was free, and he adored it. Okay, maybe not all of it. English and foreign languages and god, history, all of that was painfully boring even if Deon could pass. But science? Science was the one thing that he had to look forward to throughout most of his childhood. And it continued to be that one thing into his young adulthood.

The majority of Deon’s said young adulthood was also spent sporadically behind bars. Let’s just say Deon fell into the wrong crowd. It wasn’t on purpose, Deon has just and likely always will be the kind of person who is eager for friendship. All these kids had to do was be even slightly nice to him and ‘sure, man! i can totally hotwire that car for you!’. That’s not to say Deon was completely innocent himself. Most of his arrests for theft, graffiti, and street racing, were products of his own doing. But sometimes, Deon just happened to be the guy abandoned at the scene of the crime. He never gave up his friends, no matter what the cops threatened him with, but he unfortunately never had the privilege of having his loyalty returned.

Deon stayed out of juvie by the skin of his teeth. It was mostly due to the fact that strawberry wasn’t a particularly big town, and Deon could usually endear the small town sheriff to him with his incessant chatter, and well meaning demeanor. He honestly made friends with more than a few of the cops that had arrested him, and there are more than a few that Deon would still call up today and chat with. He is probably in mall jail all the time for little things honestly. Sorry Peter. 

Despite his dabbling in crime, Deon graduated from high school with an almost spotless GPA and partial to full scholarships to more than a few universities including Harvard, MIT, Yale. Deon was kind of startled by all of the offers, but he did have more than a few projects during his years of schooling that caught the universities attention (including making the car from back to the future for fun but also making it so that it could possibly run on electricity, making a small robot that could run on used vegetable oil, etc). But with all the offers, Deon decided to stay local, because I would like to think that he finally made friends here and he could never just leave them now that he did. 

I feel like Deon has been working at Chuck E Cheese since he was maybe fourteen? And he loves it, he has the time of his life every shift. Likes to go around and play with the kids, can generally be depended on to fix the animatronics when they’re acting up, honestly probably started working there because he kept fucking with the animatronics for fun in his spare time and realized he could actually fix them too. that said, he still likes to reprogram chuckie himself to like do the worm or something. he has a great time with it, and i am so sorry kath.

okay that’s it i think 

HEADCANNONS. if i get shot do i own the bullet? like can i keep it?

this is deon.

fun fact, i originally made deon as an npc in a house party para i was doing with my friend sdkjsdjk he was genuinely made to be as annoying as possible but then my friend actually really liked him so now he’s a whole ass muse. that said if he is annoying… it’s because he was legit designed to be i’m sorry folks sdkjdskj fingers crossed he’s not though! but grating traits he has: never stops talking man, says man, dude, bruh, and bro, constantly. CONSTANTLY. you’ll be having a conversation with him and he’ll just blurt out something completely off topic??? HE’S SO LOUD TOO! And incredibly inappropriate god

that said deon was also inspired by jason mendoza and i literally teared up writing that because i’m still not over the end of the good place so dkjsdkj let’s move on!

loves back to the future and honestly i should have put back to the future as his favourite movie but i really didn’t remember it existed until now. 

has a septum piercing, a tongue piercing, a smiley piercing, a nipple piercing on his left nipple and several tattoos, most of which he’s done himself after buying a tattoo gun (honestly you shouldn’t let deon tattoo you because he just does whatever comes to him at the time but also LET DEON TATTOO YOU!). honestly has more than a few earrings too like both ears are probably full of piercings and he’s very proud of all of his them honestly.

loves colour and neon especially, but also loves to wear a lot of black like he’s a whole ass mess. his favourite colour is yellow btw. generally just wears what he likes, but he pretty much never looks polished.

his favourite number is 0!

wears a lot of rings and jewelry as well, you will rarely find your boy without something on his fingers.

has a rat named titty boy that he calls titty for short. his name is titty boy because he only eats hot cheetos and likes to watch garbage tv. as sad as it sounds he was one of deon’s first genuine friends so he loves him like BIG. takes him everywhere like he usually has him in his bag at work, so you can catch titty scurrying around chuck e cheese sometimes.

built a little  bot and named him douche bag, or rather deebs for short. also loves him big. deebs is constantly getting updated by deon honestly, but your boy actually probably won a prize when he made him because he’s actually?? very like advanced for what he is (he runs on used oil from fast food chains, has a touch screen, etc). deon literally made him so that he could help him remember to take his pills (deon has clinical depression and adhd, so he needs deebs around to give him that nudge sometimes), and he can do that and more now. deon kind of wants to see if he can break him into the service animal industry, cause he figures he could be good for people who need service animals but have allergies to fur.

gets around, mostly because he is attracted like everybody and feels no qualms about telling them that? and omg he’s also bi btw, no one is surprised. but honestly isn’t really a player just cause he’s too dumb to be one man. like if he was suppose to call you and he didn’t he literally just forgot sdkjsdkj

does not talk about himself at all! ever! like legit learning anything about deon’s past is like pulling teeth!

like i said deon has depression, but like most people probably don’t know that because again,, your boy is close lipped. that said he doesn’t try to hide it, like if you see him taking his pills you see him taking his pills. there are times though that deon will just not be found for a week or two when his depression gets bad. he usually emerges from these occasions chill and chipper as he usually is with sdkmds absolutely no mention of it. i don’t know if he has any friends he’s close enough to that he’d talk to about that though you know, like honestly from deon’s perspective *deon vc* i don’t wanna bring anybody down, man…

says man and bro and bruh and dude WAY TOO MUCH like they punctuate most of his sentences sdkdjs

surfer dude energy. skater dude energy. stoner dude energy.

smokes A LOT of weed. LOVES to party! that guy you see at every house party and have to wonder like??? how is he passing ANY of his classes sdkjsdj how is he SURVIVING

honestly when i usually write deon he’s an MIT graduate so dskjds he definitely got an offer from there that he casually responded to like ‘oh shit, thanks man, but i’m cool!’ sdkjdsjk 

sometimes you can catch deon sitting in his car blasting mariah carey and crying in the mall parking lot.

knows all the words to TLC’s waterfalls and will sing it to completion whenever it’s on.

will come to your flat and like fix your heater if it’s acting up. literally just hail deon down if you need anything fixed and he will do it for literally nothing. he just likes to help, and to be wanted around tbh rip

swears A TON omg i almost forgot deon swears constantly dkjds he doesn’t see a problem with it honestly, and he’s never like angrily swearing honestly it’s usually excited swearing but sdkjsdkj he’s a potty mouth nonetheless and if your muse doesn’t swear deon will pay them money to do it despite being BROKE. “will you say fuck for a dollar?” sdkjdsj 

PERSONALITY. do u are have stupid? hell yeah brother!

honestly one of my most kindhearted muses. like deon wouldn’t hurt a FLY! he catches spiders in his hands and takes them outside sdkjsdk. like even if you’re a dick to deon he will still be nice to you! never gets mad at ANYBODY, like it’s so rare to see deon pissed man he has the heart of a surfer dude

just freaking says things man. doesn’t think before he says anything ever. no brain to mouth filter at ALL.

that said he’s a lot smarter than he looks and acts skjdsj but he’s also so so stupid, it’s a bit contradictory honestly because deon is a DUMBASS! but he be knowing things man i can’t explain it. like he has no brain to mouth filter but like if you tell deon a secret no one is ever going to know.

PAINFULLY loyal to his friends like to a fault! even if you betray deon or abandon him he legit will not do the same to you, like if you were ever his friend you will be his friend until the day he dies.

generous. would give the shirt off his back to someone if they needed it

humble? like deon knows he’s good at what he does because people keep telling him that but he doesn’t do it because he’s good at it he does it because he thinks it’s fun and like rewarding, like seeing deebs beeping around just makes him happy.

doesn’t have a competitive bone in his body when it comes to academic success or professional success but when it comes to pacman or tWISTER and suddenly nothing else matters in the world

lowkey still desperately wants friends and to be accepted, and cares a lot more about what people think of him than he lets on, rip

you absolutely could manipulate deon whenever you wanted to, he would skdjdsjk probably never catch on man. it’s like ‘fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, come on man… fool me THREE TIMES?? bro.’ dkjdskj

lowkey sad sometimes because it be like that, but he will hide it the minute there’s someone around him.

one of those muses that is like… are you pretending to be dumb or are you really that dumb? and like legit i don’t even know the answer man and i’ve never actually got to play him long enough to find out so i’m hype for that!

WANTED CONNECTIONS. *tries to crowd surf at a ted talk*

BROS. give deon some a group of close guy friends he will adore them with everything in him!

SOMEONE THAT’S ANNOYED BY HIM. whether you’re trying to go home after your shift and deon is talking your ear off about the toe he found in his subway sandwich, or you have to hear him playing cotton eyed joe over the mall’s speakers (cause deon would do that,,,, i am so sorry peter blooth mall cop) you have a right to be annoyed by him. you are valid.

CONFIDANTE. despite the amount deon likes to talk he’s actually a really good listener and will keep all your secrets forever! so confide in him man, he’s got you. or the other way around someone deon feels like he can confide in and talk to?? a concept.

EXES. give me someone who broke his heart! i’ve never gotten to play brokenhearted deon but it would be fun. or someone who’s heart he accidentally broke, honestly he wouldn’t know it until it was too late sdkjsdkj.

CRUSH. give me someone who has a crush on deon that he is completely oblivious to. give me someone who deon has a crush on that he doesn’t know what to do with! honestly for the most part deon is either very blunt and forward or awkward and dumb with a crush, but either way it will be entertaining for all involved.

DAD FRIEND/MOM FRIEND. deon is a whole mess honestly, and he just needs someone who will make sure he doesn’t die you know? because he’s used to taking care of himself generally but he really will get himself into dangerous situation because he’s just stupid. some random stranger offers deon crack at a music festival? deon will take it! it’s so nice that they offered him some! *deon vc* yoooo, thanks man!

ENEMY. i just find it funny that deon wouldn’t know they are enemies. he’d wave to them and say hi and they’d be like I HATE YOU and he’d laugh like it’s a joke dkjdsk it’d be very one sided but very entertaining.

CHILDHOOD FRIENDS. deon has traveled all around america so give this to me friends! they were buds for maybe a bit before he moved or something like?? i want it. 

FWB. just really chill buds who also have sex. deon will try to high five them after sdkjdsjk maybe someone involved is catching feelings or maybe they’re just going to always be friends who have seen each other naked, and you know what that’s okay too.

alright that’s all i’ve got for now and yk how it is, please smash that like button if you’d like to plot and i’ll come running. 

[deonisms]

━━ ( booboo stewart + cis male + twenty one ) oi , have you seen deon damgaard around he lives in flat 14 in bedroom 2 ? i was meant to meet them this morning at bean me up before our lecture but he didn’t show . no ? well , shit . if you do see them , can you tell them i’m looking for them ? they’re a 3rd year robotics engineering student from gainesville, florida & you’ll know it’s them because they might just remind you of the faint smell of something burning, the restless clicking of a tongue piercing against teeth, boisterous laughter muffled by thin walls, dark circles combined with blindly bright grins, the warmth of overheating machinery . just be careful, he can be a little tactless, gullible & mercurial sometimes . —- oh don’t look like that , they’re usually eccentric, innovative & intuitive most of the time . ✏ pepper , twenty three, she/her, est

ABOUT THE MUN. hey demons, it’s ya gurl pepper

djkdsjk hello it is me again,,, simply out here being a slave to my own inspiration. honestly, i love ismael but i was torn between him, theo, and deon before apply for this rp and i am just feeling deon a bit more atm. i might still bring ismael in later as my third muse but for now it’s going to be all chaotic energy with one mr. deon! but omg okay a bit about me, i love the bachelor/bachelorette so hit me up if you want to mourn the death of pilot pete’s last braincell. i have a yorkie who literally runs my household as she should. i am honestly a hoe for a good aesthetic, like pinterest runs my ass. and i love sparkling water, which is controversial i know but perrier? god. fuck me up.

BIO. i need a himbo! i’m holding out for a himbo at the end of the night! he’s gotta be strong, and he’s gotta be fast, and he’s gotta be dumb and polite! suicide tw, depression tw, death tw !!!

Deon Damgaard was born from a tryst of passion. In other words, an affair. A very exciting affair, if that makes things any better. Said affair was between his mother, a talented young pianist, and his father, an influential, very much married businessman. You see, his father saw his mother play once and instantly fell in love. He came to every single one of his mother’s performances after that, and every time he did he left her flowers. Extravagant, beautiful flowers, the kind of flowers that make an impact on a woman, apparently. And they must have, because before long Deon’s mother was falling just as in love with Deon’s father as he was with her. And obviously you know what happens next. Deon.

Now, the thing about passionate love affairs is that they’re love affairs for a reason. There’s the love part of course. But there’s also the affair part. And that’s where things get complicated. Because despite being utterly, and completely in love with Deon’s mother, his father was still married. And he had no intention of ending his marriage, even for love.

But Deon’s mother didn’t know that at first. You see, Deon has inherited his mother’s easy optimism. The woman was in love and she believed with absolute surety that the love of her life would ultimately choose her. And so she waited for that day. And waited. And waited.

She spent most of the first few years of Deon’s life waiting, but the longer she waited the less Deon’s father even bothered to come around. The thing with falling in love hard and fast is that you can fall out of love just as quickly. And that’s exactly what Deon’s father did. He fell out of love like it was nothing.

So there was Deon’s mother, with a baby she shared with a man who didn’t love her anymore. One that carried his last name against his wishes, one that even had the name that he’d said he’d always wanted to give a son. One that she loved, truly. But that love wasn’t enough. Because Deon’s mother was in pain. More pain than a little baby like Deon could understand. Enough pain to end her own life.

Deon was six at the time. Not old enough to know what the big deal was, but old enough to understand that something was wrong. Especially when he  quickly found himself in an orphanage. His father never claimed him of course. Deon doesn’t even know if he mourned his mother. Or if he wanted to come to her funeral. All he knows is that he wasn’t there.

There’s not much to be said after that, or at least nothing as poetic as the beginning. Deon was put into the foster system and he was never really wanted again. Well. Maybe that’s not completely true. The truth is no one ever wanted to adopt him. But he always hoped someone would. He’d be passed from family to family to family, bright eyed and hoping like the optimistic child he was. But they never wanted him. Some said he was too hyper. Others said he was too curious. More than a few just said he was too odd, and Deon always found that strange. That he was too odd to keep. Too odd to love.

Of course most of them didn’t expect Deon to be eavesdropping when they said these things so Deon couldn’t really fault them. They didn’t mean to hurt him. And so she could never truly hate them. He couldn’t find it in his heart to. But it was painful, to get his hopes up each time only to have them dashed away. Whether that be by being tossed aside like nothing but a nuisance or tossed around like nothing but a rag doll. It always hurt to seek love and give love and yet never get any in return.

The bright side in Deon’s eyes was that at least he never made any friends. Because could you imagine how hard that would be? To pack your bags and have to say goodbye to your family and friends every time? It’d be too much to bear. So Deon counted his blessings. There weren’t many but he cherished the ones he had.

One of which was school. Deon didn’t have much at all, but at the very least he had school. Because everything had a price. Toys. Food. Even families (Deon wasn’t completely ignorant to the fact that his families got paid just to take care of him. For a lot of them that was the only reason they kept him around in the first place.) but school? School was free, and he adored it. Okay, maybe not all of it. English and foreign languages and god, history, all of that was painfully boring. But science? Science was the one thing that he had to look forward to throughout most of his childhood. And it continued to be that one thing into his young adulthood.

The majority of Deon’s said young adulthood was spent sporadically behind bars. Let’s just say Deon fell into the wrong crowd. It wasn’t on purpose, Deon has just and likely always will be the kind of person who is eager for friendship. All these kids had to do was be even slightly nice to him and ‘sure, man! i can totally hotwire that car for you!’. That’s not to say Deon was completely innocent himself. Most of his arrests for theft, graffiti, and street racing, were products of his own doing. But sometimes, Deon just happened to be the guy abandoned at the scene of the crime. He never gave up his friends, no matter what the cops threatened him with, but he unfortunately never had the privilege of having his loyalty returned.

Deon stayed out of juvie by the skin of his teeth. It was mostly due to the fact that he lived in a lot of different small towns for majority of his adolescence. Deon could usually endear the small town sheriffs to him with his incessant chatter, and well meaning demeanor. He honestly made friends with more than a few of the cops that had arrested him, and there are more than a few that Deon would still call up today and chat with.

Despite his dabbling in crime, Deon graduated from high school with an almost spotless GPA and partial scholarships to more than a few universities including Harvard, MIT, Yale. Deon was kind of startled by all of the offers, but he did have more than a few projects during his years of schooling that caught the universities attention (including making a car that ran on used vegetable oil, a charger that could charge your phone to completion in less than a minute, etc). But with all the offers, Deon picked Larnswick. Why? Well, mostly because he’d never been on a plane but also because he picked his university by playing eenie meenie miney mo dkdskj

Deon showed up to flat 14 with one pretty light suitcase, a rat in his hand, and a beaming grin despite being in a new strange country. He’s here on a full scholarship, but doesn’t really have any money of his own so he works a lot of jobs, or rather he gets fired from a lot of jobs. Every month or so you can see Deon in a new uniform for a new establishment, and every once in a while Deon will tell you the wild story of how he got fired from said establishment. Honestly he could really do well in a job as a handyman, but jsdkj he hasn’t thought of that yet. 

HEADCANNONS. if i get shot do i own the bullet? like can i keep it?

fun fact, i originally made deon as an npc in a house party para i was doing with my friend sdkjsdjk he was genuinely made to be as annoying as possible but then my friend actually really liked him so now he’s a whole ass muse. that said if he is annoying... it’s because he was legit designed to be i’m sorry folks sdkjdskj fingers crossed he’s not though! but grating traits he has: never stops talking man, says man, dude, bruh, and bro, constantly. CONSTANTLY. you’ll be having a conversation with him and he’ll just blurt out something completely off topic??? HE’S SO LOUD TOO! And incredibly inappropriate god

that said deon was also inspired by jason mendoza and i literally teared up writing that because i’m pmsing so sdkjsdkj let’s move on!

has a septum piercing, a tongue piercing, a smiley piercing, a nipple piercing on his left nipple and several tattoos, most of which he’s done himself after buying a tattoo gun (honestly you shouldn’t let deon tattoo you because he just does whatever comes to him at the time but also LET DEON TATTOO YOU!). honestly probably has more than a few earrings too, and he’s very proud of all of his piercings honestly. 

loves colour and neon especially, but also loves to wear a lot of black like he’s a whole ass mess. his favourite colour is yellow btw. generally just wears what he likes, but he pretty much never looks polished. 

his favourite number is 0!

wears a lot of rings and jewelry as well, you will rarely find your boy without something on his fingers.

has a rat named titty boy that he calls titty for short. his name is titty boy because he only eats hot cheetos and likes to watch the real house wives. as sad as it sounds he was one of deon’s first genuine friends so he loves him like BIG. takes him everywhere like he usually has him in his bag at lectures. titty can be found scurrying around the flat having the time of his life at any given moment that deon is in there.

built a little helper bot and named him douche bag, or rather deebs for short. also loves him big. deebs is constantly getting updated by deon honestly, but your boy actually probably won a prize when he made him because he’s actually?? very like advanced for what he is (he runs on used oil from fast food chains, has a near nonexistent carbon footprint, facial recognition, etc). deon literally made him so that he could help him remember to take his pills (deon has clinical depression and adhd unfortunately, so he needs deebs around to give him that nudge), and he can do that and more now. deon kind of wants to see if he can break him into the service animal industry, cause he figures he could be good for people who need service animals but have allergies to fur.

gets around, mostly because he is attracted like everybody and feels no qualms about telling them that? and omg he’s another muse of mine that’s bi btw, no one is surprised. but honestly isn’t really a player just cause he’s too dumb to be one man. like if he was suppose to call you and he didn’t he literally just forgot sdkjsdkj

does not talk about himself at all! ever! like legit learning anything about deon’s past is like pulling teeth! 

like i said deon has depression, but like most people probably don’t know that because again,, your boy is close lipped. that said he doesn’t try to hide it, like if you see him taking his pills you see him taking his pills. there are times though that deon will just not be found for a week or two when his depression gets bad and usually at those times his door will be locked and will not open for the entirety of that week like MAYBE at night when everyone is asleep so he can pee but that’s it! he usually emerges from these occasions chill and chipper as he usually is with sdkmds absolutely no mention of it. i don’t know if he has any friends he’s close enough to that he’d talk to about that though you know, like honestly from deon’s perspective *deon vc* i don’t wanna bring anybody down, man...

says man and bro and bruh and dude WAY TOO MUCH like they punctuate most of his sentences sdkdjs

surfer dude energy. skater dude energy. stoner dude energy.

smokes A LOT of weed. LOVES to party! that guy you see at every house party and have to wonder like??? how is he passing ANY of his classes sdkjsdj

honestly when i usually write deon he’s an MIT graduate so dskjds he definitely got an offer from there that he casually responded to like ‘oh shit, thanks man, but i’m cool!’ sdkjdsjk also probably has gotten more than a few offers to work at like google but refuses to work there until every image that shows up for the search ‘donald trump’ is just the angry orange. it’s his own negotiating point and he refuses to budge on it.

sometimes you can catch deon sitting in his car blasting sara barailles and crying in the university parking lot.

and finally, in ode to ismael,,, deon has a crush on claire from the bon appetit test kitchen. like he wants to marry her. his twitter is just nonsense stream of consciousness stuff and then occasionally ‘@clairesaffitz MARRY ME CLAIRE’. people have probably tried to point out to him that claire doesn’t have a twitter but deon always forgets djhddfjk

knows all the words to TLC’s waterfalls and will sing it to completion whenever it’s on.

will come to your flat and like fix your heater if it’s acting up. literally just hail deon down if you need anything fixed and he will do it for literally nothing. he just likes to help, and to be wanted around tbh rip

swears A TON omg i almost forgot deon swears constantly dkjds he doesn’t see a problem with it honestly, and he’s never like angrily swearing honestly it’s usually excited swearing but sdkjsdkj he’s a potty mouth nonetheless and if your muse doesn’t swear deon will pay them money to do it despite being BROKE. “will you say fuck for a dollar?” sdkjdsj despite the fact that he’s in england rip. 

PERSONALITY. do u are have stupid? hell yeah brother!

honestly one of my most kindhearted muses. like deon wouldn’t hurt a FLY! he catches spiders in his hands and takes them outside sdkjsdk. like even if you’re a dick to deon he will still be nice to you! never gets mad at ANYBODY, like it’s so rare to see deon pissed man he has the heart of a surfer dude

just freaking says things man. doesn’t think before he says anything ever. no brain to mouth filter at ALL.

that said he’s a lot smarter than he looks and acts skjdsj but he’s also so stupid, it’s a bit contradictory honestly because deon is a DUMBASS! but he be knowing things man i can’t explain it. like he has no brain to mouth filter but like if you tell deon a secret no one is ever going to know. 

PAINFULLY loyal to his friends like to a fault! even if you betray deon or abandon him he legit will not do the same to you, like if you were ever his friend you will be his friend until the day he dies. 

generous. would give the shirt off his back to someone if they needed it

humble? like deon knows he’s good at what he does because people keep telling him that but he doesn’t do it because he’s good at it he does it because he thinks it’s fun and like rewarding, like seeing deebs beeping around just makes him happy.

doesn’t have a competitive bone in his body when it comes to academic success or professional success but when it comes to mario kart or ddr or tWISTERand suddenly nothing else matters in the world

lowkey still desperately wants friends and to be accepted, and cares a lot more about what people think of him than he lets on, rip

you absolutely could manipulate deon whenever you wanted to, he would skdjdsjk probably never catch on man. it’s like ‘fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, come on man... fool me THREE TIMES?? bro.’ dkjdskj

lowkey sad sometimes because it be like that, but he will hide it the minute there’s someone around him. 

one of those muses that is like... are you pretending to be dumb or are you really that dumb? and like legit i don’t even know the answer man and i’ve never actually got to play him long enough to find out so i’m hype for that!

WANTED CONNECTIONS. *tries to crowd surf at a ted talk*

BROS. give deon some a group of close guy friends he will adore them with everything in him!

A NEIGHBOR THAT’S ANNOYED BY HIM. whether you’re trying to get inside and deon is talking your ear off about the toe he found in his subway sandwich, or it’s just the damn loud music he’s always playing (if you hear cotton eyed joe at two am, it’s definitely deon) you have a right to be annoyed by him. you are valid. 

CONFIDANTE. despite the amount deon likes to talk he’s actually a really good listener and will keep all your secrets forever! so confide in him man, he’s got you. or the other way around someone deon feels like he can confide in and talk to?? a concept. 

EXES. give me someone who broke his heart! i’ve never gotten to play brokenhearted deon but it would be fun. or someone who’s heart he accidentally broke, honestly he wouldn’t know it until it was too late sdkjsdkj.

CRUSH. give me someone who has a crush on deon that he is completely oblivious to. give me someone who deon has a crush on that he doesn’t know what to do with! honestly for the most part deon is either very blunt and forward or awkward and dumb with a crush, but either way it will be entertaining for all involved. 

DAD FRIEND/MOM FRIEND. deon is a whole mess honestly, and he just needs someone who will make sure he doesn’t die you know? because he’s used to taking care of himself generally but he really will get himself into dangerous situation because he’s just stupid. some random stranger offers deon crack at a music festival? deon will take it! it’s so nice that they offered him some! *deon vc* yoooo, thanks man!

ENEMY. i just find it funny that deon wouldn’t know they are enemies. he’d wave to them and say hi and they’d be like I HATE YOU and he’d laugh like it’s a joke dkjdsk it’d be very one sided but very entertaining. 

CHILDHOOD FRIENDS. deon has traveled all around america so give this to me friends! could even be friends from high school or something or middle school, whatever it is i’m game. 

FWB. just really chill buds who also have sex. deon will try to high five them after sdkjdsjk maybe someone involved is catching feelings or maybe they’re just going to always be friends who have seen each other naked, and you know what that’s okay too. 

alright that’s all i’ve got for now friends, because i’ve been up since 7am and i am slowly losing steam sdkjs but we can always brainstorm! like this and i’ll slip and slide into your dms!

[aspiratinganxiety]

So I love when you rant and give detailed explanations about certain topics so: was Jason better off not being adopted by Bruce?

So, I’m not sure if you’re asking about any particular story line or alternate universe in which Jason is not adopted, and so I am going to answer under the assumption that you’re referring to headcanons floating around about the way things would have gone for Jay if he’d never been taken in as a Robin. 

Furthermore, I’m going to answer this with absolutely zero self-pity. Do not mistake my relating low-income struggles that were present in my life as bellyaching. There were a lot of reasons why things were the way that they were for me, and I do not need an ounce of anybody’s pity.

So, without further ado, Anon, as somebody who was raised in an incredibly low-income environment with violence, drug abuse, and all other manner of illegal activity going on in my home through my childhood into adolescence: No. 

Fuck. No.

Jason remaining in a dangerous environment, no matter how he thrived there, would not leave him in a state that I consider “better off.”

Simply through the lens of base needs, no fucking way. 

Being from a home without resources was literally the worst part of all of that nonsense. At least, for me. 

The emotional/physical abuse lingers, whatever. The drug and alcohol use was a wild ride to witness as an outside party, sure.  

Not having hot water for a shower? Not having more than two pairs of pants that weren’t pajamas and no place to wash them? Not having a toothbrush or anything but cold canned carrots from the food pantry for supper?

Not having pads or tampons as a scared 12 year old girl who then has to bear the humiliation of my school nurse going out and buying them for me because everyone knew that my family was too poor and the government subsidies weren’t being spent on keeping our home livable and providing for our needs?

Yeah. No. Jason Peter Todd was a clever, gifted child who would do well in any environment. That doesn’t mean that squalor suited him better than an emotionally stunted man-child that did the motherfucking best he could to love him and give him everything that he could possibly need and then some. 

Making Jason Robin and putting him in danger was like handing-over your keys to a car thief and accepting that you were gonna be calling your insurance the next day. Bruce didn’t have a lot of choices there. Jason already had a thirst. He already sought the thrill. The only thing Bruce thought to do was offer him proper skills, training, and equipment. 

Along the way, he loved him. Grew alongside him as a person and a father-figure. He guided him to the best of his ability, and when that backfired?

It broke him too. 

I was taken in by my eldest sister. Granted, she’s no Bruce Wayne and I didn’t oil myself up to slide into a neon crime-fighting get up. I did, however, provide so much childcare and support that I was the only person to cook, grocery shop, meal plan, or be allowed by the baby to bathe her and brush her hair by the time I was 16. My sister didn’t mean for me to take over so much domestic responsibility, it just happened that way.

I was a profoundly grateful people pleaser desperate to be somebody (anybody)’s favorite, and she had a husband who worked nights and so was basically functioning as a single mom with a houseful of 4 kids (plus me) to worry about.   

And I hurt for the nervous disorders she fed by expecting me to provide as much or, in some cases, more care to her home and children than she did. The unhealthy dynamic we fell into left me an anxious mess with little to no self-value as a human being if I am not providing others some kind of measurable benefit.

Five years out of her house and I have to work on this mentality every day.   

All the same, I got the opportunity to live in a home that was well-managed. I had clothes, food, showers and baths, school, and adults who were invested in my education and development.

Jason's situation is similar, in my opinion. He suffers for some of the damage done by Bruce. Ultimately though, he is better and more loved for having been his son.

Having the unique experience of being literally saved from a broken home (which Jason didn’t even fucking have. Poor baby was on his own) and lifted up into a household with actual disposable income, affection, education, and delicious produce regularly?

Jason Todd was the luckiest boy in the world. 

The depictions of Bruce and Jay that have them being nothing but violent and hateful toward one another hurt my heart so much, I cannot even express with words the pain I associate with it. 

I would like to note here that I do understand the abusive link between Bruce and a lot of his kids. Being idolized as a parent and literal hero sets you up for failure. Nobody can ever hope to live up to those kinds of expectations, and Bruce is all kinds of fucked up in his own right. 

The physical abuse and resentment I understand from both sides, though it kills me.

One can see how Jason returning as a man who lived to spit in the face of everything he worked so hard to foster in him would push Bruce over the edge into more progressively abusive behavior, where before he had been emotionally neglectful and selfish as a parent. Blind, even, to the non-physical needs of Jason. 

I 100% relate to Jason’s shock and horror upon being utterly disillusioned with his hero, the man acting as his father. 

He failed to save him. He failed to avenge him. While he was alive, he failed to understand him. 

What more can you do? 

Jason gave it all. 

He gave his life.

And he’s still not good enough for Bruce?

Fuck’s sake. I’d blow shit up and put heads in a bag too.

Damn. 

Anyway, TLDR: Though the unhealthy/abusive aspects of the relationship between Jason and Bruce are brutal and heart-wrenching for all involved, I do not think that Jason would have been better left to his own devices. He was a child who needed a home with enough resources to care for him. 

Bruce provided that.

Additionally, they love each other.

This, of course, is not an excuse for abuse. 

Canon or headcanon, doesn’t matter: I argue that the love between Bruce and Jason was the first time Bruce truly felt a parental connection. Dick was like a younger brother. A nephew. A darling student. It wasn’t until he could contextualize his affection for Dick through the channels he developed toward Jason that Bruce realized the reason he could never see Dick as an equal companion was because he held him in his heart as a child. 

His child. 

Like Jason. 

All families are fucked up. They hurt each other. They shape one another through pain as much as they do love.

I can’t handle the especially hateful and violent depictions of Bruce and Jason’s relationship. It literally kills me, and I actively disregard them as shittily written canon with no deep concept of characterization.     

Same for Bruce and all of his other children.  

[fanficimagery]

Imagine being raised a Hunter, but not enjoying the hunt like those you've come to know as family. You understand the Code well enough to know that those you trained with are not following it. So when the hunters are targeting an innocent Pack, you finally decide that enough is enough.

Scott X Reader

Growing up you had a relatively normal life. At least it was normal up until you were eleven years old.

At age eleven your parents were killed under mysterious circumstances and having no other living relative you were put into the system. But it was only a few weeks before a seemingly happy go lucky husband and wife adopted you, taking you into their home and telling you all about the real horrors of the world.

As it turns out your parents weren't killed by a rare bear attack in the woods, but rather a feral werewolf. Yes, that's right. Werewolf.

The Calhoun's, a Hunting family, took you in and explained everything in hopes to teach you and add to their ranks of Hunters. And being as young as you were, you were excited to learn. The history lessons appealed to you the most, but the physical training you wish you could have done without. And it was only Grandpa Calhoun that you ended up really adoring out of the entirety of your adoptive family.

Because while everyone was biased and believed those savage beasts needed to be put down, Grandpa Calhoun believed that only the feral ones needed to be put down. His beliefs were respected, but after a while.. what Grandpa Calhoun didn't know couldn't hurt him. At least that's what you're adoptive father, mother, and uncles believed.

At sixteen, you take your first life. The Omega was out of it's mind and while you did your job, the others Hunters made a game out of it. They cornered the creature, poking and prodding and being all around assholes. Though the omega really was a monster, you took pity and eventually walked up to poisoned wolf and put a wolfsbane bullet between it's eyes. Grandpa Calhoun was proud of you, but the others not so much. They were annoyed you took the fun out of the hunt.

Training gets much harder after that, but you push through to survive. You know too much and have seen too much to walk away from the life now.

At seventeen you seen a Hunter from out-of-state join the ranks for a few days since she's just passing through, and it's then you realize that the Hunting business is not something you really wish to be a part of. Hunting is meant for the true monsters, the ones who hurt fellow humans, but you watch the female hunter gun down a human child just for being born to a werewolf mother.

After that you start to close yourself off to your adoptive family, planning for a way out without the Calhoun's tracking you.

It takes two years to come up with a solid plan, but by the time you do.. the Calhoun's are even more bloodthirstier than usual and have set their sights on a supernatural sanctuary over in Beacon Hills. And even though you know your parents were killed by a werewolf, you know that not all of them are murderers. There are some, like the McCall pack in Beacon Hills, who protect the humans from other supernatural threats. So while you are more than ready to escape the Calhoun's, you're not about to let more innocent lives be taken.

Not again.

Walking the Beacon Hills Preserve at two in the morning is.. tiring. The Hunters have made progress in hunting down part of the McCall pack, much to your annoyance, and someone has radioed in that the alpha has been shot with a wolfsbane bullet.

Dread fills you every minute that passes because you know Alpha McCall doesn't have much time. And then as luck would have it, the alpha in question stumbles before falling to his knees not even fifteen yards in front of you and the Hunter named Jason that your father made you partner up with.

Jason crows in triumph, startling the alpha into falling again. And instead of radioing in like you were supposed to, Jason ignores it in favor of being a cocky sonnuvabitch. Which whatever. It works in your favor anyway.

Jason taunts the alpha, poking the muzzle of his gun into the sweating alpha whose red eyes are glowing on and off. You shift uncomfortably, the muzzle end of your rifle pointed at the ground as you glower at Jason's back.

"What do we have here?" Jason mocks as he towers over the werewolf. "True Alpha McCall on his knees for little 'ol me? I like it." McCall growls and swipes weakly with a clawed hand, and Jason tuts at him before crouching out of swiping distance. "Hey, Y/N, you good to take the shot or you want to play some more?"

McCall glances up at you, his sweaty brow furrowing as you don't make a move against him. Your gaze then falls on Jason's back, eyes narrowing and hands gripping your weapon.

"Y/N, I asked you-" As Jason glances over his shoulder, you flip your gun around and slam the butt of your rifle against his temple. He falls with a groan.

"I heard you. I just don't slaughter innocents." Jason slurs a curse at you, clearly discombobulated. He blindly reaches around for his weapon, but you slam the butt of the rifle once more into his face. Once he's knocked out cold, you look to alpha McCall who's staring wide-eyed at you. Shouldering the strap to your gun, you hold your hands out at your sides to show that you mean no harm.

"W-what? Why?"

"They strayed from the Code," you shrug. "One tends to rethink everything they believe in when you witness your family gun down a child all because said child had the audacity to have a werewolf for a mother." McCall's eyes droop and you frown. "Listen, I have a bullet and a lighter in my pocket. I'm gonna reach in for them, so don't charge me. Okay? I'm only trying to help."

He hesitantly nods and you cautiously reach for the objects you told him of. Once you have them out, you step forward and hand them to him. He quickly makes work of breaking the bullet and pouring out the wolfsbane onto a rock before lighting it on fire. Then scooping the smoldering ash into his hand, he picks up his shirt and he smears it onto and into the bullet hole on his abdomen. He clenches his teeth shut and bites back a growl, and once he's in the clear he pants heavily while looking up at you again.

He looks better already.

"I've been looking for a way out for two years," you say. "Two years of planning and botching hunts for those who hadn't done anything wrong. I nearly left weeks ago, but I heard them planning to gun for your pack. I stayed and figured I could help someone out one last time before disappearing."

"Thanks." He smiles at you, relief etched into his features and you gulp at the fluttering feeling in your belly when you realize how cute the werewolf actually is. "So what are you going to do now?"

"Now.. we get to sabotage the rest of the hunt. Call the rest of your pack or whatever and tell them to get out of the woods."

Scott hurriedly nods, reaching into his pocket for his phone. And as you linger around, listening to him warn his pack and talk about a new possible hunter ally, you see his eyes go wide as he glances over your shoulder. "Look out," he shouts and drops his phone. There's a loud bang! and unbelievable pain erupts in your back before spreading to your front.

Your eyes widen in shock and surprise, and as you glance down you see blood blossoming through your lightly-colored shirt. You're speechless and as your head jerks back up to stare at the alpha before you, you can already feel your knees giving out.

Alpha McCall catches you before you can hit the ground and he lays you down only to crouch over you. His eyes glow a menacing red before he looks back up at the shooter and lets out a heart stopping roar.

Everything goes black.

When you come to there's a rather low beeping coming from somewhere above your right shoulder. You're laying on a rather firm mattress and a scratchy blanket is tucked loosely under your armpits. You groan as you urge yourself to wake up, blinking against the horrible lighting of the apparent hospital room you're in and find that your wrists are tied down.

"Wha-"

"It's just a precaution." Startling at the voice, you glance to your left and find alpha McCall sitting there. Even though his smile is sheepish and faint, his dimples are still prominent. "I wanna hear your story from beginning to end. I wanna know why your own family turned against you and shot you in the back."

You frown as you tug at the restraints once more, but sigh and go limp. "Figures. Fine. Whatever." So getting as comfortable as you can, you tell the alpha everything. From your parents being killed by a feral omega to being put in foster care and to the Calhoun's adopting you out. You tell him that the couple was from a hunting family and only adopted you in hopes of poisoning your mind against all were-creatures.

And had it not been for Grandpa Calhoun, who spoke of nice were-creatures, your adoptive parents would have succeeded. You did your job as a good little hunter, taking out feral creatures who were killing humans left and right. But then the Hunters within your family's ranks started to become more ruthless and you couldn't stand for that. So after one particular incident, you made plans to run away, but before you could perfect it you started botching hunts to help the innocent escape.

"And then like I told you before I was shot," you sigh, "I heard they were coming after you and I've heard nothing but good things about the Pack protecting Beacon Hills. I couldn't let them kill you, so I put my plan into motion. All my necessities are in my car and after helping your pack, I was going to disappear."

The alpha shifts nervously in his seat. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think it was your car the hunters set fire to in the Preserve. Most of them got away, but we managed to snag five and throw them into a jail cell."

"Crap."

"On the plus side, you're finally free to make your own decision now."

"Makes no difference when I don't have a single personal item anymore. What am I going to do now?"

Someone raps on the room door before poking their head, a really pretty hispanic woman with dark curls hanging past her shoulders stepping in. "Hi," she smiles in greeting. "Malia's outside telling me word-for-word what's going on in here and I think I might have solution to your problem?"

"Yeah? And what's that?"

"My name is Melissa," she says while stepping closer and slowly undoing the straps around your wrist, "and since you've saved my son Scott, I think it's only fair we return the favor."

You glance at Scott and he's practically beaming. "We have a spare room," he says. "And until you can figure out a more permanent plan, you're more than welcome to stay with us. While you figure things out, we can also help you stay safe from any hunters your parents send after you."

Your jaw drops open before you can gather your wits. "You'd- you'd actually take me in? A hunter?"

"Believe it or not," Melissa huffs a short laugh, "you wouldn't be the first hunter Scott's befriended. We've had two Argents join the pack, Chris only joining after his daughter unfortunately passed away years ago."

"A-Argent?" As if possible, you gape wider. "Holy shit."

"Yep. So if you wanna stick around, we really wouldn't mind," Melissa assures you. "The rest of the pack is sitting in the hall. They're all eager to meet you if that's okay..?"

She looks hesitant, as if she didn't want to ask but ended up anyway. "Oh. Um, thank you..? I would appreciate the safety of four walls and a roof until I can come up with another plan."

"You got it. I'll have the room ready for when you're released tomorrow."

"Thank you. Both of you," you say as you glance between mother and son. "And, uh, if no one's going to maim me I'd like to meet everyone else. I've heard so many stories about the McCall pack. You guys are kind of awesome."

Scott's smile turns rather boy-ish, your heart skips a beat, and the room door opens only for a trail of people saunter in.

Settling down in Beacon Hills for a brief amount of time couldn't be too bad. Right?

[fanfiction-and-coffee]

DC Answer and Questions: Okay then. How about this question? If Jason Todd had a kid someday from someone (accidentally or otherwise) and he was the only parent to raise the child, how would he go about taking of them (if he was willing and able to do so that is)?

okay listen to me. idc what anyone else has told you – jason todd would try his damnedest to be the best dad he could possibly be for his kid. 

First of all, if Jason ever had kids, I definitely think it would be accidentally (through a surprise pregnancy or an accidental adoption, you decide), because I do not think that Jason thinks of himself as parenthood material. Boy has a lot of self-esteem issues and I think a big part of that is an inability to see the good things about himself. He thinks that he’s a Bad Influence and that growing up around him would definitely not be good for a child.

And add to that the huge amount of stress that comes with being a single parent??? He’d be so freaked out, because how the hell is he supposed to do this?? He knows that he has to keep the baby because he knows exactly how rough the foster system can be (especially in Gotham) and no way is he putting his child through that, but he literally has no idea how he’s going to handle the situation.

He’s terrified and literally has an emotional breakdown over it that ends in him calling Bruce in tears at three in the morning because no matter how complicated and strained their relationship is, he’s the closest thing Jason has ever had to a loving father and he needs advice from someone who’s done this before.

He has a long heart-to-heart with Bruce, followed by an even longer one with Alfred (who has, after all, raised not one, but two generations of orphans at this point), and eventually he resolves to get it together and be there for his kid. He wants his child to have a much happier child than he had, and he’s willing to do anything to make that possible.

He buys tons of parenting books and reads all of them in like a week. He gets more serious about his security, making sure his safehouses are absolutely as secure as he can possibly make them, while also babyproofing all of them. He even goes to Roy for advice, since Roy was in a very similar situation with Lian.

When Baby Todd is really little he definitely gets one of those baby backpacks so he can carry them around and have his hands free. He wears it backwards so the baby can nap on his chest and he can physically see them to check on them. 

Okay, you know those vines that are like “Terrifying dude but a really good dad”? That’s Jason. He doesn’t stop being the Red Hood, or drop any of his illegal activities, but his kid is always his top priority. You better believe he finds a way to make it to every school play, every parent-teacher meeting, every ballet recital and soccer game, and it’s so obvious to anyone who sees him with his child that he loves them so much. All of his various safehouses have fingerpaintings hanging on the fridge.

He’s so sweet with his kid? He’s the most supportive dad ever, like as long as his child is happy and knows that they’re loved that’s all he cares about. Also super protective, wins all of the “my dad could beat up your dad” contests.

Baby Todd definitely spends a lot of time with Roy, and with Kori (when she’s not off doing Important Space Stuff). And you better believe the entire Batfam comes up with really obvious excuses to visit Jason and take the baby for a few hours so he can Get Some Rest. (Dick is the most common offender, and he spoils his niece/nephew rotten because he wants to be the favorite uncle.) 

Baby Todd also really loves Bruce, so they end up providing a bridge for Jason and Bruce to mend their relationship. As many kids as he’s raised, Bruce actually has no experience whatsoever with babies, so Jason has to teach him things like,, how to swaddle an infant, how to heat up formula, how to hold a newborn so you support their head correctly, ect.

Honestly, I think having a kid around would be really good for Jason’s mental and emotional health? He’s already a really caring person (arguably too caring, as much as he tries to pretend he isn’t) by nature, so having someone to take care of gives him a new sense of purpose. And having a small child dependent on him kind of forces him to get better about taking care of himself, and to let go of some of his anger. It ends up being a really positive thing for him, and he and Baby Todd are very close.

[junker-town]

Nobody’s ever been as angry about a reported coaching hire as Tennessee fans are about Greg Schiano

Former players, elected officials, and other fans are furious.

Tennessee is reportedly about to hire Greg Schiano as its new football coach. The former Rutgers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach spent the last two seasons as Ohio State’s defensive coordinator, and now he’s seemingly heading to Rocky Top — if the deal actually goes through.

UT hasn’t announced it yet, and the backlash has been fierce.

Maybe this would work out on the field (Schiano did once make Rutgers a top-10 team). But what’s certain now is that Tennessee fans are livid, and they spent the hours after the news broke in a full-blown fury.

Tennessee fans have for years wanted Jon Gruden, another former Tampa Bay coach. The fervor surrounding Gruden reached a fever pitch this month, when thousands of fans watched a live stream of an airport parking lot in the hopes he’d show up and a Knoxville restaurant apologized after spreading false reports that Gruden was eating there.

And then Tennessee appeared to settle on Schiano, a retread coach who’s also been named in documents as allegedly having known about Jerry Sandusky’s child abuse while both were Penn State assistants. When news broke in 2016, Schiano denied having any knowledge of abuse while a coach at Penn State.

The extraordinary anger about Schiano’s reported hire is likely a mixture of concerns about his coaching and his past at Penn State.

A general summation:

'disgrace' is now trending in #Knoxvillehttps://t.co/eExjuXgFza http://pic.twitter.com/R1WoYvGSQS

— Trendsmap Knoxville (@TrendsKnoxvl) November 26, 2017

Former Tennessee players:

I’m just going to say this if we hire Greg Schiano as our next head coach my options will be open to which college program I will Be donating my TIME and MONEY to. (No disrespect to GS) but if UT leaders don’t take football serious then I will find the program that will!!!

— Albert Haynesworth (@haynesworthiii) November 26, 2017

I promise this next hire is Make or Break for a lot of Vol Fans. Sucks to see the best fan base in the country have to go through this over several years.

— Curt Maggitt (@CurtMaggitt) November 26, 2017

All of my twitter right now is saying no to this Schiano hiring lol. All of it. Even other teams and conferences are even saying no. Lol. @John_Currie lemme know if u need more info.

— Ramon Foster (@RamonFoster) November 26, 2017

When you think of the hire, you think of this. I’m no different. I think about it too. Terrible!! https://t.co/kJzJB5SWCa

— Jayson Swain (@SwainEvent) November 26, 2017

Just got off phone with someone in the know about Schiano. Compared him to Butch Jones.

— Jayson Swain (@SwainEvent) November 26, 2017

Three state elected officials:

I have reached out to @John_Currie and others in administration at UT expressing that WE as a TN Community do not approve of Schiano. #higherstandards

— Rep. Jason Zachary (@JasonZacharyTN) November 26, 2017

@UTKnoxville if you hire him, the backlash will be insurmountable and devastating to the University and the state.

— Jeremy Faison (@JeremyFaison4TN) November 26, 2017

Our Tennessee standards mean something, and a Greg Schiano hire would be anathema to all that our University and our community stand for. I sincerely hope that these rumors are not true, because even serious consideration would be unacceptable.

— Eddie Smith (@RepEddieSmith) November 26, 2017

A sample of fans offering feedback to Currie:

Basilio caller says, “If Currie is on a plane with Schiano I hope it crashes.” Another caller, “Currie needs to go work for Al Qaeda. He’s a suicide bomber.”

— Mark Ennis (@MarkEnnis) November 26, 2017

. @John_Currie Do not hire this monster. You’re throwing Tennessee’s morals and football program in the trash.

— Carrie Hopper (@carriehops) November 26, 2017

@John_Currie I think you are a bad person and an even worse AD.

— Ryan Price (@rprice6) November 26, 2017

@John_Currie you were adopted.

— Grudens Huge Ditka (@mutyler76) November 26, 2017

At VolNation.com, a fan wrote the athletic director an open letter:

Dear Mr. Currie,

I have been a Tennessee fan my entire life. My father is an alum, my sister and I are both alumni, as a student I attended every football game from the student section even when we were the first class that had to pay for their football tickets. In your announcement on starting the search for a new hire you yourself said you wanted a man of "integrity". I had a lot of hope you would find someone who would set a good example for our program and our students.

And then I read you are hiring Greg Schiano.

I live in Pennsylvania and am well versed in the PEnn State Scandal involving Jerry Sandusky. I'm also aware of the [allegation] that Greg Schiano watched Sandusky rape a child with his own eyes and then did not report it. He was a part of that staff for years and still [allegedly] allowed Sandusky to continue his disgusting acts against innocent children.

I told my family that I would never support Tennessee if they supported something like that and with this hire this is precisely what you are doing.

So, I will not attend or watch a game, I will not buy anything Tennessee related, I will not wear orange or donate a single cent to this university as long as you and Greg Schiano are on our staff.

I do not know how you can sleep at night for hiring such a horrible person.

Good Day Sir,

XXXXXXX (class of 2012 and a former fan)

Other posts there:

Its Schiano! Get a rope.

ESPN reporting that Tennessee is finalizing a deal with Schiano. Do I need a permit to burn a mattress? If so whats the fee?

Just received a pic of our first mattress burning http://pic.twitter.com/kHmspMOkDb

— Jon Reed (@Jon__Reed) November 26, 2017

And:

The Jerry Sandusky trial is now part of UT history as well.

When you think UT can’t sink lower, “hold my beer” says Currie. Just wow.

And:

Suddenly Kiffen doesn't look too bad.

I'd take him in a heartbeat over ****ano.

(That’s Schiano’s name being treated as a cuss word.)

A few posts are trying to get #SchiaNO to trend on Twitter, too. There’s also a thread whose title is AD Currie’s email address and phone number, imploring fans to call:

Please contact this moron immediately and tell him to cancel your TN fund donations and ticket orders effective immediately if he follows through

If this happens, John Currie is not only a failure as an athletic director, but even more than that he is a sorry excuse for a man...

A more football-centric complaint here:

Is the sad truth that

Tennessee is no longer a big program, if Shiano is hired? I believe last time coaches turned UT down and now, look at all the names out there... up n comers and big names... it appears again everyone has more interest in different schools and UT can't seem to pull any of them. Is this the way it is? UT settles because it's no longer attractive? People keep saying it is, but these coaches say otherwise...