#they dated as robin and batgirl btw

[were-wolverine]

dickbabs are the kind of best friends that dated when they were kids before realizing they work WAY better as friends and evolving into a sibling-like relationship where they cringe and fake-gag whenever someone brings up the fact that they dated

tim: hey remember when you two dated-

dick & babs: 🤢

babs, glaring: we dont speak of that dark time, timothy.

dick, in tears: how could you bring that up baby bird? i trusted you 💔

babs: see, look what you did. you monster.

tim: jeez okay, sorry. you guys are so dramatic.

dick & babs: *high-five as he walks away*

[millyhelp]

I begin with talking about Artemis

Honestly, I don't really like by Jason is a chick magnet almost anytime and anywhere. Personally, I don't like a character who had harem trope.

"Honestly? It was like kissing my brother. If I had one," Isn't that siblings zoned? Σ(゜゜)

What are the writer trying to do, why would Artemis said that? It's not clear what they're and they're already split up?

Okay, my point!! I want to add my perspectives about the reader characteristics. I have my tropes for Jason x the Reader

This is also related to your previous post, I think the reader would actually much scarier? A scary person since they're mysterious, people doesn't know she is relying on brain. The power comes from knowledge, it doesn't have to be physical appearances or dangerous title! The reader avoid this, to make things easier by someone underestimate them! That's the tactics, to keep things low and 'just a decent person'

My Batgirl reader x Robin Jay trope

My reader x ak! Jay trope

Both shared deep traumas, but the reader help him to recover. The reader and Jay healed together, is not healed but at least they got to trust each others.

Things won't go smooth with him, I think he reacts to his trauma in explosive way. The reader are so patient with him.

The reader is actually the one who's the protector in their relationship

MANNNN I THINK THE SAME ABOUT THE READER!!!

For me, the reader could be a civilian with no powers or she could be someone with silent but fatal and frightening powers. (my oc is a scarlet witch btw)

That thing about artemis is so fk weird... I mean, Their whole relationship is like that. But, I'm not going to judge anyone who likes Jaytermis... but for me it's a no

Jason doesn't need some super to date. He's a normal person with a normal job, like, a girl he met at the bookstore (@jaysgirlx reference). That to me would make him complete. Jason doesn't need much, he just needs love, a simple and deep love. Not a super woman who acts tough or a super hot flight attendant. Give him someone cute and normal DC... Just once.

Another relationship that doesn't work is he and Barbara. Reading the three jokers was torture, seeing Jason like that because of barbara...

[bowlofworms]

Btw Bruce’s parents died when he was 8 and he later spent 12 years solo traveling the world (so he had to be at least 18) before returning home to Gotham to become Batman Dick was at least 18 when Jason was 11 and Jason was 15 when he died and he came back to life six months later and Tim was about six, when he saw Dick’s parents fall to their deaths, when Dick was 9 and Tim saw Robin!Dick doing a quadruple backflip and Tim was 14 when he debuted as Robin, a total of 2 years after Jason died and Cass ran away when she was 8 and was homeless for nine years before becoming Batgirl and Cass is older than Jason and Steph became spoiler at 15 and also became pregnant at 15 with a baby she carried to term and dated Tim who she is 11 months older than and Steph died when she was 16 as Robin and Steph was Robin when Tim stopped being Robin before returning and Duke met Batman as a child and became Signal when he was 17 and Babs became batgirl when she was 16 and was 19 in the killing joke and Babs and Dick have dated

So what I’m saying is you’re under arrest.

[fenrir-wolf-of-gotham]

K your understanding of Cass and Steph is bad enough that I need to correct it. No disrespect btw. Fandom Cass is a completely different character and mostly racist caricature of her actual character.

Cassandra Cain was introduced in the No Man’s Land arc of Detective Comics. She saved Papa Gordon’s life and got the job of Batgirl despite being completely nonverbal and not understanding English at all.

Her father is David Cain. An assassin who wanted her to be an assassin. She was never taught any language while growing up and instead learned to read body language so perfectly she knows exactly what you’re about to do before you do it. She shares this ability with her mother, Lady Shiva, who hates her. She ran away after killing a single person and that’s when we catch up with her.

She got adopted by Bruce and later got shafted by DC higher ups so badly she wasn’t even canon in the New 52. She’s recently regained a lot of success.

She’s been Batgirl, Black Bat, and Orphan. She is not Spoiler.

Do not trust anything Tumblr says about her. They get a lot wrong.

Cass recently fought Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman’s protege or whatever is named Cassie Sandsmark (not sure on the spelling there). That’s who you’re confusing her with. Cass only goes by Cass. Never Cassie.

Stephanie Brown started as a love interest for Tim Drake. She is a normal girl who took up vigilantism to “spoil” her dad’s -Cluemaster- crimes by telling people what he was planning and disrupting them.

She was Robin for a short bit but Bruce fired her after she didn’t listen to him and I’m told that whole arc reeked of the writers really hating Steph.

Steph was then Batgirl for a while but has recently returned to the mantle of Spoiler.

She dated Tim but they broke up.

They have both since come out as Bi.

Her and Cass are great friends and Barbara is like a mother to them both.

What I've learnt about the Batfamily from Tumblr

I know nothing about Batman - I have never read a comic, I have never watched a Batman series or cartoon or movie with him in it (except from that one scene at the end of wonder woman). This is what I have learnt about the members of the Batfamily entirely from tumblr and other social media.

1. Bruce Wayne

Bruce Wayne is Batman, and his superpower is being richer than God.

He lives in a mansion in Gotham, which is basically a city entirely made up of psychos

He cannot stop adopting children

Like I'm pretty sure he sees a child on their own with a vaguely traumatic backstory and has to adopt them.

Probably carries adoption papers in his utility belt for that very purpose

I'm not entirely sure how many children he has but that's okay because I don't think he knows either.

When he's in the mask his voice is really deep and he keeps saying "I'm Batman"

When he's not he acts like a complete idiot but probably tips a waitress by paying for their collage tuition

His parents are dead and this is very important - in a world of orphans, he is THE orphan

2. Dick Grayson

Bruce Wayne's oldest adopted son

He was in the circus as an acrobat until his parents died in front of him

I think they were murdered

He was the original Robin

Then he got bored or something and moved to somewhere called bludhaven which honestly sounds Norwegian, and renamed himself Nightwing.

Has extreme big brother energy

3. Jason Todd

Robin #2 because apparently there's a second one

I think he met Bruce after stealing the tires off Batman's car (the batmobile?) and then hitting him with a tire iron which is such a power move, especially for some random kid

He died but it's ok because he fell in a pit and got better

He renamed himself red hood and became a mass murderer for a bit

I think it was just a phase?

He was trained in the way of murder by someone called Talia. He either slept with her or was adopted by her.

I hope it's the second one because I know Bruce slept with her

Likes guns

4. Tim Drake

I think he stalked batman until he found out he was Bruce Wayne

In other words this random kid did what no megalomaniac with a grudge against the furry that routinely beats them up could

But then I think he was Bruce's neighbour pre-adoption so maybe he just noticed batman flying out from under the mansion each night, which says something problematic about his secret identity

He became robin too like how many robins does one city need?

Jason refers to him as 'replacement' which seems cold given 1. He himself was a replacement and 2. tim got replaced as well

I think he's Red Robin now, so clearly not too interested in change.

5. Damien Wayne

Bruce's biological son with the aforementioned assassin/murder trainer Talia.

Was in something called the League of Assassins but left to find his father, which given the name is the League of Assassins sounds like a smart life choice

Talia may have sent Damien to Bruce so she didn't have to deal with a teenager, but it also sounds like he left after an argument with his grandfather and League head-honcho Ra's so not sure whats going on there

Also Robin but I think at this point someone is taking the piss - possibly Batman

Feral Child(tm)

Likes swords

6. Cassandra (Cassie/Cass) Cain?

Maybe her surname is cain? Or maybe it's not?

I'm really confused because I'm pretty sure there is both a Cass and a Cassie in the Child-soldier Justice League and I think one of them is a bat-family member and one of them has something to do with Wonder Woman and they may or may not be the same person

Was an assassin involved in the same organisation as Jason and Damien

Is this where Bruce Wayne is finding his kids?

Was a Robin too (yay for feminism, boo for originality? Get some other names for your feral murder children Bruce)

Now called Spoiler and likes purple

May have at one point been batgirl?

7. Duke ???

Honestly I have no idea, I've just seen his name a couple of times

He was probably Robin at some point - they all appear to have been Robin at some point

I think he likes the colour yellow

8. Stephanie Brown

Another person that I have only vaguely seen the name of

She might have dated one of the batkids, Tim maybe?

May or may not be a batkid herself

May be batgirl, or maybe that was Cassandra, or maybe both. There have been so many robins nothing would surprise me

9. Barbara (Babs) Gordon

Daughter of a police commissioner

hacker

Her father may or may not be aware of her extracurriculars, but Commissioner Gordon has a massive flashlight for summoning batman when he needs help with a case so I don't think he has any room to talk

Goes by Oracle

Not a proper batkid but I doubt that stops her being on the family Christmas card

May have at one point been a Batgirl?

But at this point I'm just guessing everyone was batgirl

Maybe Duke was batgirl!

May use a wheelchair but I'm not certain

10. Alfred Pennyworth

Indeterminate age, may be immortal

Bruce's bulter

Raised Bruce Wayne, but still calls him 'Master Bruce'

Also refers to the batkids as 'master xx'

May or may not be sarcasm

English, ex-army and all-round exceedingly polite badass

Correction, he's English, I can say with confidence it is sarcasm

That is all the people I can think of, sorry if I missed anyone

[bitimdrake]

Was Dick welcoming towards Cassandra and Steph when they first joined the family? I’ve heard conflicting things about that

Cassandra

For when Cass joins the batfamily, this one's a yes.

Dick and Cass meet in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knights #120, in the midst of No Man's Land. Dick's a little skeptical at first, but that's more because he's (rightfully) skeptical of Bruce's judgement. Bruce has spent months pushing everyone away, and now has finally called them all back only to abruptly drop "btw, I met this girl and she's part of the team now."

However, with Barbara stepping into vouch for Cassandra as well, Dick jumps on board pretty quick and welcomes her.

On the flip side, when Cass joins the Wayne family years later, the answer here is no. (Which is probably why you've heard conflicting information.)

This part comes with a huge caveat: it is built off bad plotlines and characterization. Cass had just gotten out of the evil!Cass arc--a rare case of DC editorial intentionally trying to destroy a character (as opposed to the common case of them doing it accidentally). A belated retcon declared she was brainwashed and not really evil, to salvage the situation.

In the wake of that, we have the Batgirl vol 2 mini, which is about Cass seeking redemption, and ends with Bruce offering to adopt her. And, presumably because the writers wanted an antagonistic force, Dick is...a huge asshole in this one.

I could try to justify this decision if I had too--they were never close to begin with, and Dick is skeptical that she's better now, and maybe he's overprotective of his current family especially after Cass nearly killed his beloved little brother Tim. But the way Dick is written in this mini is just so over-the-top aggro and distrustful of Cass it's hard to swallow.

Anyway, this thread gets continued in Batman and the Outsiders vol 2 #13-14, where imo the characterization is not quite as bad but still pretty bad. Dick eventually admits he wasn't totally comfortable with Cass's adoption, and the two make peace.

Stephanie

If we're talking about when Steph first became Spoiler, was briefly endorsed by Bruce as Spoiler, or became Robin, this one has no answer on account of Dick and Steph never interact. Literally they were in one scene together that entire time, and never spoke.

Dick's main exposure to Steph was through what Tim told him. He's a little skeptical about Tim dating this girl--especially when he mentions her pregnancy--but that's about it.

Dick and Steph finally interact for real years later when she becomes Batgirl, which marks her true acceptance into the batfamily, and uh. No, Dick is not welcoming.

Steph makes the inauspicious introduction of ignoring Oracle's instruction to stand down and accidentally freezing Damian in the middle of a fight in Batgirl vol 3 #5, and Dick goes to argue with Barbara that Steph shouldn't be Batgirl.

But unlike the Cass part above, this one actually makes sense!

Beyond Dick's overall stress level as a newbie Batman and Steph's poor introduction, Dick's second-hand impression of Steph up to this point is not good! She's the girl who accidentally started a gang war that got a bunch of people killed, faked her death and let Tim (and others, but Dick just cares about Tim here) be consumed by grief for over a year, and then accidentally started another gang war.

His impression is, of course, biased and one-sided. But it's also completely logical for him to distrust Steph and see her as a liability! I approve of this interpersonal tension.

Dick is still able to see and appreciate when Steph does well though, and she proves herself. By the end of the arc, he changes his mind.

[symeona]

This is me merging Earth 1&2, the 1966 tv series, New Earth and real time dates.

I just want to organize Batman's life in a timeline..

Bruce's parents die when he is 9. (1939)

He trains for at least seven years abroad and comes back to Gotham when he's 20. Which means he left Gotham when he was 13. That doesn't make sense to me so I always add 10 years= Bruce leaves when he's 23, comes back when he's 30.

He becomes Batman one year after he's back in Gotham. (31)

He meets Dick and lets him be Robin a year after that (32) At this point Dick is 12. (1940)

He meets Barbara when she's at least 18, working at the library. Dick in the series is said to be around 16 at that time. (1967)

Dick turns 18, starts wearing V-necks and leaves the batcave.

Bruce meets Jason (12) and kidnaps him. Dick acts too much like an ass so I assume only a few months had passed since he'd left. (1983)

Jason dies when he's 16. Oracle is at his funeral so the Killing Joke happened sometime during those 4 years. Which means Barbara was anywhere from 20 to 24 when it happened. (1988)

Tim becomes Robin, 13. It happens within a year of Jason's death. At this point Bruce is 42, Barbara is 24, Dick is 22. (1990)

Dick goes to Blüdhaven (1996)

When Tim and Steph are 14, Steph takes on the mantle of Robin for a short time. (1999)

Cass (14) shows up. On the same year (irl) Barbara (25) starts the Birds of Prey and takes Cass under her wing as the new Batgirl. (1999)

Superman punches spacetime, Jason is back (16). At this point Tim is also Robin so... we'll say he's 15 cause he still needs to be the younger brother. Sorry Tim. (2002)

OKAY LET'S TAKE A BREAK.....

Jason is soul-not-there for a while, then he isn't, then he trains with Talia and a bunch of other people for 3 years. Meaning Under the Red Hood happens when he's 19. At this point....... Fuck............... Math.......... Bruce is 43, Babs is 25, Dick is 23 and Tim, Steph and Cass are 18. (2004)

Meanwhile Dick's life reaches it's lowest point over in Blüdhaven.

Let's say two years later Damian (13) shows up. And so does Kate (37). At this point Bruce is 45, Babs is 27, Dick is 25, Jason is 21, Tim, Cass and Steph are 20. (2006)

Stephanie (20) becomes Batgirl on the same year the Birds of Prey disband. Cass becomes Black Bat. Meanwhile it's Tim's turn to reach his lowest point mentally and take on the mantle of Red Robin. (2009-2010)

One year later, Harper shows up and at this point Bruce is done pretending he doesn't have a problem and just takes her in. (2014)

Duke (16) shows up and Bruce melts immediately. Duke goes from Robin to daytime Batman in one second because he's worth it. (2014-2016)

That means currently we have Bruce at 46, Kate 38, Babs 28, Dick 26, Jason 22, the trio 21, Duke and Harper 16, Damian 14.

Anygay

That's my way of looking at it. I like to take into consideration the real life dates of comics cause otherwise it's too chaotic

This isn't me saying this is CANON btw. We've been thru this, but in DC there's no canon. That's the whole point of a multiverse I mean.... But it is the most comprehensive list for my brain

[aeligsido]

So I recently saw some posts about the new Batgirls title and how it’s possible that StephCass becomes canon in it. And I have some thoughts™️ about it, and StephCass in general. 

I’m going to start this by saying that yes, absolutely, I want representation. It’s super important, and I’m not mad that writers think about making it more canon (bc apparently it’s already canon in Future State, which, valid), and honestly, if there’s a wlw couple to make canon this one works very well. I’m also not here to destroy anyone's joy or anything, I just want to give my opinion about something that has been bothering me for a moment now. This ship, and the people who ship it, is very valid, and I totally understand why it’s popular and why people like it. 

That being said, this ship doesn’t spark joy for me. It’s a question of personal taste, I suppose, and there’s a few things that bother me that really have nothing to do with what I want to talk about today (not really, at least). 

It’s just that, as a Steph fan, I can’t help but feel like it’s a huge disservice to her character. She was created to be Tim’s love interest, then fridged when the writers realized she was becoming more popular than him, then brought back to life when they realized that people wanted her back. And sure, having her not being Tim’s love interest anymore and existing outside of it, choosing the person she will love herself, it’s amazing and totally something that should be done to get her further away from these origins. 

The problem for me is that Steph is still stuck having to be the love interest of one of the Batkids to exist -- both in fanon and in canon, apparently. With Tim and Cass for the most part, or sometimes Jason or even Damian -- and there’s no shame for anyone if you like these ships!! It’s totally valid, once again, and I’m not here to police what you should like or not. It just bothers me that Steph can only exist as a love interest, and no, the fact that she went from a boy to a girl is not really an improvement. Because at the end of the day, she’s still stuck as being nothing more than the girl who has to fall in love, and nothing more. 

And, again, as a Steph fan, it bothers me a whole lot. Like, for starters I can’t read a Steph-centric fic without it having TimSteph or StephCass, both ships that I don’t personally like, so it’s upsetting for me, but I also feel like it spits on the face of all the development she should go through. Steph is a strong young woman, who was raised in abuse, comes out from it, and chooses to be smiling and optimistic and to believe in a better future, even if she has to fight for it. She has her own personality and her own history, her own moral and her own belief, and it’s too often relegated to nothing so she can be the perfect girlfriend. 

Besides, Steph has proved herself a dozen times already. She shouldn’t have to be “the girlfriend” to be accepted into the Batfam. She shouldn’t have to be a love interest to be considered interesting and good enough for them. It’s forgetting, once again, everything she is, but also her other relationships. The fact that she’s Damian's big sister, and that she was the one who helped him being a kid. The fact that Dick did try to mentor her, as much as he could because back then he has his own very messy life, and then when he was Batman and she was Batgirl -- sure, he wasn’t okay for her to go out again at first, but you have to consider that his latest memories of her was probably her funerals and how yet again a kid died in his family colors, so, yeah. But he still accepted her and tried, and they could have an interesting relationship if anyone really tried to write them. She has an interesting relationship with Barbara as well, who was her mentor but who also was judgemental toward her at the beginning; with Bruce, whom relationship with her is extremely complicated, but I can’t help but feel like they would probably have been closer if Bruce hadn’t been lost in his grief and refusing to get his head out of his ass -- he did like Steph and recognize she was good, he was just too afraid to really do anything else than reject her; she has her relationship with Leslie, who sacrificed so much just for her; even in the new comics and the New52 that make me want to commit arson, Steph has a relationship with Duke, apparently friendly and/or sibling-like, and it should be explored more!!

But instead, once again, Steph is relegated to love interest. And it’s sad. It just makes me sad. She deserves so, so much more. 

AND, I’m absolutely not against Steph dating a girl. I’ve been hcing her as pansexual since I started in the DC fandom lmao. I just feel like Steph should have contact outside of the Batfam and Gotham. She should be a real part of Young Justice, or the Teen Titans. She should have friends outside of that one time with Kara (who has been used as “the super best friend” of almost every Batgirl, btw, so I don’t even feel like it’s special), have way more contacts, have way more people she could get to know and date and go out with and laugh and cry with and everything. 

Steph should be spreading her wings, but instead DC -- and, despite all, the fanon as well -- keeps her pinned to the ground. And it’s just very sad for me. 

(Steph wasn’t a Robin for nothing. You can debate a lot about why she was one, how she became one, but the point is the same -- she’s a Robin, and she’s meant to fly.)

(Tbh I also have a lot of things to say about how annoyed I am about Cass using the Orphan codename, how deaged they both are right now and how it destroys so much of their history, but that’s probably for another time lmao.)

So. Yeah. I’m not mad about DC plans -- or not -- to make StephCass canon, or whatever. I just don’t vibe with this ship, but again -- personal taste! I’m personally aware it’s only my opinion, but yeah, I just wanted to get it out. You’re all free to ship whatever you want, I’m not here to judge that!! 

And, again, as a huge Steph fan, it just makes me sad as a whole. She just deserves better than constantly being the love interest.

[celebritytgcaptions]

I Need To Talk About These Requests (8/18/21)

Just some more anonymous requests I need to respond to. If you’re request isn’t listed below I’m probably writing it or have already written it and put it in the queue for October.

First of all to the person who clarified that their request for a threeway sequel was NOT a sequel to the 3Way game but to a caption with Phoebe Waller Bridge, I saw that request and did write a throwback thursday caption sequel for October. I deleted your message after I wrote the caption though to keep my inbox clear.

Anonymous said:

I know the top 5 month is over, but can you tell me if you have top 5 prom captions?

Sorry anon, but if I answer yours then I’ll have to answer everyone’s and I’ll be answering top 5s forever. If you wanna send me a private message though we can maybe talk about it there.

Anonymous said:

Hey could you please make another sequel for the Birthday Gurl, married to the popular girl series and Galentine's day captions? those are my favorite's!

So I’m probably not going to do another Married to the Popular Girl caption because I’m actually really happy with how I ended that series. I MIGHT do another Birthday Gurl caption, I do have one more Taylor Swift/Sarah Hyland image, but I don’t have a story for it yet so I can’t promise anything. A Galentine’s Day sequel is easy though so you’ll definitely get that.

Anonymous said:

Can you do one of a college bully that gets punished by having to go as the lady date to the high school senior prom of his victims nerdy younger brother (18 if course) just the humiliation of having to relive senior prom as a girl is the thing I was thinking Hayley orrantia as the celeb but you do you

I might tweak some of these details but “Caption where college guy has to relive senior prom as Hayley Orrantia” will be a part of it.

Anonymous said:

In terms of halloween themed captions could you do Alicia silverstone as batgirl or uma therman as poison ivy as like a costume party thing maybe a tricked BF or a humiliation prank Idk whatever you can

So ironically (I think it’s irony?) I actually wrote a similar Halloween cap to this with the Bella Twins as Batman/Robin RIGHT BEFORE you sent this request. I think I’ll still do this but I don’t think it’ll be a Halloween cap. I’ll still try to get it out in October though.

Anonymous said:

Hi im the one that asked for geena davis from Beetlejuice sorry if the story was too much ig it was darker of a premise then i thought but even without the story i put could you still do a caption for geena I like her look from the movie and dont wanna waste it just do a different caption for it please

I can do one with Geena Davis from Beetlejuice, yes.

Anonymous said:

Could u please do a caption about Jenna Ortega from her in the movie "the babysitters killer queen" Where she plays Phoebe?

Jenna Ortega didn’t turn 18 until September 2020 and this movie was filmed in August 2019 so I can’t do this. BUT I do have a Jenna Ortega cap in the queue for October when she is an adult because someone else requested it. So you have that to look forward to.

Anonymous said:

Heyyoo!

I was wondering if you'd do any caps involving photos from the set of the new powerpuff series?

And also, is there another Chloe Bennet cap in the queue?

Thank you! You're amazing

There aren’t any good quality pics from the set so I haven’t been willing to write one. If the show gets picked up I’ll wait until then (although unfortunately Chloe Bennet isn’t involved anymore). In the meantime I did just write The Sissypuff Gurls which I think you’ll like! And I can get a Chloe Bennet cap in the queue. :)

Anonymous said:

If you know the show Bridgeton could you do a caption on that? No one in particular i just love the old high society looks the dresses the hairstyles if you know please and thanks

Sorry anon, but I didn’t watch Bridgerton. :/

Anonymous:

If you cant do the cheerleader outfit can you still do Torrie Wilson? Like her schoolgirl outfit? Also 2nd request if you dont mind also WWE woman can you do Layla in her Miami heat outfit if you know her please?

Now those I can do.

Anonymous said:

Last time I requested kerry washington from little man (btw thank you for that) but I have to ask where is that Gif you used of her in your answer from? And also could you do a caption with that? The one where shes laying down sunbathing  looking up at a man smiling with sunglasses and a bikini on

Ummm....(goes back at checks requests). Oh right, that GIF. I THINK it’s from “Scandal” but honestly I just used it because it’s a good Kerry Washington GIF. I can write a cap with it though, but you probably won’t see it until November at the earliest (all my GIF caps in October are Halloween themed).

Anonymous said:

Can you make one about a criminal lawyer that cant get his clients off of jail sentences so the criminal has him sissified as payback. SHE is still a lawyer and still doesnt win cases but shes found a new ways to "get her clients off" if you know what I mean

Actually this one makes me uncomfortable because of the glaring issues in the legal system the country has seen in the last year so sorry but I think I’m not going to do it.

[huilian]

with her sweetened breath

AO3 Characters: Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Stephanie Brown, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne

Summary: With the threat of an airborne drug, the Batfamily has to fight against the clock to contain it.Or, I found a plot hole in a previous fic and decided to write 5k of words to remedy that, but instead created much, much more plot holes.

A/N: In Flameo, Batman! I wrote about how Oracle can only narrow possible locations to 5, which means that the kidnappers are actually good, but then I didn't deliver on the fight scene. So I decided to write this, and ends up with 5k of the batfam actually being detectives. This is written almost in a S.W.A.T. like style, because my dad is obsessed with that show and so I watch it too.title from Hozier, Angel of Small Death and the Codein Scene. I thought it's fitting, since this fic is about drugs. (This is Chapter 1, btw.)

“Hey, Red, is it important? I’m kind of in the middle of a stakeout.” As he says that, Dick sees movement from inside the house. He really cannot keep talking to Tim, not if he wants to get as much information from this stakeout as possible. But Tim rarely calls in the middle of patrol, so Dick is assuming that this is important.

“Oh. Not really. I just want to give you a heads-up about B’s kidnapping a few weeks ago. Turns out there’s more to it than just the kidnapping.”

Dick curses under his breath. He knows that that rescue attempt was too easy for an organization that managed to fool Oracle. “Okay. Do you need me there? I can wrap this up in a few minutes if you need me.”

“Nah, I think between Hood, BB, Batgirl, me, Robin, and Batman, we pretty much got it covered. Just keeping you in the loop.” 

“Alright, Red.” If Tim says they can handle it, then they can handle it.  Besides, Dick has his own cases to work through. “Thanks for the info. Call if you need help?”

“You’re welcome, N. And sure, I’ll call if we need help.” 

“Nightwing! Get your ass here now!” 

“Hood? Is something wrong?” It’s been a few days after Tim calls about Bruce’s kidnapping, but since there were no other calls about that, Dick assumes that they are handling it.

“Oracle’ll brief you on the way, she’s currently tied up in something else. Just get your ass here now,” Jason practically shouts to the comm. 

“Is this about the kidnapping case?” Dick asks, just to be sure. 

“Just get your ass here, Dickwing! We need you here yesterday!”

“Shit, is it that serious?” Dick grabs the keys to his bike from the table. It’s lucky that he’s staying in today, working on connecting leads to the murder case on Young Street. If he’s out on patrol, it would take much longer to get to the bike.

“Oracle’ll give you the full briefing in a couple minutes. I’m also currently in the middle of something…” 

Two explosions, one after the other, come in from Jason’s end. It was loud enough to be heard over the comms.  

“Hood, are those gunshots?”

“Like I said, I’m currently in the middle of something. Just go to Gotham, we’ll meet you at the Cave.”

“Be careful, Hood.” 

“Yeah, yeah, see you there, ‘Wing.” 

“Yeah.” Tim shrugs. “Their original plan was to distract us, GCPD, and basically the entire city with Bruce Wayne’s kidnapping. We found broadcasting equipment in the warehouse B was held in. But we rescued B fast enough that they couldn’t really use his kidnapping as a distraction, so now they have to find a new distraction.”

“And their new distraction is to blow up the bridge? Haven’t we been through this before?” Dick remembers another case that he works with Tim that involves blowing up the bridge. He is not looking forward to repeating that. 

Tim grimaces. “You have to admit, blowing up the bridge is a pretty big distraction.” 

It is a big distraction. Not that Dick is going to admit that now. “How do we know this again? And how did we miss that they are part of a larger group?” Dick turns to Babs, who hasn’t stopped typing into the Batcomputer since he got here. 

“Since I am very rarely wrong, I found it suspicious that I found five hits to the possible location of B’s kidnapping, considering how easy you took them out.” That was Dick’s thought too, but he didn’t actually stick around long enough in Gotham after they ‘rescued’ Bruce that he got to say that to anyone. He could blame his abundance of cases in Blud, but he really should have said something. Thank god Babs also finds that odd. “I sent Steph to investigate the four ‘not-it’ warehouses. She found traces of this drug there. It’s a more potent version of fentanyl, almost up there with carfentanil. It has a similar composition to the bloodwork from an OD case a few months ago.”

“We thought it was just a guy experimenting with fentanyl and accidentally OD-ed himself, so we didn’t dig too much into it then,” Tim explains. 

“I’m guessing that is not the case here.”

“No.” Tim sighs. “That guy was actually part of the group that kidnapped Bruce. He either stole some for himself and misjudged the dosage, or he was the guinea pig for this drug. We have no time to investigate his death now, not with this new drug threatening to spill on the streets tonight.”

“Tonight? What are they planning?” Dick came to Gotham prepared for any situation, so this information that he is going to have to act sooner rather than later comes as a confirmation rather than information, really. He’s been preparing himself for it as soon as Jason called him. But still, it would have been nice to have been called for something that’s not as immediate as tonight once in a while. 

“They’re going to release this drug to the air. They have an airbender, which makes it so much easier for them,” Babs says. Airbender plus airborne drugs equals very bad news, especially with drugs as potent as carfentanil. It can cause hundreds of OD cases throughout the entire city. Is Gotham not already crazy enough for these people? “We think that they want to get the entire city hooked on this drug, then sell it to them at a very high price.” 

“Damn. Tonight, you say? Is there why it’s only the three of us here?” 

“Yeah. B’s with Cass and Damian coordinating with the GCPD on containment and evacuation.” Tim points to three dots, designated Batman, Robin, and Black Bat, on the GCPD building up on the map. 

“Smart. Cass and Damian may be the only ones capable of containing this kind of scenario.” 

“Steph and Jason are out on the docks, trying to scare some of the goons to giving up their boss’ location.” Tim points to another two dots. These two are actually moving pretty fast. Dick assumes that the two of them are chasing some goons. 

“Wait,” Dick frowns, “we still don’t know their location?” That can’t be good. 

“We figured out the locations of some of the caches they put to be released to the air, but we can’t guarantee that that’s all of them. And, considering the sizes of the warehouses that were used to store the drugs and the caches we’ve found, there’s still a significant amount of drugs missing. Those must be with the boss,” Babs says. 

“Which is why I’m here with Babs, trying to track them down. Also, it seemed that this drug is flammable, so I thought it’s prudent to stay out of the field.” 

Tim actually has remarkably good control over his fire and he can fight just fine without his bending, all of them could, but Dick currently does not have time to debate that. He files it in his mental note for a later date. “Okay, what do you need me to do?” 

Babs and Tim look at each other. “A third pair of eyes won’t hurt,” Tim says.

“Don’t you think it’s better for him to be out on the streets? Hood and Batgirl haven't checked in yet, they might be in trouble.” 

Right as Babs finished that sentence, the Cave’s speaker turns on. “Hood to the Cave, Hood to the Cave.” 

“Speak of the devil,” Babs says. 

 Dick presses the mike button on the cave, then says, “Come in, Hood.” 

“Oh, good, you’re here, ‘Wing. O, Red, we got several locations, but they’re all contradicting each other. I don’t know how useful this is going to be.” 

“Any additional data is going to be useful, Hood. Where is it?” Babs opens a new window on the Batcomputer, ready to type in and analyze everything Jason is going to say.  

“One said that he’s on Crime Alley, 31st Street. Another one said he’s camping near Arkham, just a few blocks from it. One said he’s on the grounds of Gotham U.” 

“Fuck him very much for that, by the way. Who tries to release drugs on university grounds? Haven’t college students suffered enough?” 

“Focus, Batgirl.” 

“Right. Some of them said he’s on Robinsville, but some also said he’s on the Bowery, King’s Street. For all it’s worth, all of them seemed very sure about their answers, and they’re all also confused about why their fellow henchmen are giving out different answers.” 

“How sure are they?” Tim asks. 

“Sure enough that the firebenders are willing to get iced,” Jason says grimly.

“Damn.” 

“Yep.”

“How come this guy is in five places at once?” Babs frowns at the screen. “Maybe these are just decoys?” 

“No, I don’t think so, Babs. For a firebender to be willing to get iced, they must be super sure of themselves. Even I don’t want to get iced.” Tim shivers. Dick knows for a fact that Steph has once iced Tim, so Tim is speaking from memory at that one. Dick has been iced before too, but the experience is totally different for a firebender, what with their source of power being the fire inside and all. “Oh, that reminds me. Hood, please tell me you didn’t actually ice them.” 

“Nah, Replacement.” Tim sighs in relief. “Blondie here did.” 

“What!” Tim exclaims. 

“Shut up, Hood! I can and will ice you too!” 

“Try it, Blondie. I’m a waterbender too, remember?” 

“Children, focus,” Babs says. “Let’s assume that this guy is in five places at once. How is he doing that? Meta powers? Spirit world connection? If he has a spirit world connection this case might just turn out to be worse than it already is.” 

“Wait,” Dick says, tracing the five places Babs has highlighted on the map. “What if he’s not in five places at once?”

“Are we not acting on the assumption that the henchmen are giving accurate information?” Babs looks at him. 

“It can be accurate without him being in five places at once, Babs. What if he’s just moving between these places so fast that when they check in to see where he is, they all get different answers?” 

“Huh. That is certainly more plausible. But the speed in which he must have moved suggests that…” 

“He’s an airbender. Only airbenders can move that fast. It tracks, though. We already know they have an airbender to release the drug. That airbender is just the boss.”

“If he’s the airbender, he can make sure that he inhaled none of the drugs himself. Oh!” Babs claps her hands. “That’s genius, Former Boy Wonder!” 

“Hey, I’m a former boy wonder too!” Jason cries out. 

“Same here!”

“I literally had the longest run as Robin, after N here,” Tim adds.  

Babs sighs. “You guys really are children, aren’t you? Someone not me please tell Batman about this. I’m going to run an analysis on airbenders outside the League who’s in Gotham right now. There shouldn’t be too many of them.” 

“Speaking of the League,” Dick turns to Tim, “are we sure it’s not them?” 

“I don’t think so, ‘Wing. This is not their MO.” 

“Yeah. Besides, neither Talia nor Ra’s have any interest in these kinds of drugs. I don’t think it’s them.” 

If both Tim and Jason, their current resident expert on the League, say that it’s not the League, then Dick is inclined to believe them. They have spent a considerable amount of time with the League to not pick up on their tendencies. “Okay. Let’s rule out the League for now. Any hits yet, Babs?”

“No. There are still quite a few airbenders around, even discounting the League, you know?” 

Dick nods. Even though most of the airbenders are present in the League, there are still several groups outside of the League who have their own airbenders. Not to mention the occasional airbenders who’re not affiliated with any of the groups but still managed to master their craft. 

Then, the Cave is bathed in red light, with alarms sounding from all the speakers in the Cave. 

Dick curses. “What’s that, Red?” 

“It’s Bruce’s alarm. Whoever he is, he’s making his move now.” 

“Alright, Hood, Batgirl, head over to B’s location now. I’m also moving out right now. Red, you coming?” 

“No, I’ll look into containment options other than airbending from here. I’m not risking a city wide fire.” 

Dick nods. He really needs to have that conversation with Tim about why he doesn’t want to go out to the field today, but that unfortunately has to wait. “Oracle, keep us posted. B’s in GCPD headquarters, yes?” 

“That’s what his last location is. His tracker is down.” 

“What about Robin’s? Or Black Bat’s?” Dick asks. 

“They’re still at GCPD.” 

“Okay. I’m heading to GCPD now. Hood, Batgirl?” 

“Already on our way, ‘Wing!” Steph says. 

“Good.” Dick mounts his bike and zooms out of the Cave door that either Tim or Babs must have opened for him. He tries to hail Bruce on the way to GCPD. “Nightwing to Batman, Nightwing to Batman, come in.” 

Silence. 

Dick tries again. “Nightwing to Batman, Nightwing to Batman, come in!” 

The same as before, silence. The fact that both Batman’s tracker and his comm are down is very concerning, especially at nights like this, when Bruce knows he has to communicate with the entire family. 

“Shit. Oracle, Batman’s not answering. When did his tracker go down?” 

“His tracker went down right before he pinged the Cave,” Babs says. “Try hailing Robin. I’ll hail Black Bat. Maybe they know where Batman went.” 

“‘Kay, O. Nightwing to Robin, Nightwing to Robin.” 

Static. At least it’s not silence, which meant that Robin still has his comms, he just can’t reach it to answer. That’s marginally better. Still not reassuring, though. 

“Oracle, I’m getting static from Robin’s com.” 

“I’m getting the same thing from Black Bat’s com. Maybe they are in the middle of containing the drugs? That would make them unable to answer the coms.” 

Dick wills his bike to go even faster, even as he’s already riding at breakneck speed. “Maybe, O. Let’s hope it’s not something worse.”

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[ladyloveandjustice]

Okay, I was looking through some batdad gifsets and I want to articulate something I’ve felt for a while but was kind of hesitant to say which is: why I could never really get into Batman Beyond and why when I say “I feel BTAS was a good adaptation distillation” I only mean the first part of the show, as I feel the show’s general overarching narrative went completely off the rails when they had Dick and Bruce fighting over Bruce randomly telling Babs all their secrets without including Dick.

I could never really get into Batman Beyond, because aside from not connecting all the characters, I could never get back the idea that its endgame was that Bruce literally drove away all of his children and had regressed tremendously as a character. Which is not even getting into the “oh btw Bruce dated his son’s ex who was much younger than him” bullshit, it’s just even on that premise alone? I don’t like that premise.

I realize I appear to be in disagreement with the majority of those who write Batman stories, but while Batman and the narrative that surrounds him has plenty of issues, what attracts me to the narrative is that, at its best, its kind of a story of healing and found family, at its best. It’s a story about a man who lost his family in a brutal way, and responded by finding others who’d gone through the same thing and building a new family with them. A man who responded to going through a great loss and trauma as a child by wanting to help children who were going through similar horrific loss and trauma. The best Batman stories are the ones focused on family, the ones that remember that Bruce really likes kids and connects to kids who’ve suffered in a unique way many other heroes don’t. That while he may be scary towards adult criminals, he acts a different way around children. That he reacted to finding a kid trying to steal the tires off his Batmobile by being both a) amused at the sheer moxy and b) concerned that this kid was desperate and unsupervised and continued being concerned and Not Mad even when the kid hit him with a crowbar and called him names and oh yeah he’ll end up adopting this kid.

So to me, Batman is a story about healing and finding family. It’s a rough and bumpy one, and I’m down for it to be full of Mistakes and Arguments, but I think having the end of Batman’s story being “he drove all those kids away for like, years, and they’ll never really recover” is...it’s not what I’m here for. I’m not saying it’s not a POSSIBLE end to the Batman story, but it’s not one I feel works, personally. Like yes, in BB, Bruce befriends Terry, Bruce reconciles-ish with Tim, but it’s incredibly hard for me to look at the Bruce in early seasons of BTAS- the one who told Dick that he understands the loss he’s feeling and the pain will never completely go away but it does get better,the one who told him he always has a home with him, the one who took in a random belligerent kiddie criminal and made him Robin- I can’t believe he’d every just fall out of touch and ditch his children in the first place. Not the same guy. (ESPECIALLY since the idea is “Tim was kidnapped, tortured, and deeply traumatized by the Joker and Bruce’s response to this happening was to...shut him out to the point Tim left and never wanted to talk to him again? LIKE SERIOUSLY? ARE YOU SHITTING ME WITH THIS? I mean characterization issues aside, Alfred would never let Bruce get away with that.)

And again. A lot of Batman fans don’t see the narrative like I do- Robin or Batgirl aren’t even IN most major live-action adaptations-they don’t see it as something about found family or healing, they see is at a tortured guy who will always end up alone and probably die tragically but he’s really violent and dark and cool, and that’s fine. That’s not a story I’m interested in, and it’s not that meaningful to me, but that’s fine. 

 “Bruce ends up alone” or “the family ultimately splinters for good” isn’t my jam. I want Bruce to struggle and fail as a parent and be called on his shit, but I don’t like the idea of “Bruce will always be broken and can never keep people around” because uh? fuck that? I don’t believe that? About anyone? I want to see Bruce develop, change and grow and for his kids to develop, change and grow along with him. I think Bruce is the most interesting when he’s around kids. They challenge them, have their own narratives and he bounces well off them.

Which I think is why I really liked Lego Batman and would unironically call it my fave Batman movie (alongside Mask of Phantasm)- it really GOT that. The characters were exaggerated them, but it really drove home the “Batman’s story is about healing and family” message SUPER HARD and it meant everything to actually see that in a mainstream Batman movie.

 I don’t think Bruce is gonna ever get over his trauma completely, trauma doesn’t work like that, but I want him to end up in a place where he looks around and realizes he has everything he needs, where he is content with the work he’s done, where he realizes that his ultimate triumph was not the villains he’s punched, but the kids he’s saved and the dirty cops he’s exposed and the public works he’s done for Gotham. Maybe crime is still bad, even as bad as ever, but he can retire (or die, if you wanna be edgy about it, idc) knowing thanks to his family, people will always be there to help.

[ursie]

What do you have in mind for a Babs story?

I would actually do an elseworlds one 💕

She’s Jim’s niece her parents died in a car crash

She’s acab causing a lot of strife within the house

She’s friends w Tim Fox, Luke, Dick, Betty, and Artemis (I like yj Artemis Sue me)

She is starting to catch on to Dick being Robin

She’s disabled after a gymnastics injury during a match

She gets depressed and her relationship with her friends suffer

She realizes they’re all hero’s-Batgirl, Batwing, Robin, ect and more importantly they need help

She’s a science/computer prodigy btw

So she hacks let’s say the riddlers machine during a attack and buys them time leaving her symbol behind

She starts being Oracle alone and starts anonymously helping heroes

Bats assigns Betty to find out who it is

Eventually after dick is injured he lets it slip what she’s doing and Betty confronts her

They start dating

As oracle she leaks a lot of the corruption in the force and as a token effort at cleaning the city up Jim is fired and he starts working at the newspaper writing scathing dossier after scathing dossier about the corruption he’s personally witnessed in the city

Their relationship starts to improve

She’s happy as Oracle

The end idk

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