#thread: homework help with babs

[arobinwithoutbatman]

@babs-gordon-girl-genius continued from [x]

Tim grinned and immediately dropped to the floor, legs crossed and handed his laptop up to Barbara. Floors are comfy, don't question it. "It's a college assignment, my high school work is way too easy. Just something to automatically organise this fake spreadsheet data here into a formal report." Nothing too complex.

[thebrownssociety]

what’s the sibling dynamic between buster and elmyra? since elmer and bugs are married in and the looney tunes cast adopted the tiny toons cast

Thanks for the ask! Sorry it's taken so long, I was trying to tie all the threads together.

So, I'm going to include Babs in this as well, as I headcanon Bugs and Elmer adopted Buster, Babs and Elmyra together.

So to understand this we've got to go back to after Tiny Toons had finished filming in early 1992. By that point the kids were all 5 years old and had basically formed a tight-knit group. They were also at the stage in there development when they were starting to expand a little bit beyond what their official characterisation was.

So, take Montanna Max, for example, although he was still hot-headed, obsessed with money and greedy [and those traits would never go away] he was now learning that his friends [and particularly the adults] weren't going to put up with his screaming at them all day and not sharing anything and that if he wanted to remain friends with them he was going to have to change his behaviour at least a little. The rest of the toons would accept what he was created as, but they wouldn't accept him using that as an excuse to act completely out of order.

Buster and Babs upon finishing filming were both enrolled in a two-year long course which was basically going to help them adjust to not being a protagonist anymore. It's a course that every protagonist of a TV show, or a film, does after the completion of there first show, and it basically helps them come to terms with the fact they are not the centre of the universe. The reason for this is because it's been accepted and realised that it's very hard for a toon who's had there entire show revolve around them to suddenly not have that anymore and be sent out into the world of Toons where most Toons don't care.

As a genreral rule in Toontown, unless you've achieved the fame levels of Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse, or are associated with them, no one really cares what film you were in. So Anna and Elsa are treated like goddesses in Toontown because, there film was really successful and they're seen as really good characters, contrast that with Princess Aurora [who's film was a box-office bomb at time of release, I believe] who is more respected and liked because she's royalty and she's really nice than because her film was successful.

In short, unless your film is massively successful at time of release, you're just another toon and the two-year course helps protagonists come to terms with that. There are positives as well, it's not all 'you're nothing now'. The toons work on their individual skills and how they may be transferred to other things. [Babs's impression are so good, for instance, that even if Tiny Toons never got rebooted, she'd still have a really good shot at becoming a Toon Impressionist, if she wanted to. Buster's flexibility and ability to 'read' other people means he'd potentially be good as a nurse/doctor/police officer or just a role that's with the public.]

While Buster and Babs were doing that Elmyra spent time with Bugs and Elmer and practiced her toon powers while benefiting from the individual attention being given by her dads. [Just a note, there is a two-year course for villains as well that was introduced in the 60's that helps them to...not be so villainous, but you have to meet a certain level of 'badness' like Maleficent OR Evil Queen to get in there and - obviously - Elmyra doesn't meet that requirement.]

So, back to the actual ask, Buster, Babs and Elmyra moved into Bugs and Elmer's 5-bedroom mansion shortly after filming ended. It was decided they would each have there own room, which they decorated to there own preferences [Elmyra's is very VERY pink]. So this relieved some tension, because Babs HATED the idea of sharing a room with Elmyra. [Elmyra, for her part, was happy about the idea and cried buckets when she was told it wouldn't be happening.]

At first Buster didn't really get on well with Elmyra at all. Over filming he'd kind of managed to build her up into the 'oh, help me, it's Elmyra' figure, and although he knew she was largely harmless, he still didn't like her. Her 'baby-act' and need to be constantly supervised also grated. This was the same for Babs.

Elmyra, at first, adored the idea of living with Babs and Buster and had visions of dressing them up all day in 'cutesey-wutesey outfits'. It may surprise you to know, that Buster and Babs did not WANT to be dressed up in outfits, cute or otherwise, and had no issue anvilling her to get the point across. This led to tears on Elmyra's part and frustration on Babs and Buster's.

This did eventually mellow out though, due to a couple of things, firstly - Bugs and Elmer's determination to teach Elmyra how to handle her new brother and sister properly [and vice versa for the bunny's]. Secondly - because Elmyra did have regular session with Doctor Scratchensniff every week during which they worked on 'how not to strangle animals when you hug them.' among other things and thirdly because Buster and Babs realised things where not all sunny for Elmyra.

That sounds really ominous, but what I may is that a few of you may have remembered that Elmyra actually had a family when she was on the show. A physical one, not just 'mentioned' parents like Buster. [Babs had a mother who was shown, but Babs's mother is a sufficiently flat characters, that if she doesn't have Babs in the house she assumes she's at school. It doesn't matter whether it's snowing, the middle of the school holidays or the middle of the night, as far as 'Mrs Bunny' is concerned, Babs is at school.]

It was decided after Tiny Toons ended that Elmyra should continue to see her 'designed' family [the family she was designed to have] at the weekends. Friday afternoon she walked home/would be dropped off by someone at her designed parents house and she would stay there until Sunday night until she was returned just after dinner. [So Elmyra would miss dinner with Bugs and co]

This worked for a little while until it got to when Elmyra was going into Grade 1 and Elmer realised she was always doing her homework when she got home. Her parents weren't helping her. In a rather tense conversation he asked Elmyra's designed parents if they would help her do her homework. They promptly replied that the homework was to difficult for 'there little baby' and she should be given something age-appropriate. It was during that discussion that Elmer discovered her 'parents' thought she was 4 years old.

Even by Toon standards, this was a warning flag and Elmer promptly excused himself and ran the conversation by Doctor Scratchensniff because the fact Elmyra's parents didn't seem to recognise the fact that A} her designed age was 12 and B} she was actually 6, not 4 - was concerning to say the least.

Now. Normally D.S. doesn't get involved with this kind of thing because otherwise he'd never do anything else, but as Elmyra was already a patient of his and he decided it wouldn't do Elmer/Bugs any good if they challenged Elmyra's parents themselves, he decided he better have a word with them herself.

He had his word. And they seemed to understand. Scratchy went back to Bugs and Elmer and told them they didn't have to worry, that Elmyra's parents understood her designed age was 12 and that she would get older and mature above that [hopefully]. Bugs and Elmer [particularly Elmer] were suspicious about this at first, but Elmyra came back from her parents having had her homework done and with tales of having done exciting things during the weekend. She was also - they noticed - being given age-appropriate things to play with and this lasted...until she moved up to middle school.

Elmyra moved up to middle school a year after Buster and Babs did, which meant they weren't in the same class. However they were in the same house and it became noticeable that Elmyra didn't seem very happy. Specifically she didn't seem very happy with the idea of going to her parents house at the weekend and was somehow even less happy when she came back.

Bugs and Elmer had noticed this and tried to ask her what was wrong, but she refused to tell them. Buster didn't really want to get involved - he felt it would open a long, emotional conversation he didn't really want to have - but when Elmyra came home one day in tears and he was the only one in the house it fell to him to deal with it.

Turns out Elmyra's parents did not like the fact she was in middle school. They thought the schoolwork she was doing was to advanced for her [it was perfectly acceptable work for her grade and she was doing well with it] and her mother in particular was concerned because Elmyra had started Noticing Boys. This did not fit with the notion they had that she was still a little girl who spoke in a babyish voice and called everything 'cuddly-wuddly' despite the fact that Elmyra herself was doing her best to drop the 'cuddly-wudddly's' [unfortunately she still had to keep the babyish voice] and asking that her parents maybe not buy her games and stuff that were clearly designed for a child under 10.

By this point all this had been going on for a few months. Buster - after calming Elmyra down and running the situation by Hampton - told there dads what was going on with Elmyra and they took matters out of his hands.

Doctor Scratchensniff paid another visit to Elmyra's parents with the intention of explaining to them, gently and tactfully, why they needed to change the way they were treating Elmyra because it was risking damaging her and no one has a clue what was actually said in that meeting, but the end shot was that Elmyra no longer saw her parents on the weekend. She could contact them again at 16 if she wanted to, but until then it was in her best interests to stay away from them.

You all may be wondering why I'm going into so much detail about Elmyra's circumstances, and that's because I feel it's necessary to understand the siblings dynamic. Buster, Babs and Elmyra - up until they were about 11 - only spent Mon-Thurs as a proper group. During that time they anvilled each other, teased each other and tried to actively avoid each other [or rather Buster and Babs tried to actively avoid Elmyra when she was at her most annoying] They also played games together, struggled through school-work together and dealt with there annoying parents together. They became a pretty effective sibling team.

Buster and Babs - despite being created to have a crush on each other - came to view each other as adopted siblings and remained close. They laughed together, joke together and messed with people together.

Babs and Elmyra go shopping together, they talk about stuff together - 'stuff' being the subjects of romances and Life in general that perhaps Buster wouldn't want to be a part off - they get on pretty well actually, mainly because they have a good few things in common and on Elmyra's sensible non-complete-moron days they can even have deep conversations about politics and the world in general as well as analysing TV shows and fangirling over there favourite characters.

Buster and Elmyra are a bit of an odd paring. On Elmyra's smart days the two of them can be quite devious and can throw adults for a loop easily. On her less smart days Buster just tries to stay out her way. The things with Buster and Elmyra is that he basically thought of her as an annoyance for the first 5 years off his life. When he was adopted by Bugs and Elmer and found himself now living with her he was essentially banned from insulting her to harshly. ["No anvilling at the dinner table, Buster!"] But part the issue was that Buster was jealous because Elmyra had another family she got too see and he didn't. He knew that Bugs and Elmer were his official family and it was great to be adopted by his mentor but he couldn't help a pang of envy every time Elmyra got in the car to go to her parents house.

And then the breakdown happened with Elmyra when she was 11 [Buster and Babs knew her parents had had a few problems with her before, but didn't know the exact details, To be fair not even Elmyra herself knew the exact details. Elmer had the conversation away from her and then the rest of it was kept away from her. The only thing she was told was that her parents would now be helping her with homework when she went to them at the weekend.] and Buster realised that Elmyra's home life was not a bed of roses and he made a conscious effort to not be so short with her and to be more patient in the way that Babs seems to be able to do effortlessly. [Babs's realised pretty quickly after they all started living together that Elmyra wasn't going to change and decided that rather than fight it she was just going to embrace it. She was hoping that Elmyra would go away after Babs played 'dress-up' with her, but it just made Elmyra like her more. After a couple of months - and a conversation with Bugs - Babs realised that Elmyra literally just wanted someone to spend time with and dress up. But it was more the spending time than the dressing up that Elmyra liked. They managed to work out a system where Babs would let Elmyra dress her up and do her ears, if Elmyra would give feedback on Babs's impressions and watch comedy tapes with her.]

Going back to Buster, it took a while and, while he and Elmyra are never going to be 'best friends', Buster eventually realised she wasn't that bad and started to enjoy spending time with her.

Elmyra, for her part, has made a conscious effort over the years to not hug her siblings [or any other cute, fluffy creatures for that matter] to tightly, dress them up against their will, or chase them round the earth till they just give up. She still hugs and does like going shopping [or 'grown-up dress up' as Babs calls it] and will chase them to give them a hug if she's having a particularly stupid day or thinks they look upset, but the main thing is that Elmyra is trying.

Very very trying.

[dc-x-readers]

Dreaming

I decided to do a preference with the Bat siblings. Hope y'all like it. Warning Kate’s is a little sexual.

They Dream About You While You Are Dating One Of Their Siblings

Dick Grayson:

"Y/N!" Dick shouted watching the ten year old run towards him. He loved how your hair flew behind you as you raced to give him a hug. Dick wrapped you in his arms tightly, squeezing your little body against his. When he pulled back to look into you eyes he was greeted with the most vibrant (eye color) he had ever seen. In that second he knew he would love you forever, he would protect you forever. "Hey," you whispered into Dick's ear. "What?" Dick whispered back with a smile on his lips. You are too cute for words. 

"I love you Dad." The whisper set his heart aflame. You saw him as a father figure, and he knew his entire life had been moving towards this point in life. If he could listen to you say that sentence on repeat for the rest of his life he would. But it was almost in that moment that Dick was jabbed in the chest with a finger. The finger did not belong to you, and there was no one else where the two of you stood. The jab of the finger came again and this time Dick recognized he was asleep, and the jabbing was the real world waking him up. Slowly his eyes opened and he was greeted by a fully clothes Robin looking as angry as he always does. "Grayson get up and spar with me." Damian said curtly before spinning around and leaving. Dick sat up feeling a warm flush flow to his cheeks. He dreamed that he had adopted Damian's new girlfriend?

Barbara Gordon

“Barbara!” A voice cooed, but Barabara just nuzzled her head into the blankets more. She didn’t want to be awake, especially when she was this warm and comfortable.

“Babs!” The voice called again, it was sweet and nice and Barbara just had to open her eyes for it.

You were above her, wearing one of her oversized sweatshirts nothing underneath. Your hair disheveled from sleep, you leaned over, a large smile gracing your face. All Barbara could think was god damn you’re beautiful. And you were all her’s.

“Morning.” Barbara said with a smile reaching up to kiss you gently on the lips. You leaned into the kiss as if it were the first and last one you would ever have, and Barbara smiled at your reaction. You are so emotionally vulnerable with her, and she loves it.

When the two of you finally pulled away you opened your mouth but instead of your sweet voice coming out of your lips it was Tim’s, “Babs, you need to go home.”

What? Barbara was confused, why were you speaking with Tim’s voice?

A shake to her shoulder was what finally woke Barbara up, and she noticed she was asleep in the bat cave her head on the computers trying to access anything that could help you. The memories of the night before, the real ones not the dream flooded her, you had been taken. Dick had been heart broken. Because you and Dick were together, not her and you.

Suddenly Barbara felt guilty for dreaming such things about you, because you could never be her’s. Kate Kane: 

An involuntary moan left your lips as your orgasm finally died, Kate smirked to herself proud she could make you moan in such a way. She climbed the bed so that she lay next to you. You were both sweaty and spent, but Kate loved the cute flush that dusted your face.

For a moment Kate thought that this is true love. She stopped herself, a voice inside her head told her not to get too close, keep her feelings locked away as she always did.

You seemed to sense Kate’s inner struggle and reached to intertwine your hand with hers. Your fingers slid across hers perfectly. “Kate Kane, I love you.” You whispered into Kate’s shoulder.

Kate smiled, and she squeezed your hand tighter.

Kate opened her mouth to reply to the sentiment, but a blaring alarm cut her off. Kate opened her eyes to find herself in the living room of Wayne manor, she had fallen asleep. You were next to her silencing your phone panically, “I’m so sorry Kate.” You sighed when noticing the red head awake.

Kate simply nodded at you, watching as you thread your hands through Barabra’s. She had missed her chance with you and you were Barbara's now.

She felt guilty for dreaming about, especially in such a sexual way.   Jason Todd:

 “Hey Jaybird!” You voice rang through the halls of your shared home. He ran to where you were, his heart beating fast, he was nervous, but he couldn’t really tell why. That is until he saw the two small children curled together, the older probably four, with his arms wrapped protectively around his younger sister of two.

“Look at them.” You sighed leaning back into Jason’s chest, he wrapped his arms around you middle. “They are so sweet together, they are perfect.”

Jason hummed his agreements, the children were perfect by any means. They were cute, sweet, and they were yours. They were a part of you, and Jason has long since discovered anything which is a part of you is also perfect. The two children sighed happily, and Jason squeezed you a little tighter.

“I wish this moment could last forever.” Jason whispered into you ear, the words sent a shiver down your spine which he felt.

“We do have forever together.” You said. But your words were wrong, as if he heard them before but in a far different context.

Jason woke with a start, his head pounding from the drinks he had downed last night. At your wedding. To Kate.

Jason felt dirty and guilty and angry with himself. You just married the love of your life, his sister for christ's sake, and here he was dreaming of starting a family with you. It was wrong, and Jason wished he could scrape the feelings from his mind forever. But every time he closed his eyes he saw those two sleeping children and Jason knew he would never get over you. Damian Wayne: 

“Dami we cooked dinner.” You soft voice floated through the rather cramped apartment. Damian put down his homework to go the kitchen where you sat with a plate set for yourself, him, and your husband who would walk through the door at any second. A few pets wandered underneath the table hoping for scraps of food.

Damian was about to start eating when the apartment door swung open and non other than Todd sauntered in. He immediately went over to you and kissed your forehead before gently giving Damian a nuggie.

“How was your day Dami?” You asked with a sweet voice, and Jason’s attention was fully on him as well.

“Well school was rather boring, until they asked me to dissect a frog. I refused. I can’t mutilate the poor creature.” Damian huffed.

“Of course you couldn’t.” Jason rolled his eyes, but all of his joking attention was focused on Damian, and the ten year old felt warm inside. Was this what it was like to have a real family? People who cared about him?

Damian slowly awoke in his small cot in the Himalayan mountains. He had left his family a month ago to train, only now to realise how much he missed all of them. For some reason he missed you and Jason the most, he would wonder how the two of you were, if you decided to get married yet. Damian hoped one day, his dream of being apart of a family would come true, but until then, he remains in the Himalayan mountains, growing stronger each day.