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Same here. The nonsense I would make like...*smh* the world wouldn't be ready

The day I learn how to draw it is OVER. It is so OVER if I ever learn how to draw and animate. OVER.

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YESSSSS

THIS IS SO GOOD

It was inevitable I’d use Lilo and Stitch audio with these two

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Research people. Research.

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...yeah. Just... yeah.

I know we as a fandom don’t talk enough about the Batkids acknowledging how old Bruce is getting, but something I think we talk about EVEN LESS is the Batkids acknowledging Dick getting older.

Like Dick is pushing 30 in canon at this point, and realistically cannot do the same things he was doing as a kid. There is a reason a lot of athletes retire young, and Dick’s life has been brutal on his body, so eventually it’ll catch up with him.

Imagine if you will some random new JL/Titans recruit meeting Nightwing and asking “Is it true you can do a quadruple somersault?”

And Dick has to wince and say “I used to, but not anymore.”

Imagine the Batkids hearing that? Imagine everyone who saw him grow up hearing Dick acknowledge he is getting older and can’t do the same things he did in his youth. Imagine how they feel about their own age. Imagine the grief Dick must feel at knowing he’s losing the gifts his parents bestowed upon him, and the fact he’s out-aged them both.

Imagine Bruce painfully acknowledge (in his head because it’s illegal for him to emote aloud) that not only is he getting older, but his first child, his SON, is now the same age he was when Bruce took Dick in.

Imagine Dick picking the smaller option out on ice cream trips because his body can’t handle sugar the way it used to, or eating less in general because his metabolism has slowed down.

Imagine the Batkids sparring and Dick has to tap out because he can’t keep up with them all for as long anymore. Like he can’t keep still do a lot, and handle himself in a fight, but he is not showing off with flips the same way he used to.

Imagine the day one of the Batkids spots gray hair on Dick’s head, or realize that the lines on his face are just a little deeper than they used to be?

Babs keeps calling him the Boy Wonder as a private joke, but the boyish charm that Dick once had has since faded. He’s a grown man, and while at heart he still is the kid that brought light back to Gotham, his outside reflects the life they’ve lived and shared together, which didn’t just pass by in the blink of an eye.

And Jason pretends he doesn’t care, but realizes that Dick isn’t the same 16-year old kid that Bruce put on a pedestal. That he, out of all their siblings, saw Dick the most when he was in his prime, and that his older brother is just a little more fragile than he used to be.

And Tim thinks back to the days of him stalking Batman and Robin before, pulling out those old photos and realizing just how much Dick has aged. When did that happen, he wonders, and how much more will Dick change as he gets older?

Cass, Steph, and Duke acknowledge that Dick Grayson grew up, and left behind a legacy for them to fill, but they’ll always wonder what he was like when he was younger, and wonder how much longer he’ll be around. Bruce has been doing this vigilante schtick for 20+ years, but will Dick still be doing this when he’s Bruce’s age?

Damian takes it the hardest. He can’t look at Dick without thinking of him as the same Grayson who was his Batman, but the truth is, he’s not the same. His old portraits of Dick bear witness to that, with each one just a little different because time is not frozen to Dick the way it is with Ra’s and Talia. Damian privately grieves everyone he comes to care about in advance because death has surrounded him his whole life and eventually despite Dick’s promises that he’ll always be there for Damian, a day is coming when that promise will be broken.

But yeah. Older Dick Grayson. I have thoughts on this.

(Anyways don’t mind me. Just coming to terms with being the same age canonically as my childhood hero.)

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I love Damien actually having a hobby beyond PETS.

Damian doesn't like wearing hero merch (except nightwing), but he does collect every art supply he finds that has his family's logo on it. Those batman pencils you can find in every corner store? He has like 10. Nightwing themed ballpoint pen? He grabbed it the moment it came out. An off-brand Red Hood pen he saw in a second hand shop? It has red ink, and he corrects his friends homework with it. He even has a Red Robin eraser he found on etsy. Neon colored markers with Signals logo, a black brush set called 'Black Bat Brush Box', or a purple grafity can in the shade 'Spoiler'. It doesn't matter if it's official or not, he has it.

Just artkid Damian collecting his family's merch.

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au where there’s no huge dramatic reveal when Jason comes back. Instead he takes a more… unconventional approach.

It’s a rare sight, so many of the batclan together in the cave. Dick looks around at his mishmash family, trying to ignore the ache in his chest and the glaring hole missing from the picture before him.

Simultaneously, somewhere in a shitty apartment block in Crime Alley, Jason Todd logs on to the family streaming services and starts watching shit again.

Bruce gets emails about the new devices logging in, but he assumes one of the kids got a new phone or something. He looks up from his computer but nobody in the room is (visibly at least) on a device. He sighs and logs into Netflix, wanting to check if anyone has changed anything.

He pauses.

Jason. His profile name has changed. ‘Robin II :)’ has become ‘Batman’s Greatest Failure’ and-

He turns to his team, his children, his most trusted allies, furious. He clears his throat, turns the screen around, and… well… all hell breaks loose. To put it mildly. Accusations are flying, voices raise, things are quickly escalating past a point of control.

And then Dick gets an email from Letterboxd.

‘Jaybird has left a review for the first time in a while! Check it out?’

He feels his heart race as he clicks the link. It’s a review of a documentary.

‘The life and death of Jason Todd’

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

“Movie was shit. Inaccurate. Jason Todd sucked and the guy who played him made him too soft. Also they couldn’t have given the guy contacts? Brown eyes? Are you fucking serious?

Also he hated poetry, everyone knows he was into classic lit and long form novels.”

It’s so bizarre and so clearly his brother that he laughs.

The sound brings the cacophony of bats to a halt, all turning to stare at Dick.

“Did you do this?” Bruce Batman asks, his voice cold. Dick takes a moment to breathe. Getting into another screaming match with his father won’t solve anything. Not right now anyway. There’s time for that later.

“‘No. It’s him, he’s alive, B.” Dick hands over his phone.

Bruce stands frozen for what feels like an eternity.

Everyone’s eyes are on him, on Dick’s phone clutched in his shaking hands.

“Oracle-” He starts, and it’s the most unsure the kids have ever heard him. “-can you trace this? Can you- he logged in from a new device. Can you find out where it is? Please?” Bruce finishes, never taking his eyes off the screen. Dick is pretty sure it’s already timed out.

“I’ve got a location, I sent it to your gps.” Babs responds, zeroed in on the Batcomputer.

“Do not follow me.” Bruce orders darkly, pulling on his cowl and beelining for the Batmobile. Dick doesn’t even argue that Bruce is still clutching his phone.

He’s gone in a flash of smoke, only the echo of the engine and the smell of burning rubber remains.

Dick chances a glance at the rest of the vigilantes filling the cave.

“Well, it’s a very Jason thing to do.” The joke seems to break some kind of tension, and after a moment, laughter ripples through them.

It is a Jason thing to do.

They move in synch, gearing up and moving out.

After all, what’s the first thing you learn as Robin?

‘Nobody listens to Batman anyway.’

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We all are

I’m going insane

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Bruce is calm because he knew exactly how the boys would react. The bat needn't soil his relationship with yet another of his kids.

Loving the idea of the batbros being so overly protective of each other especially Tim. specifically when he starts dating and the idea of him having sex or god forbid KISSING someone comes up. (As if he hasn't gone through like half of the young justice team) They are less than okay with it all..

Tim: Bruce I want to invite kon over for dinner is that okay?

Bruce: that's fine but is there any particular reason you're asking me instead of him just showing up like usual?

Tim: be wants a more formal 'meet the parents' dinner.

Bruce: oh? So you're dating?

Tim: ya, for a couple months now.

Bruce: well that's great I'm happy fo-

Jason from across the cave: WHAT?!?!

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Later that night at dinner

Jason, and dick staring daggers at kon

Bruce, surprisingly the most calm about all of this: so, how did this relationship come about?

Kon: it kinda just happened I think. We both liked each other for a while

Tim: ya I don't think we realized until the spin the bottle game tho

Dick*MAJOR SPIT TAKE*

Jason: YOU DEFILED MY BROTHER??!?

Kon, sweating, crying, throwing up:

Damian with his phone out: theres kryptonite in the second cabinet Todd!!!

There is now a video circulating of Bruce Wayne's kids attacking Lex Luthor's son and it creates such a huge scandal that in order to calm things down Kon and Tim have to announce their relationship so the public doesn't think these billionaires'families are going to kill each other. They get labeled as the romeo and Juliette of gotham/metropolis

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Who would win, an old man in a track suit, or a blue rat?

The two speedsters blur across the finish line, tails and cyborg unanimously call the result as they whizz past. The flash is the winner.

The two speedsters eventually slow to a stop, dozens of kilometers away from their friends. Barry, old and tired, leans against a tree and tries to catch his breath. Sonic stands to the side, tapping his foot.

'You know… you remind me... of my great grandson,' Barry tells Sonic through breaths.

'Just how old are you?'

'Time traveling... child,' Barry manages to say.

'Oh cool, we have one of those too!'

'You're grandad?'

'No. Silvers from a future made of fire.'

'We got a few of those types back home' Barry sighs and stands, having regains some of his composure.

'So how do I remind you of your grandson?'

'Bart talks a lot, even for a speedster. Not to mention he won't take no for an answer on anything.'

'Heh, sounds like me,' Sonic admits. 'So, is he faster than you?'

'No,' Barry answers definitively. ' But wally is. I think you two would get along well.'

'Someone faster than me? Wow, I can’t even imagine that.'

Barry squints at his new blue friend. 'I beat you just now.'

Sonic smiles at Barry. 'Which one of us is catching their breath?

Barry pauses. ‘You little rat.’

‘Hedgehog. Now get moving old man or we’ll never catch up with the others.’ Sonic speeds off toward the finish line. Barry is left alone with his thoughts for a moment.

'I really am getting too old for this,' he says before racing after the hedgehog.

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Shadow. He gets it. Listen to the 50+ year old man in a bar costume.

Trauma dumping buddies

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OML THIS IS PERFECT

This crossover is going to be so silly, hope it captures even a fraction of this energy.

The idea of a Sonic and DC crossover comic is so silly to me. I love it lol

Reminds me of all those old cameos back in 90’s and 2000’s cartoons. Back when Ben Tennyson showing up in Generator Rex blew my mind.

Anyways. It’s fun to get to draw super cartoony and semi realistic at the same time!

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life has been so so hard I deserve to go blow sixty bucks on comic books without the consequences of an empty bank account to be happy again

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Stupid Batman shadow the hedgehog crossover I made

‘This is where I watched Maria die,’ Shadow said solemnly, his hand pressed against the glass tube, a single bullet hole in its center.

Bruce takes in the silence of the space station, the ruin, the decay. He could tell great work had been done here, and that a great injustice had befallen it. The black and red hedgehog walked the halls with a familiarity, as though he’d imagined every crack and scratch a thousand times. Even the destruction was not a surprise to Shadow. 

Bruce knew. He knew the same way he predicted how each year the pelting of rail would slowly erode the brick walls. How the garbage of every street would drift down the curb and pile up within that narrow corridor. How dozens of unfortunate souls would flock to crime alley for refuge, knowing not a soul would harm them, lest they feel the wrath of the batman.

Bruce reached out to place a hand on Shadows shoulder. He decided against it and move to trace the cracks against the tube.

‘I lost someone once too,’ Bruce said.

‘Who were they to you?’

‘Everything. They gave me everything I could have ever wanted. More than that, they taught me to be kind. They were the best this world had.’

‘Who took them?’

‘A desperate man with a gun. They never found him.’

‘But you did.’. Bruce paused. He was, if briefly, caught off guard. The quilled animal was more observant than he’d initially thought.

‘Yes,’ Bruce replied.

‘What did you do to him?’

‘...nothing.’

‘Nothing,’ the hedgehog spat, rounding on the bat. ‘How could you do nothing? How could you let the man who took them from you go unpunished?’

‘Because he punished himself,’ Bruce answered in a level tone. He took a moment to center himself. ‘He grew old. He continued in his ways but the guilt festered. It rotted inside him like a cancer until he couldn’t take it anymore. He left that life behind and tried to be a better man. He tried, but the cancer caught up with him. He left it too late to change. He died knowing he could have done better. He could never have atoned. But he wanted to. He tried to. In the end.  I can’t think of a worse punishment than trying and not knowing it wasn't enough. But for him, those last years, they had to be enough, and he made them count.’

‘I don’t care if he tried. Weren’t you angry? Weren’t you filled with such rage that you needed somewhere to direct it? Why would you not simply take the chance to let all of it out?’

‘Because it’s not what they would have wanted.’

The quilled crusader stepped back, stunned into silence before asking ‘Then what did you do?’

‘I took my rage, my pain, my burden, and I made it into something better. I built something for them to be proud of, a network to ensure no one would have to face the same loss again, a symbol to warn those who would inflict harm that vengeance would fall upon them in the night. I dedicated my life to an ideal and I’m still fighting for it.’

Shadow scoffed, wandering over to one of the windows overlooking the earth. Bruce sighed, knelt down, and analyzed the room for clues. The black arms bio-signature wouldn’t be hard to find given the-

‘What you built,’ Shadow suddenly began, ‘was it… worth it?’

Bruce considered it. He thought of all the late nights, the lost years, the broken bones, the loved ones lost. Of Alfred. Of all the worlds he’d seen where the vow was never made. Of how happy he could have been.

Then he remembered every life saved. Every crime thwarted by fear. Every hero inspired to do their part. He thought of Dick, of Barbara, of Jason, of Tim, of Stephanie, of Cassandra, of Damian, of Duke, of all the people who followed in his footsteps or carved out their own path with his symbol and without it.

With all of this swirling in his mind he could only think of one answer.

‘It has to be.’

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SONIC X DC RELEASES TODAY LETS GOOOOOOO

now is as good a time as any to oust myself. Prepare for multi fandom posting

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The Joker:

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I think everyone kinda knows he's there and are just happy he's in the same room. But like, Jayjay, my boy, you don't have to sit alone.

Love the art btw

Batfamily reunion, kinda ?

Not my idea: https://x.com/tocartss/status/1897135638438404416?s=46&t=zkCvxQnVoZvDMu4v7483qg