#damian is also having complicated feelings but he is REPRESSING those at the moment | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

alyakthedorklord · 8 months

Text

I’m having dramatic thoughts about Damian being born to Fem!Bruce ok I’m having THOUGHTS

(TW for alluding to Damian’s conception being nonconsensual)

Okay so set the stage of our Drama- Fem!Bruce (or just AFAB idc) is out on patrol or something and League Parent (Either Talia as in canon, or Ra’s if we’re feeling the creepy old man tonight) drops Damian off with “Hey, watch our son that you birthed and then I stole and let you think was dead for ten years, there’s some infighting in the league.”

(If we’re using Ra’s as dad then Talia is absolutely trying to kill Damian for the position of heir)

Bryce is, understandably, shocked. Her other children? Even more so. Because what do you mean you had a biological child? How did we not know about this?!

Damian isn’t old enough to be pre-robin unless he was cryogenically frozen. Did Bryce really hide a whole fucking pregnancy from them?

Dick is screaming, Jason shows up because he has to see this shit for himself, Bryce is standing in silence, staring at the results of every single test she can think of to confirm that yes, this is her son, this is her Damian, all the info matches up…

Tim tries to speak up, but Jason just turns on him, asking if he’s ready to be replaced too. Bryce didn’t even have to go looking this time!

Tim looks him dead in the eye and points out the birthdate(and death date) on file for Damian Wayne.

It’s exactly eight days before Jason was taken in.

How did Dick and Jason not know about this?

Because they weren’t there.

In the short period of time when Dick was striking out on his own, and before Bryce picked up Jason, League Baby Daddy of your choosing shows up and takes advantage. A simple greeting, a spiked drink, a blurry night, and a pregnancy test later…

Bruce is, as always, in any universe, is terrible at communication. But honestly she can be excused in this case. How exactly do you tell your wayward son ward that, after chasing him off because he was “being reckless” and “putting himself in danger,” you’ve gone and gotten taken advantage of, trusted someone that you had absolutely ZERO business trusting, and now you’re pregnant with an Al Ghul baby? And you’ve decided to keep it? That this isn’t you replacing him or demanding he return, because you understand his need for space, but also you desperately want him back with you because you’re scared but you can never admit it?

How do you do that in a text? Because Dick is not answering the phone.

You don’t. Thats a conversation you have face to face. So the messages Bryce leaves are all “there are some changes and i’d like to talk to you” “there may be a new member of the family soon” “please answer me chum”

Dick doesn’t answer.

Meanwhile, Gotham crime is being weird because “hey robins gone! Dynamic duo is out!” And Bryce is being careful because of her belly and sometimes she has to take breaks and hormones are bullying her and nothing is going her way right now.

And them she goes into labor too soon.

And something goes wrong (League Baby Daddy happens) and she’s told her baby is dead, and now she’s lost two children.

She recovers, and goes back out onto the streets, taking her rage and pain out on the criminals that got a little too bold with her in a hospital bed…

And then there’s a street rat jacking the tires off the Batmobile.

The fucking audacity. The guts. The challenge in his bright blue eyes, the sneer on his lips, the shaggy black hair. Skin just a bit darker than hers, not quite an Al Ghul’s deep olive but somewhere in the middle.

Is this what her Damian would have looked like? Is this what her son would have grown up to be?

Maybe its the hormones, maybe she’s projecting. She knows its a bad idea, but Bryce takes the kid home. Alfred gives her a knowing and slightly disapproving look, but accepts the new child with open arms, because there’s worse things. Jason fits in easily, and soon enough, Batman has a Robin again, and Bryce is smiling again, and begins to heal from the pain of losing Damian.

But Dick? Dick is PISSED.

Upon seeing news of a new Robin/Wayne, he finally looks though his messages, and comes to the wrong conclusion that Bryce was looking for a kid to replace him this whole time. She might have tried to get his input, but had eventually made a decision like this without him. And so he’s back, and he’s angry, and Bryce gets defensive because Jason is a good kid and she can’t use her dead baby to win an argument, not when the wound is so fresh.

So life continues. Jason dies, comes back, is angry because he listened in on a few arguments and now ALSO thinks Bryce actively hunted him down to be Robin, and now she’s done the same with Tim.

Bryce keeps quiet, because how is she supposed to explain after all these years? Jason is right to be angry. She let her emotions get the better of her and dragged a sweet boy into her life. The loss of all three if her children was her own fault, because she put him into the line of fire. There’s no excuse for that.

So years pass. Tempers settle somewhat, Bryce holds her grief close to her chest because she can’t do that to her children, but… then Damian is back. And it all explodes.

The story comes out in bits and pieces. Tim figures out a timeline based on the rest of the info in the file, and Bryce and Alfred slowly fill it in.

And like- they’re all still angry, and it is justified, because what the fuck, Bryce. But also…

Dick is horrified. He had been so angry, so so angry, reading those messages that he now knows, with this new information, were a cry for help. Bryce had been desperate and scared and wanted nothing more than to just talk to him after their fight, and when he had come back after something like this had happened he had immediately started another fight.

Jason isn’t sure how to feel. He hadn’t been taken in to be a replacement soldier, he had been taken in to be a replacement son. What is he supposed to do with that? Knowing that Bryce had seen him at his worst, and taken him in and shoved down her grief to help him?

Tim is wondering if every time Bryce backed away with an unreadable expression, it hadn’t been keeping herself emotionally distant, it was grief for the sons she had lost.

Steph is realizing that Bruce wasn’t lying, when Steph had to give her own baby up and Bryce had hugged her and said “I understand.”

Damian is sitting in a corner wondering what the ever-loving FUCK is going on. Why is everyone crying this is pathetic. Father take him home he prefers the threat of imminent death.

449 notes · View notes

oh-mother-of-darkness · 7 years

Text

asks (15)

@princessnightwing said: Pardon ME. But why in ANY DIMENSION would you mention that thing about POOR BABY DICK AND THE GUITAR STRINGS SNAPPING???? DID YOU WANT TO BREAK MY HEART??? My gosh. I'm just gonna go sit in and corner and weep for a bit. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY. 😡

[reference]

You know I really, truly am actually

If I’m gonna suffer I’m taking all a y'all down with me ;)

[reference]

Anonymous said: Your mobile links aren't working 😭

Well shoot they’re working for me. Anybody else having problems?

Anonymous said: "See, he had to think about it." I'M DEAD those dialogue drabbles are amazing I love them!

Fun fact that particular bit of dialogue is based on something that happens at my house a lot. See my family has seven kids, and five of them have been extremely unplanned-- just me and my sister Erin were on purpose, and Erin is adopted. My mom got pregnant with her fourth child during Erin’s adoption process, so Jimmy was born right around the time that Erin arrived from China. Directly after that, we adopted Shannon who (long story) had just been abandoned (again) by her first set of adoptive parents. It was a spur of the moment thing with an expedited process. So Erin, Shannon, and Jimmy are all roughly the same age.

Five years after Jimmy was born, my mom got pregnant again at age forty. We had all assumed she wouldn’t have any more children, so it was a shock. Five years after Dave was born, my mom got pregnant again at age forty-five. That one was just... wild. There was a pretty strong chance that there would be complications with that pregnancy, so they straight up decided not to tell us.

They just... waited for us to figure it out. I don’t remember how far along she was before Erin asked, but trust me when I say that we haven’t trusted them since. Anytime they say they have something to tell us, the automatic response is “we have a new sibling???” We’ve been burned before

@thephilosophersapprentice said: Headcanon that it is now a Wayne family meme to blame the most ridiculous things on Dick. Someone gets their loose change stuck in the toaster? Dick did it. Firecrackers hidden in Arkham Asylum? It was Dick. Saran-wrapping everything in the Batcave? Random threats to national security that turn out to be Nyan Cat videos? Yup, absolutely Dick. Bonus points for when Dick is actually responsible and everyone else is furious because turns out, they've just given him plausible deniability.

Jason, gesturing with his gun at the bullet holes in the wall: Dick did it

@bruciewayneisbatman said: Congrats on law school!

Thank you! <3

Anonymous said: hey, duke's relatively new to the comic scene and im not that avid a reader but i find him pretty intriguing. do u mind scoping over his backstory (wiki isn't the clear) and/or personality?

[click click]

Anonymous said: they're all great but the you can't be batman if you don't impulse-adopt someone is my favourite (I love for angst and I'm itching to know how this ends) (also part of the reason I love angst is your fics and hc so thank you) (I'm not kidding I'm seriously thankful)

Anonymous said: my favorite one was about dick basically being damians dad!!

Anonymous said: I loved the ALL lol! but hey that was amazing and it made me laugh ( repressed so nobody thinks i'm crazy) my faves are the first two,the one about Dick being Damian's father and the last one!

@fairytalecritic said: For the favorite one of your fic fragments? Gotta be the one on impulse adopting. (But the one about Duke thinking there were two Jasons is also gold and a close runner-up (who am I kidding they are all gold but you made me choose :p ))

Anonymous said: My favourites are Duke not knowing Jason died and came back, and the bet between Jason and Damian

I think looking at these and the comments on the post, the one about Duke and Jason seems to be the favorite? I’ll add it to the list I guess

Anonymous said: Any headcanons for what kinds of music damian might like to listen to? I feel like he'd have some classical (strings for sure), but I also think he'd like some other genres but I can't really pin anything down, probably cause I don't listen to enough music myself. Thoughts?

[over here]

@frostbite883 said: DC Questions: Which version of Superboy Prime do you prefer? The heroic version from the past? Or the villainous version of the present?

Mmmmm don’t know that I got a strong opinion on that one but I guess the villain one

@mirrorfalls said: Urrr... what are the 5 worst Batman comics you've ever read in your life?

Oh let’s see off the top of my head

Teen Titans (2011) #0

The first two issues of Battle for the Cowl

Tentacle Jason??

Most of Seeley’s Gray/son

All of the amnesia arc

Idk I know I should be more specific about this but I’m generally bitter so

@shatteredxpetals said: just gotta say that was so adorable, absolutely cute fam, and is the only time I'll smile when hearing about someone's heart problems lol.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ eh it turns out there isn’t anything physically wrong with my heart anyway. The weirdass tachycardia is just anxiety kicking my ass

Still had to peel adhesive off my chest every night for a month :///

#for anyone confused the birth order is jack (23) me (21) erin (18) shannon (18) jimmy (17) dave (12) helen (6)#its a mess honestly #fam 2k17 #asks

21 notes · View notes