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babysitting your work friend's kid and he asks to look at your patchwork quilt of a skull. wyd. inspired by Super Sons #6!

#Clark nooo #Bruce is going to complain at you #dcu #dcu fanart #Batman #bruce wayne

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as much as i love the “dick is damian’s fav batman” narrative, the ‘justice league son of batman’ plotline offered unexplored potential for the sheer confusion that gotham must’ve gone through watching “batman” suddenly show up one day 3 inches shorter, bludhaven accent, trying to wrangle the feral little kid that was following him around fine a week ago

#this is funny as hell #also picture this: dick ten odd years ago being the same #feral #what goes around comes around #dick grayson #nightwing #batman #damian wayne #robin #dcu #dcu fanart #batfam

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mm how abt cass beating jason in a fight?

I really enjoyed this request! I would have liked to draw a small storyboard for this idea, but I only had enough energy for this sketch.

god i love them both

#batfam #dcu #dcu fanart #jason todd #cassandra cain #red hood #batgirl

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the safest place in the world is in Bruce's arms. any batkid who gets tugged up against him instantly relaxes. every cell in their body recognizes what it means. they're safe and Bruce has the watch.

#210lb of pure muscle and dad #and the 20lb Kevlar cape for a blanket #10/10 #batfam

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Hello :D

You mentioned in a post somewhere that Bruce and Minhkhoa could meet up over the years and talk about all kinds of things but mainly about the batkids and via shenanigans the batkids could watch all those times. That idea sounds SUPER interesting just so u know. Do you have any more ideas about that headcanon? Like, how Minhkhoa would react to Bruce telling him that Dick's left for college, Jason's died or that Gotham is in ruins?

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oh boy do I!

so background first, Bruce visits Minkhoa once a year in a neutral location (Minkhoa always picks a place just barely outside of Gotham to be an asshole) for the same reason he visits Harvey in jail and the same reason he continues to try to save Gotham, hope that Minkhoa has changed, hope that they can get along this time, hope that they can reach some kind of catharsis and compromise, and of course every year it never works. some years Minkhoa takes every opportunity to shove that fact in his face but some years he lets Bruce hope

the made-up scene in particular that started this and lives rent free in my head is that Bruce went to their meet up post Jason's death with the intent to figure out if he really wanted to die or not, because he knew if he did he wouldn't feel obligated to fight his way out of it like if he was fighting a criminal, and he knew if he really wanted to die Minkhoa would kill him no questions asked, so they fight and Bruce is getting his absolute ass beat because he realizes that maybe he is tired actually and he doesn't want to do this anymore and he's just about to give in when he gets a call on his phone and the ringtone is the silly little robin birdcall he and Dick had been arguing about for literal years because Bruce thinks it's too close to Dick's Robin identity and Dick thinks Bruce needs to lighten up a little and accept what makes him happy, and for a moment it's like both Dick and Jason are there and Bruce realizes, oh shit actually i do still want to live and has to shove Minkhoa off of him, afterwhich he has the worst breakdown over Jason's death that he will ever have on Minkhoa's shoulder and Minkhoa just quietly held him for hours as he let it out (Bruce never tells anyone about this and so when the kids are thrust into this memory... no ones takes it well would be a vast understatement, especially on Dick's end)

less tragically Bruce uses Minkhoa to gauge how badly he's fucked up, he'll talk about his actions as Batman and Minkhoa will ruthlessly criticize him and then when Bruce asks him what he would do Minkhoa goes on a utterly unhinged rant about usurping the local gangs and executing people and installing puppet leaders and Bruce nods, like, yeah ok so i definitely did the right thing then because it wasn't whatever the fuck you have going on

their kindest moments are when Bruce is talking about his family, something he doesn't do often because he doesn't want to give Minkhoa any ammunition against them and because it can inspire a derisive jealousy in Minkhoa that both of them politely refuse to acknowledge, Minkhoa did laugh in Bruce's face when he told him Dick dropped out of college and told him it was karma

#SCREAMS #I love this #tw suicide attempt #dcu #dcu meta #batfam #bruce wayne #batman #minkhoa khan #prev: #is it severely fucked up to get your friend to kill you because you can't bring yourself to do it? absolutely #would Minkhoa vastly prefer having to kill him rather than hear about it on the news? ABSOLUTELY #both of them are freaks like that #to both of them it's asking for mercy vs being a coward #personally Bruce would have preferred dying at Clark's hands but obviously Clark wouldn't agree to it and he'd feel bad traumatizing the gu #meeting Minkhoa being like a wave throwing itself on broken glass over and over again trying to dull the edges #but flesh doesn't part the way water does so he just bleeds and bleeds and bleeds #i am only a little crazy about these two #Dick has to live with the fact that if he hadn't decided to call his father up one day he wouldn't have a father #if Bruce thought Dick was clingy before he has no clue what to call what comes after this #Jason has to live with the fact that Bruce grieved him to the point of personal implosion #that the grief Jason wanted was there he just couldn't see it because it wasn't the kind he wanted #but it was there by god it was there #and he can't deny it now #honestly Tim is just feeling validated because no one but Alfred believed him when he said Bruce was killing himself

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i'm seeing the tower of babel stuff again and you know what, every time i see a plotline about Batman having contingency plans for other people and them getting mad about it i genuinely think the only point where he really went wrong was (and this is where he always goes wrong let's be real) not telling anybody

beyond the fact that it would be so much easier to take down rogue superheroes using other superheroes, letting magic users take down magic users and speedsters taking down speedsters, (something he already does! he will and has called in Zatanna and Constantine for magic bs before there's a precedent for him relying on others if he has too) he has several legitimate reasons for wanting containment measures i.e. mind control: magic edition, and mind control: pheromone/drugs edition, and mind control: tech implant edition, and the classic evil alternate universe doppelganger/clone

he has every reason and motive in the book to slap the other heroes with and if he'd just had one goddamned discussion about it beforehand this wouldn't be a problem

#dcu #Batman has his items #and his mind #and his plans #he needs all of them for the best chance of the best outcome #if he doesn't have a powerful weapon? he has his plans #if he hasn't got his plans? he has his mind #if none of them work someone is dead #(he or his children would be dead) #this is reminding me to write the fic where bruce is taken off guard by mind controlled superman #and is badly injured because it was out of the blue #dcu meta #batman #bruce wayne #batfam

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LMAO someone give Dick Grayson a medal for understanding that when Bruce stalks you and asks to take your blood, it's his way of showing he loves his kid.

#dcu #batfam #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batman #nightwing

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I would like to nominate "You promised" "I know" as one of the most heartbreaking exchanges in the english language

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by lundolens

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I put way too much effort into this ( based on this meme, it wouldn’t leave me alone until it was drawn — I am freee )

#dcu #dcu fanart #superbat #superman #clark kent #bruce wayne #batfam #jon kent #superboy #Batman #conner kent #tim drake #damian wayne

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Hey don't cry. Batman's cape gets longer to swaddle his adult kids

#dcu #bruce wayne #batman #batfam

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Time Travel AU: Timothy "Trash" Drake Edition

Tim, to save his family and the world, travels back to when he was a kid. Considering the super powerful shadow organizations that are trying to take over the world (and to prevent his family from becoming targets [or he doesn't trust them. Your pick]), he elects to take on a persona:

Timothy "Trash" Drake.

Instead of the kind, charming, intelligent kid he used to be, Tim methodically mucks up his reputation. He's an asshole, he's self-important, and he's like a typical Gotham Socialite but worse. By 16, he's practically a drunk idiot who's only passing school by the Drake name. He's like Brucie Wayne, but he's hated instead of being a loveable fool.

In the background, he's subtly saved people from their tragic events in the timeline. Drake industries has been booming (try as he might, he couldn't save his parents and became the CEO at 16 as an emancipated minor), and a lot of their funds goes towards better wages and benefits for their employees. Continually, they spend a lot on Gotham infrastructure and social programs. This doesn't match the CEO's arrogant, asshole, and greedy ways. Most assume he's just a figurehead anyway.

The important part to note is that the Waynes hate interacting with him and have a strong dislike for him. They don't know that his demeanor is a persona. Jason, in particular, hates his frivolous, wasteful guts.

Tim has been somewhat successful in mitigating the shadow organization's plans and stopping the world from ending. He's still got a few plans in the works, but he's overall satisfied by what he's accomplished.

Issues start to arise when the Waynes notice contradictions in Timothy Drake's behavior.

Timothy is an asshole who only cares about himself, so why did he give away his coat to someone in need? Sure, he complained that it was of poor quality and not to his standards, but he could've just thrown it away.

Someone else notices that he crashes into the champagne tower when someone was getting harassed at a gala. It was supposedly an accident, but the person was able to get away from the harassment.

Timothy also slapped a homophoic asshole when he kept going on and on about their prejudice. The kid played it off as him being mad at them for stealing his look, but are all of these incidents coincidences?

The final nail in the coffin? Cass goes to her first gala where Tim in in attendance (he has purposefully avoided anywhere she would be). She takes one glance at him, smiles, and then softly says, "Little Brother."

Safe to say everyone promptly looses their shit.

Anyways, I kind of want to see a Trash of the Count's Family AU with Tim Drake

#dcu fics #dcu #batfam #tim drake #red robin

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ok I know in the city showdown metropolis gets the reputation as the golden city vs gotham's "rent is $200 a month but it's fucking haunted and the joker blows up a school bus every other week". but consider for a minute how weird it is that metropolis citizens are so upbeat given the frequency with which gigantic intergalactic threats hit their city. like you can buy a gun and arguably have a chance against someone like the riddler in a 1v1 match. but if fucking mongul decided to end your life you'd be vaporized before you could even think. living in metropolis is like living in a bright but fragile glass house where, with alarming frequency, villains powerful enough to be an existential threat to humanity come down from outer space to crush it. and that's not even getting into the fact that even the "regular" criminals like mannheim are usually armed with literal alien weapons - like tf are you supposed to do against a mugger who has a plasma gun that looks like it's from the 31st century?? - or the fact that lex luthor's insidious influence puts advanced military grade weapons on the streets. and instead of being nihilistic, metropolitans are almost annoyingly unbothered by it, even to the point of optimism.

what i'm saying is, gotham's creepy, but in a way that is almost predictable - the gothic architecture and the unfriendly citizens and the street level, twisted criminals. metropolis SHOULD be in a state of terror, but it's sunny and everyone there is smiling. that dichotomy is arguably creepier to me.

#the bad area of metropolis is called WHAT #dcu #dcu meta

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Bruce doesn’t ever want to murder anyone. He’s against the idea of it for himself and others. This means that him beating his opponents close to death is actually a stress response. A healthy Batman who is reasonably unstressed will aim to injure and disable and not cause serious damage. In this essay I will-

#batman #dcu #bruce wayne #I said reasonably unstressed because this man is never unstressed

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Got inspired by the solar eclipse a while back but I forgot to post it anywhere. I meant to post this for Superman day but I also forgot to because I was drawing Superman yesterday too

#superman #clark kent #dcu fanart #dcu

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I'll tidy it up, I dont mind picking up after us - Clean by Noah Floersch

#timbern #tim drake #bernard dowd #red robin #dcu #dcu fanart