#also court of owls

[ghost-bxrd]

me, taking a short nap:

Brain: what if you sketched some TimBer art with Bernard hiding a Court of Owls mask—

Me, waking up in cold sweat: … god FUCKING DAMMIT

#timber #Tim drake #Bernard Dowd #out of the many ships I’ve read TimBer is currently a new obsession #*sigh* #also court of owls #my forever beloved #obsessively collecting comics with panels featuring them #and their owl mask #I am SO dressing up as a classy court of owls member for Halloween #Robin #ghost talks

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 249

Danny tilts his head. The masked figure across the roof tilts their head back, a gold similar to Tucker’s eyes shimmering, though he knew it wasn’t him. He lets out a curious chirp, inaudible to the living, and the masked figure stills, as silent as a corpse for several moments before letting out two clicks. 

A greeting in turn. 

Danny smiles, letting green bleed into his eyes and scurrying over with a croon from his core. I’m here, I’m here, their own core clatters like metal against bone as his responds with the drone of a blackhole. I see you, I see you. I’m HereHereHere. 

Yet another twitters in turn, clicking echoing across the city from shadow to shadow until it’s as though the city itself has a heartbeat. Click-click. Click-click. Click-click. I’m here, I’m here, not alone, I’m Here. 

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Court of Owls #Talons #Eternally 14 Danny #Danny only speaks in ghost-speak #But so do most talons so he’s fine #Ah yes Danny and his flock of talon-friends #As far as the talons are concerned he’s also a talon #Technically in comics some talons Can talk but those are usually the older ones #like the ones who have been talons for centuries #Honestly misunderstandings can happen if Danny looks like any hero #Is Danny even from the DC universe? Good question #Is he ghost king? No #Is he still very powerful? Yes #Has his ghost form perhaps bled over into human form and vice versa? Perhaps it has #Are several court of owls people wondering if someone made some sort of new talon? #Yeah probably

[hypewinter]

He didn't know how far he had wandered. He had just kept running and running, for once glad of his newfound body's constitution. But now he was finally tired and he doubted his pursuers were close by (if they were even looking for him anymore). So for now, he found an abandoned warehouse, bundled up under a tarp, and rested.

----

Wally had been scouting the area for the enemy when he found the boy. He'd noticed a particularly weird shaped clump in the corner and when he removed the tarp, he found a body. At first he thought the body was dead since he had no pulse and was cold to the touch. But then the boy suddenly sat up causing Wally to have to back up (he did not yelp from the sudden movement thank you very much).

The boy backed up towards the warehouse wall and pulled his knees to his chest as he studied Wally. For his part, Wally studies the boy back. He was clad in a black suit with golden accents and more knives that Wally was comfortable with. His golden avian eyes seemed to bore into the young hero. They seemed to size Wally up as opposed to being full of fear. Additionally, despite being huddled away in hiding the boy displayed no signs of fear. Overall it felt less like he was cowering away and more like he was silently judging him. Wally really didn't like how it felt like this kid would slit his throat if given the chance.

As the two continued their staring contest, Wally felt a gust of wind and Barry was suddenly by his side. "Kid Flash, what's up? You weren't answering your co-" Barry trailed off as he noticed the boy.

He side glanced at Wally but the sidekick only shrugged back. Barry stepped forward. The boy tensed, muscles suddenly tight and body ready to spring. Barry quickly put his hands up.

"We don't want to hurt you," He said. "Quite the opposite actually. We're heroes, we can help."

The body blinked long and slow at him, before finally his body seemed to uncoil. He gracefully got to his feet and neared the pair, circling around them once before stopping in front of them with a soft smile.

Wally returned it with a smile of his own. "So uh- why are you here? Is someone chasing you or something? Wait, what's your name first?"

The boy's face crumpled into something sad before he pulled down the collar of his suit to reveal a scar running across his throat. Oh. Both heroes side glanced each other at the same time, a silent communication shared between them. The bats? The bats.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dcxdp #winter's tales #danny reincarnates as a talon and it doesn't take him long to go “eff this i'm out of here” #the bats are going to be shocked once they see him #an ordinary talon isn't supposed to be as expressive and free thinking as this one #are the court of owls up to something new? #this requires further investigation #oh! also i missed with the timeline a bit #shocker i know #this takes place during robin dick era but the two have encountered the court of owls a couple of times already #or maybe it will be more fun if this is their first introduction to the court of owls? #oh? i didn't think of that possiblity

[bet-on-me-13]

Ghost Cores are Dionesium

So! I while ago, I saw a Post about Danny and the Court of Owls, and one suggestion in the comments basically said, "What if Dionesium, the stuff they use to bring back the dead, is just Ghost Cores?"

And that got me thinking. Lazarus Pits are just Dionesium Infused Water, so how would they be created if Dionesium is a Ghosts Core? Well they way I see it, Lazarus Pits can only be formed in 2 Ways.

The first way is for a large number of Ghosts to be Ended at the same time, with their shattered Cores piling up and dissolving into Water.

The other way, if for an Ancient to Die. The Ancients are practically God's, and as such their Cores are immense in Power. When an Ancient dies, and their Core is left to dissolve in the Human Realm, it forms a Lazarus Pit in the exact same way it would take hundreds of normal Cores to do so.

Where am I going with this?

Well, isn't there a Giant Lazarus Pit under Gotham? The Batcave even has one, doesn't it?

The reason Gotham is so cursed isn't because Lady Gotham likes to collect Curses, or because her Ectoplasm is corrupted, it's because she isn't there to stop them anymore.

Lady Gotham is Dead.

Her Core sank deep into the Earth, forming a Lazarus Pit under the entire City, but thankfully far away from her People. She died, and only the fact that she is a Conceptual spirit saved a piece of her Consciousness. She represents a City, she can only fully be killed if the entire City is leveled. That doesn't mean she is still alive however, just that the barest sliver of her mind is hanging on by a Thread.

This is how Gotham possessed Batman that one time, it was her base instincts saving one of her precious children.

If you want her to be a little more cognizant, maybe she is just severely Injured? Her Core is cracked to the edge of shattering and she desperately needs help.

She she calls out to whoever could save her, and a certain Ghost Boy hears her cry for help?

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Lady Gotham #Lady Gotham is Dead #Dionesium is made of Ghost Cores #Ghost Cores are made of Dionesium #Lady Gotham died and her Core formed the Lazarus Pit under Gotham City #I wonder how the League's Pit was formed? Was it a Dead Ancient or a large number of Ended Ghosts? #Either way they died Mad #That's where Pit Madness came from #What would the Court of Owls do when they find out that there is an entire Species that is made of that Immortality Metal they want so much #Maybe a story for another Prompt? #Also #Lady Gotham had been like this for a while #But it's only gotten as bad as it is now recently #Everybody in the city can feel that something is off #They don't know why #But the older generations know that it's been getting worse for years now and it's finally reaching a head #Like the climax of a story decades in the making is about to unfold #But they have no idea what that means to them #Thoughts?

[71eh]

peonies for joy

#a court of fey and flowers #acofaf #delloso de la rue #acoff spoilers #dimension 20 #my art #art #mine #im not completely sold on their eyes yet but #if i think of smth ill just draw them different later #anyways i love their relationship w wuvvy… #im looking sooo hard #love a good one sided moment but also #rue has two hands <33 #edit: HELP I JUST REALIZED THEY ARENT A BARN OWL #THIS IS SO EMBARRASSINGGGGG #im not fixing this im just going to live in my mistakes

[bastart13]

Rue and Wuvvy deserve the world

#delloso de la rue #wuvvy #d20 #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers #art #every time i try to draw rue their owl eyes are too adorable #even when i add massive claws #also wuvvy in champion armour #is excellent

[qcomicsy]

Honestly I'm starting to hate big villains and events on cannon (yes I mean the court of owls) every shit that happens is because of this mf

#it's just that justifying every evil shit over a super secret society is so fucking uncreative #'oh why that happen?' 'oOooOoh it was *gedtures vagally* theeeewewew court of owls! it was all of them!' #'. . . yeah but why?' 'because they evil psh what more?' #also how many secret something gotham have they even have all that space for all that evil stuff??? #idk #q rambles

[oifaaa]

hello! if it's alright to ask and know, what are the anti-semitic ties that the court of owls has? i'm not informed about this and i need help being educated and informed

Ho boy am I definitely not the right person to answer this question considering I'm not Jewish but the good news is there's a post I can link by a Jewish person which does explain the anti semitic aspects of the court of owls which you can read here

#Ask #Anon #Hopefully that link works #I've been having trouble with links recently #But yeah I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I saw the anti semitism when I read the court of owls #Honestly I've said this before I kinda thought it was meant to be a critism of capitalism #With the big group of wealthy people profiting off gotham being shitty for decades and killing anyone who got in the way of their profit #And one good rich person can't cancel out the damage the other rich people are doing #But I'm also not Jewish #So I'm gonna default to actual Jewish people on this one #And the ones I've spoken to have all said court of owls story doesn't sit well with them bc it plays into anti semitism

[fahbev]

Reading comics b like:

Is it just me or did that not make any sense?

#And that’s a genuine question too #did I miss something? #is that gonna be explained later? #or was that actually just poorly written? #Like I’m currently reading #Red Robin #Omg WHAT is the connection between that little girl who turned into a spider zombie and the Council of Spiders? #And I can’t tell if that’s the mystery we’re gonna find out or if I totally missed it or what #And also in #Robin War #what the fuck was that ending #I’m still so confused #Duke gives Damian a little pep talk to remind him that he’s a hero #to get him to stop working with the Court of Owls #and it WORKS #but the reason he was working for them was bc he was being threatened and Gotham basically held hostage #ofc Duke didn’t know that #but the solution to the problem just didn’t solve the problem #but it worked anyway? #did I miss something or was that a copout?? #dc comics #comics #dc

[terrywho-cartoons]

🦉 The Court of Owls is the best modern Batman villain and I will die on this hill.

—

Just think about how much potential it has! The Owls are the Gotham elite, you know who else is the Gotham elite??? BRUCE.

Imagine a Court of Owls storyline where Bruce (not Batman) needs to step in to take them down. He needs to consider his own ties to the Owls, he might have sone friends that are part of it, he might have people he trusts be part of it. Bruce never fights as himself, he hides behind the cowl, but this time he would have a type of access that Batman could never get.

Just think of the stories we could get!!!

Imagine all of the ways the other Bats could fit in it!

Cass and Damian (and Jason) would look at the talons and be brought back to their time as assassins.

Tim could find himself in a similar position as Bruce, being a drake he risks finding people he knows within the owls. I MEAN, HE COULD FIND OUT HIS PARENTS WERE HOWLS!!

Jason and Steph, who grew up in Crime Alley, the type of kids that the Owls see as canon fodder would bring that anger with them in the fight. (It would also be interesting if the Owls took crime alley kids to train as Talons, making Jay and Steph think about how their lives might have been different if the hadn’t managed to get out of there).

Jason. Just, Jason dealing with everything the Owls represent…

#I mean come on DC let me work on this book #it could be a batfamily-wide storyline #i promise I’ll make it so awesome #also their design is so quietly scary I love it #court of owls #owls #Batman #Bruce Wayne #Jason Todd #red hood #Tim drake #Red Robin #robin #damian wayne #stephanie brown #cass cain #black bat #batgirl #babs gordon #dick grayson #batfam #batfamily #Gotham

[ghost-bxrd]

how would the coa react to jason?

I suspect you mean the Court of Owls for the Court Family AU? 👀

In that case, as vaguely referenced before, they wouldn’t take kindly to a “street rat” being adopted by their highest ranking member at first. The Court of Owls is comprised of old Gotham blood and money, neither of which Jason belongs to.

They’d tolerate him, sure. (They’d be fools not to with the Voice’s hard stare, and the Talon’s looming presence perpetually hanging over them all like a guillotine. ) But they sure as hell would let Jason feel that he’s not welcome amongst them.

At first.

Because between his adoptive father, a protective older brother, and… well, Jason hasn’t quite figured out exactly what Cobb is, but he’s preeetty sure him and Bruce got something going on. Anyway, Cobb’s got his back. Kind of. And sure he can’t exactly stop the Court members from being passive aggressive with him, but BOY does Jason give as good as he gets.

Subtle remarks about his “ragged” appearance are immediately met with a flat out “takes one to know one, sir”. And a “concerned” little “you shouldnt eat so quickly, you’ll get sick!” are met with a pleasant “sure, and you should skip the laxatives once a while, lady”.

Jason ain’t taking shit from anybody (Cobb considers asking Bruce to do a paternity test with the boy because—- Pot, kettle) and Bruce is getting gray hairs flitting about and soothing ruffled feathers.

But before long the Court members learn to appreciate Jason’s deadpan demeanor.

He’s rude and downright scandalous in contrast to their delicate sensibilities and upbringing, but he’s loyal to a fault and doesn’t lie. While it’s something the less trustworthy Court members will try to exploit (“Please,” Will purrs, inspecting the claws of his suit one by one, and Dick gets the distinct feeling of being locked onto by the gaze of a predator, “Let them try”) the others quickly come to appreciate his honesty and openness. It’s a downright novel thing for them.

So anyway, Jason becomes something like the “Heart” of the Court. If he’s happy, chances are good the Voice, Talon, and Gray Son are also in a good mood. If he’s not… well. Let’s just say they’re all invested in keeping Jason happy.

(Within a couple months Jason manages to get the Court to finance several jobs with annual leave and health insurance reserved for inhabitants of Crime Alley, along with affordable housing and no-cost rehabilitation centers for drug addiction.

Bruce is very proud of this achievement.

Cobb is reluctantly impressed.

Dick is cackling uncontrollably.

For someone who steadfastly refuses to use manipulation tactics the kid really knows how to be a pain in the ass and bother everyone long enough until they cave.)

#jason becomes the Heart of the Court #a dear nickname the Court members come up with #because they’re aware jason is genuinely trying to help people #and yes they indulge him more often than not #it’s not like they don’t realize they’re not getting much in return #but look when the kid is happy the Talon and the Voice and the Gray Son are happy #which brings up the likelihood of survival by a solid seventy percent #so…. #also the kid is adorable #which certainly helps #jason todd #court family #batfamily #dick grayson #batfam #robin #bruce wayne #batman #William Cobb #batdad #court of owls

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 123

Talon is… confused. Though talons can not feel confusion, according to the Court talons don’t feel anything. Perhaps what it is feeling is not confusion then, but for a lack of a better term it supposes it shall refer to it as that. 

There is… another Talon? A strange Talon, far smaller than any talon it has seen before, and with eyes not yellow either. They were more… green! Yes, that was the color! A bright gleaming green not like any other talon’s golden or yellow eyes hidden beneath goggles. 

Sometimes the Court would bring Talons down to the white rooms though, it knows. For injections or to be cut into, depending on if they were working correctly like good talons should. But sometimes the Court would bring hatchling-talons down to… make better? Make better as the Masters said. 

Hm… so this was another Talon! A hatchling-Talon? A baby-Talon! Only the best talons got to have hatchlings and fledglings follow them, though this hatchling looked too small to climb. Not that it mattered, if the Court has sent and given it a Hatchling then it must be doing a good job at watching the Bats. Now it must simply keep an eye on both the Bats and its Hatchling. 

It shall put the Hatchling in its hood, where the Cold cannot reach it and Talon doesn’t have to worry about Hatchling not keeping up. Not that talons can feel worry. According to the Court, talons don’t feel anything after all. 

Danny on the other hand, isn’t pleased with how emerging from his core early has resulted in him being some sort of toddler. Which A, isn’t fair, and B, is humiliating! Not to mention there was this really strange person who… oh wait that’s ghost-speak. Heavily accented but definitely ghost-speak, with the proper emotion sharing before said emotions are squashed down and everything. 

Huh. They don’t feel like a ghost either, they kind of feel similar to him, albeit… sort of not? Muffled? Ugh, it’s hard to tell with this tiny baby body! Curse you tiny baby body! 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #talons #court of owls #de aged danny #Talons are corrupted halfas #This Talon's job is to spy on the batclan/Gray-Son and that won't backfire at all #Hey at least Danny is getting plenty of ecto by eating the corrupted stuff from the not-ghost #Curse this tiny baby body for needing naps! #Also curse his tiny baby ghost instincts for Imprinting! #Talon shall teach Hatchling how to do the greeting clicks #Talon has also shown Hatchling to other passing Talons because Look it has been given a Hatchling :)

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

because the Lloyd poll is still running go vote on that if you haven't please here's Cole's second ref. he's a cryptid now

Name: Cole Hence-Brookstone

Alias: Talon

Powers: Geokinesis, clairvoyance, enhanced healing and durability, enhanced senses

Age: 15

Backstory: While being trained by Yang, Cole gains some of his memories back and learns that he used to be a vigilante. He completes his training and goes back to Ninjago City, creating the identity Talon. The ninja notice the new vigilante running around and seek him out. They eventually become reluctant allies. Cole regains his memories at some point but keeps his identity secret out of fear. During one of Garmadon's attacks Cole is injured and brought to the Monastery, where his identity is revealed and a reunion occurs.

Additional notes: He was only dead for a few days before being brought back. After being resurrected, he gains the ability to see and interact with spirits. Yang was unaware of Cole's past and his connections to the ninja until Cole told him. He comes back during the time between Aspheera's release and after the oni invasion.

His first ref and backstory here

#I thought of the name Talon because the Court of Owls uses undead assassins called Talons #and he's kinda undead so. #also it sounds cool #I think for the most part I'll refer to him as Blackbird but it will depend #ninjago x dc au #ninjago #lego ninjago #dc #cole brookstone #cole hence #cole ninjago #ninjago cole #character design #ninjago au #ninjago art

[batgeance]

the future (very future very far) potential for the absolute angst and resentment for a reevesverse d.ick grayson and j.ason todd to have with broose could be so powerful but also i’d be so leery about it too

#i think if anyone possibly could do it in an interesting & unique way to fit this universe of course it’d be reeves #do i think broose is at all prepared to be a mentor/father figure? absolutely not but that’s why it actually makes some sense #because broose fails dick and jason so many times LMAO #even in court of owls you can feel that underlying resentment building #and i think dick and jason would also represent a big portion of gotham for this broose too #in that half of gotham actually doesn’t even want the batman because what is he even DOING #what HELP is he really even doing?????? and again. another set of perspectives to slap broose silly is always fun to me #on the flip side i’m also very……….(heaved breath followed by a burp) about a batman/robin dynamic in reevesverse #i don’t know if i really want to see it here…….KSBDBDDNJD #also idk if i can trust reeves to cast dick properly because no one ever does and it’s a wash if he fails that #sigh. anyway. thinking thoughts. as usual

[eternally--mortal]

I think it’s unbelievably funny that the head of the plant coven is Snapdragon-themed.

I know two things about snapdragons:

1) Greeks and Romans used them to ward off witchcraft

2) Women in the Victorian (?) era wore them in their hair as a message to men to ‘f*** off. I don’t want to be courted right now’

#the owl house #terra snapdragon #flowerography #toh #courting culture #I think it was the Victorian era #pretty sure #these writers tho #they really took a magical world #and went #‘you know what would be funny’ #‘a plant witch who’s schtik is an anti-magic flower’ #‘that also happens to be the single-lady’s anthem plant’ #‘you know what’ #‘we can’t just put snapdragons IN her hair’ #‘that’s not enough’ #‘let’s just make it her whole head’ #I’m catching up on owl house #can you tell? #if only Disney would make the last five episodes accessible #I can’t with this company

[mistergreatbones]

yes death in the family is sad but it's also really funny that they were like "willis is just a down on his luck man trying to provide for his family :'( he just made a few bad choices because of his economic standing but he's not a bad guy D:" but also he's friends with an assassin and a woman who exmeraminted on teenage girls.

like one evil gf i believe he could be in the dark about but two? interesting coincesdence there billyboy

#leo says shit #willis todd #death in the family #tw human experimentation #i think making willis abusive was a stupid retcon because there was so much poteintal there #i think he should be a career henchgoon for various different villians #like that'd be so much more interesting and also explain jason's deal so much better #dick's the prophetized prodigal son of the court of owls #cass is the daughter of batman's mentors #babs' his greatest ally and steph one of his villians #Tim's family's probably from a fortune 500 that knew bruce #and damian's a prince and duke is a literal demigod #like when is it jay's turn for destiny to have placed him on this path?