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qcomicsy · 5 months

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Listen I like Tim and Steph but I don't go there, however.

Sometimes I remember that one monologue from the Diane of Bojack Horseman when her ex-husband got another girlfriend and think about Steph wondering how did she not have a mental breakdown regarding her and Tim breakup until today.

Because if Red Robin is still cannon and I was her I would have very much a mental breakdown eventually.

Monologue under the cut

"You accidentally see your soon-to-be-ex-husband kiss someone else. At first you think, oh, it's a fing. Whatever. They're drunk. It's a party. But then he puts his hand on the small of her back exactly the way he used to do to you. It means, "I got you." And when he did it to you, it made you feel safe. And you realize he will never do that to you again. And it breaks your heart again. After you thought your heart was so broken that it could never get any more broken. You thought it was safe. But it somehow finds a new way to break. Because even though you're the one who asked for this, now that you've got it you are completely adrift. With no compass, or map"

#like– just broke it off and didn't even explained to her the reason #they've dated for so long an in and out and got broken up and together again and then suddenly he breaks up with you for real and shows up #with a totally different boyfriend and then you realize. Yeah it's actually over. It's definitely over.#And he's happy and says to everybody how happy he is and how he finally found himself and you get wrapped up in his confusing past #confronting the fact that the person you dated years was someone who wasn't ready yet to be full himself with you now he even realized he #wasn't being his full self with you #and then theres his friends and his best friend–#I mean man.#I would very much #despite how much I liked the guy and am happy for him eventually have a real ugly cry about that #and before someone has any doubt no I'm not against timbern in fact I like timbern very much and am happy for Tim and absolutely love their #dynamic #but I think about steph sometimes #platonic timsteph #q rambles #q rants

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introspectivememories · 8 months

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high school timber is all about repression!!!

it's about bernard desperately trying to prove to himself and his parents that he's straight!! because his parents already don't like him and he cannot be gay. not now not ever!!!! so he puts up this front of a ladies man and he picks a girl he cant ever get together with and maybe he kisses like 3/4 of the female population at grieves and gains a reputation but hey! at least he's not gay! but he's so caught up in making sure his eyes don't to stick too long on tyrone's face or michael-from-biology's eyes or kabir-from-study-hall's thick thighs that even his attraction to women is under a filter. and it's not that he doesn't like women, he does! very much so!! but it's that he's soo caught on not being perceived as gay that he cant show his attraction to women the way he'd like to. it's all under this filter of what he thinks Real Men who are attracted to women act like so it's this brash, loud, crass, thing and it's not him at all. it's "ooh tim, ms. winters is soooo hot!" or "hey kayla, why don't you and i get to know each other a little better, if you know what i mean?" or "god her tits are soo big. she's so fucking hot!" and all this other shit when he really means, "tim, why the fuck does your stepmom have such a pretty smile?" or "kayla, you said you liked yugioh? i'd love to hear more about it!" or "god fuck, that girl has such pretty hands. i think if i held them i'd combust." but none of that is how a Real Man likes women so he shuts that shit down before it even has a chance to come up. it's fine, he's fine. so what if no one ever holds him like he holds those girls? it's fine. he'll take the manwhore label and the fuckboy title and he'll give out as many kisses as those girls want and if sometimes when he's kissing a girl he wonders what it'd be like to sit on kabir's thighs or if tyrone's lips really are as soft as they look, that's just the devil speaking. and if sometimes when he walks back into the cafeteria at lunch, lipstick still smudged on the corner of his mouth, after making out with a girl and his eyes skirt over tim's lithe body and he wonders what it'd be like to draw out the same sounds he's heard girls make when he kisses them, or what it'd be like to brush his thumb over tim's hands, or what it'd be like to hold tim or press a kiss to his shoulder, or a million and one other things, well that'll just have to be another one his secrets.

and it's about tim who's in a relationship with stephanie and his dad knows he's robin and he doesn't have time to figure out why his mouth goes dry when the light hits bernard's hair just right. he's too busy trying to figure out a way back to his nightlife. and so what if bernard has pretty pink lips that look very plush? so what if he's looked at some of his teammates and thought they were handsome? he's not blind!!! he has a girlfriend! and he loves her! and so what if his hand brushes bear's during fourth-period bio? so what if the tingles last all day? it was just some static! and it doesn't matter that when bear laughs his eyes get squinty and they water over -- cause bear always laughs so hard he almost cries -- and it sounds like bells. and it doesn't even matter, that sometimes when bernard walks back into the lunchroom, 10 minutes before the bell rings, lipstick smeared across the corner of his mouth, lips tilted up in the most charming smirk he's ever seen, that his chest fills with jealousy. it doesn't matter that his hands clench into fists so hard that his nails leave crescents marks all day. it doesn't matter that he wants to be bear's flavor of the day, week, month, whatever. he wants to leave the lipstick marks!! he wants to know if bear really is as good as he hears the girls speak about!!! he wants to know "that thing bernard does with his tongue!" is! he wants to drape himself over bear the same way he sees those girls do! he wants to know what bear's hands feel like gripping his waist. he wants, wants, wants!!! but it doesn't matter. it doesn't. he's got a girlfriend, her name is stephanie, she's gorgeous and, most importantly he loves her. he's too busy for bernard anyway.

#oh my god #what is this #but in all honesty #hs!timber really is all about the repression #they both have so much going in their lives at that moment that they do Not have time to explore bisexuality #bear falls first (into bisexuality) & tim falls harder (into bisexuality)#meaning bear attends a few gsa meetings/reads a few pamphlets/comes out to a few friends and slowly settles into being bi #meanwhile tim wakes up one night in a cold sweat stumbles to the bathroom and thinks to himself 'oh my god i like dick too'#and this isn't to say that tim was cheating on steph emotionally! it's just sometimes he looks at bear and.... wonders #bear on the other hand.... that man was halfway in love with tim during hs and i truly believe that #darla gets a text one night from tim and all it says is 'did you notice that bear put on pink lipgloss today?'#and darla immediately texts back 'is this why you wont go out with me?'#and tim instantly realizes how gay that initial text sounded #anyway tim seething over bear's new girl of the week while bear is doing everything he can to not read into tim's arm around his shoulder #also #demisexual!tim truthers rise!!!!!#anyway #dc #bernard dowd #tim drake #timber #timbern

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covertblizzard · 1 month

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jaykyle au where they're theatre kids in the same school but they're not the actors jason's the scriptwriter/director and kyle is the prop manager (i don't know the official terms sorry) and they'd probably do an amazing job on the backstage setting if they could stop arguing for 5 whole seconds about their artistic visions and ideas and how "this would obviously work better this way"

#jason todd #kyle rayner #jaykyle #mypost #dc thoughts #vp of the club: maybe we should find some other people to do the job if they can't get along?#pres of the club: no they're both talented af and i want this to be raving success just knock their heads tgt and tell them to play nice or #i'll make them wear the get along shirt again #WAIT ONE SEC DONNA'S THE PRES and overseer she's pissed bcos kyle played the same role last year and he was chill then #wally's vp no 1 and backstage manager and he's thinking of kicking kyle out #dick's vp no 2 and main lead and he's thinking of kicking jason out bcos it's embarrassing and annoying to work with your younger siblings #kon helps kyle with props and bart is one of the actors and kon is jealous af about it he grumbles a little #roy is the fight scene choreographer #i'm trying to think of something for garth but the only thing that comes to mind i'm not sure are fitting enough #actor manager? weapon manager? oooh maybe pet manager if they have animals... human and pet manager???? hr department but including animals #ooooh maybe pet manager if they have animals #raven can play bart's love interest (in play) maybe (wally doesn't like it and neither does gar for very different reasons)#eddie deals with the contraptions they build for this bubble machines smoke machines lowering and raising anything mechanical #rose and cass helps with the weapons stuff they keep fighting too and roy is TIRED #connor plays the villain he didn't mean to or want to but he got dragged into it and he's really hot and gunned in for next years main lead #he doesnt want this #steph and mia are hair makeup costume department but bart and kon love to hangout and help too #jennie-lynn and bart are in-charge of socials #tim pops up a lot because so many of his friends (and brothers) are here and when he does he helps steph and mia #damian too pops up to help with pet management and sometimes prop art #this is much to dicks annoyance jason is already here can his little brothers LEAVE HIM ALONE SOMETIMES UGH #damian (taking cues from talia and bruce loverenemies dynamic and wanting an artist in-law): we should set jason and kyle up #dick: no / tim: hmm / dick: NO #i want to add the yj girls (cassie cissie greta anita) but i know too little about them right now but imagine they're there and the roles #are to be determined

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brie-annwyl · 7 months

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Batfam ideas no one asked for? That’s the only thing I post atp.

Bruce “I don’t need therapy” Wayne starts publishing articles anonymously and promoting them through an anonymous twitter account to vent out his feelings and frustrations with being a bad father. Jason, whom also uses an anonymous account, becomes a fan. They become each other’s editors and learn a lot about each other and themselves through this. It’s all going well until Tim discovers it’s Bruce’s account. (I’m actively writing this one)

After Tim rescues Bruce from the time stream, he doesn’t go back to Gotham. That is until almost a year later, when all the bats are kidnapped by Ra’s and Tim has to go save them.

Weird time travel weirdness and old Tim gets thrown back in time, back to his first couple weeks as Robin. (His small self is also in the future)

Dick not understanding why Tim is keeping the family at a distance, and Tim waiting for the moment he suggests they through him into Arkum again. Damian has had enough of this miscommunication trope bs and makes them talk it out.

Damian missed his mom but doesn’t want to make Bruce feel bad, so he bottles it up. His bottle bursts open in front of Jason.

Jason always wanted to learn how to play the violin, Catherine always said it was her favourite. So he made Bruce sit through painfully squeaky lessons and even worse rehearsals before patrol. Now Jason is a proficient player, but Bruce isn’t around anymore to see his progress.

Jason stole a bunch of Dick’s sweat shirts when he was younger, even though they were never close, it still gave him comfort to have a piece of Dick with him. Dick only finds this out about a year after Jason died. All because this was the one night he had the courage to open his bedroom door and finally try and learn something about his little brother.

Tim would purposely put himself in dangerous situations so Jason would save him as Robin. Tim finds out Robin is dead because it was the one night he didn’t go out and save him.

Jason saves a child from an exploding building but doesn’t mange to save their father. Self reflection ensues and leads to Jason showing up at Bruce’s bedroom door, sobbing his eyes out at 3 am.

(Arkum Knight) Jason is VERY insecure about the J brand on his cheek, Bruce is there to reassure him.

Jason follows in Bruce’s footsteps and adopts a child. There’s a few problems though. 1. The Bats still don’t know his identity 2. They have a habit of following him, even when he leaves for patrol 3. Even in his RedHood get up, they will always call him variations of “Jason” or “Jay”.

Even though Damian is better than he originally was, Tim is still terrified he will try and cut his line again. These fears boil over when Tim is adamant about not doing missions alone with Damian.

Hope y’all enjoyed me dumping my fic ideas :)

#jason todd #tim drake #dick grayson #batfam #batfamily #bruce wayne #damian wayne #batman #I promise I’ll do one specifically for Cass Steph and Duke #I was just thinking about the angsty sons tonight #bruce wayne is a good dad #sometimes

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teleportationmagic · 1 year

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Reverse Batgirls AU.

Stephanie Brown starts out young and angry, wanting to put her father in prison. That doesn't change - but what does, is the name she picks up to do it. After all, Batman is... untouchable, he's justice he's power - what more can she want as a vigilante?

A whole lot, as it turns out. But still, she wears the name with pride, patrolling with Robin (Damian!) and Cassandra, making friends with the latter. Signal's farther afield, away in Bludhaven - still, he drops by now and again to play games of rooftop tag.

Cassandra has been doing work as a vigilante in all but name for a few years now. She ping pongs around - saving enough lives to have earned herself a reputation. A reputation strong enough to have made its way into circles that knew her father. These are the people who pick her name for her, seeing her father's legacy - Orphan is not a name she chooses. But after she settles in Gotham, after Bruce comes to her one day, telling her the meaning - she cannot bring herself to call it false.

Damian still ends up leaving for bigger things. A position is open, and Bruce doesn't think it needs filling - but Stephanie has lost one teacher, and for all that Cassandra is good at violence she is not very good at teaching it. He takes her under his wing, and eventually passes down a mantle.

Steph has her own mantle to pass down. "I don't know that I can tell you who you are - who your family is. But still - I don't think me or Bruce or Damian or anyone considers you an Orphan, not anymore. Batgirl isn't - she's not as good as Orphan is. But I wanted to give her to you anyways."

Cassandra takes the purple suit with a gentle sort of consideration. It's not the suit she wears, three weeks later - but the Bat is there, golden against the dark black. Bruce smiles when she steps out of the Batcave, shrouded in darkness except for the sign of her ideals, their ideals. Robin and Batgirl and Batman fly again, capes trailing through the darkness.

Steph gets to be Robin for a while - gets to carve out her own reputation. Her and Damian fight, and the reconcile, and fight again. It takes her a little bit longer to figure out why he's so angry, takes him a little longer to realize why she wants it so bad.

It helps, that Stephanie is two years older than Cassandra, but still its difficult for them to fight together. She still perceives her own presence as superfluous, and Cassandra still thinks it is her job to take bullets so no one else has to. They have a chat, under a dark alcove when Stephanie is bandaging her wounds, about pain, and the taking thereof. About balance. About how Robin was a superhero too.

Cassandra leaves Gotham, on occasion - she partners with Signal, Katana, and Black Lightning. She meets her mother there, for the first time. She won't know it, not until later, but they clash, fists against metal. This is the first time she dies, and she comes back to life with the worried eyes of her teammates.

She still gets shot. There's no gang war, but there is Roman Sionis with greedy hands and eyes, and five days followed by two clicks, two bangs. The hospital tells her she's lucky to still be standing. The word luck curls on her tongue, like something bitter.

Cassandra still tears through the city looking for her. But when she finds her, when she recovers, something settles into Stephane's skin - something bitter and angry. Cassandra can see it, even when she pretends at lightness, the jealousy and rage. Stephanie knows she sees it. This does not make things better.

Bruce takes the injury... badly. His hold tightens on all four of them. Damian and Steph take it with no small amount of anger - Bruce is not allowed in the Brown family home and Damian leaves for the Titans, again. Cassandra follows Duke to Bludhaven, pulling on his operations to set up her own. The end result is Duke's home being slowly invaded by a girl who becomes his sister.

This does not help Bruce - with no one to keep him steady, he spirals, paranoia whispering into one ear and rage into another. Tim still comes out of the woodwork, with memories of the way a dark haired kid twisted out of the hold of a particularly pushy partyguest (followed by a silent swordfight through a different hallway) inspiring a half-decades worth of trying to scratch an itch, before coming across the perfect answer.

Cassandra still leaves for answers. Bit by bit, it becomes unignorable - Shiva is her mother, undoubtedly. She limps back to Duke's home to share it between shaking sobs, and stories about all the dead men she left in the snow. He tells her in return about his father - biological and not. And he's angry on her behalf, she can see that - but still, there is warmth for her here. There is always warmth for her here. Even when she leaves burn marks on the ceiling and takes up the bathroom for hours at a time, even on those rare days where he seems so tired and she cannot do anything right - still, she has a place here. Their twin gold and black suits become fixtures of the Bludhaven skylines.

It's across the dinner table that Steph realizes she might be able to get back into the game. Her father is loud, boisterous, after leaving prison. He doesn't think she can do anything about it.

She can.

After the first time, its tempting to try a second, third. Rolling into bars with a licence that gives her a few more years, chatting up men who have lips too loose. Other times, she calls up wives, asks about schedules for a date nights or when their kids will need daycare, mapping out plans and places. In the beginning she sent these files to the GCPD, for all the good they'd do. Later, she gives them to Damian, a stack of neatly arranged notes and observations that he pours through with all the seriousness of a monk. There's something important in the first time she calls up Cass and asks her to follow up on a lead. She comes by her home later, with a hello and a fruit tart.

When she asks her what she calls herself in the field, Stephanie shrugs. She keeps a lot of different names - her own amongst them.

"The GCPD asked." Cassandra had said, one cold night. "You - you do the same thing now. That we did before. Differently, not like Robin, but still like one of us." There's a heavy pause that lingers for a moment, dull and heaving. "You should have a name."

And it might be silly, might be stupid, but Steph's been doing this long enough and seen enough plans fall apart because of the way that small details, when brought into the light, can bring a whole structure tumbling down. Spoiler is born, with a purple mask over dark fabric. It's a ceremonial thing, she'll admit, but it's the principal of the matter yanno?

Part 2 (ft. Babs) coming later. This is very much long enough.

Ages:

Duke: He starts vigilanting at 16, but as he hits his 19-20s he wants to put a little bit more distance between himself and Bruce - wants to prove himself as an individual who can bring to bear his own stregnths. His mother recovers, but his dad never really does - there's a heavy sense of grief, associating with him. They love his father, together, but while his mother does her own mourning he can't help but think it's premature. He's 20 when Batgirl comes around, and 23 when he agrees, tentatively, to work with Bruce on the outsiders.

Damian: Starts at 12, and is 16 once Batgirl starts. He's much more secure in his place, ironically, but Batman and Robin is a much lonlier job than it is in a sideways reality. Duke brings some light to the job, but once he starts trying to make his own way, things grow... quiet. And while the Titans are together for the purpose of combining their shared competencies for the sake of missions, Garth, he cannot deny that his time with them eases something in him that he didn't know was aching. After he turns 18 - after it seems all his time with Robin was actually Bruce's, after years of chafing under a heavy-handing authority he's not certain he still respects, he finally decides to create something new. Nightwing is born, from a Kryptonian legend, and he leaves Robin behind to become this new thing.

Steph starts Batgirl at twelve, and is Robin halfway through fourteen. She keeps it for two years, before it falls apart at 16. Spoiler is born a year later, when she's seventeen and looks nonthreatening, but can be the exact opposite.

Cass: Starts doing vigilante work... very young. By the time she's caught up with the Bats, she's ten and experienced, and its only a few more months before Steph joins them. She takes up Batgirl at twelve, and keeps it all the way through to twenty-one, when it finally comes time to pass it down again, to evolve into something new.

#stephanie brown #cassandra cain #batfamily #reverse robins #Damian Wayne #duke thomas #except its batgirls #I did consider Steph getting Jason's life-changing Joker encounter instead of Babs's #but for a Batgirls swap it didn't feel right #that is an AU of this AU though - Barbara and Cassandra having this mantle that feels incredibly stained through the actions #of its founder #Another small detail - does Tim still do the weird victim-blamey stuff that he did with Jason in this timeline?#because with Steph alive and very bitter. That it going to come across much differently #Steph has so many complicated feelings about being replaced. Damian has feelings about Steph having feelings about being replaced #Also I want less people to make Oracle!Steph a tech person. This girlie does not have the patience for that #And medical so often feels... perfunctory. Like you think that's just where she's supposed to go.#Did not expect Duke and Cass to be as close as they ended up being but I guess that just be how it shakes out sometimes #original posts

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redrobin-detective · 2 years

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When Duke joins the family, Tim sighs that he’s no longer the normal one of the family. Bruce spits out his coffee.

#Do you ever think that until Duke Tim *did* technically have the most normal origin story #Steph was close but supervillain dad trumps rich distant parents #Tim really was the Everymans Robin #which I love about him #but he's also a complete freak that sometimes gets overshadowed by the fact that ALL the Bats are freaks #he's just a freak from a relatively normal environment #he just came like that

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swinging-stars-from-satellites · 1 year

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Tim Drake is the kind of person to text the entire family groupchat (that he's forcibly wrangled Jason into agreeing to and that is mainly used by himself, Steph, and occasionally Damian to send memes and/or case relevant information, no in between) "what would you do if I was a worm?" This happens because he's utterly sleep-deprived, crashing at the Clocktower, and he just heard an equally loopy Steph ask Babs that question. Replies vary from "what does that even mean" (Dick and Bruce), "you'd probably get squished RIP" (from a well-meaning but confused Duke who is vaguely aware of the meme, and Jason, who is definitely not aware of the meme and is also mildly confused but enjoying this), a series of conflicting (conflicted?) emojis from Cass, all the way to a strangely sincere "I would move you from the sidewalk into the mud" from Damian. Tim, when he has gotten some much needed sleep at the behest of his pseudo big sister, will not admit to being touched by that last one, he just sends a series of multicolored heart emojis to the groupchat at large after a fifteen-hour power nap and if there's particularly a bunch of green ones? no there's not.

#maybe i think they should all just be pests to each other #maybe i also think that tim should hang out with babs more aksldkkfjsk idk why i included that detail I've just been thinking about it #tim and steph sleep deproved gremlins after a long drawn out case: no way are we driving all the way to the manor let's crash with babs #deprived*#Lu rambles #batfam #listen sometimes stuff randomly pops into my head and i just have to write it down #I'm not tagging all the characters hfndjzjcnakfjs #tim drake

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lazaruspiss · 2 months

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would u still love me if i started talking about pubic hair headcanons. would u.

#dick: depends. usually just trims occasionally.#jason: bush #tim: if penis: shaves sometimes. if pussy: shaves religiously.#damian and steph: no <3 #do not ask why i think about this. you already know why.

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anthyies · 10 months

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tim is sitting on steph’s lap here. and he is shorter than steph and will always be. believe it

#it legitimately does look like this to me. so #my secret is that i have five million feelings about timsteph… starting with she is tall. he is short. and also i think about this issue and #the batgirls convergence with the panel from this issue and the ‘sometimes i miss being young and silly’ and go waauauuuuuughghghhghghghhhh #tim #steph #dc #esha.txt

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starberrysap · 1 year

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i’ve suddenly been struck by the strong need for a benoit blanc batfamily crossover fic

#listen. LISTEN.#blanc gets hired by someone doesn’t really matter who maybe it’s bernard maybe it’s steph as a joke #to investigate the waynes during a week long public event or smth #or maybe he’s been invited over by alfred idk #wait blanc as bernard’s gay uncle who thinks he’s a little crazy but has good ideas sometimes #they have tea sometimes to talk oh it’s coming together #it just matters that he’s there and he’s immediately suspicious of the family #like there are just some strange things about these people and he just knows it #and his experience with fabulously wealthy people leads him to believe there are some exerts #maybe at one point he sees one of the kids go into a secret passageway or overhears a conversation #so he’s onto them #but of course worlds best detective meets worlds best detective and they’re butting heads #they’re both perfectly civil but keep trying to trip the other up into revealing their snooping/suspicious behavior #anyways i think it would be silly and funny and camp #if i ever finish my stuff for school i will write this #batfam #batman #benoit blanc #bruce wayne #crossover #dc comics

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oifaaa · 2 years

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Sorry but I saw those tags about people not wanting to explore what a Reverse Robin AU would mean for relationships VS just doing a pallet Swap & I totally get that.

Not sure if interested, but on that topic, I often imagine Steph as being able to thrive as the first or second partner to Batman. IE, without the shadow of Jason's death being projected onto her.

This is especially so because, assuming one translates her YJ Eslewords origin story, I could easily see her jumping at the chance to be adopted and take the name Wayne.

More to the point that she'd be more directly invested in staying in Gotham, college & joining the company than Dick was, given Gotham was never exactly his hometown & he didn't want to be the heir.

Of course there might be downsides as well, as Steph would be less inclined to form a team (Save maybe 'at' college) & might not push back against some of Bruce's invasive "I worry" measures.

But that's just a thought.

(I actually modelled a 'Nightwing' Steph who goes by Knight Hawk too XD)

I honestly feel like it's no matter the order as long as Steph comes before Jason in a batkids lineup her time as Robin / batman partner would always be 100 times better then Canon tho I gotta admit a au where Steph is the og partner does sound so interesting just bc Steph is so different from any of the others and would set a different president going forward especially bc like you said she's not as likely to form a team and more likely to stick around Gotham so she's be more involved in batman and any other of the batkids lives

#Ask #Tumblingxelian #I do sometimes think about how shit Steph got it #Just bc she's so similar to Robin Jason #And that she had the misfortune of coming after him #Also that she has to be friends with tim #Poor girl no one deserves that

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mercurialskiies · 6 months

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Things I should probably do: Start posting my own story on here

Things I will probably forgot to do: Start posting my own story on here

#sometimes i forget that being an indie author (?) requires self promotion #what sucks about this #is that i am a nervous ball of anxiety #who thinks that self promo is annoying #and it might be #but it’s also a sad truth of publishing online #aNYWAY #i will eventually have to do this #and i’ll figure out a tag for it so i have everything all in one spot #master list of chapter updates maybe? idk #steph writes #oc writing #oc wip #royal road

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spaceman-spaetzle · 2 years

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being an edelstan™️ means inevitably learning about the modern day habsburgs

the two genders really are tradcath weeb and nft bro f1 racer,,, my eyes have been opened

#spätzle speaks #blaming my friend steph for this info #but GODDD this is so funny #just want rod to have dinner with them only to be awkwardly taught about nfts or idk anime #like on one hand i am hesitant to explore headcanons with real life figures bc like that shit can get weird fast #but sometimes thoughts like this are just genuinely funny #sidenote one time i saw hws austria x mozart fan art and i think i lost my marbles and orbited #i think Roderich would not like him very much as a person.#but i also like to think rod got a horrendous fart joke letter from mozart and his face wrinkled in places he didn’t know he was capable of #tfw this man is a musical GENIUS but he makes fart jokes so descriptive that cheap adult cartoons would never be able to emulate that

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hyperfixatingonstephcurry · 2 years

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We should get Steph an anger translator

What’s he thinking

#he looks like he was thinking son super disrespectful about the person speaking to him #and was absolutely thrilled about it #he’s so diplomatic all the time #and you just know he’s gotta be pissed sometimes #we’ve seen Wardell on the court #I just wanna know what angry Steph is thinking #Keegan Michael Key and Steph should’ve done that for the espys #steph curry #stephen curry

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sistertotheknowitall · 2 months

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“But to the BatFam? That is just Some Guy. A random dude - if you will.”

“Don’t worry about it, I’m missing my spleen.”

“Oh cool, yeah, missing organs suck. I’m missing a kidney and part of my liver. Oh! And my gallbladder but that was more of a necessary evil, it was like, poisoning me or something.” Danny was so focused on applying pressure to his wound (and maybe being a bit too light headed) that he didn’t notice how silent his friend had gotten. Like-wise the comms had gone equally quiet as Gotham’s vigilante family realized that they knew very little about this kid.

It was concerning how quickly they all started to see him as a friend considering it was them as vigilantes he interacted with the most. Tim was the only one who saw him frequently when out of the suit because he was a regular at Danny’s day job. (He worked as a barista in the coffee shop Tim favored.) The others saw him occasionally but more often than not it was just in passing. Steph, Duke, and Dick had to stop themselves from approaching him on the street.

It was odd, one day he had just moved to Gotham, seeming to appear out of nowhere, and then the next he was a constant presence in their lives. Usually armed and ready with a concerning or odd quip, it had started with him being another victim of the city’s petty criminals and had snowballed from there.

Now it wasn’t like the bats saw Danny everyday, but it was expected that he would cross paths with at least three of them before the end of the week. They ran into him more often than any other Gothamite, including the criminals and rouges they fought.

At first the constant meetings by “coincidence” was suspicious. If he wasn’t the one being saved from a mugging, kidnapping, or city wide villain assault, then he was near by and trying to help.

(“Trying to help” usually meant drawing attention to himself so the original victim could escape. Once it had meant Danny armed with a baseball bat against four grown men. Bruce and Dick have tried to talk to him about putting himself in harms way but the kid is surprisingly elusive when he wants to be. Yet, even when avoiding Batman and his eldest, Danny could be found on the patrol route of another family member.)

But honestly? The guy seemed just as exhausted as they were of seeing each other. By the twelfth time in a month, Danny had accused them of stalking him.

The background check Bruce and Tim had run came back clean and he never seemed to be involved in the various criminal activities. He was just there, a weirdly unlucky bystander. So as far as Dick and the others could see, Danny was a completely normal dude. He just said strange things and wasn’t intimidated by them, he actually made it a point to be unhelpful sometimes. When trying to learn his name he gave them the run around for two months. (“I know about stranger danger. I don’t care how often you say you’re the ‘good guys.’ I’m not falling for it.”)

On one memorable occasion Danny had disappeared for a week and a half. When they started to assume the worse, he popped back up behind the counter at work. Tim had relaxed significantly when he entered the shop to Danny organizing pastries in the display case. Once he’d placed his order, the young CEO asked Danny if he’d been on vacation. To which Danny had just sighed and told Tim “I wish, but no I was called to court to handle some affairs I couldn’t get out of.” (After a check to see if Danny had gotten charged with something and coming back empty, Tim had concluded that it was an odd way to say he had had jury duty.)

Thinking about it now, outside a stray comment or two, Danny didn’t talk about himself or his life. They knew he didn’t have a good relationship with his parents, “they were much more goal oriented than that joke of a kidnapper, but I think drugs do that to a person.” (It was still unclear if he meant his parents were kidnappers themselves or on drugs.) They knew he had an older sister who would “kill me again if she finds out I was in another bank robbery.” They also knew he was, possibly, depressed after last week’s comment of “is it considered murder if you’re already dead but, like, still alive?” (Damian had saved him from a drug ring but after another “baby ninja” comment the young Robin had threatened to give Danny back to his would-be murderers.)

Dick knew Danny was a weird guy who never wanted to elaborate on the things he said. (Jason was still confused on what he meant by “rotted milk soul.”) That didn’t mean the comments themselves didn’t say a lot about him. And tonight’s comment, accompanied by the prominent and jagged autopsy scars, said more than Danny was probably willing to share.

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