#i know this post didn't specify it was batman saying it

[hood-ex]

You’re like the Dick Grayson encyclopedia of tumblr to me, so here is a question (no need to answer if you don’t want to lol). I’ve been thinking a lot of Dick’s many TBIs due to one of my classes… anyways, do you know when Dick’s significant TBI’s happened? Like what comics specifically? (Also, this is just for anyone, but you can answer if you’d like: does DC every say what part of Dick’s brain got injured during his TBIs?)

Idk one of my classes has talked a lot about specific brain functions and what could happen if certain areas are injured, and I obviously thought of my head trauma king. Got me thinking about the consequences Dick could have or should have faced with his TBIs 🤔

Dick's been clobbered in the head with a variety of things an ungodly amount of times. I even once made a post about different times Dick got clobbered in the head with like a baseball bat, golf club, etc. And then other people piled on more examples so lol yeah, I suppose some of those would be considered... less significant TBI's.

His most recent significant TBI did show which area of his brain got injured:

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #50

According to Dick, he lost bone, blood, brain tissue, and cerebrospinal fluid, and he also suffered from severe vascular swelling. He talked about how one of the effects of this was having a jump in consciousness. Like he wouldn’t understand how he ended up somewhere. - Nightwing (Vol. 4) #50

Right after the incident, he also couldn’t talk or feed himself (which isn't the case in Nightwing Annual #2 but whatever). - Nightwing (Vol. 4) #54

Dick's been shot in the head another time in Batman and Robin (Vol. 1) #15. Dr. Hurt fractured the back of Dick's skull to cause a hematoma. The intended effect was to have blood absorbed in the cerebrospinal fluid which would give Dick permanent neurological damage. So, basically, he wanted to turn Dick into a vegetable. Here's the placement of the bullet in case you were curious:

Batman and Robin (Vol. 1) #15

From here on out, it depends on what you'd classify as a major TBI. I mean, he once got clobbered on the top of his head with an extremely heavy looking mallet. He ended up blacking out from it for an extended period of time, so I'd personally count this as something on the more extreme side.

Nightwing (Vol. 3) #16

And speaking of blacking out, Dick blacked out four times in the current Nightwing run because he kept getting hit in the head (this takes place after Dick gets shot in the head by KGBeast—except the flashback one—sooo... his brain is probably feeling extra soupy now 😌):

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #92

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #81

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #81

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #101

In Robin: Year One #2-3, Dick had bandages around his head and might have taken a shot to the head from Two-Face's bat (though, luckily, Two-Face didn't get to deliver the final blow to Dick's head that would have killed him instantly). It seems like other internal injuries were more prominent as well as the fact that Dick's throat started to swell so badly that Alfred had to intubate him. Nevertheless, Dick nearly died from the severe beating, and the head injury might have increased his chance of dying.

Robin: Year One #3

In Superman/Batman #55, Bruce got Superman’s powers and he ended up losing control of himself. He broke Dick’s jaw, knocked some of his teeth out, and caused other fractures to Dick’s body (it doesn't specify where the fractures are but Dick's head possibly might be fractured considering the bandages). Bruce warned Dick that one more hit would kill him (very RYO-esque, no 😌?).

Superman/Batman #55

And, again, we could probably go on and on with him getting hit in the head and blacking out over this and that, so I'll end it here.

#woke up from a nap w a headache and these are all i can think of rn but if anyone else can think of a major tbi then go ahead and list it #Dick Grayson #TBI #head injuries #anon

[deadricslover]

request?

idk if you do song posts but if you do could you write one where the main female!reader is like district attorney and is giving a speech of some sort but gets caught up in a feminist rant when one of the reporters is rude towards her? Shes talking to bale! bruce wayne also and is comparing herself to him saying stuff like "if bruce was up here and not me would you be saying the same?" and all this kind of stuff

thanks sm

I'd be the man

here's my Masterlist!

a/n: my gif! kinda hate this and it's also not proofread. None of the lyrics of 'the man' are mine! I'm just using them. gotta love feminists. yes! I'd love to do this. you never specified what song to do so I picked a pretty general one by Taylor swift. 'the man' by ms. swift herself is a really powerful song with a powerful message behind it too! I hope this lives up to your standards :)

summary: in the request ^^ I didn't know how to write this if Bruce was your partner so I made it as if they get together after? I'm sorry 😭

warnings: enemies to lovers?. bit of spice at the end?. annoying ass reporters. cursing. little use of y/l/n. like always.

pairings: fem!reader X bale!Bruce Wayne.

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Don't even talk to you about stress. Stress is a daily part in your life. Driving to work every morning? Stress. Walking into your office? Stress. Meetings? Stress. Files and paperwork? Stress. Stress. Stress. Surprisingly enough you don't have gray hair yet. Today was one of the biggest press meetings you have had In your career so far and rumour has it that Mr. Prince of the city, Bruce Wayne will be there watching you and my god did he get on your nerves. His whole 'I'm better than you' 'I'm richer than you so I can do what I want' attitude got to you. But, today you weren't going to let him distract you because today is your day and you will ace this. Today you were being asked to give a speech about your thoughts on the masked vigilante running the streets outside the law. To be completely honest, you didn't mind this 'batman' guy at all. He did the cops job so you didn't know why they were complaining. But maybe if you sat down and thought about it for a little bit you would find some cons regarding the man in the mask. You were expected to do something in order to make the vigilante stop what they were doing, but in all honesty, you didn't want to. But, boy did you have a speech lined up.

Camera flashes blinked into your eyes making the large attentive crowd harder to see, which wasn't completely a bad thing. The cameras for the news and for the newspaper were lined up at the front, the sides and the back of the room, all facing right at you. You clear your throat quietly before drawing in a breath and starting to talk.

"good evening, ladies and gentlemen of Gotham. Today, as you know I have been asked to talk about a long list of topics that I physically could not fit into a time space this short. So, I will be focusing in on the main point that you all are eagerly waiting to hear about which is the masked vigilante running the streets." you lay out your flashcards incase your debate goes backwards.

"As you know a man in a mask has been fighting crime for the past several months in Gotham, and doing the cops job for them which you would think Is a good thing for them so they could sit back and eat more doughnuts" you joke and thankfully you get a few snickers out of people. It would be beyond words embarrassing if you didn't.

"But. There are much more disadvantages to this crime fighting being than advantages. Wheather or not I agree with these arguments doesn't matter today because I am here to do what's right and seize the Batman's actions. Nobody should be allowed to act outside of the law, no matter how cool the costume." you weren't expecting a laugh from anyone at that moment but there was one particular one that caught everyone's ear in the silence of the room. Bruce mother fucking Wayne. You take a deep breath calming yourself for the next while not allowing yourself to get agitated by him.

You continue with your arguments getting the odd dirty look from Bruce and some reporters. How did you come to hate Bruce Wayne so much you ask? Well he basically just thinks he is better than you in ever single way just because he is wealthier than you, and of course because he is a man after all and men get the upper hand in society. Men always have. You're a successful women? Oh, who did you sleep with to get here? You're a woman and have an opinion? oh, lord no. that can't happen. Had a dating life? no.no.no. you can't play around before finding the one to commit to. Unless you were a man of course. Being a powerful women leader without getting hate, just isn't on the cards for us. And the list goes on and on and on. This was the last thing on your mind right now but some how it happened to up it's way into the discussion today. And boy did you go off on everyone. It may have been a little bit embarrassing but so what? You were standing up for every single women, not just in Gotham, but around the whole world.

"In this particular photograph here, we can see the batman phy-" you get cut off by a loud, obnoxious laugh that could only belong to Bruce.

"Are you finished Mr. Wayne? I have a presentation to present" you say turning 90° to the crowd.

"Yes. I am. Sorry about that" he replies re-gathering himself again.

"Good. Now If I could draw your attention to this pie-" you are cut off again by the exact same noise.

"Bruce, would you like to share whatever it is you are finding so amusing with everyone else? I'm sure they would love to hear." you say enraged at his behaviour

"No, it's just- well The batman is in fact outside of the law. I agree with you on that one. But he's not all bad. You are making him out to be a bad guy when he's really just trying to help the city." he says stuttering his words out of humour whilst getting up out of his seat and walking up to you.

"And what about that is so funny to you?" you reply full of anger

"Just the fact that you had to go against your beliefs regarding the batman to even be here today"

"Every meeting I have been at that you were there, you just slept the whole time. Why don't you do us all a favour and doze off for the duration of this." The amount of 'boo''s and negative mumbles you got from that were really destructive actually.

Bruce puts on a fake sarcastic pained face whilst mouthing 'ouch' to you before perking an eyebrow upwards. He could see the anger bubbling deep inside and that acted as fuel for him to keep going.

"That's not very mature of you Ms. Y/L/N" which earns a bunch of light giggles from the crowd.

you place your palm flat on the surface of the podium holding yourself upright as you push away the microphone for a moment trying to sus out what He's playing at here.

"What the fuck are you getting at here, Bruce? You're making me look bad." you whisper angrily at him

He cocks his head to the side resting his elbow Infront of your palm leaning at an angle becoming your height. he gasps lightly before saying sarcastically "language!.....And I'm not trying to make you look bad" he says lying. His face shows it all and be made sure you could see it.

"Then why are you up here?! I have thirty minutes left of this shit and you're wasting my time, Wayne" you rant.

"wow I gotta find something to argue about for thirty minutes....I'm sure it won't be hard with you"

"It is taking every bone in my body to not punch you across that smug face of yours"

"I'm gonna change the topic of discussion. Is that ok? yes?! thank you, you're a star, Babe" he says winking whilst walking away before letting you give him an answer.

"Ms. district attorney. Recent sources have confirmed that you are not in a relationship your ex boyfriend anymore. I came here today to ask you, How has your career changed since? Have you been making less money now that you're a one person package again? hmm?"

here we go.

"That's it. Bruce I'm going to ask you this one more time. What. Are. You. Doing. Here. I have a presentation to finish and you are not helping in any way, shape or form. So, unless you are going to help me get this vigilante off the streets and not ask me about my personal life that you are not a part of, then I suggest you go back to your seat. How does that sound?"

"It doesn't tickle my fancy. I'm sure everyone else wants to know though? right?! How hard had the breakup hit you? In here if you need to talk about it-"

That was the final straw. After this slipped past Bruce's lips you turned around to face him, who was standing a good bit away from you - which is probably safer for him- and let go of your anger cutting him off.

"Bruce, Bruce, Bruce. May I ask. What's it like to brag about ranking in dollars and getting all the girls that are models? It being socially acceptable to make women look bad for the things that you are doing that get praise. How does it feel, Mr. Wayne" you start. slowly stepping away from your previous spot. He gets visibly angry by this. The hypocrite.

"Wait. It's all good if you're bad at your job and even more ok if you're mad right now. Because You are a wealthy, powerful MAN that can do whatever he wants whenever he wants. right? But imagine this..."

You turn around to the crowd and return to your spot at the podium before getting into character and saying.

"But. If I was out flashing my dollars, I'd be a bitch, not a baller." There is uproar. People standing up and shouting over you because you cursed on TV.

"They'd paint me out to be bad. so it's ok that I'm mad!" you exclaim the last line louder than the rest because of your anger and also because if the overlapping chatter and angry sentences coming from everyone. you hit your first off the surface below you in anger which seems to silence everyone.

"I am so sick of working as hard as I can and getting no credit for it. I'm wondering if I would get there quicker if I was a man. If Bruce- Mr. Wayne, exuse me.. and I swapped positions would there be as much chaos in the crowd as there is now? Ok so If Bruce was trying to get the batman of the streets and I was rudely interrupting him by obnoxiously laughing and causing a scene. Would there be any hesitation in shooing me off the stage? No....see. I'm not getting fully into this today but For those of you who don't know, women are treated like shit compared to men when it comes to power. Men have the upper hand and have it easier than women and still think it's ok to treat us unfairly.....Thank you everyone for your time." you finish gathering your cards and walking off stage, the crowd livening up again with questions for you. But you ignore them.

Soon after you get off stage and sit down in your office chair, you begin to massage your temples kneading away the anger that built up that you didn't let out. You hear a knock on the doorframe and look up to see a man in a black tux with a white shirt not standing straight leaning up at an angle against the wooden frame. He's standing with a sincere sorry face painted on.

"I can't get a moment's peace" you mumble slightly seeing that it's Bruce.

"Yes. Mr Wayne. How can I help you" you say with an urgent annoyed tone

"Believe it or not I came to say I'm sorry." he says softly sounding genuine

"apology accepted. now get out I have to find a new job" you reply sarcastically

"you're not going to get demoted. I am going to get...alot...of hate for what I started. I didn't know it ever annoyed you, I was just....god this is going to sound so weird and I'm going to sound like a lying dick. But, I just wanted to get your attention. I thought it was the only way to have a relationship with you and I was willing to have one where you hated me over nothing at all. I see that was wrong and you didn't like it and I'm really truly sorry. I'm not expecting you to say anything back but I just owed you an explanation as to why I was acting the way I was all these years." he talks on and on

to say you were shocked was an understatement. You had no words, there was nothing flowing through your head at all. In all honesty Bruce was an insanely attractive man but all this time you thought he was an ass so you never had any desire to have a romantic relationship with him. After hearing this there was part of you that wanted to just run up to him and kiss him, but the sane part of you knew that that would be the wrong thing to do. Apparently you're insane. After a second of looking at him deep in thought you get up our of your chair walking towards him with butterflies in your stomach, he straightens himself curious as to what you're doing until his questions are diminished when you smash your lips to his in complete euphoria and impulse. He kisses back and you can feel his smirk against your mouth. His left hand firmly draws the back of your waist towards his, your fingers thread through his hair tugging at it while his other hand slips under your arm and keeps a firm grip on your upper back toying with the neck's seam of your shirt. Eventually you pull away and draw in a quiet breath while he composes himself.

"That was the last thing I thought you would do, Mrs." he says sleepy-eyed into yours, seductively.

"well, was it a good surprise?" you retort in the same tone

"why don't I show you what I thought of it?" and you felt the impact of that line immediately in-between your legs, before you had one of the best times of your life which you or Bruce would never ever forget.

#dc #batman #christian bale #bruce wayne #enemies to lovers #taylor swift #the man taylor swift #christian bale x reader #bruce wayne x reader #deadricslover

[imagine--if]

The Batman Fluff Prompt Event!! *yayyy*

Rules:

This event will be going on for exactly two weeks, so I'll close submissions on July 5th

This is for The Batman only, so I'll write for The Riddler, Battinson, Selina and Keoghan!Joker (but mostly The Riddler hehe) and not other Dano characters (for this prompt event anyways)

You can choose up to two single prompts, or one two-way prompt - to make them easier to identify, I put the two-way prompts in italics and the single ones are just in normal font

Please request through my INBOX and not on posts ❤

When you request, you don't have to say the whole prompt, just give me the number(s), and specify if the reader or character is saying the prompt(s)

You're welcome to steal prompts for your own fics and ideas!! Enjoy 😄

Prompts:

"You'll always be mine... right?"

"No, I'm never letting go of you, and you can't make me!"

"Why are you looking at me like that?" "Because... you're perfect."

"We were always meant to be like this."

"Oh, baby... everything's going to be alright."

"But... I can't sleep without you."

"Yeah, welI, know your weakness!" "N-no, please don't tickle me-!"

"You're so pretty like this..."

"You're gonna run out of film for the Polaroid camera again!" "They're being well used, don't worry about that!"

"Please stay..."

"Awh, sweet thing, are you shy?"

"I live to protect you, and I won't have it any other way."

"There's that beautiful smile!"

"Oh- I'm sorry, I didn't want to wake you..." "It's alr- why are you so close to my face, honey?"

"Hold my hand?"

"Is that my shirt?" "Not anymore."

"If that guy keeps staring at you, can I murder them?"

“Are you gonna follow me around the apartment all day?" "Yes!"

"I'll do it for you, if you want! Let me?!" "Uh... okay?"

"Tell me you love me again, please?!"

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[gothamsworst]

Hc’s for someone telling the dork squad’s s/o that they should cut connections with the rogue before they hurt them?

Did you mean: Batman

Jonathan Crane:

The worst part of hearing those words coming out of The Batman’s mouth is that he knows that they’re true. It’s not safe for you to be with him.

And part of him is scared that, after hearing it said out loud, you’ll finally make the smart decision and leave him. 

Of course, it would hurt him, if you did leave. But at the same time, he knows that it’d be for the best for the both of you, if you did.

Edward Nygma:

Oh, please. Eddie can't even count how many people The Batman has gotten hurt. He, on the other hand, hasn’t hurt anyone--not anyone important, anyway.

Besides, you know that he’d never hurt you. He might be an egotistical megalomaniac, but he still has a heart, you know.

Truthfully, after that, he’s a little more anxious about your relationship. He’s worried that, deep down, you might actually be considering it.

Jervis Tetch:

That’s not true! He’d never hurt you. He loves you, more than anything! And he’d kill anyone who would ever try to hurt you!

He says that, but...he hurt Alice, after claiming to love her, didn’t he? Is your situation really so different?

He gets really depressed, after that. Even if you do want to stay with him, he’s sure that you really would be better off without him.

#ask #dc #batman #gotham rogues #dork squad #jonathan crane #scarecrow #edward nygma #riddler #jervis tetch #mad hatter #headcanons #sfw #angst #hm! #i'm emotionally suffering #i know this post didn't specify it was batman saying it #but i read it and was like: yeah batman would tbh #Anonymous

[bigskydreaming]

This is a weird question but how do you feel about Simon Baz, it's no secret he gets beans in storytelling since they introduced Jess but I feel like his fanon/meta character has a lot of parallels with Kyle and Dick. Plus he's one of the only Lanterns B likes and while I didn't love that arc I like that (I pretend he likes him because he's so similar to Dick in a lot of ways)

There are no weird questions here, just long, rambly answers that don’t really address anything actually asked of me!

I mean, sometimes you guys get lucky, I guess, but that has very little to do with me.

LOL anyway. To be totally honest, I don’t actually know Simon or Jessica all that well. I’m open to learning more about them, if anyone has specific story arc recommendations, but its been a long time since I trusted or liked DC’s stories in general enough to go actively seeking out new characters to enjoy....as I’m usually more likely to end up being frustrated by everything DC does with them, lmfao. 

Its usually only when new characters cross paths with the stories of other faves I do keep up with, that I start investing in them and seeking out more about them. Like with Duke, once I started catching up on the Batfam’s Rebirth stuff and read him in their stories in general, that was when I started seeking out more about him. Like, I only read Batman & The Signal once I caught up with back issues of Robin War and read Duke in those....because lol, as I might’ve said before, I’m not really a Batman fan so much as a Batfam fan. I don’t even actually read Batman books that don’t have other members of the Batfam in them as well. LOL. I like Bruce well enough when he’s not being written like an ass, but I’m here for his kids, and always have been.

Anyway, its a little different with the GL franchise because while with Bat books, its not just Dick but a bunch of the Batfam that I like and follow their stories across the board....I pretty much ONLY ever read GL books when I hear Kyle makes an appearance. And for the most part he hasn’t really interacted that much with Simon and Jessica that I know of, since he’s so rarely written as being on Earth these days and they’re a lot more Earth focused in their stories I think? That’s just my impression, but please let me know if I’m missing significant interactions between them and Kyle (as it also means there’s more Kyle appearances I’m missing, lol).

Also, I tend to wait for a lot of Kyle appearances to build up and then binge read them all in one go, because for as long as Johns has been directing the GL franchise, like....its not just his side-lining of Kyle’s character I dislike, its that I pretty much always hate his takes on ALL characters, lmao. And its weird, I like a lot of his big picture ideas, like the emotional spectrum as a whole I really like and think added a lot to the GL mythos, but...I just hate his writing. LOL. Something about the way he writes people just bugs the crap out of me in general. I guess maybe its just the traits he prioritizes and focuses on the most while neglecting the traits and characteristics I like to see prioritized? I don’t even know dude, but its definitely a thing with me. And its not limited to just the GL franchise, but all his stuff. I did NOT like his Teen Titans stuff either, lmao.

(The fact that now Morrison is more steering the GL franchise has not changed that situation much for me personally since I may not like a lot about Johns’ writing, but I have nothing good to say about anything Morrison does, lolol.)

So I just let GL stuff pile up until I have a good stockpile of Kyle stories to dive into, and then like....get it over with all at once like ripping the band-aid off, lol. That way, as much as specific story stuff might bug me, hey, at least there’s a lot of Kyle to get me through it, y’know? So if there are stories with Kyle interacting with Simon and Jessica in the past year or two in specific, they’re on my TBR list and I just haven’t done that binge read yet. Other than Kyle’s brief period with the last Titans book before it was canceled, I haven’t read any GL stuff at all since they....had him kill his son from the future and then had Soranik brand the Sinestro Corps symbol into his chest as punishment. Because. Yeah. I pretty much finished that story, looked at the wall and was like....its gonna be a little while til I calm down enough to see what DC does with Kyle next. LMAO.

Anyway, both Simon and Jessica very much strike me as characters I’d like if I read more of, and I know because of how they’re used in general, there’s probably a lot of Justice League stories out there with them and other non GL-franchise focused stuff....its just that thing where I don’t actively go seeking out stuff with new Marvel or DC characters until I’ve read and enjoyed enough of them in other books that I’m like, okay, there’s gonna be a lot of bullshit to wade through, but they’re worth it. LOL.

SO! If anyone has any recommendations for Simon or Jessica-centric stories that highlight them well and think are must-reads for grasping their core characterizations.....by all means, hop on this post or leave them in the notes or in asks. I’m very open to reading more about them, in recommended arcs.

Incidentally, anon, the fact that Bruce specified that he liked Simon once bodes well, especially if you think its because Simon maybe reminds him of Dick in a lot of ways. I say that because one of the things I enjoyed about Kyle’s time on the JLA was that Bruce gruffly stated on a couple of occasions that Kyle was one of the few GL’s he’d ever respected - and I think Kyle and Dick are a lot alike in a lot of ways, and have always thought that had a lot to do with Kyle reminding Bruce of Dick too, lmao. So if Bruce likes all three because of similar character traits, chances are it’ll hold true with Simon for me too.

Like, you’ve definitely piqued my interest now, because I’ve never actually heard someone describe Simon as being similar to Dick in specific....but there is literally NO quicker way to sell me on a character than by saying “I think this character is a lot like Scott McCall, Dick Grayson and/or Kyle Rayner.”

(Sadly, that trick does not work with my other Big Four fave characters, Bobby Drake. As he is a Glorified Dumbass, and that is not a character archetype that guarantees instant fondness. Only Specific Glorified Dumbasses need apply).