We as a fandom joke about Tim's cloning stint a lot. It was a fucked up thing for Tim to do and definitely showed off his Mad Basement Scientist vibes quite literally. It is, objectively, pretty funny.
On the other hand, how much of Tim's soul was lost that he tried 99 times to create a replication of Kon? He knew it wouldn't bring his best friend back. He knew, at best, Tim's project would be closer to Kon's biological sibling instead.
Despite that, Tim tried 99 times. Each trial might have brought him closer, but they would've taken an extreme amount of time. It would have cost so much money and resources.
Tim, as he slowly broke down in front of a glass tube that once imprisoned his friend, did not stop. He wouldn't. He couldn't. He knew Kon would hate him for this. He knew his best friend would be furious at the blatant disregard for clones. Tim was so lost that he gave up everything for a mere impression of Kon. He sacrificed his time, effort, and resources. On the line was his reputation in the hero community, relationship with Kon, and mental stability.
How lost was Tim that he did this?
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I hope this doesn't bother you but I love reading your very thoughtful meta especially on characters like dick but I do always imagine you like an animal crossing cat with the voice and everything while reading
what’s that noise they make? WAA WWW WAA OOO WA EEE OOOO
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Idea for a dp x dc crossover Jason meets Danny before getting to Gotham and ends up completely derailing his plans when Danny while talking about his Rogues to this strange almost Halfa says, "Dear God, I'm thankful Batman has a no-kill policy. My Rogues are bad enough without adding that Clown's ghost to the roster. I just know that the Joker would end up my problem if he was killed, He's bad enough as a human. I'd hate to see how he would be as a ghost"
Jason DID NOT think about that and is now completely back pedaling on his original plans to get the Joker killed, because dear god do the nightmares of a Ghost Joker keep him up at night. His new plan is to somehow convince Bruce to build a prison in space or 10000 feet under the sea to make escape impossible for the clown.
ok holy shit.
Well.
That.
Is something to ponder on.
okokokok imagine
The entirety of the Batman's rogues gallery.
As ghosts.
Never dying. Always pestering Batman, and even worse; they're now Batman's problem.
Jason goes from doing everything in his power to killing Joker to keeping that fucker ALIVE.
okokokok What would his costume be if it isn't Red Hood? Does he still protect the Narrows? Does he still hunt down the Black Mask?
This would absolutely make the Bats think that Red Hood is in cahoots with the Joker. Why else is he saving his hide at every opportunity?
MISCOMMUNICATION AFTER MISCOMMUNICATION GALORE
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This could be them if morgana gets merlin in a chokehold and figure out he has magic too earlier in the show, gwaine's there for funsies
(Click for better quality bcs why the fuck does this look grainy as fuck)
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cassie sandsmark redesign! i had this vision of her bouncing around in my head for a long time so i thought i should finally draw it :]. she has an undercut btw.
[RBS APPRECIATED. PLEASE REBLOG.]
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Thinking about Jim, do you think he also gets this good cop good father protection because of Barbara Gordon's admiration of him? Reading it from Barbara's perspective like all her stories have Jim Gordon as the best dad and her wanting to be a cop or as a child being the gcpd little cheerleader. Like trying to tie that with her role as Oracle but then even thinking of like The Hill where Jim shot and killed a teenager and his response to the mother was that the kid was armed like... it is hard to think that she would have that blind admiration of him. I also think she is more willing to work with morally questionable characters since she has a history of working with those types of characters. What do you think DC needs to do with Barbara Gordon to get actual interest in her again?
the solution for babs is simple — she needs to be oracle again.
no ifs whens or buts — babs being batgirl again is such a spectacular downgrade from her time as oracle it’s almost unreal. babs as a character, her growth after being shot, her rediscovery and pursuit of her own autonomy, her vindictiveness, her need for control, her relationships with the birds and wendy and cass and steph, make her an infinitely richer and more interesting character than when she wears the cowl. that’s even ignoring the ableist rhetoric behind her “reclaiming” her power by getting an implant and leaving her chair, which like, vom, because it’s a whole other can of worms.
unlike batwoman where there’s a completely different identity and mantle that’s seperate from bruce, batgirl is unequivocally the subordinate to batman. the girl denotes her lack of authority. cass and helena come the closest to shaking this off, but it’s still a very deliberate character dynamic that dc upholds. batgirl 2009 also successfully orients the mantle around babs and steph, but a large part of that is that bruce isn’t present in the story.
babs was at least two years older than dick in the original canon. she was a librarian who had a life outside of the community. she was a support for other disabled women. she’d tell bruce to shut the fuck up to his face. she was singularly the most important resource to the league and all other hero teams. she was a complicated person with a lot of trauma, not the cool girlfriend archetype. i also dislike that she’s dating dick while he’s nightwing and she’s still batgirl. imagine if they made dick robin again and had him date babs as oracle. it’d be so weird!
wrt jim gordon— a lot of babs’s unequivocal support of him comes from dc’s general inability to admit that he’s a deeply flawed human being in a position of power. the narrative rarely actually criticises him over his decisions. however, i also think people forget that like…. a lot of babs’s politics is tied up with the police. she’s essentially a one woman surveillance state, and she historically struggles with boundaries around the people she loves. she does work with people that the other bats wouldn’t — isley, waller, etc, but i don’t think that necessarily separates her from the police because often the police or armed forces do the same thing. her modus operandi is also very similar to bruce in a lot of ways too.
in saying that tho, i do appreciate that she’s willing to just say fuck it, full throttle and getting a god damned law degree to bust bruce out of a murder charge. she’s an icon. let her be cunty again!!
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