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Canon Accurate Reasons the Bat Family Makes Bruce Wayne Functional Actually
Batman comics keep trying to tell us one thing very gently and repeatedly and sometimes by dropping a building on Bruce Wayne. He is not meant to be alone. Every time he isolates himself the narrative immediately sends him a child a redhead a hacker or a problem with feelings.
This is not coincidence. This is structure.
Dick Grayson
Dick Grayson is living proof that Batman can be a healthy coping mechanism if you add joy and gymnastics. In Robin Year One and Nightwing Dick consistently refuses to become Bruce. This forces Bruce to accept that raising a child does not mean cloning yourself. Wayne Family Adventures nails this by making Dick the emotional support eldest sibling who also knows where Bruce hides the good snacks. Dick teaches Bruce that smiling does not compromise the mission and also that children grow up which Bruce hates but survives.
Barbara Gordon
Barbara Gordon exists to remind Bruce that being the smartest person in the room does not mean you are correct. As Oracle she runs the information network while Bruce broods dramatically. Canon repeatedly shows Bruce deferring to Barbara because she is right and also because she will roast him if he is wrong. Wayne Family Adventures understands this dynamic and lets Barbara be the backbone while Bruce pretends he is not reliant on her. She makes him a better Batman by not letting him be in charge of everything.
Jason Todd
Jason Todd is what happens when Batman meets a kid who needs emotional honesty instead of stoicism. In A Death in the Family and Under the Hood Jasonâs entire narrative is Bruce learning the hard way that love without communication is a disaster. Wayne Family Adventures does something deeply comic accurate by letting Bruce awkwardly try again. Jason makes Bruce confront the fact that rules are not enough and that saying I care is apparently harder than fighting gods.
Tim Drake
Tim Drake became Robin because Batman was making bad decisions and Tim said absolutely not on my watch. A Lonely Place of Dying is literally about a teenager realizing Batman needs emotional supervision. Tim makes Bruce explain his choices which Bruce hates but desperately needs. Wayne Family Adventures uses Tim as the family therapist in cargo shorts which is exactly right. Tim makes Bruce a better Batman by reminding him to eat sleep and feel emotions sometimes.
Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brownâs entire character arc is refusing to quietly accept nonsense. As Robin and Batgirl she calls out Bruceâs bad leadership choices and does not apologize for it. Canonically she brings humor optimism and chaos into the cave. Wayne Family Adventures leans into this because Stephanieâs job is to poke holes in Bruceâs plans and vibe check him emotionally. She makes Bruce better by not letting him pretend he is infallible.
Cassandra Cain
Cassandra Cain is Bruce Wayneâs softest parenting arc and also his most devastatingly hopeful one. Raised to be violence incarnate she chooses restraint and compassion. Bruce learns that teaching someone how not to fight is harder than teaching them how to fight. Wayne Family Adventures accurately shows Bruce being gentle with Cassandra because he knows she understands pain better than he does. She makes him a better Batman by reminding him that the goal is not winning it is protecting.
Damian Wayne
Damian Wayne is a stress test disguised as a child. In Batman and Son and Batman and Robin Bruce learns that parenting cannot be outsourced to Alfred and hope. Damian forces Bruce to be present consistent and emotionally available which is deeply inconvenient for a man who communicates in gravel. Wayne Family Adventures softens Damian but keeps his feral energy. Damian makes Bruce better by forcing him to choose patience over control every single day.
Duke Thomas
Duke Thomas represents Batman as a symbol that inspired hope instead of fear. Introduced in We Are Robin Duke is not shaped by Bruceâs trauma but by Bruceâs example. Wayne Family Adventures keeps this intact by making Duke emotionally perceptive and grounded. Duke reminds Bruce that Batman belongs to Gotham not just to grief. He makes Bruce better by pointing him toward the future instead of the alley.
Why This Works
Bruce Wayne is a man who copes with trauma by building a family and then pretending he did not do that on purpose. Wayne Family Adventures works because it highlights the canon truth that Batman is a dad first a detective second and a cryptid never.
The Bat Family does not make Batman weaker. They make him functional. Which is frankly a miracle.
Batman is not a lone wolf. He is a very tired father trying his best and somehow saving the city anyway.
Series Title:Â Â Come Sing a Song with Me
Author:Â C.R. Scott/AFewNovelIdeas
Genre:Â Superhero Saga where a bunch of different genres get shoved into a blender and the "frappe" button is mashed?
Rating:Â Teen
Status:Â Â Work in Progress
Starring Characters:Â Tim Drake, Wanda Maximoff, Batfamily, Justice League, Avengers, secret overarching villain
Summary/Author Notes:Â
A DCU/MCU crossover saga that started with one question:
"What if Janet Drake were a variant of Wanda Maximoff?"
What started with one question has turned into a multi-part series telling the story of Tim Drake as he navigates a life where he discovers his mother left him with an inheritance that will fundamentally alter the trajectory of two Earths.
Collection
- Prologue:Â The Witch's Gambit (one-shot) (complete)
- Arc 1:Â The Azure Knight (1, 2, 3, 4) (in progress)
- Arc 2: Holding the Sky (0 out of 5) (unstarted)
- Arc 3: Infinity Crisis (0 out of 8) (unstarted)
- Arc 4: The Ghost in the Glass House (0 out of 7) (unstarted)
- Arc 5: Home is Where the Hex Is (0 out of ???) (unstarted)
- Arc 6: -redacted due to spoilers-
- Arc 7: -redacted due to spoilers-
I have the Prologue and the first 3 Arcs of this series already up on Ao3, but I decided to start reposting it here on Tumblr for those w/out Ao3 account. It's a bit of slow going as I am migrating the chapters over. But I'll be updating this masterlist until I get up to date to where I am at now.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tim Drake & Tam Fox, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne
Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Ra's al Ghul, Tam Fox, Bruce Wayne
Additional Tags: Tim Drake-centric (DCU), Tim Drake is Red Robin (DCU), Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, no beta we die like Janet Drake, Alternate Universe - DCU/Marvel Fusion, Tim Drake Is... Something else?, Evil Ra's al Ghul, Comic: Red Robin Vol. 1 (2009), Magic Revealed, Hurt Tim Drake (DCU), Tim Drake Needs Help (DCU), Ra's al Ghul Bites Off More Than He Can Chew, Multiverse, Bruce Wayne is Lost in Time, Bruce Wayne Returns From Being Lost In Time
Series: Part 2 of Come Sing a Song with Me
Summary:
The seal Janet Drake placed upon her son to lock away his magic has been under an immense amount of strain. Every loss the teenage vigilante has endured over the past several years has added new cracks and weak points to the seal since he was thirteen. Now, at age seventeen, just weeks after Bruce Wayne's apparent "death" at Darkseid's Omega Beams, Janet's seal is starting to leak and catastrophic failure is only a matter of time.
Everyone who knows of Tim Drake knows how his mother died. She died by drinking poison at the hands of the Obeah Man. But... Why did she drink the poison?
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Janet Drake & Tim Drake
Characters: Janet Drake, Tim Drake (DCU), Wanda Maximoff
Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe - Marvel Cinematic Universe Fusion, Alternate Universe - DCU Fusion, Alternate Universe - DCU/Marvel Fusion, Good Parent Janet Drake, BAMF Janet Drake, Tags Contain Spoilers, Suicide, Mentioned Tim Drake (DCU), Janet Drake-centric, Hurt Wanda Maximoff, Protective Wanda Maximoff, BAMF Wanda Maximoff, Self-Sacrifice, Variants (Marvel), Variant Wanda Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff-centric, Prologue, Hurt No Comfort, no beta we die like..., You'll see...
Series: Part 1 of Come Sing a Song with Me
Summary:
Everyone who knows of Tim Drake knows how his mother died. She died by drinking poison at the hands of the Obeah Man.
But...
Why did she drink the poison?
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Authorâs Note:Â
After binge-watching WandaVision recently, I got an idea for a DCU/MCU crossover saga that started with one question:Â "What if Janet Drake were a variant of Wanda Maximoff?"
The idea refuses to let me go, so Iâve started writing. The link above is to the first part of the series, which is a prologue story about Janet and her death in Haiti.Â
Here is the link to the start of the actual first arc of this story: The Azure Knight (Arc 1)
Iâve got all 4 parts of the Azure Knight written and ready to be posted. Iâm hoping to get the rest out on Wed, Fri, and sometime over the weekend. Iâm working on the next chapters for the next Arc this week, as I just want to get this out of my imagination as quickly as possible, so thereâs no beta with this story. Iâve got everything plotted out from start to finish. Just need to write the actual chapters.
Chapters: 16/17
Fandom: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tim Drake & Lucien Flavius
Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Lucien Flavius
Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe - Elder Scrolls Fusion, Alternate Universe - DCU Fusion, Reluctant Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls), Young Adult Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls), Isekai and Transmigration, Alternate Universe - Skyrim Fusion, Skyrim Main Quest, Modded Skyrim, Skyrim Spoilers, Modern Character in Skyrim, Don't Have to Know Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Canon, Tim Drake is Red Robin (DCU), Tim Drake is Not Okay (DCU), Hurt Tim Drake (DCU), Tim Drake-centric (DCU), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Tim Drake Has a Bad Time (DCU), Tim Drake Has PTSD (DCU), Psychological Trauma, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, Dragons, Tim Drake Needs Help (DCU), Tim Drake Needs a Break (DCU), Pre-Flashpoint (DCU)
Series: Part 1 of A Reluctant Dragonborn: A DCU Elder Scrolls Saga
Series Summary: Â One of Gotham Cityâs iconic âRobinsâ, Tim Drake was transported to a strange medieval world with no memory of how he arrived. Mistaken for a rebel soldier by the Imperial Legion, he found himself facing execution in the town of Helgen. His life was ultimately spared not by mercy or justice, but by the cataclysmic appearance of a black dragon that razed the town of Helgen and left him with agonizing physical and psychological wounds.As he struggles to survive in this new land of Skyrim, Tim's main goal is to find a way home. However, this mission is continually derailed by the needs of the locals, his own near crippling injuries, and the looming threat of the dragon he had the misfortune to survive.
Chapter Summary: Â Â The immediate aftermath of the battle at the watchtower. Where do Tim and Lucien go from here?
#tim drake#a reluctant dragonborn#work in progress#wip#batfamily#batfam#my writing#the shadow of helgen#tes v skyrim#skyrim#red robin#lucien flavius#modded skyrim#dcu#crossover#elder scrolls#fanfic#robin#fanfiction#dc robin
Honestly, with all the tradwife cooking trash circulating, it only makes me love B Dylan Hollis more for baking vintage recipes while being openly gay, making sexual jokes, and screaming at the ingredients. He's the antithesis of every soft-spoken cishet woman cooking for her husband and children. You don't have to be an idyllic cottagecore housewife to cook.
⧠Broken ribs suck. You donât just âwalk it off.â Breathing hurts. Laughing hurts. Existing hurts. Characters with rib injuries wonât be doing heroic sprints.
⧠Concussions arenât instant naps. Dazed vision, nausea, dizziness, maybe even personality changes, but theyâre not going to collapse neatly like in the movies.
⧠Blood loss is sneaky. Itâs not just about dramatic pools of blood. Itâs dizziness, confusion, and the body getting cold as circulation tanks.
⧠Adrenaline lies. Someone can take a serious injury and not feel it until the fightâs over. That âI didnât realize I was bleeding until laterâ trope? Very real.
⧠Twisted ankles are brutal. One bad step and suddenly running is off the table. Even walking hurts like hell. Perfect way to ground a chase scene.
⧠Burns linger. Even small burns hurt more than most people expect. Blisters, infection risk, constant pain, itâs not just a cool scar later.
⧠Dislocated shoulders = useless arm. Characters canât keep swinging a sword or firing a gun. Theyâre basically fighting one-armed until itâs fixed.
⧠Shock is a thing. Pale skin, trembling, rapid heartbeat, and eventually disorientation. A character might not even realize how bad their wound is.
⧠Stitches arenât magic. Getting sewn up is painful and recovery takes time. Theyâre not instantly battle-ready after a needle and thread.
⧠Scars tell stories. Some fade, some donât. Some stay sensitive forever. Donât forget the aftermath when the wound becomes part of the character.
No seriously... Wtf?! I saw this while thrifting and I am completely flabbergasted. Since when is a mammoth with a lacrosse stick a member of the Avengers?
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