Reverse Robins AU: 31
Masterpost
The Joker, once again, escapes Arkham with the help of Harley Quinn. Batman (31) and Batgirl (14) split up with Signal and Shadow- the Bats to go after the Joker and the boys to go after Harley. Turns out that they were being misdirected- Duke (13) and Damian (14) run right into the Joker’s trap. They get stuck in cages with a pot of boiling acid hanging over them, because Gotham. Duke starts freaking out, because he is still traumatized by his parent’s attack four years prior. Damian, while the Joker is distracted with traumatizing Duke further, breaks out of his cage and goes for the throat. Damian, happily, murders the Joker right then and there. He then gets Duke out of his cage and the two of them just kinda sit on the floor while Duke has an even worse panic attack and Damian awkwardly tries to comfort him. Patting his back with his arm straight out and saying “there, there” unironically. Bruce and Mia, having realized what was going on as soon as they found Harley and not the Joker at their location, burst in to the warehouse to find that the boys are fine (relatively), the trap is disabled, and also the Joker is Fucking Dead Oh My God Mia Don’t Look. Everyone gets dragged back to the Cave very quickly while Bruce tries to work out “this person has murdered another person against my direct ‘no killing’ orders” versus “thats my SON” versus “it’s the joker and Duke no longer has to live in fear of him anymore”. Nothing gets resolved anytime soon. Everybody is having a Bad Time
