not a defender cause there's nothing to defend

[bruceappreciator]

the thing about batman's secret identity paranoia is that it's literally only reasonable because he's a celebrity. like knowing his shoesize and real voice is not gonna help you identify jim from pta but it WILL let you make the connection to the guy who's on the news minimum three times a week whose information is all publicly available and probably memorized by the average gothamite

[bruceappreciator]

typically in JL fics, batman is always the Scary One while clark and diana are seen as these approachable and down to earth kind of types, where like yeah they're their leaders but they're one of us instead of the bats degree of separation, but what i wanna see is the whole trinity being hypercompetent to the point that it's inhuman and leaving the rest of the league standing there thinking how are we ever supposed to measure up to Them

[frownyalfred]

but yeah in the same vein of Bruce’s kids only following his orders in the field…of course they do. in Gotham, if you don’t hit the deck when Bruce says “Down!” you’re getting hurt, at bare minimum. there’s no questioning orders or hesitating. you have to trust that when B tells you to do something, it’s in your best interest, or in the best interest of the civilians, to do it — and do it really fucking well. really fucking fast.

that doesn’t mean the JL give orders in the same way, even though they’re well-intentioned. that doesn’t mean they fully grasp an emergency scene or its civilians’ needs. they might not realize how risky an order they, as a meta, give to a fully human vigilante is. they’re not a tactician the way Bruce is — they’re not thinking in plans, and backup plans, and fallback plans and extractions.

so yeah, Dick doesn’t take direct orders from anyone but B. of course he doesn’t.

[bruceappreciator]

somewhere, in a 'JL don't know the bats are connected' au the league sees this and spends several very long months thinking batman can control people with his mind

[bruceappreciator]

teen batman au age reveal except it's Hal Jordan who figures it out and he will never ever tell anyone that the reason he noticed was that he'd spent the last few months being quietly smug about being just that inch or two taller than batman so he noticed Immediately when that was no longer the case

[nikonikoneeekaps]

touch-averse batman agenda

[lyn1tx]

This is so stupid I’m so sorry

[bruceappreciator]

Bruce Wayne identity reveal except it's not batman who gets revealed, it's brucie. this man once called gotham a state with complete confidence and now he's on the news for verbally assaulting someone in four different languages at once. unfortunately he did just list every issue with the guy's new tech initiative by order of severity off the top of his head. um. he did do that.