Ever since we were kids, my siblings and I would hover around our mom in the kitchen any time she had the shredded cheese out. We’d stand there making obnoxious ‘cheep cheep’ sounds with our mouths wide open pretending we were annoying baby birds until she relented and shut us up by shoving a handful of shredded cheese into out mouths.
I like imagining that the batkids do this. I can’t see Alfred giving in often if at all, but Bruce? Almost definitely.
Maybe it starts with Dick after getting injured as Robin. You can’t tell me he wouldn’t dial up the ‘helpless injured kid’ act by 1000 to tug on Bruce’s heartstrings. Bruce would only have to give into it, surrender part of his meal or a snack and hand-feed him once and it’s over.
After that, Dick’s either pulling the helpless card or resorting to being plain obnoxious, making loud cheeping noises with his mouth wide open and pointed upward like his namesake. (If you haven’t seen what a hungry baby robin looks like, look it up. They’re so scrunkly. I love them so much, but they’re annoying)
Dick ate all his fries already, but he sees that Bruce still has some? Cheep cheep! Dick is hungry (or just bored) while on patrol? Cheep cheep!
After Dick is no longer Robin, he’s obviously not around or close enough to Bruce to do it as often. And though he may be ticked that Jason now has the Robin name and suit, he insists the baby birds must band together to bother their Batdad, so of course he teaches Jason how to leech snacks and food off of him. Now there’s a duet of annoying cheeping following Bruce around.
Then Jason dies and it’s quiet again.
After Tim comes along, I imagine that it would take much longer for Dick to pass the tradition onto him, but I can’t see the cheeping getting as obnoxious or reoccurring as it was before. Perhaps Dick would do it as Nightwing as one of his ways of getting onto Bruce’s nerves, and Bruce would cave in out of habit or nostalgia.
Tim would prolly try it more often if he could do it for coffee, but I can’t see Bruce trying to pour coffee into his open mouth going very well. Maybe if Bruce attempts to cut him off of caffeine for the night, Tim could overlap his words with loud cheeps until Bruce just sighs and dumps a shot of espresso into the fiend’s mouth to shut him up.
Damian would be baffled and borderline horrified witnessing this happening with any of the other batkids. These absolute animals were really trained by his father? And his father was indulging them?!
I can’t see Damian doing the cheep cheep thing. At least not for a while. As an animal lover, maybe he’d warm up to the idea a little bit after seeing the chicks in a bird nest being fed by mama bird in the gardens.
Lord help poor Bruce after his collection of kids grows. Any time he has a snack in hand, there’s at least two batkids hovering around him cheep cheeping. ‘Kids’ is actually a very loose term, some of these annoying mfers are legally adults and still are trying to get some of his snacks even though they have full access to the same damn snacks on their own.
I also think it would be really funny if one of the younger batkids does this to Dick instead of Bruce. Maybe if Damian finally decides to give it a shot, he cheeps at Dick when he’s eating a snack instead of his father, especially if Damian still doesn’t feel ready to act so ‘unbecoming of a Wayne heir’ in front of his father.
Dick would prolly cry at finally being ‘mama bird’ in these games.
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