back from the grave

just like Jason todd

[hotdogthelongway]

Unpopular opinion but Damian having a build more like Dick in the new comic makes sense. He walked away from vigilante life, he wouldn’t bulk up like Bruce because he would be working out like that, he wouldn’t be using those muscles daily. He would be thinner because he wouldn’t need to be a tank of a man.

Also his kid looking like Jon/Dick also makes sense because he has green/blue eyes, his dad has blue and Talia has brown/green. Genetically his kid having blue eyes makes sense, especially since green is mega recessive. Damian has some color in this comic, god bless, but his kid would kinda be pale. It makes sense, baby Alf could get a tan later (I imagine he tans pretty easy or at least doesn’t burn easily). Also idk how much baby Alf looking like someone else is reliable bc we got 1 panel, he’s half hiding, and he’s got mega baby fat. Need more angles of that little face, but I do LOVE that Damian got this ‘ending’.

I love that Damian got a choice. That the boy born to kill and destroy got to walk away and make life. To be a father and love someone the way he should have been loved. That he gets to be soft and leave the pain and violence behind.

[robs-your-robins]

Tim: So let me get this straight, Uncle Clark is taking Damian for the weekend to stay at the Kent farm, Jason is doing a mission with Dick covering in Bludhaven, Duke is going to a concert. Steph and Cass are in Shanghai doing a mission for the Justice League, Alfred is doing Shakespeare in the Park. And I’m going to Aspen with Bernard for the weekend.

Damian: What’s your point?

Tim: Bruce is going to be alone. All weekend.

Damian: Oh, right, Father needs to nuture a child otherwise he gets distressed.

Duke: And starts snatching orphans off the street.

Steph: Making them wear costumes etc.

Dick: Oh, that’s taken care of.

Cass: How?

Jason: We give him a bag of dried rice about the same weight as a human baby.

Dick: It usually does the trick.

Cass: I’m going to need more information.

Steph: Show your work.

Dick, like its obvious: Bruce can hold the bag of rice when he starts feeling anxious about being alone.

Damian: They do something similiar to pandas in captivity when their young need to be removed for observation.

Jason: Yeah, it’s not like he thinks it’s actually one of us but it will keep him from going Robin searching or whining at the door.

Bruce, that very night: *sat leafing through casefiles with Rice!Bat Baby laid against his chest*

[angel-starbeam]

[hotdogthelongway]

Once, I took a stuffed frog toy that was like the size of a baby, filled it with rice so it weighed as much as a 4 month old baby and let my mom carry it around when she started talking about grandkids

[roboticoperatingbud]

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[hotdogthelongway]

K so I know pit madness isn’t a canon thing but hear me out:

It doesn’t make you go crazy or irrational angry. Instead I wanna think it messes with your emotions like a ghost, in the way that when you’re brought back from the pit, if you died a horrible death like Jason did, you come back haunted by that pain. And pain usually turns to anger and yeah it’s not all he feels but he’s being haunted by his own ghost. The pit madness comes on waves and it’s like a ghost throwing dishes and slamming doors shut at 3am every day.

You come back from the dead with the Lazarus pit, and in turn your ghost gets trapped inside you. It’s horrible and awful and the price you pay for cheating death.

[chaoticbatfam]

Do ya ever think about how Bruce legally adopted Jason before Dick?

Dick was still considered Bruce's ward, of course, but in the comics- New Teen Titans era- Bruce adopted Jason first and only adopted Dick because Dick got upset and thought it was because B didn't consider him as his son.

Bruce's line of thinking was that Dick had had a good dad and B didn't want D to think he was trying to replace that. Jason did not have a good father, so Bruce wanted to give him one.

Anyways, I wanted to hear your thoughts on that one?

unfortunately yes I think about it 💀

i think about the fact that bruce, so like dick and yet so different at hte same time, worries that he's not enough for dick. worries that dick would think him trying to be a replacement. but in reality, dick sees him as a dad. not a replacement, but a second dad.

bruce thinks he's not good enough, dick thinks HE'S not good enough, and all they do in the end is prove that they were right from the very beginning: they're both jsut too similar to ever make each other happy in the way they want to

[hotdogthelongway]

My understanding of this isn’t because of anything in canon, it was because at the time that Dick was created it wasn’t socially chill for a single dude to adopt a kid, and by the time Jason was created it was more socially acceptable! I really think Bruce would adopt Dick the second he could tbh.

[papayafromtv]

you know when i was a little kid i used to be in my own head a lot and didn't really understand the concept of paying attention to my surroundings visa-vi staying near my family, and with that in mind,

Damian being an independent queen that keeps accidentally running away. Damian isn't exactly used to being a normal child, let alone a normal child part of a familial unit. when he was six he was being sent on two week long hikes for survival training; the closest thing to a genuine caring guardian in the league was Jason, who although he did give a shit he was also kinda messed up in the head, not to mention he mostly grew up alone on the streets until Bruce found him, so he's just as stupid about families as Damian is.

so when he gets to Gotham, Damian doesn't quite understand that Wayne Manor is supposed to be his home, not a main base. he also doesn't understand that as a child, his family are supposed to fucking know where he is.

Bruce puts out a Gotham-wide alert when Damian doesn't come home from school one day and by the time they stumble upon Red Hood on patrol they are full out panicking.

"What if- what if somebody's taken him?" Dick gasped, pacing the rooftop. Tim looked over from where he'd been trying to run through Gotham security cameras for facial recognition. "What if they've hurt him?!"

"It will be fine, Dick," He soothed. "We'll find him, he'll be ok."

"Whose g'na be ok?" Jason's mask popped over the edge of the building as he clamberd over the lip, heaving like he'd just been running.

"Damian," Dick told him frantically. "Damian's gone, he never made it home from school- god I knew I should have picked him up myself, and now if he's hurt it will be my fault and-"

"D'ya try calling him?" Jason did not yet seem worried, and Tim had to answer as Dick was preoccupied with hyperventilating.

"We found his phone broken on a sidewalk, we think there was a struggle and he lost it trying to call for backup."

"That doesn't sound like him," Jason scoffed. "Damian's first instinct when needing backup is to say 'fuck it we ball' and bring out the pepper spray, not call for help. He probably just got bored and went on a trip, he used to do that all the time in the league. One time he made it all the way to Mexico before we found out where he'd gone."

"He would have told one of us where he was going!" Dick wailed.

"Why would he do that?" Jason asked, mystified. Tim stared at him, squinting incredulously. "Here, you know he still has that little flip-phone Talia gave him before sending us to Gotham; I'm the only other one with access to that number, let me call that phone and see if he picks up."

"He's had a second phone this whole time?!" Dick screeched, bounding over in a panic as Jason dialled the number. He shoved the elder away, putting the call on speaker and waiting casually for the line to connect.

"What do you need?" Damian's voice came through short and clipped, though not at all like he was in danger.

"DAMIAN?!?" Dick shot forward, white knuckling the arm that Jason was using to hold the phone and yelling into the device. "DAMI ARE YOU OK? DID SOMETHING HAPPEN?"

"...What the fuck is happening."

"They think you got hurt," Jason shrugged casually. "Apparently you didn't make it home from school?"

"Uh, yeah? I saw an ad for a wildlife preservation opening up in Tampa and I wanted to go see it."

"Tampa- you're in fucking FLORIDA?" Tim exclaimed, indignant. "What the fuck happened to your phone?!"

"Oh, that thing? It kept making noise so I threw it at a wall." Damian explained calmly. Tim became even more incredulous, even as Jason nodded like it was a completely normal thing to do.

"That noise was us trying to call to find out where you fucking were!"

"Why on earth would you need to know that?" Damian questioned, confused. "If there was a Gotham emergency I would have returned. There's no need to worry."

"See." Jason shrugged, casual. Dick let out a keening groan and sank to the floor, hands gripping his hair in obvious despair. Tim looked between the phone and Jason with an unreadable expression on his face, slightly suicidal in nature. His jaw opened and shut a few times as he tried to find the right words, before he finally gave up and reached a finger to turn on his comm unit.

"Cancel the state-wide search, we found him. He's a fucking idiot, but we found him."

Damian gets grounded for the first time in his life and it takes weeks for them to even get him to understand why.

[sweethotspot]

Sometimes I think about how if Damian comes to join the family, Bruce is like desensitized by everything he does because his other kids did it in the past so he's just..... calm.

Jumping off buildings without his line? Dick has done that over 100 times as Robin.

Threatening criminals? Jason.

Figuring out information and stalking people? Tim.

Purposely sabotaging equipment so Bruce is forced to take a break? Dick, Jason and Tim

Making sure he doesn't get a girlfriend because he doesn't want a step mom? Dick

Go missing for weeks and come back like nothing is wrong? Jason

Dating a kryptonian out of spite? Tim

[hotdogthelongway]

That’s why Damian going to college is freaking Bruce out lol

[hotdogthelongway]

Every time I think “oh I’m not that midwestern” I find a post about Superman doing midwestern things and realize I do all of those

[windybluebelles]

Tim: has the obsessive need to study all of his romantic partners as if they are specimens in a lab. He wants to know everything about these fuckers. Good things bad things, everything. He wants to tie them to a table, take blood tests, check family heritage and medical histories.

Kon and Bernard: have never had someone actually want to find out things about them and entirely believe that Tim’s stalker ish tendencies are really romantic. Are both entirely desensitised to being strapped down and stabbed.

I was gonna write Kon and Berns getting like, ptsd from all the sciency/experimentation stuff. But I thought them just not giving a fuck would be funnier

[hotdogthelongway]

Better: Tim gets freaky after poking and prodding his bfs and accidentally Pavlov’d them, now Bernard and Kon get hard as hell whenever they faintly smell antiseptic or hear some scientific words like genome

[hotdogthelongway]

Tim Drake doesn’t like coffee, he likes mixing energy drinks with pre workout and pouring the mix into a coffee thermos to hide the fact that his concoction has over 300mg of caffeine in it. Everyone thinks he’s a coffee bitch but in reality he’s basically drinking sugar and caffeine straight.

[snakeredbirdbatkatana]

Whenever anyone writes Bruce showing up to school cause one of the kids got in a fight or some other random occurrence there tends to be a quick oh ok and then he takes them into the car to get ice cream.

No Bruce Wayne never in his life has believed his children did anything wrong.

You think his son punched a child?

Do you have it on videotape? Well then it didn't fucking happen.

His children can be guilty as sin, literally killed another child in class. Bruce does not give a fuck his kid is innocent, now once they get in the car that might change depending on the situation.

But damn right he's defending that kid to every single other adult.

It's not just at school. Or over the age of 18.

Superman once made a comment about Jason's kill count after he's big strong and every bit as tall as Bruce.

"Excuse me what proof do you have?"

"Bruce the duffle bag, you told me..."

"I'm sorry maybe, I just misheard what exactly did you imply about my son!"

Bruce is the parent that when the cops come to the door they better have a fucking warrant.

He has a team of attorneys, and a billion dollars fucking try him.

Call him from the police station. He will have badges.

You think the man with more money and power than god is letting someone else hold his children accountable.

"Who the fuck do you think you are Batman?"

[hotdogthelongway]

I fr hate the when people make Damian Wayne out to be some monster for what he did pre-Batman and when he first got to Gotham. Am I excusing his behavior? No, but I also understand that when he came to Gotham he didn’t have the same moral code as everyone else, and was raised in an environment where it was very much kill or be killed, and killing to advance in rank or to secure your position was normal. Kid has attachment issues, emotional regulation issues, and probs a deep fear of not living up to expectations, as well as the whole being dropped on a strangers doorstep (even if it is his father) and probably not spending much time with anyone remotely near his age. I’m also pretty sure it’s still canon that Ra’s wants to take his body and use it as a vessel at some point, that alone is fucking scary. Also he was like 9??? Developmental he’s around the age to like just be starting to fully understand empathy and social norms. And culture shock? And yeah he is really arrogant but it’s how he’s been raised since birth. If he showed any doubt in himself it would be used against him. Kids are born a totally blank slate, Damian was taught wildly different and horrible things.

He caught up on a lot of shit, I learned a lifetime of behaviors, and is learning to be a child in such a short amount of time too. He’s trying and labeling his as an asshole (he is an asshole but I say it lovingly) and reducing his character to arrogant and annoying is ignoring his whole character.

Also also also, one of the first choices he made on his own free will, no expectations or anything just what he really wanted, was to become a vegetarian. He cried when he met batcow. He wants to be a doctor. Damian Wayne picked tenderness and compassion and healing when given the chance.

[frenchgryffindor1960]

[hotdogthelongway]

I started playing animal crossing new horizons again after a few years of not, and I was fishing and remembered that when I was violently depressed and suicidal I was playing and said if I caught a sea bass I’d end it and I then immediately caught a sea bass and sobbed for 3 hours trying to catch anything other than a sea bass until I caught a squid

[abcdfghjklmpqrobin]

"Damian is a murderous brat", "Damian has murderous tendencies", "Damian shouldn't be in the Batfam because he's an assassin"

Damian the second he's allowed some agency outside the league:

[momo-minomo]

THIS! Damian was a murder baby for such a short time! And even on his second attempt to kill Tim back in Red Robin (2009) he was lashing out because of fear. He knew how respected Tim is in the hero community and especially in Dick's eyes. He was terrified that Tim would get him kicked out of the family and sent back to the life of violence and murder he'd only just realized he didn't want anymore. He was too young and too unfamiliar with Tim (and Dick) to realize they'd never do that to him.

For all that Tim rivals Bruce on genius, social skills, and detective skills it's Damian that is the actual mini-Bruce. He has his physical skill, his lack of social skills, and most of all his deep well of compassion. Damian loves so deeply that he repeatedly tears himself apart and re-builds himself into whatever he thinks the people he loves want him to be.

This kid adopts every animal in trouble he sees, he was the FIRST to help the We Are Robin movement, and he has a habit of stealing his big brothers' stuff (like Hood's helmet, Dick's shirts, and Tim's jacket and hoodies) because he wants to be like them and feel like he belongs but doesn't want to admit it. He reads shoujo manga full of romance and magic. He's thinking about following in Thomas Wayne's footsteps to become a doctor. He's an amazing big brother figure to Lizzie Prince (Wonder Robin).

THIS is the kid people are calling a terrible and dangerous person.

[prlssprfctn]

The thought of Bruce, who just lost his baby son, his Jason, looking sometimes in his own reflection or old teen photos, realising that this is what his Jason would look like if he survived. If he got a chance to grow up—

[hotdogthelongway]

Bruce learns about those artist and/or those aging programs they use for missing kids to show how old they’d be, he can’t help but take some of Jason’s photos and fill the gaps in his photo albums with the years he missed.

[trufflesmushroom]

I’ve never had a reheading go this horribly before. I’d say I’m pretty good at beheading- I may have broken a neck once or twice, but never any parts I actually liked or intended on keeping, and usually a reheading is the easiest thing, right? Just a little squish and a pop and done, a complete person. But this time it just- it just won’t go back on the body?? Which is incredibly frustrating but also, like, why??

And the funniest thing is, I’m not even swapping a head!! This is a curvy dancer head going onto a curvy dancer body!! They match!! This should have been so simple!! But no, this head’s just flopping around like a limp flaccid idiot and my hands are all red and sore now but the head just isn’t attaching all the way!!

Today I did six beheadings and two other reheadings, and I wanted to get this one attached so I could take a picture, but somehow it just isn’t working!! The head is just getting squished around but isn’t stretching over the neck right!! And I’m way too lazy to go and boil the head just to make the slip easier!! And I don’t wanna keep forcing it cuz I might break something but this is!! So frustrating!!

Like, what could I possibly be doing wrong!! Fuck!!

[trufflesmushroom]

I boiled the head and it popped right onto the neck in like two seconds.

I’m an idiot. Always do things the proper way from the get-go. Saves a lot of wasted time and struggle and ouchy hands.

[trufflesmushroom]

BARBIES. I’M TALKING ABOUT BARBIES. I AM CUSTOMIZING TOYS RIGHT NOW I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER AND I HAVE NEVER BEHEADED AN ACTUAL REAL LIFE HUMAN BEING OR TRIED TO REATTACH A PERSON’S HEAD BY BOILING IT

[bonelessnerd]

This might be the best creepypasta I’ve ever seen