An old reference drawing I'd made of Achilles and Icarus along with some little facts about them
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Achilles (Al-Ghul) Wayne-Kent
Icarus (Al-Ghul) Wayne-Kent
Aged: 9-13 years old
Some random info:
Both twins wear kryptonite accessories to dampen their powers. Kryptonite doesn't affect them the way it affects other kryptonians, it just affects them the way red sun lamps do. Both carry lead cases to store the accessories.
Icarus acts more aloof in public and Achilles does most of the public speaking.
Both twins have a temper like Jon. They are amazing at voice mimickrey like Damian
They are very blunt and ruthlessly honest but have a way of making insults sound like compliments.
continuation of my w.i.p, I decided to render them cuz I hate myself
Damian and Jon are finished and I just need to draw Icarus and Achilles, although I'm not really liking Jon's hair so I might go and change tjat later ToT
Been gone a while, I'm in Mexico rn visiting family so I havent had much time to post but I'm working on a drawing of the jondami family so have this w.i.p of it <3
Im working on the story still of course and it'll be posted soon tysm for being patient with me <333
sorry for disappearing, my cat gave birth to 5 healthy kittens so I might not be as active for the next few weeks, I'll try to post but it might be every now and then only for the next few weeks
Have these kitten pics as an apology <333
Jondami test tube babies content shall continue on its schedule in a few weeks <333 thank u for understanding
Bruce was the first of the guests to wake up the next morning, after Alfred of course, and made his way towards the dining room where he could hear chatter and some laughter. Once he made it into the dining room he saw what was causing all the ruckus, at the table sat the family of four. Damian and Jon sitting next to each other, each holding a baby bottle and a small bundle in their arms. Bruce could see little hands reaching out of both bundles, clearly very eager to drink their bottles, baby squeals and gurgles sounding throughout the room. Damian and Jon chuckling and laughing at their babies eagerness. Bruce could hear Jon cooing cheerfully at the baby in his arms, while Damian murmured softly to the baby in his arms.
Not wanting to startle the family Bruce cleared his throat to announce his entrance and watched as both young men snapped their heads up to look at him, both looking startled regardless. Damian was the first to snap out of it, staring for a moment before breaking the silence, "Good morning father, I hope you slept well." "Good morning Damian yes I did", Bruce replied, turning slightly to look at Jon, "and Good morning to you too Jon." Jon looked up from the baby in his arms and smiled brightly, "Good morning Mr. Wayne!" That made Bruce chuckle, Jon never truly stopped calling him Mr. Wayne no matter how much he insisted just Bruce was fine. "we're giving Icarus and Achilles their bottles and then we're gonna wait for the others to wake up so we can all eat," Jon said with a bright smile and Damian nodded along behind him.
A moment later Jon suddenly jumped up out of his seat with a look of panic on his face and handed Achilles to Damian who easily held both infants, "I just remembered my deadline to submit my photos for the newspaper got pushed up I need to go over to the main office and hand them in!!!" Jon spoke frantically as he ran through the house coming back dressed for his job and with a satchel at his side, "I'm so sorry Dami, I'm so sorry Mr. Wayne I'll be back in about an hour I swear! Bye Dami I love you, bye Achilles, bye Icarus I love you both too!!" With that Bruce was left standing at the dining rooms entranc and Damian was left sitting there holding two infants who kept gurgling and squealing as though nothing had happened. For Damian it truly did seem like a normal occurrence because he simply said,"Have a seat and wait with us father, Alfred insisted on making breakfast today." With that Bruce sat down next to Damian and stared down at the two little bundles in his arms. Both babies noticed him staring and were soon staring right back at him, curious looks forming in their tiny faces.
Damian seemed to notice and after a moment of inner debate finally turned to Bruce and simply asked, "would you like to hold Icarus and Achilles father? They've just finished eating so they shouldn't be fussy." It took Bruce a moment to process the question, and even after he couldn't help but stare at his son, then back at the two infants in his sons arms. Slowly he nodded at Damian and soon enough Damian was gently placing the babies in his arms, and moving Bruce's hands to hold them both correctly. He allows Bruce a moment to stare at his grandsons before softly speaking again, "father these are Icarus and Achilles, your grandsons."
Bruce couldn't take his eyes off of the infants, taking in all of their features, their tiny freckles adorning their faces, Icarus' cute button nose, and Achilles elegant looking hook nose, so much like Damian's own nose it almost hurt to see it on such a small creature, but the most mesmerizing thing were definitely their eyes. Two sets of big beautiful eyes stared up at him with pure innocence in them and full of trust, of a hope not yet shattered by their world. Icarus' a beautiful mixture of Damian's green eyes and some blue, while Achilles had Jon's unique lilac eyes and some blue just like his brothers.
Bruce couldn't bring himself to look away, the feeling of warmth washing all across him as he stared at them, as it finally hit him that these were his grandchildren, his baby's babies. It scared him just how far he knew he was willing to go for them, how seeing them made him question if his moral code could stand if they were ever hurt. How he wouldn't be able to be mad of what Damian could do to anyone who hurt them.
Soon enough he felt something wet slide down his face and was startled to realize he was crying, and couldn't help but feel a bit confused, he didnt know why he was crying. Damian said nothing, simply softly leaning into his father's side as he cried softly while holding his grandchildren. After a few minutes of soft silence Bruce finally spoke up softly, "they're beautiful Damian." At this Damian stared up at his father a soft smile on both of their faces, "thank you father." Then after a moment of hesitation he spoke again, voice barely above a whisper, "their middle names are Thomas." The admission bringing on a new wave of tears from Bruce. This time he reached out softly, being mindful of the infants in his arms and pulled Damian into his side, softly hugging his youngest.
They sat there comfortable and silent, basking in the soft moment. It was soon broken by a crash from above followed by some shouted curses. This made both men look up before Bruce chuckled, "looks like your siblings have woken up." This made Damian sigh before responding, "This is going to be a long day," then he smiled up at Bruce again before continuing, "I wouldn't have it any other way, let us go see what has caused an argument to break out so early." Bruce agreed before handing Icarus over to Damian and getting up with him to walk back upstairs, "Yes let's go see what's happening." They both walked up the stairs to see what the commotion was so early in the day. Both still smiling from their earlier interaction.
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Imma sucker for Damian and Bruce's relationship in case it wasn't obvious lmao
About 4 hours after everyone had gone off to bed, Jon flew into their mini version of the batcave, and as he took off his Solarflare suit he listened in on the manors heartbeats. He was surprised to hear more then 3 human heartbeats before realizing that Damian's family must be staying the night. This made him curious and worried since the only times they'd all stayed over had been when someone was in critical condition. After checking in their medbay and seeing that no one was resting in there he was just more confused and decided to make his way upstairs to ask Damian.
Entering his and Damian's room he found Damian asleep in their bed, the sight making him smile softly. He did his best to shuffle around as quietly as he could but inevitably he heard Damian wake up. "...Beloved is that you?", was the muffled and sleep addled question Jon got directed at him. "Shhh go back to sleep Dami, I didn't mean to wake you up", Jon replied in a soothing tone as he got into bed with Damian.
"How were the twins?", he added as an afterthought while staring at Damian's sleepy face. It took a moment for the question to register but once it had Damian answered, "they haven't woken up yet, they've been good. My family came over to meet them, did you know that we forgot to tell people that we're parents now?" Jon chuckled softly at the answer and began running his fingers through Damian's soft hair, processing what he'd said. "Wait", Jon said sounding alarmed, Damian's words having finally been processed, "we forgot to tell our families, we haven't even considered how to tell our friends! How do we tell the public, you're basically a celebrity this is big news to them. Will we tell them that they're adopted or do we tell them the truth, and-"
"Beloved", Damian interrupted Jon's rambling, "we will cross that bridge when we get to it, for now let's focus on telling our families. Mine will be officially meeting them in a few hours during breakfast, then we can discuss them meetin your family, but for now let's sleep, alright?" Jon took a deep breath before replying, "alright." "Good, now go to sleep, good night Jon, I love you." "Love you to Dami." With that they both drifted off to sleep embracing one another, dreaming about their future with their little family.
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Sorry that this is so short I've been busy, the next post will be longer feel free to leave comments or asks about any ideas anyone may have <3
not a part of my jondami test tube babies writing, but I'm considering turning it into an actual story with some kind of plot line and not just random ideas that come to mind. Just wanted to know if that's something that would interest anyone or if I should just stick to what I'm doing right now. If I do make it a story with an actual plot I'd probably post it to ao3, but please I want to see what anyone would be interested in, since I do kind of want to see what I could make out of it
Everyone started asking questiond immediately, not even taking time to sit down. The noise of their voices slowly started getting louder, practically screaming by that point. Bruce was silently sitting in a corner procrssing the information that had been dropped on him and watching as a vein in Damian's neck slowly starting bulging out, he was clearly getting angry very quickly. After a few more seconds of the loudness Damian finally lost his cool and shouted, "ALFRED AND I WILL BE GOING TO GET REFRESHMENTS FOR EVERYONE, AND WHEN WE COME BACK I EXPECT YOU ALL TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS IN A CIVILIZED MANNER!!" Needless to say that shut evryone up and soon enough everyone had finally gotten comfortable in the library. With that Damian and Alfred finally left to prepare some snacks, but as soon as they were out of the room whispers started up, theories and questions being traded between siblings while Bruce sat there silently watching them all, still processing what he'd just witnessed.
"I bet Talia stole them from somewhere," Jason stated bemused. Beside him Tim nodded in agreement. Dick spoke up next, "we'll find out soon enough, but I'm more curious on why their cribs look like cages, aren't you?" "Maybe they don't know what baby cribs are meant to look like?", Steph suggested looking apprehensive. "That's stupid steph look at the rest of the nursery, they clearly did their research on child care," was the rebuttal Tim gave with a scoff. "Regardless I'm sure if you ask him he'll totally tell you, just wait till he's back and then ask," Duke replied. "I agree with Duke let's just calm ourselves and wait for Damian and Alfred to come back," was the response Dick gave them all cheerily.
Just as Tim opened his mouth to speak again Damian and Alfred entered the room again, holding some trays with snacks and drinks. The room became deathly silent once again as Alfred and Damian set the trays down on one of the tables in the library. Once they were finally done everyone moved to grab something from each tray, and soon everyone was sitting with some kind of drink or snack, staring expectantly at Damian. Finally after what felt like an annoyingly long sip of his tea, Damian looked at them all and simply stated, "you may all ask your questions one at a time."
Everyone looked ready to burst but knew that an outburst of noise and questions might make Damian change his mind and not give them answers. So they all looked at each other seemingly asking who should go first, finally, and surprisingly, Bruce sighed and raised his hand showing he wanted to ask the first question. "Yes father?", Damian acknowledged.
After another heavy sigh Bruce spoke,"I just want to know where Talia got them from and if it was through legal means." "Worry not father, mother informed me that Icarus and Achilles are mine and Jon's biologically, an advancement in the leagues science wing has made such a thing possible. As for legality Jon and I are uncertain on how she managed to get Jon's DNA, but she has informed us that all traces of it have been destroyed and has even allowed us to check ourselves." This response made eveyone freeze, millions of questions racing through their minds. "Biologically yours?", Dick managed out in a strangled voice. "Indeed Jon and I have ran the necessary DNA tests already and it's true they are ours, they are currently about 6 weeks old."
Tim found his voice second, and he quietly asked, "So they're a quarter kryptonian?" "Indeed although mother also informed that in order to be allowed to go forth with their creation grandfather demanded to be allowed to alter parts of their genetics, and thus they already have some of their powers like their flight, and are as strong as Jon's father was at their age, thus we assume that grandfather's advancements had to do with bringing out their powers. However they have proven to not yet have invulnerability, Ice breath, super hearing, nor heat vision."
With this response from Damian everyone needed another minute to think of what this meant for them all in the future. This time it was Jason who snapped out of his stupor first, "Wait is that why the cribs look weird as fuck, and why they're nailed to the floor." Damian looked at him like he was dense before responding, "Yes, the first night with their cribs we found them flying about their room and since they aren't invulnerable we needed a way to keep them in the cribs, the second night they had managed to lift their cribs with their strength, and so we had to nail them to the floor, anymore questions from any of you?" Cass who had been silent throughout the whole thing finally spoke up curiously, "what do you plan on doing with them? Will you raise them or give them to someone else to raise?" Damian gave her a confused look, "Jon and I shall be raising them of course they are our children, now I say we call it a night and tomorrow you may get to know them better when they're both awake." Everyone agreed the events leading up to now leaving them tired and drained, soon everyone had made their ways to their designated rooms and were ready to sleep.
All except for Bruce who called out to Damian, "Damian could I have a moment?" "Of course father." With the affirmative Bruce, with a soft smile playing at his face, continued, "I just wanted to say I'm proud of the man you've become, I know you'll make an amazing father Damian." This seemed to choke Damian up, and he had to take a moment to compose himself before leaning in to hug Bruce and replying, "thank you father, that means a lot coming from you, and I'm certain you'll make an amazing grandfather." That froze Bruce, and soon Damian let go and headed to his own room with a simple goodnight, leaving Bruce frozen in the hall. Once alone he faintly whispered to himself, "I'm a grandfather." After a few minutes he finally snapped out of it and headed to his own room, smiling softly at the thought, he couldn't wait to meet his grandsons' tomorrow.
The whole family followed Damian anxiously and excitedly, they were a ball of nerves jittery and jumpy with many emotions. Damian calmly led them through the tunnel connecting the two houses before coming out into his own mini section of what looked like the batcave but smaller, and filled with more medical supplies. It looked almost like a hospital, it was where the birds and bats were kept when in critical condition.
As they reached the stairs that led to Jon and Damian's own home he turned sharply and glared at his family. The whispers and murmurs quickly ceased under his glare, he waited a moment before finally speaking, "you are to be silent until we leave their room, then you may ask your questions, if you wake them I will make you regret it." Everyone side eyed each other nervously before they all slowly nodded in acknowledgement staying quiet as Damian nodded and finally opened the hidden entrance to his own home.
They stepped out from behind a bookshelf into a library familiar to them, it was where they gathered when at Damian's home. Quickly they all filed out from behind the bookshelf before Damian quietly beckoned them to follow him. This houses family bedrooms were a few hallways down, each of them had a room assigned in the house where they could stay whenever they needed or wanted to. Soon they walked past the maater bedroom (aka Jon and Damian's room) and stood instead in front of the big double doors next to it, on the opposite side of their own assigned rooms. They all knew that that specific room had a door connecting to the master bedroom, hence why none of them had claimed it as their own.
Damian turned to look at them and made a shushing motion before finally opening one of the doors. Inside they found a beautiful nursery decorated in soft pastel colors and two odd looking cribs on opposite sides of the room. Above each a little mobile hung with the moon and stars both playing a soft lullaby in sinc, and in the cribs two infants slept peacefully, entirely unaware of the mental breakdowns they were causing the adults around them. Everyone stood just outside the door, to scared of what Damian might do if they disturbed the babies. After checking on the two infants Damian motioned for the others to come in as well. Hesitantly they all made their way into the nursery everyone choosing a baby to go look at, silently they all marveled at the two small beings laying peacefully. After a few minutes of observing them Damian motioned for everyone to silently move out.
Once the nursery doors were firmly shut Damian finally spoke again, in a whisper he stated, "let us go back to the library and then you all may quietly and calmly ask your questions one at a time." Everyone nodded and were soon making their way back to the library. Soon enough that nervous and excitedly buzzing was back, everyone jittery for different reasons. Finally after everyone was comfortable Damian spoke up once again, this time louder, "you may all ask whatever you wish to ask now."
The bat family is the first of the two families to find out about Icarus and Achilles, and its not thanks to their detective brains. As the first few weeks with the twins officially pass Jon and Damian have a new routine set up already.
Whoever wakes up first gives the twins their first bottles and then works on breakfast. Once the other is awake they take over the child caring role. Then Jon goes and gets ready for his civilian job before flying from Gotham to Metropolis. (Damian and Jon bought a mansion close enough to wayne manor that the cave systems could connect to the batcave since Damian is their assigned doctor) Afterwards Damian spends the day caring for Icarus and Achilles, and once Jon is home in the evening he is solely responsible for the child caring and cooking. Then once nightfall arrives they all go to sleep, unless Damian is needed. Then he goes over to the batcave to work on whatever injuries have been sustained.
Through it all not once does Damian consider informing his family of the twins, it's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he forgot they don't know of their existence, and that the family never asks. Despite Jon taking the nightshift in child caring Damian still keeps their nurseries baby monitor camera app on at all times when he's not home in case of an emergency. It's one of these emergencies that leads to his family finding out about the twins.
It had been a semi peaceful night with very minore injuries, Jason being the only one who would require more thorough assistance, nothing a few stitches couldn't fix. And while Damian knew Alfred could handle it easily he didn't want the man to carry on that burden by himself, thus he was there tonight to stitch Jason up. It was calm in the bat cave for once, everyone doing what they needed to do or just relaxing.
Damian was just about done with the stitches when he received a text from Jon. It simply stated 'natural disaster emergency, Solarflare is needed, the twins are asleep will be back as soon as I can, I love you'. Damian replied an affirmative and that he loved him too, checked on the still asleep twins through the camera app, and turned back quickly to his family. He simply stated "Jon is needed out as Solarflare and Achilles and Icarus cannot be left home alone, thus I must leave early tonight." Everyone stared at him in confusion, before assuming he was talking about some new pets he and Jon might have recently acquired. It was Dick who questioned him first, "Damian I didn't know you and Jon got some new pets, what species are they?" To which Damian stared at him in mild confusion and concern before simply replying "Richard, human infants aren't animals, even if they act like them at times."
Total silence. All that could be heard in the cave was the bats screeching above them and Tim choking on and dropping the energy drink he'd been chugging. Every single one of the bats and birds stared at Damian like he'd grown a second head before Bruce finally spoke up, sounding a bit choked, "human infants?" "Indeed, mother stated that the twins were a wedding gift to Jon and I, it has been a hard few weeks adjusting to them but it has been worth it," was the reply Damian gave, "now I must go, they shouldn't be left alone even if they are asleep in their cribs, goodbye."
With that the rest of them broke out of their stupor. Before he could fully walk out everyone started shouting out questions, "Wait! What do you mean wedding gifts???" "Did Talia kidnap some children for you?" "How old are they?" "You and Jon have children?" "Can you bring them here so we can meet them?", it was Stephanie who shouted that last question, louder then all the others looking at Damian imploringly. Seeing Damian pause she smirked before continuing, "you've kept them hidden from us so it's only fair that you introduce then to us." "I haven't kept them hidden from you, they simply never came up in conversation," was the reply she got. Steph pouted and just as she went to open her mouth to speak Damian interrupted her, "while I am unwilling to bring them here you all may quietly accompany me to check up on them, and once thats done you may ask your questions." Everyone immediately stood up and went to follow Damian through the tunnel that connected the two houses. They were all excited and mildly concerned to meet the two new additions to the family.
Jon and Damian spend a week in that adjusting to children in the house period. The first thing they focus on, after getting the bare essentials, is obviously their new sons names. While they don't have a list of baby names picked out Damian does have a list of names for new potential pets that he and Jon made together. He understands that pets and children are two very different things, but his list consists solely of human names and thus he and Jon agree that it should be fine. They go through the whole list and end up choosing two names; Achilles and Icarus. All that's left is to decide who gets what name. They debate it over for about an hour before deciding which child gets what name, and thus Icarus (Al Ghul) Wayne-Kent and Achilles (Al Ghul) Wayne-Kent are named.
Their next step is more in depth shopping, this included but isn't limited to, cribs, car seats, more bottles, clothing and diapers, bathing items, and many other items. Jon flies out to purchase it all while Damian stays behind with Icarus and Achilles. While out he finds a set of matching plushies, two little bunnies, and while knowing that the twins arent old enough to have toys he still buys them for the future. And isnt that a funny thought he thinks to himself as he sets them in his cart, a future raising two children. After the first night of the twins sleeping in their cribs and waking up not in the cribs Jon and Damian both realize that normal cribs won't cut it out. Jon makes some adjustments, that include some railing that opens up over the top of the cribs, that Damian points out make them look like cages, much to Jon's mortification, and the night after that the cribs are nailed to the floor as well.
Soon enough by the end of the week they have adjusted pretty well, with Damian deciding to silently resign from his job at the hospital he worked at to stay at home with the twins, though he does continue being his families doctor for injuries. He does plan on going back once the babies are older of course. Jon continues on with his day job as a journalistic photographer and continues going out as Solarflare, feeling happy to come home to his new family. In the excitement of it all they'd forgotten one important detail, informing their families of these changes.
Newly wed jondami after waking up to find 2 babies and a note from Talia stating that the kids are theirs biologically, that this is her wedding gift, and that despite only being a few weeks old they've shown signs of kryptonian powers (they broke the fingers of the nurse that let them hold on): O.O this is our life now.
They completely accept it no questions asked, there's no debate on what to do with the babies, they just pick them up and bring them inside. They make some makeshft cribs out of some laundry baskets they have laying around, set the babies in after making sure they're alright and go back to sleep. They wake up the next morning thinking 'huh what a strange dream' just to look down next to their bed to find the 2 laundry baskets empty and the birth certificates lying next to them.
Instant panic. That wasn't a dream clearly so where tf are the babies??? They jump out of bed immediately, the letter stated they'd been born almost 3 weeks ago so they shouldn't even be able to hold their heads up without support. After running around like headless chickens for a few minutes, both to panicked to even remember Jon's super hearing, they finally hear a noise. The distinct sound of baby noises coming from their closet of all things. They find both babies floating in there seemingly exploring their new surroundings.
They couldn't help but stare in shock, they'd both read Talia's letter but, reading about their new children's abilities and seeing one of them firsthand were 2 very different things. The babies seemed to know that Jon and Damian were something to them as the moment they saw them pure excitement lit their faces and soft baby gurgles filed the silence. That snapped Jon and Damian out of their shock and they immediately got to work on catching their new children.
They knew they were in for a life of chaos, and after getting them down they instantly started brainstorming for everything they'd have to baby proof. They could imagine the lifetime of headaches, but as they stared at the babies in their arms gently dozing off against their chests, they decided that it might not be so bad.
my tablet has been fixed so I drew a sketch of what the test tube babies would look like, they still need names unfortunately but they should get some soon
Hopefully I can drew them better soon instead of a simple sketch but I've been busy
