#bat fam stuff

[souliebird]

This deafjason hc has taken over my life.... how about finding out Jason's deaf from Bruce's perspective? Would he feel bad he didn't notice for over a year? Love your head cannon!!!

Bruce finds out from Cassandra of all people. She asks him some mundane question about resources for people who are deaf and after Bruce replies, he asks why. And Cass simply replies, ‘I’m  checking into things for Jason’ and Bruce just understands.

He hates himself for not noticing, he hates himself over the fact Jason feels he couldn’t tell him. Bruce feels guilty that he couldn't protect Jason again. Jason is his son and Bruce just keeps failing him. He wants to go confront Jason, demand answers to what happened and why Jason kept this hidden, but Alfred intervenes. He manages, somehow, to talk Bruce into his senses. That Jason kept this hidden because he doesn’t want to be treated differently.

But Jason is Bruce’s son and Bruce will be damned if he doesn’t adjust to this. So he spends a week following Jason, in and out of the cape, making sure Jason is really okay. He learns how Jason has changed his fighting style, finds the weaknesses and devotes everything he has to protecting those weaknesses. When he finds out everyone else but Dick knew, he sits them all down and goes over exactly how Jason’s style has changed and how they all have to Keep Him Safe.

Jason is family, however much he doesn’t want to be.

[souliebird]

(deaf Jason) which bat brat notices it first? What do they do?

Besides Babs, Cassandra is the first to notice. She has been in Hong Kong and hasn’t been privy to all of Jason’s slow changes, so when she sees him next, his posture practically screams something is wrong. It isn’t her place to ask, though, she and Jason have never been close, but they are still siblings so she is concerned.

A concerned Cass ends up stalking Jason, trying to figure out what is wrong. She follows him all the way back to his current apartment, something that is more than just a place to crash. She watches as he silently goes about his routine and starts cooking, then going over to work on something else.Jason is obviously distracted by something, doesn’t notice when his food starts to burn and smoke until his alarm goes off.

But it isn’t an alarm Cass is used to. There is no noise. Lights just suddenly start flashing in the apartment and Jason is running back to the kitchen and Cass doesn’t understand. Because the apartment is far enough away from other people that a fire alarm wouldn’t be heard by neighbors. Why does Jason have lights instead, which is /noticeable/ from the street? That doesn’t seem like something Jason would want.

So she researches, finds out what those types of alarms are used for. When she finds out people who cannot hear use them, everything clicks into place.

She doesn’t confront him, because if he isn’t telling anyone, he has his reasons. But she worms her way into working with him on different cases while she is in Gotham. She signs to him instead of talking, and at first he is surprised, but then he seems to remember she doesn’t speak much, and ends up hesitantly signing back to her.

She never reveals to him she knows he can no longer hear, but Jason slowly realizes she does know. They don’t talk about it, but they talk about so many other things and slowly start to bond. They teach each other new signs, and Jason feels strangely honored when Cass gives him a sign name.

When Cass has to go back to Hong Kong, they exchange numbers and Skype information, and end up doing video calls with each other and having long chats into the nights without opening their mouths at all.