omg wait have you ever thought about dickbabs/batcat parallels?
ABSOLUTELY
They are both extremely mom and dad coded for one. Especially Dick and Babs’ dynamic during Dick!bats where they were mentoring Damian and Steph respectively.
Babs and Selina keep their men polite 😏
Babs’ always has her Nightwing plushie close, and Selina sleeps w a Batman doll 🥹
Batcat obv are always on their pda game, and Dickbabs absolutely learned from the best!
Bruce and Selina: Sex in the maroni crime family apartments
Dick and Babs: Sex with maroni tied up in the basement
ALWAYS getting distracted. NEVER let your mission stop you from fooling around 🙏
They’re of course each other’s favorite dance partner
“I Need You”
Bruce and Dick are both VERY “drop everything and go” about their girls
Hang on. That fan comic you posted a minute ago raises so many questions for me. Was there an instance somewhere in which Bruce Wayne got Carrie'd? Because I have pictured that before and would like to know if it canonically happened somewhere. Although in my head, I thought he'd probably continue on with little more than an irritated grumble at worst, and at best he'd baffle whoever is trying to upset him by just thinking to himself, "This looks cooler anyways," (since we all know Batman, the guy who dresses as a scary bat and throws bat shaped weapons and takes his leave in the shadows and wind before conversations are over and is 100% not being ironic about any of it, Values Aesthetic) and finishing whatever he's saying with even more confidence.
Second and far more important: you have opinions about scarebat? It is rare* to hear anyone have thoughts about scarebat. Please share any of them. Personally, I don't think they'd ever be into each other even from a one-sided thing, even in the canonless space of my own headcanons I can't buy it, but I find the story potential compelling. Their similarities wouldn't be the reason they could bond but rather the things that keep them in an unending power struggle. It'd be so engaging/nervewracking to see play out. (Or maybe I'm just a bat kinnie and I think intravenous fear toxin is lowkey hot and everything else I said is me making justifications so I don't have to admit either of those embarrassing things to myself.)
*in my experience. It's entirely possible I'm just not running in any of the circles that discuss
@emma-d-klutz
Hello! My comic was very fanon! I just thought it would be very poetic for Bruce to get "carrie'd" as you would put it! Also I thought it would be a very Jerome thing to do to poor Bruce😬 I said it was paint but yeah basically fake/pig blood will suffice.
Now I do wonder is there's any media with Bruce Wayne getting blood thrown at him???
Honestly I love scarebats/scarybat ever since Batman Begins! I didn't even know their ship name until recent years LOL! I do love the ship especially because Batman and Scarecrow have a lot of interactions in many comics with insane fights! Also there's a lot of plots of Scarcrow controlling Batman with fear toxin- and usually Batman breaks away from that... I love their dynamic as enemies and as a ship! It actually amazes me it's kinda a rare ship!
I also love the concept of Scarecrow being extremely afraid/fascinated of bats because of Batman...the scene of Batman Begins when he hallucinates Batman as a Bat demon things stuck with me...
thanks for the prompt this was a great distraction from imperialism camp
"What the fuck is that?"
Tim gawked at his alternate self, horrified.
Other Tim pursed his lips. "It's my suit?"
"Why's it brown?"
Other Tim huffed. "Well, it was either this or the Robin suit, which the demon brat would definitely attack me for, or the cowl, and I hate the cowl."
"Cowl...?" He whispered to himself, bewildered. "What are you talking about?"
"Nevermind that," Other Tim said, "What's wrong with your eyes? Those eyebags are ridiculous. Do you sleep, like, ever??"
"Not you too," Tim whined. "Look, I skipped my meds yesterday and I accidentally stayed up for a case. No big deal. Don't- uh, don't tell Dick, please."
Other Tim frowned. "Why would I tell Dick? What meds?"
"My anxiety meds? For my ASD?"
"I... don't have autism."
Tim paused. A neurotypical... "I don't think this is gonna work out."
-
When Bruce found them, it was nearly too late. Damian was already stalking toward Tim's room with his katana.
"Damian," Bruce rumbled.
The boy stiffened. Other Damian didn't. "Baba," Damian said stiffly, trying to hide the sword behind his back.
"Why can't you be like Cass? Cass gets along with her double." Well, she'd liked her double enough... Bruce sighed longsufferingly. "Damian, you can't kill Tim, no matter what he's doing in an alternate universe."
"But Baba! He took Robin from me!"
Tim's door opened, revealing the teen, outfitted with an irate expression. "I'm not happy about it either, brat. Other Me has no idea how costumes or code names work, at all. He went by Drake, for gods sake! He's not a villain, like some people's doubles," Damian lunged at him, and Bruce scooped him up, wrapping him in his bulk, "but how am I supposed to show my face knowing that somewhere in the multiverse, I'm wearing a condom on my head."
"Don't," Damian suggested. "Do us all a favor."
Tim stuck out his tongue. "You're just mad Jon's older than you now in their timeline."
Damian tried to lunge again, and Bruce cast his eyes up to the ceiling as he held him back, wondering what he'd done to deserve this. Then he remembered what his double was like. Ah, he thought. That's what.
-
"What's wrong with your- my- your hair?" Dick asked, peering at the scar on his double's scalp.
Other Dick shoved him away. "It's called a scar."
"I know that," Dick huffed. "Why is it there?"
"I got shot in the head," Other Dick answered, looking uncomfortable.
"And you survived??"
"Well, technically, but I got amnesia and an alternate personality and- well. It's a long story."
Dick paused. "That's. well."
Other Dick sighed miserably. "That always ruins the conversation."
-
"..... Is that... a joke?"
Other Cass shook her head. "I dated Conner Kent."
"...I'm a lesbian."
".......Really?"
-
"WAIT- you're telling me Damian was missing for MONTHS and none of you went to look for him??? Who ARE you people???"
-
"Oh my god," Other Duke rolled his eyes, "There's two of him now."
Duke gaped at the scene before him. "This family is so weird."
Other Duke waved him off. "Nah, I pretty much expected this."
A chair crashed into the wall beside the door. One of the Jasons bellowed in rage and tackled the other. They wrestled on the floor.
"I DON'T NEED THERAPY!"
"THAT'S WHAT I SAID UNTIL I TRIED IT!"
Other Duke dragged Duke back through the doorway. "Just leave them to it, our Jason will storm off eventually."
"TALK ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS, GODDAMN YOU."
Other Duke winced. "Maybe not."
Duke gulped. "I can't believe this family."
-
Dick threw himself into Bruce's arms. "B, I swear I'll never complain about your parenting ever again! Other Me told me about your other self, what the fuck???"
Bruce sighed, patting his oldest son's back. "I know. I met him once, and I'm never talking to anyone from that universe again if I can help it. It's such an absurd timeline."
Dick looked distraught. "Everyone is so repressed! Sexually, Emotionally- you know Other Me barely even talked to Jason when he was Robin?"
Bruce just shook his head. "Just wait until you hear about how I treated Tim when he first became Robin. Theirs is truly a backward universe."
BONUS:
Selina gasped at her alternate. "He doesn't WHAT?"
Frank Miller, Tom King, Sean Murphy, Tony Patrick, James Tynion IV are taking some time off from their visit to NYC Comic Con visit to swing by the NYC office and discuss over 75 Years of Batman -- past, present, and future.
