#dc rambles

[aingeal98]

Cass: Can I have your burger.

Dick:??? No I'm eating it. You have your own right there.

Cass: Remember when you abandoned me to Slade when I was drugged and mind controlled and then after I got free the first thing you did was punch me in the face.

Dick, sliding his burger over: You KNOW it's more complicated than that. You know it.

Tim, watching this all go down: Hey Jason remember when you broke into Titans tower just to beat me up?

Jason, taking a large bite of his own burger: Keep annoying me and this time I'll do more than just leave you unconscious.

Tim: :/

Cass, whispering to him: You gotta go for the ones with guilt complexes. It doesn't work otherwise.

Tim: Gotcha, good to know.

Cass:... Soo remember when I was drugged and brainwashed and you did nothing but accept it for months?

Tim, grumbling and sliding his own burger over to her: I never accepted it! That's just not true!

Cass, now eating three burgers at once: :)

[nightwolf14292-old-account]

Reasons Why Bruce Wayne Refuses to Take a Break:

1. Why should he?

2. Because fuck you, that's why.

3. He's scared that if he ever actually stops to take a break, completely relax, and fully drop his guard, something horrible will happen to Gotham and/or the people he cares about and he won't be able to stop it because he wasn't prepared OR the years and years of burn out and physical/emotional pain will finally catch up to him (because he stopped running from it) and it'll hit him so hard that he'll finally have to face the trauma he endured as a child when he saw his parents die (which he is not physically capable of coping with, because the event fractured his identity into Batman, a man with childish morals and an inability to make exceptions [such as not killing a petty crook OR a mass murderer and thinking they should be dealt with the same way] and a childish sense of justice that cannot exist without him blocking out his trauma [so if he had to face that trauma his very identity would cease to exist]) therefore his mental health would be destroyed to such an extent that he'd be unable to even pretend he was alright, which in turn will make the people he cares about worry about him, and because he hates when people worry about him it'll cause him to lash out which will further isolate him from the world and from any form of human connection, leaving him sitting broken at an empty table in an empty mansion on an empty island just like he did when he was a mere, insignificant, hurt, orphaned eight year old who hadn't yet made his mark on the world-

4. He doesn't wanna >:[

[mordenandmerry]

I’ve read a decent amount of earlier comics where Jason Todd is Robin and honestly I think making him the “happy” or “angry” Robin does not do his character justice. Jason feels very deeply throughout his life, but especially as a child. He is very forward with his joy, anger, sadness, and other emotions. It can sometimes make him act rashly, but at the end of the day he cares about the people around him and values that feeling of being wanted. His growth from a closed off kid who grew up on the streets to a bubbly young boy to a confused and lonely teenager is incredibly interesting. He’s come a long way since being a Dick Grayson clone.

TLDR: Boiling Jason Todd as Robin down to a singular emotion doesn’t capture how multifaceted he is and how is character changes from his introduction to his death.

[enbyrai]

gerard way saying jason todd is his favorite robin means SO much to me but im distracted by the fact jason was fucking 4'6 at 15?? are you kidding me.... :((((

[blueebeetl]

so i’ve only recently come to the realisation myself that children lose their teeth from like the ages 6-12, and just. thinking about dick grayson as robin but in his original age he was; imagine getting your shit rocked by a little boy in a bright yellow cape and then he smiles and he’s missing basically all his front teeth. 8/9 year old dick grayson trying to shit talk criminals and it’s all coming out with a lisp because his teeth have yet to grow in. not to mention the idea of when he gets a tad older like 11/12 and starts losing his back teeth and though they’re wobbly he refuses to pull them out or even try, because it means when him n batman are out on patrol he can get hit by a criminal, even lightly, which will either knock the already lose tooth out, or make it even looser in which he can purposely dislodge it with his tongue, start crying (which he can totally do on command cmon) about how “that was my new adult one!” then the criminal has to just look at this kid and think that he’s just knocked out an entire tooth. which of course catches the criminal off guard, meaning he can be arrested blah blah blah.

also thinking about damian losing teeth, given he was 10 when he moved in with bruce. damian going on his little rant about “he’s not your real son i am” and “that’s how it works in the assassins league” all with a little lisp. i find that very funny and very adorable. personally.

[ahfrickenfrick]

everyone knows that the bats (mostly) aren’t powered, or invincible, but it’s hard to really get a grasp on it

with the way they all move and act in and even out of the field, it’s unnerving in a way. they all have a certain aura of otherworldly power, even the newer members

everyone of the original members of the league has had a run in with batman injured and in need of help, being the first few to earn the vulnerability and subsequently trust from the bats

when wally held dick’s limp body in his hands as he rushed him back to the base for the first time, feeling his best friends pulse stop between his arms and subsequently jostling the injuries more. he almost wasn’t fast enough, dick was out of commission for three months

or when roy was told of jason’s death, ollie had to hold the kid as he scream cried for a friend and the life his friend never got to live, even though they were just joking the other day about how nothing could touch the bats

with kon still not 100% understanding his powers, and understating tim’s calcium intake, felt the bone crush in tim’s arm underneath his touch during a training exercise. it takes years for kon to trust himself again

jon and damian fought a lot, and damian was as stubborn as jon was determined. both are young when damian tells jon to not treat him ‘fragile’ and it ends with damian in the infirmary, and jon shaking and crying, telling his father he needs to put himself into a kryptonite prison for doing so

jefferson being the leader of the outsiders and understanding that, but it still being hard to grasp with both cass and duke. both are strong, and often taken for granted, but that makes them more powerful, enhanced it enough that when they both get knocked down by the villain of the week it’s really startling

and it’s a cycle that never ends, everyone seeing the bats as godly, and then inevitably losing it and freaking out when it’s revealed that they bleed like anyone else

[smolgaycat]

that scene from Justice League: War where GL and Batman are in the sewers is so incredibly gay, the sexual tension B’s smirks gosh I know GL hates him there but it makes it all the better “you weren’t concentrating” and the shit eating grin then GL “lets rubba spooky” then oh the best part the wall slam B’s eyes widening and the Shhh while holding GL’s shoulder the only thing I would love to see in this scene is if B put his finger to GL’s lips and didn’t shush him, just stayed silent then turning his head to look at the noise after they lock eyes for a second, Green Lantern dumbassery, B pushing him out of the way to look at the alien tech and keeps touching his chest, the jealous “oh you met the super powered guy?” then the oh his super powers won’t be a problem for me and his cutesy little hands on his hips proud to show off like pff I’m strong pay attention to me also that shit in the beginning where he’s like are you not a vampire and commenting on his apparent super strength oh he wants to be manhandled snd bitten, marked even by the mysterious stranger in the black cape, the confused and almost disappointed ask “Wait, you’re not just some guy in a bat costume are ya?” and his little eye brow scrunch so gay

anyway thats my ramble hope you enjoyed :)))

[ladyloveandjustice]

"Stephanie Brown is actually alive" is the best retcon not because it was well done (it wasn't) or made sense (it didn't) or was well explored (it wasn't) but because it salvaged a much much worse retcon of turning cool pacifist doctor and Bruce Wayne's mother figure Leslie Thompkins into a child murderer with absolutely nonsensical motives, solely because the writers/editorial were so obsessed with Batman facing no culpability or consequences for how badly he treated a teenage girl and how that contributed to her death that they wanted to make sure every iota of blame had to be passed on to a woman. They blamed Stephanie for her own death as much as they possibly could but someone somewhere might still side eye Batman... so drastic measures must be taken.

The woman who'd repeatedly objected to violence against even the worst criminals, and was willing to put her own life at risk to give gangsters and other criminals health care when no one else would because she believes so strongly in the value of life! Who has repeatedly objected to Bruce using violence and putting children in danger... is now murdering a child to make the point he shouldn't put children in danger. Because if one of those children, a former Robin, dies he won't let any more children fight crime, right?

Except wait a Robin famously already died, and Bruce did not stop doing it then, and it was a child he'd actually adopted as his son and seemed to care way more about than he'd ever cared about Stephanie, and Leslie knows all about this but. but. but listen. it. Leslie is just really tired okay. she's mad at Bruce and she just. some people just disavow their lifelong pacifism and murder teenagers when they're fed up. It's not Batman's fault please blame the woman blame the woman she's right here be mad at the woman Batman is BLAMELESS!!!

Meanwhile "I want this girl out of danger so I'm going to fake her death and take her out of the country because I'm tired of watching children get hurt" is. still out of character and a bad thing to do, like why wouldn't Leslie have told Stephanie's Mom, at least, but it's at least a logical thought process you can follow. And it was pretty much the only thing anyone could do to fix that retcon and save Leslie from being a child murderer.

I mean ideally they could have just ignored the leslie thing and had her back like nothing had happened, and the events in War Crimes never mentioned again, much like how they completely ignored the fact Stephanie's secret identity was revealed to the public in that storyline. But what happened with Leslie was way more well known than the identity reveal, so it pretty much had to be addressed, and it gave an easy and simple way to explain what happened with Steph rather than having to get the Lazarus pit involved. Fandom were speculating on possibilities for retconning Steph's death and that was the one everyone agrees was the most likely and would resolve the most things.

It's also the best retcon because it meant Stephanie is alive again. obviously.

all of this is to say I just nominated it in the best retcon poll not because I expect it to win, or make the poll even possibly, or I'm saying it was well executed, but because it was so, so needed and will always be one of the retcons I'm most grateful for.