Consequences of a corrupted youth, a Ra’s/Tim playlist
playlist || fic on ao3
Wasting My Young Years - London Grammar
Heart By Heart - Demi Lovato
Wicked Game - Ursine Vulpine
Beautiful Crime - Tamer
Through Glass - Stone Sour
Agony (Acoustic Session) - Paloma Faith
In All My Dreams I Drown - The Devils Carnival
You Belong to Me - Cat Pierce
Become the Beast - Karliene
Under the Rainbow - The Jane Austen Argument
This Night - Black Lab
Me and the Devil - Soap&Skin
City of the Dead - Eurielle
Silhouette - Aquilo
Eight - Sleeping at Last
When it's all Over - Raign
Memories - EarlyRise
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
Beekeeper - Keaton Henson
Empire - Beth Crowley
Let’s jump ahead to the moment of epiphany,
in gold light, as the camera pans to where
the action is,
lakeside and backlit, and it all falls into frame, close enough to see
the blue rings of my eyes as I say
something ugly.
I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way,
and I don’t want to be the kind that says the wrong way.
But it doesn’t work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats.
‘Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out’ by Richard Siken
Most of Ra’s’ children learned to hate him eventually; some took longer, and some cut every tie they could think of to him, Fahim al Ghul was different. He was the result of- not the last wife- but the last long-standing affair Ra’s had had. (He had intended to marry Fahim’s mother, but he never got the chance, she died giving birth to their son).
Fahim was born in 1886, and Ra’s loved him, and thought that he may have found a suitable heir. Fahim was brilliant, and quick with a blade, even if he preferred books to fighting. He always reminded Ra’s so much of his twin; Nasir was- had always been the more patient twin, the one that was more content to read and learn. Ra’s had never been quite so easily pleased by the simple thing that it was (though time, and experience had made it more enjoyable, and he’s collected a vast library at Nanda Parbat, one which Fahim had read through much of).
And had things gone differently, he very well may have taken over, but he died when he was 26; his health had always been brittle, and while as a child, the assumption had been that he would outgrow the childhood illnesses, it never came, and eventually, proved fatal.
Fahim refused the Lazarus pits. He had accepted his father, and accepted what he was, but that didn’t mean that Fahim wanted to be like him, he had always been so much like Nasir in that regard; ever so sure of himself, and ready to face death. Ra’s, jaded but not quite so yet granted the wish, and he let Fahim die.
In the months directly following Fahim’s death, there were times when Ra’s considered bringing him back, the Lazarus put could do miracles, and there was still a body, he still could. But every time he discarded the idea. Fahim had not come to hate him like so many of Ra’s’ other children had, and he knows that if he had brought Fahim back, he would. So he doesn’t, and he lets his scholar of a son pass undisturbed.
If your character was allowed to murder one person without any consequences, who would that person be and why? (Ra's)
Ra’s has killed, and has had killed, many, many people, so to narrow it down to one person is a difficult task. There’s a lot of people he wants dead, but that’s not quite the same. Perhaps... perhaps if he could choose only one person, he may choose the Batman. There are a lot of reasons he hasn’t killed him; Talia’s lingering affection, his reasonable use at times, the fact that people would notice if Bruce Wayne were to die suddenly, and there had been a time when Ra’s had wanted him as an heir.
But if he could do it without any consequences? the idea is tempting. It would remove him as an obstacle, and allow Timothy to rise to his full potential-- because Bruce wasn’t the member of that family he saw as the most worthy heir anymore. That honour would go to the young Drake. His grandson had refused, and taken ever so strongly to being Robin, but Timothy... Timothy was smart and cutthroat in a way that the others either didn’t realize or didn’t like to see. He could be great.
It wasn’t even that Ra’s hates Batman, that was... not the right word for it, but he didn’t like him, and Ra’s rather suspects that one day if he doesn’t kill Bruce, such an oversight will result in more lost than a plan or the necessity of a bath in the Lazarus pits.
One of these can get kind of long, so I’m just going to cut my losses and put them all under a read more.
Multiples run on both sides of the family, and it’s a surprise when instead of one baby, there’s three.
Name: Amaal Christophe Boudreaux-al Ghul
Gender: male
General Appearance: If you hadn’t known better, it would be easy to think that Amaal wasn’t Belladonna’s son. He was an almost mirror image of what Ra’s had looked like. The same angular features, dark hair, and eyes, but Ra’s’ had long been turned green by the Lazarus Pits. (People look at Amaal and see Ra’s, Ra’s sees his twin Nasir). He’s tall like his Ra’s, though he’s slimmer and not nearly as towering as the Demon’s Head. He also keeps his hair slightly longer and pulled back tightly, it’s still the shortest of all of the children’s however.
Personality: Amaal is the triplet that everyone assumes is going to take over the League. He’s smart but content to stay in the background, and because of his upbringing he’s not terribly concerned by blood in it’s many forms. He’s the quiet triplet, but by no means the most moderate. He feels responsible over the other two because he is the oldest (by three and nine minutes respectively). He’s the one that’s best at chess.
Special Talents: Amaal isn’t the most talented assassin of the three children, but he is arguably the cleanest of them. He tends to gravitate towards poison and stiletto knives, easily concealable with smaller wounds. He has an interest in chemistry, and tends to make his own poisons, he’s been working on making them undetectable from the moment of ingestion, but he hasn’t quite managed something that complex yet. And then, because he’s still Belladonna’s son, he has some level of powers; he has telekinesis, though he doesn’t use it for much more than grabbing chemical bottles without getting up.
Who they like better: Belledonna.
Who they take after more: Ra’s.
Personal Head canon: To everyone’s surprise, Amaal doesn’t takeover the League, he takes over the Guild of Assassins, and is arguably even more terrifying because of it. He’s likes New Orleans, and even though he’s spent his life travelling between his two parents, he’s always been more at home there. He’s good at making sure that they don’t get caught.
Face Claim: Callum Stoddart
Name: Ambrose Sabri Tahir Boudreaux-al Ghul
Gender: male
General Appearance: If Amaal looked like their father, than Ambrose was the complete opposite, instead looking like their mother. Blue eyes that people seemed to flinch away from, and long blonde hair that he usually kept pulled pack in a loose ponytail. When he and his sibling are together, they very rarely guess that he and the other two are related, much less a set of triplets. They had the same nose though, unlike their sister. He is the tallest of the three though, ending just shy of Ra’s’ height.
Personality: Ambrose is the most moderate of his siblings. He’s the one to play the mediator in their arguments, and also the one that tends to end up taking care of them, even if Amaal tries to say that it should be him. He doesn’t care for chemistry in the way that Amaal does, but he is better at talking people around to his side in a way that neither of the other two can manage.
Special Talents: Ambrose can fight, and does, certainly between Belladonna running the Assassins Guild, and Ra’s running the League of Shadows, there was no way he wouldn’t. he doesn’t tend to use actual weapons very much though. He’s a mutant like both of his siblings- ice control- and he’s more likely to stab someone with it, or to fill their lungs with ice crystals.
Who they like better: Belladonna.
Who they take after more: Belladonna.
Personal Head canon: Ambrose doesn’t take over of the two groups that he knew were an option. He ends up in the Hellfire Club instead, and ends up running that instead. It takes a handful of years to amass the influence, but it makes his parents proud, he’s more than content enough to let Amaal and Amirah take over the League and the Guild.
Face Claim: Danila Kovalev
Name: Amirah Geneviève Boudreaux-al Ghul
Gender: female
General Appearance: Amirah looks the most like both of her parents, rather than strongly favouring one over the other. She has her father’s same straight black hair, and the same eyes as Amaal– they were her father’s once too. She inherited her mother’s fairer complexion though, the same slightly softer features, and her nose. (Both her brother’s have Ra’s’)
Personality: Amirah is, like all the members of her family, rather unconcerned with blood, and it’s caused her to be rather unflappable. She’s the best hand to hand fighter of the three, and the one that spent the most time in Nanda Parbat as a child (It surprises no one, when she’s the one to take over the League). She’s calm, and levelheaded, but also the most argumentative of the three children.
Special Talents: Amirah is the best fighter of the three of them, but she also has better instincts and dexterity than the other two. It’s not an incredibly noticeable power, but it means she’s capable of avoiding a hit, or guessing if an attack is a feint a fraction of a second early. She uses swords, so it’s managed to save her more than a few injuries over the years.
Who they like better: Ra’s.
Who they take after more: Ra’s.
Personal Head canon: She may argue more with Amaal than Ambrose, but she works better with him, they’re a little bit more alike, they all work best together though. She was the second person to take over one of the three groups, Amaal was first, though Ambrose joined the Hellfire Club before either of them, it just took him longer to take over. They had all grown up knowing that they were each going to take over one of the three groups, and it meant that there was very little resentment as children about who was going to inherit.
NAME :: Ra’s al Ghul
NICKNAME :: n/a
FANDOM :: DC comics
GENDER :: Male
ORIENTATION :: flexible
BIRTHDAY :: February 8th, 1393 || Jumada al-awwal 9, 799 as it would have been for him
ZODIAC :: Aquarius
SHIPS :: /Tim Drake (verse dependant)
• BIOGRAPHY •
There had been a time before he was Ra’s al Ghul. He had a wife- Sora, and she was beautiful, and intelligent, and the equal Ra’s had always wanted. And then they saved the king’s son with the newly discovered Lazarus pit, and he killed her.
That had marked the end the idealistic scientist in love, and from that Ra’s al Ghul was born. he gained power over the next several centuries by working as an advisor to those in power, and to those who asked for his help. Extending his life beyond possible spans through the use of the Lazarus Pits.
He took multiple lovers, some he had children with, and most of them would learn to hate him.
The League had been a half thought out plan. It had started with him building a small settlement to guard the Lazarus Pit, and then it grew, and grew until Nanda Parbat was a secure fortress; a city build into the mountains. The League had come with that- men who threatened his power, or chose to seize the pits would be dealt with, and his power continued to grow.
And then he met Melisande, and it was like being with Sora again. She was beautiful, and intelligent, and she understood him like almost no one else had in many years. They had one daughter, and for a decade, it was ideal, and then Melisande died, and nothing he did could have saved her.
He withdrew from his daughter, and left the majority of the League’s running to Ubu, his trusted second. When his daughter grew old enough, she took Bruce Wayne home, and Ra’s thought, for the first time in a long time, that he had found a worthy heir. He wasn’t, as Ra’s would come to learn.
But then there was Damian, and his grandson, Ra’s was certain, would grow to be a worthy Demon’s Head. It was Talia who sent him away, to live with his father. In the last half a decade, Ra’s has found a growing fascination in the young Drake, and a hope to convince him to his side.
• PHYSICAL •
FACE CLAIM :: Alexander Siddig
HEIGHT :: 6′2″
BUILD :: fit, athletic, trim
VISUAL AGE :: mid 40′s to mid 50′s
ACTUAL AGE :: 627
HAIR :: black, peppered with grey
EYES :: green
SPECIES :: Human
HAND :: learned ambidextrous
GLASSES :: as a disguise, and after long enough without the use of a Lazarus pit.
IDENTIFYING :: Ra’s is covered in scars, some of them are removed when he goes through the Lazarus Pit, but because of the use, his eyes are now the Lazarus green.
• MENTAL •
FAITH :: lapsed/former Muslim
MARITAL STATUS :: widowed
OCCUPATION :: eco-terrorist and the Demon’s head/leader of the League of Shadows/Assassins.
EDUCATION :: Ra’s was educated through a series of tutors and men who had learned through experience. He had no formal education in his youth, and in the intervening several centuries, he’s remained relatively up to date on the newest discoveries.
QUIRKS :: Ra’s prefers bladed weapons, and they’re the thing he’s most likely to teach his children. He dislikes modern guns. (He still tends to stick to a quill and ink for the majority of his written correspondence).
