#reverse robins au

[iszapizza]

Alternatively:

REVERSE ROBINS!! 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

[the-last-starlit-cat]

A dad and his baby

Can you guess what they're hiding in this little AU?

[lemonfizzyy]

More on my version of Reverse-Robins!Dick. He's about thirteen in this, so three years with Damian as his primary caretaker.

Dick: "Hey, Garth? Do you think I act like Damian?"

Garth: "Uh... no. You two are like total opposites."

Dick, relieved: "Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought."

Later

Dick, shaking with rage: "M-My issue is that I expressly told you not to touch my action figures in a verbal agreement that you took part in and- and you went against that agreement, effectively rendering this good will null and void!"

Jason:

Jason: "...Could...Could you say that in english?"

[batsandbirdbrains]

Wait let’s have an au where reverse robins meet normal order robins. Like dimension hopping or smth.

And it’s the reverse robins that have the hardened Bruce Wayne. Because this Bruce didn’t start with eight year old Dick Grayson who he identified with so much, who he saw so much of himself in. He didn’t have the child acrobat who kept him on his toes, who taught him to see the light in the darkness, who made him laugh with corny puns and silly jokes, who ran around Gotham in bright colors with an even brighter smile.

This Bruce’s first child was a thirteen year old Damian who’d been raised by the League of Assassins. The two of them had their own darkness, and no one to shed any light on the situation. There was no mediator, no buffer. Alfred tried, he really did, but neither Wayne really listened to him about the other, the two of them so caught up in their own conceptions of each other.

Then a few years later, the neighbor boy stops by and tells Bruce Wayne that he knows he’s Batman. He insists on joining him, on helping him. But thirteen year old Tim Drake still has parents who are alive and well at this point. Bruce allows him to join in on training, but he and Damian are ruthless with Tim. He’s not allowed out with them until he can pass their tests. And he does by the time he’s 14, but now he’s bitter and jaded about how harsh they were. He ends up going off on his own when he’s 17, and then Bruce quickly acquires one 14 year old Jason Todd.

Bruce lets Jason out much sooner than he had Tim, because he realize she was sort of lonely now without Tim. Damian is based in Blüdhaven at this point, he’s not around too often.

Then a year and a half later, Jason gets killed by the Joker and it sends Bruce into a spiral.

Jason eventually returns as the Red Hood, and he has a vendetta against the Batfamily until he clams down. He’s 18 when that happens.

And then Damian Wayne is the one who attends the circus when it’s in town. Damian is the one who takes Dick in, who sees a shadow of what his own father might have been like when his parents died. And he doesn’t want this bright little boy to turn out like his father did. He doesn’t want anyone turning into Batman.

So Dick and Damian become the dynamic duo. Damian doesn’t let Dick out into Gotham until he’s had two years of training, when he’s 10 years old. Dick had figured out pretty much right away that the Waynes were all the bats. Damian was actually so insanely proud that this boy he now calls his son was so quick to figure them all out.

But Bruce is jaded at this point. His kids hardly talk to him, to each other. He does love having a grandson, but he has no idea how to show it, how to interact with Dick out of costume. Batman interacts with Robin sometimes, but Robin sticks mainly to Blüdhaven with Flamebird.

Bruce is the kind of grandpa who pats Dick awkwardly on the shoulder when he sees him, asks him how school is (and says the wrong grade when he asks), and then gives Dick a hundred bucks and tells him it’s been nice catching up.

“Does Grandpa not like me?” Dick asks Damian one day when they’re driving home from the manor.

“I think you’re actually his favorite,” Damian tells him, a bit of a laugh in his voice. “He just is very bad with emotions, Richard.”

“Him and the rest of this weirdo family,” Dick snorts, and Damian laughs with him. “He still thinks I’m in fourth grade.”

“Well, grandfathers arent known for having the best memories.”

Dick grins at Damian. Grandpa Bruce isn’t the best, but he does try.

And so when they meet the normal version of the Batfamily? Where Dick is the oldest and Bruce is actually a decent dad? It’s such a mindfuck.

“Told you the pipsqueak was his favorite,” reverse-Jason snorts to the others. “Look at them, they’re practically a normal family!”

“You call this normal?” Normal-Jason asks.

Meanwhile, reverse-Bruce just keeps a hand firmly on the top of reverse-Dick’s head as he stares at this mirrored version of his family. Because now he can’t help but wonder how much better off his family would’ve been if Dick had just come into his life a decade or so earlier.

[littlefankingdom]

People that are into the reverse Robins AU don't seem to realize the power they are giving to Dick Grayson. Without even talking about how protective of Dick the batfam at large is already, you are making Bruce's baby the baby of the family. Bruce already had multiple children, but never one this young, and this is his youngest baby, and he is so great, a ball of light and joy that jumps from chandeliers.

Goddesses, that kid is being spoiled. He probably fakes being hurt or sad because he knows his dad will immediately bend backward for him.

[decapod-appreciator]

thinking about a reverse robins!steph. dies at the hands of Black Mask, comes back via Litteral In Universe Retcon, trains with the LoA, kills the hell out of Sionis and takes over from him.

[providencehq]

And then they kiss

[link-alou]

Jason when the horrors skip him ( for now )