#second's comic corner

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Steph having her own identity that she steps away from to try and assimilate better into the bat family by adopting their legacy identities Vs Dick creating the whole concept and then struggling to forge his own

[thesecondplace]

she is so fucking real for this

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

I don't understand how people think anyone other than Cass should be the next Batman. Like who else will it be? Dick? Tim? they would literally rather kill themselves

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

I'm so glad that Absolute Batman understands how fundamental learning is to Bruce's character cause i feel like sometimes he's treated like an old dog who can't learn new tricks but that's literally the opposite of true, Batman exists only because Bruce is willing to learn anything from anyone in order to complete his mission

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

Reading Red Robin is like-

fandom really played like a long game of telephone with this run because almost every popular trope that fanon likes to explore is like taken out of context from red robin

for example, back when i read fanon i would eat up the "Damian cut Tim's line" fics where it's like sad boy Tim and mean Damian and Dick finding out is always such an important plot line in these

but then in the actual book:

Damian cutting his line is a minor moment and immediately followed by them fighting physically with Tim winning

And the only reason Damian even did that is that Tim was still mistrusting him

and Dick knows about the whole thing-he helped solve the problem

there is also the fanon storyline of like Tim feeling super betrayed because no one believed him until they actually got Bruce back.

which is just. not what happened. at all?

Dick is always willing to believe him

and when Tim actually explains himself Dick listens and trusts him

Then Tim's characterization in fanon is also just like flanderised version of rr!Tim

Fanon is basically someone seeing a vaguely worded list of plot points in red robin and then making shit up from there and it so funny to me

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

Listen i love Damian and Duke and all but peak Batfam was back in the 90's where Dick, Babs and Bruce where all at various levels of being no/low contact with each other and simultaneously looking after Tim and Cass and three of them are so unsure of who they are in each others lives at this point and they're all learning and relearning what it's like to be family without ever letting themselves say the word out loud unless it's to inflict lasting emotional damage .

and then Cass and Tim are just vibing with the various sibling/parental figures they've picked up

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

the thing about batfam that always get to me is that being anything to bruce is the worst thing that's ever happened to any of them but if you dare to offer them a way out or even suggest they should leave they will kick and scream and throw every insult imaginable at you