i really love your Aldera middle thoughts, the idea of bakugo + izuku just being. the dumbest middle schoolers ever. is really fun to me. like yeah they’re hero students now but they were once(and still kinda are) dumb teens. it makes me wonder what like. jason todd or dick grayson. were like as middle schoolers(outside of the vigilante thing, of course).
this is what i keep doing with damian nowadays, bcs like. his gotham academy situation is perfect for what i keep imagining as bakugou's whole deal in aldera junior high. i need damian to have a random tight-knit group of classmates at gotham academy that he clicks with and rapidly the group comes to trust each other with their LIVES. i want to make damian bkg bcs i want to give damian the aldera kids bcs i want him to have a friend group outside of the vigilante life for him to act like an idiot pre-teen with. i want him to act like an edwardian school boy everywhere EXCEPT during the classes he has these kids in. i want one of his classmates to randomly start blowing up on tiktok and tim to stumble across on his fyp videos of some random gotham academy kid messing around with his friends only to spit coffee all over the batcomputer because he recognises damian in the video smiling and laughing like the bats have NEVER seen before. i want them to discover a whole backlog of tiktoks that's just of damian being an idiot kid and it is literally the first time they have EVER seen him act his age and it makes them all BLUESCREEN.
damian comes home from school with his usual stoic nature only to find dick and tim crowded around tim's phone which is playing on a loop the video from 3 weeks ago where he and his classmates had the genius idea to spend the entire lunch period trying to duct tape damian to the ceiling and he walks in to hear his own voice just like
'swear to- fucking i swear- dude. dude. if you let me drop-'
*amongst laughter* 'we're not- look i'm standing right under you, it's fine. if you drop i'll catch you. just- ok get rid of the chair and then add more-'
'do you understand how much trust i'm putting in you right now to let you tape my arms to my sides? i can't- *cackle* i can't even fucking catch myself if i fall-!'
'IT'S FINE WE WON'T LET YOU FALL,'
'don't you fucking dare move- i swear to fuck, HOLY- no i feel loose, you need to put more across my chest, you need to- PLEASE-'
*more cackles*
and damian just kinda slumps in on himself as dick and tim look up from the phone at him, staring in pure awe. and he's just like
'aw, fuck.'
