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CONVERSATIONS OVERHEARD THROUGH THE BATKID COM LINES MASTERPOST (old post's links got fucked up. here ya go)
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 (league days) part 8 (league days) part 9 part 10 part 11 part 12 (league days) part 13 part 14 part 15 part 16 part 17 part 18 part 19 part 20 part 21 (league days) part 22 part 23 part 24 (league days) part 25 part 26 part 27 part 28 part 29 part 30 part 31 part 32 part 33 part 34 part 35 part 36 (league days) (part 1) part 37 (league days) (part 2) part 38 part 39 (part 1) part 40 (part 2) part 41 part 42 ~coming soon(as soon as the queue releases them)~ part 43 part 44 part 45 part 46 part 47 part 48 part 49 part 50
scenarios Alfred Pennyworth has to be a witness to as a resident of Wayne Manor that the batkids have absolutely no shame in front of whatsoever MASTERPOST
part 1 part 2 part 3
part 4 ~coming soon(as soon as the queue releases them)~ part 5 part 6 part 7 part 8 part 9 part 10
I love the idea of Tim begin a dragon
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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Tim Drake is a Menace (DCU), Tim Drake is a Feral Gremlin, Tim Drake is Red Robin (DCU), Crack, Confused Dick Grayson, Confused Jason Todd, confused everybody, tim is just spouting shit and I’m here for it, Mentioned Bruce Wayne, Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily Shenanigans (DCU), Good Older Sibling Dick Grayson, Good Older Sibling Jason Todd, Good Sibling Damian Wayne, Good Sibling Tim Drake (DCU), Good Sibling Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown is a Batfamily Member, Chaotic Stephanie Brown, Chaotic Tim Drake (DCU), no beta we die like jason todd, Tim says y'all because Kon would say it and I say so. My source? I made it the fuck up :), Canon? You mean the junkyard where I pick out the shiny bits I like? Summary:
Now, Tim would normally say he’s a pretty chill guy. In fact, he believes himself to be the least chaotic of the Bats(Excluding Cass. Any chaos that happened around her was simply not her fault, no exceptions). They certainly were not the first people that came to mind when Tim thought about relaxing in any capacity. Don’t even get him started on Bruce.
Or: Tim Drake is an entirely feral gremlin and refuses to acknowledge this fact
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Chapters: 18/20 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Minor/Background Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent, Minor/Background Wally West/Dick Grayson Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth, Original Characters, Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Tim is not having fun tonight, Tim Drake Has Self-Worth Issues (DCU), Tim Drake Lacks Self-Preservation Instincts, Temporary Character Death, Rated T for Tim Drake’s language, DC Stands for Disregard Canon, Canon is dead in a ditch and I’m the vulture picking out the good bits, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Good Parent Bruce Wayne, also, Bad Parent Bruce Wayne, Bad Sibling Dick Grayson, you’ll see - Freeform, I strictly FORBID my work from being feed to AI, Tim Drake-centric (DCU), Tim Drake Needs a Hug (DCU), Good Sibling Tim Drake (DCU), Time Travel, Dimension Travel, Sort of? - Freeform, Ghost Adjacent Tim Drake, Good Older Sibling Tim Drake (DCU), I put Tim through the wringer to make the affection-re-hydration that much more satisfying :), Tim curses a lot because I said so, and also he grew up roaming the roof tops of crime alley, Alternate Universe, Podfic Welcome, Stalker Tim Drake (DCU), Protective Tim Drake (DCU), One might say overprotective but what does that guy know anyways?, Tim Drake’s inherent guilt complex, Tim Drake and Jason Todd are Siblings, Tim Drake and Damian Wayne are Siblings, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Bad Parents Jack Drake and Janet Drake, The dichotomy of being sassy and sad: Tim Drake style, Anything else I tag past this point will be spoilers so I’m just going to put any major warnings that come up Series: Part 2 of Imaginary Friend Summary:
Tim, the ever vigilant (always awake and never giving himself a break) vigilante, gets word of a drug bust going down. One he just so happens to be the only one available to stop. Which happens to be taking place in the very early hours of his birthday. Of course he goes on the highly dangerous bust alone. What could happen?
Or: Tim is used to being the Robin that gets thing handled, that doesn’t need Batman to come rescue him. Bruce Wayne had made it very clear in the early days that Tim was not his son. Alfred Pennyworth was cold, allowing only the politeness and distance to show through his Iron Wall. Dick Grayson treated him the way he wished he’d treated his brother, Jason.
Tim was fine with this. He wasn’t a child. Even if he wished for more of the small slivers of love the Wayne family were just starting to give him, he wouldn’t dare take Jason Todd’s place. He just hoped the support he provided for the grieving family would make Jason proud. But Jason Todd came back, and he sure made it known he wasn’t. He made sure Tim knew exactly what he thought of the cuckoo in his family.
Now, the Wayne family has their lost son back and Tim has a job to do. Just, not in this dimension?
I'm bored so angst!!!
Tim doesn't talk some days. Because his parents were barely around he was barely taught how to speak unless it was for exchanges at gala's.
For weeks at a time Tim wouldn't say a thing in his echo chamber of a house.
He'd play music and videos to try and make it sound like people were talking. But it was never him.
He was taught not to talk unless spoken to. Not to bring anything up that could show the inner workings of Drake Industries. Only talk to learn information on others, never tell them anything about yourself. Always reach for their information, never your own.
It's why he was so good at sneaking behind Batman and Robin. They'd talk more than any noise he'd make. He was taught noise equals more information is given out. Since he never talked he was able to stay under their radar. They aren't looking around for a silent six year old following them.
When he became Robin he had to teach himself how to talk and say all the new codes and commands he'd say to Bruce to stop him from going over the edge.
His Young Justice team learn about Tim's affinity for not making a single noise. Kon, who is technically only around four at that point, is able to talk better than Tim.
Bart, who is adjusting to a completely knew dialect, can say more than Tim can force himself to.
He hides his silence from his family, playing music so they don't question his continued silence. When Cassandra shows up and she starts learning English he stays with her, his family thinks he doesn't want another of his siblings to have the same attitude that Damian has to him.
But really, it's so he can learn himself.
Cass knows. She can see the confusion in his face, that matches hers when Dick talks about how he learnt English.
She sees his struggle saying words like 'dissatisfaction' and 'vessel' which a person that's been adequately taught their supposed first language should have little to no problem.
Cass doesn't tell the others. She assumes they know so there's no reason to point it out.
Tim quietly whispers a confession to her one day and she promises not to tell the others. It wouldn't change what she does and if her brother doesn't want others to know then they never will.
So they don't.
Only Tim, his friends, Cass and Steph know. (He confessed it when they were dating and now she just helps him with pronunciation).
fic recs of the week:
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (filling up my coffee cup) by LilaVaporizer9000
Batfam, Incomplete, 20 Chapters, 59,733 Words
Tim accidentally dimension travels while trying to bring Bruce back from his time travel vacation.
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Not Your Average Cinderella Story by AlmostSafe
Batfam, Complete, 3 Chapters, 10,524 Words
The Batfam need to investigate an all girls school but neither Cass or Steph are available to go undercover. They decide the next best person for the job must be Tim.
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When the Fog Burns Away, I See You by AlmostSafe
Batfam, Complete, 1 Chapter, 3,130 Words
Tim kisses Kon after getting hit with Poison Ivy's aphrodisiac pollen.
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Author’s Note by Trekkele
Batfam, Complete, 1 Chapter, 4,247 Words
Post resurrection Jason takes it upon himself to finish writing the Pride & Prejudice fanfic he started writing before he died.
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The wilting flower that stokes the flame by tiredfairycake
MHA, Complete, 1 Chapter, 12,851 Words
Shouto knows things are getting bad when the red flowers start growing again.
Bruce has been deep into a case and he realises, with that pang that Alfred is out and the kids have been really conspicuously quiet for a while. Bruce heads upstairs and hears the kids whispering. They're all gathered around a whiteboard, haggling over something.
Tim: Nah-ah, no way. Not happening.
Jason: Don't be such a baby, Tim.
Tim, grabbing for the marker in Jason's hand: Her dad stole my fucking spleen.
Jason: And?
Tim, pointing to Damian who's actually just chilling on the sofa with Alfred the Cat: She gave birth to him. What if she makes more of them?
Damian: That's actually fair.
Dick, grabbing the marker and scrawling a name on the board: Which is why it has to be Selina.
Duke: That's just square one all over again, Grayson.
Damian: She has cats and she is a skilled warrior.
Cass: I second that.
Jason: And Talia literally dogwalks Deathstroke, why is this even a point of discussion?
Dick, tapping the marker on the board: She. Makes. Him. Smile. What else do you want?
Tim: So does Clark Kent but-
Steph, jumping up to point at the third name on : EXACTLY
Cass: Why would you start her off again?
Steph: HAVE YOU SEEN THEM TOGETHER?
Dick: Look nobody would want Clark as a stepdad more than me but it's not happening.
Duke: This is the Stepmom debate. Stepdads were last week.
Damian: We're losing focus here. Drake, roll the PowerPoint again. We need fresh eyes on this.
Batkids mid-argument
Babs: I don’t have to stand for this
Duke: You don’t have to stand for anything
Babs: …
Tim: …
Damian: …
Dick: …
Jason (to Dick): Dude, I told you he’d do it
Dick, begrudgingly hands over $20
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In my opinion one of the best ways to write Jonathan and Damian is to make them act like Darwin and Gumball.
For example,
Some man: Jon, you speak English really well
Jon: What?! What do you think my native language is?
Some guy: Um Kryptoish?
Jon: Wow you somehow managed to offend everyone on earth and Krypton at the same time.
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Damian: Look who's talking have you seen your sandals? You look like your about to walk on water
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Jon: hmm hmm Damian: What are you doing? Jon: Oh, I was just trying to work out if I give a darn
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Jon: Hey, where you going?! *grabs his soul* Jon: That was terrifying Damian: Well at least your soul was going upwards
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Damian: I don't know I'd do something petty like take away something he likes and not give that back Damian: YOU STOLE HIS MOM?! Jon: What? You said to take something he likes? Damian: SOMETHING NOT SOMEONE!
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Damian: He didn't see it Jon: Draw his attention to it, make a wallet sound Damian: Wallet! Jon: Thats not that sound a wallet makes Damian: You do it since your so- Jon: *wallet sounds* Damian: Actually, that was really good.
That actually might be more accurate for them 🤣
hii :) for the violence ask game: 7, 13,16 and 24 <3
Hi! :D Thank you for choosing some of the most terrifying questions here, you definitely know how to get me rambling.
Right *cracks knuckles* let's get to it. Buckle up, this is gonna be LONG.
7. What character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because of how the fandom acts about them?
Actually there's a funny story here bc when I first got into this fandom, it was through fanfic and that was the only way I interacted with it for the first year or so. With that in mind, I loved reading Tim fics and a lot of Tim fics are not very nice to Dick or Steph.
Dick, in particular I genuinely hated for the first six months bc I actually believed he tried to put Tim in Arkham and was like 'wtf???' So in a way how fandom treated Dick as a caricature of himself alongside making him comically awful made me hate him for a while.
With Steph, it was more like 'why are you only written as Tim's waffle loving ex who faked her death supposedly???' I actually thought she was funny and liked how bold she could be when written well, but fanon's portrayal actually stopped me from fully loving her until I read Batgirl 2000 and spiralled from there.
13. Worst blorborfication
It's actually so hard to choose but I think I have to just say Tim. The sick, abandoned, Victorian boy trope fanon assigns to him is TIRING.
Not to say I don't love indulging in Tim angst, hell, I write a lot of it. But this whole underweight, wet kitten thing the fandom has going on in regards to him is just...no. He's not a poor, helpless baby, he's a little asshole surrounded by other assholes and sometimes that backfires.
And the whole "every character but Tim is a villain" along with ignoring the other characters' pain just to focus on his is just plain bad storytelling too. Not to say you can't focus on it, again, I do, but Dick, Steph and Damian aren't the devils incarnate just because they made Tim sad a few times. They're just flawed, complicated, hurt people like he is which I think makes for a more interesting story rather than mindlessly villainising them.
16. You can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, tropes, headcanona etc)
Hoo boy I could go for DAYS about this one. But to restrain myself, I'll focus on two characterizations that I really don't understand why people use like so much.
"Duke is the normal one" is not only untrue, but such a dull way to characterize a funny, interesting and complex character. The guy's a lil hater who roasts people mostly unprovoked, it's hilarious. I just don't understand why people use it at all because it does nothing, adds nothing and only serves to make people who actually like Duke want to scream into the abyss.
Also Cass being the perfect, silent, well adjusted sister *snorts* that woman wouldn't know well adjusted if it kicked her in the face (affectionate) and the only "perfect" ideal she reaches is being a perfect fighter - at least in her eyes, I personally think her self preservation instincts could use some work but I digress.
24. Topic that brings up the most rancid discourse.
Ooooh you're spoiling me with this question. The DC fandom has so much rancid discourse bc it has a lot of issues with, well, anyone who isn't a member of the "fab five." But I'll behave and just focus on one.
A topic that really brings out an ugly side to this fandom is anything to do with Talia al Ghul. Her and Jason? "Evil, brainwashing lady who slept with him!!" Her and Bruce? "Evil, seductive lady who roofied him!!" Her and Damian? "Evil, cold hearted lady who hates her son!!" Her and Tim? "Evil, mean lady who made Jason and Damian try to kill him!!"
It is truly ENDLESS. Talia would probably get blamed for one of the guys stubbing their toe at this point if the fandom saw fit. So yeah, arguments can get real ugly over here when Talia discourse comes up.
Thanks so much for giving me the chance to rant and rave like a drunk preacher on a soapbox!!! 💜💜💜
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR DEAR TIM DRAKE/RED ROBIN ❤️❤️❤️
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The Batfam hiding in the dark inside of Tim's apartment with his friends from YJ, waiting for him to celebrate:
Ninja, sent by Ra's to deliver rare flowers, amazingly crafted weapons, poisoned tea bags and a letter full of threats and appreciation:
Lady Shiva, here to have a dual with Tim, holding a bo-staff made with the best materials:
The door of the apartment opening up. Everyone looking at it in anticipation before Tam walks through it disappointing everyone.
Tam: Tim refuses to come in, so...
Tam, pointing towards the ninja: you leave.
Tam, pointing towards Shiva: you come back later.
Tam, pointing towards the bats and YJ: you stay.
Ninja, leaving after putting down the gifts
Lady Shiva, leaving after setting an exact hour with Tam to come back for Tim:
Tim, finally walking through the door already looking exhausted:
Jason not being able to hold himself back: what the fuck was that?!
Everyone now staring at Tim.
Tim, gaslighting master, looking at everyone with tear filled eyes and a wobbly smile: you remembered my birthday?
Everyone quickly forgetting what happened earlier and comforting him:
Cass, with a knowing smile: evil little brother
Tim, smiling innocently: thanks, I try.
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Art credit: @dieantik https://www.tumblr.com/dieantik/690216861988765696/late-to-his-own-birthday-party
Ive seen things where people have kids who are dark haired and eyed at birth and turn light haired and eyes when they get older or vice versa.
I headcanon Janet with blonde hair and green eyes and Jack with black hair blue eyes.
Im using this on Tim.
Tim was born with blonde hair green eyes and looked like Jack as a baby, but when he got older, around 4ish, he turned black haired and blue eyed and started looking like Janet.
His parents were both in a love hate relationship with this change. On one hand they want him to have their colors and look like them...
On the other hand they miss when he used to look like the other parent.
Just imagine:
Tim going through old pictures in his gazillion boxes of pictures, the family is helping him.
"Who's this baby? Steph's?"
Someone asks. They look over to see Duke holding a photo of a blonde baby, smiling a gummy smile with curly blonde hair and green emerald eyes looking brighter than a kryptonian in the sun.
"No.. That's.. who is that baby?"
Steph asked very slowly. Guess they forgot to tell Duke that Steph's daughter was a sensitive topic amongst them.
"Steph gave up her daughter at birth, Duke. And it was a traumatic experience for her so we don't talk about it."
Bruce informed.
"O-Oh! I'm sorry."
"It's okay, you didn't know"
She waved him off with a smile, but everyone still wondered who the baby was.
"Tim?"
"Yeah?"
Tim replied from inside his closet. He walked out upon no reply, setting down another box filled with camera equipment and saw all their confused faces.
"Who's baby is this?"
Duke turned the picture and Tim looked at it closer.
"Oh!"
Tim smiled, taking it and putting it next to his face.
"It's me!"
He smiled just as bright as the baby, which happened to be him, in the picture.
.
.
.
"WHAT!?"
The family, including Alfred, stared jaw dropped shocked at the guy.
The baby in the photo, smiling oh so brightly like the sun, green eyed, blonde curly hair, with the cutest little red polka dot dress on, was Tim, who had straight-ish black hair and blue eyes, didn't smile as brightly as the moon, who only gave smirks and grins, and was wearing a long sleeves under a Limp Bizkit t shirt with very baggy jeans.
"Yeah.. Genetics! Ya know..?"
"Explain."
Jason demanded.
"Well, up until I was 4-ish I had my dad's face but my mom's green eyes and blonde curly hair, but then it turned black and my eyes turned blue and straight-ish and I started looking more like my mom."
He rubbed his neck sheepishly.
That started the searching of Tim's baby photos. They'd organize the Bat photos and the hero photos later, right now they needed to find all of the blonde hair green eyed baby Tim photos.
It was no secret that Tim was trans, so when all the photos of a little girl in dresses and skirts showed up they weren't phased. It was hilarious to see all the pouty faced pictured of Tim in dresses.
The photos did get put up around the house with Tim's (begrudgingly(willingly)) permission.
Dick wanted him to bleach his hair but he refuses to damage his hair.
But also imagine this:
The older that Tim gets, the blonde comes back. He still looks like his mom, but his slowly starts turning blonde again, and his eyes start having a greener tint/hue to it.
The first to notice was Bart.
Bart was braiding Tim's rather ling hair when he points it out.
"Hey Tim, your hair's got some blonde in it!"
"What?"
Tim runs to the mirror and looks in it. Yep. Sure enough his hair was growing some blonde strands. And now that he looked, his eyes looked more green than it's normal blue.
"Oh my gosh.."
He calls Bruce.
Bruce who was in a JL meeting.
"I'm in a meeting."
"B! Im going blonde again! Ans my eyes! They're turning green!"
Tim says, somewhat panicked, somewhat excited.
Bruce blanks. Because.. what. What do you mean his baby boy, who he loved staring at the blonde and green eyed baby pictures of, was resorting back to that color.
"...really?"
He asks very hesitantly at first.
"Yeah!"
Tim turns his head down, showing his scalp. And there, right there, were several prominent, yet blended, strands of blonde growing in a curl pattern amongst the straight black locks.
Bruce just about cries right then and there.
Because then Tim does a close up of his eyes. And yep. His eyes have a but of green in them.
"That's great, sweetie. But I'm in a meeting right now."
"Oh! Sorry!"
He hangs up.
Bruce doesn't.
He's still stuck on the call smiling like a sappy parent whose kid just did something so small yet so touching. There were tears in his eyes and none of the JL knew what to do.
Felt bored, here's my projecting health issues onto the Batfam again:
Alfred, setting down a pharmacy bag, inhaling sharply: COME GET YOUR DRUGS!
Bruce, dragging himself in:
Tim, slowly looking up from his phone with a dead eyed expression: If it isn't a monster energy drink and seventeen caffeine pills I no no want it.
Cass: I am not on drugs?
Dick: It's our prescriptions, Cass.
Jason: You people are the reason I carry narcan around.
Alfred: You're all on enough prescriptions to fill a pharmacy. Now, let's begin...
Alfred, raising a pill bottle: Pain medication for Master Bruce for the back pain Bane inflicted on him from his wonderful career choices! Unfortunately we don't have the several other medications he should be taking for his mental state...
Bruce: Alfred, please...
Alfred, raising another two pill bottles: Anti-inflammatory and pain medication for Master Dick for his hypermobility he refuses to see a doctor for.
Dick, taking the pills: It's not that painful, Alfie, it's just my bones being slackers :D
Alfred: Master Jason's anti psychotics for the psychosis caused by the Lazarus Pit.
Jason: My therapist is less concerned than last week!
Alfred: Wonderful news, Master Jason... Master Tim, your sleeping pills and anemia medication.
Tim, slowly standing before promptly passing out because POTS sucks:
Alfred, sighing: Somebody please see to it that Master Timothy did not receive another concussion.
Alfred: Master Dick, your ADHD medication.
Dick: I forgot I take these.
Alfred: We know, master Dick.
Bruce, inspecting Tim: Have I failed as a Father?
Alfred: No more than I have. Now, Miss Cassandra, your anxiety medication.
Cass: Thank you, Alfred.
Alfred: You are most welcome, dear. Damian, your allergy pills since you insist on surrounding yourself with farm animals.
Damian: Tt, a runny nose and itchy eyes are a small price to pay for love, Pennyworth.
Alfred: Bipolar medication for Miss Stephanie.
Stephanie: Do you need to announce what the pills are for..?
Alfred: Master Bruce keeps all your information stored on a supercomputer anyone can look at if they guess his password, which is just Master Dick's birthday—
Jason: WHAT!? IT USED TO BE MINE!
Cass: Hurt.
Stephanie: Utter betrayal.
Dick: Wait really??
Bruce: Hrn...
Alfred: And Master Jason's inhaler.
Jason: Wish I had this when I was inhaling all that smoke and died from an asthma attack!
Dick: . . . WHAT!?
Cass: You what?
Jason: B never told you? Yeah, it wasn't the bomb or crowbar that did it, it was the smoke.
Jason: Haha.
Jason: My inhaler broke from the impact.
Jason: I spent my final moments suffocating.
Jason: I died painfully.
Bruce: Hrn...
Tim, slowly coming back to consciousness: Did I die?
Alfred: And Master Tim's testerone.
Tim: Nice. Dick drugs.
Alfred: . . . And birth control.
Tim: Yay, de-baby-nators.
Bruce, sighing: I have failed as a Father...
Jason: Wait, why doesn't Duke have to take medication?
Duke: I do, I just pick it up myself so I don't have to be put through this embarrassment.
Bruce: Are we done here?
Alfred: Yes, thank you for allowing me my weekly enjoyment of having the family in one place and admitting you're all deeply troubled.
Alfred: Good day.
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The kitchen is dark but in the shadows of the open fridge Tim's hand pauses it's path towards a cold can of Zesti. His eyes narrow before he moves, drink hidden behind the quiet clatter of the closing fridge door and the whir of a knife rushing to where his head had once been.
Tim grasps a cooking knife from the block and stands, poised, before letting it fly. Lady Shiva laughs. "Well hello again, little bird."
Tim sighs. "Alexa, call Cass."
"Calling.... Cass"
Shiva's eyes narrow and her grins widen as she leaps forward. Tim dodges, but only just, the his shirt catching, sliced at the edge of a bo's blade. His hand reaches to the folding bo sat at the base of his back ajd then they are dancing, fighting, legs pumping and arms clashing.. "Hey, whats up?"
"CASS!!!! YOUR EGG DONOR IS IN THE FLIPPING KITCHEN!"
"Ah."
The fight continues as Cass hangs up, sighing and cracking her back, gazing around her quiet room, ballet posters on the walls and knives on the dresser.
She heads downstairs, to the kitchen...
When Dick was a teenager and at odds with Bruce, he tried to get a piercing as a form of rebellion. He heard from his friends that their parents totally flipped, so he got himself an earring.
Blue, gaudy, and bedazzled.
When he showed up to the manor with it, he made sure to strut in front of Jason and pretend he didn’t care that his little brother was practically fawning over how cool he looked.
The moment Bruce came into the room, Dick was expecting a huge confrontation and a yelling match, like his friends had all said would happen.
Instead, Bruce lit up and smiled at Dick before leaving the room in a hurry.
Jason and Dick exchanged confused glances before Bruce came back holding a picture and beaming proudly.
The picture is of teen Bruce with a whole bunch of piercings, looking like an ethereal vampire. Snake bites that made it look like he had fangs, industrial, lobe, septum, bridge, etc. Just a lot.
The boys are slack-jawed at their Dad looking like that while Bruce is fondly telling him about all the piercings he had and how he wished he had more, but Alfred wouldn’t let him
“I also had a belly piercing. Ollie convinced me to get that one back at boarding school.” Bruce said wistfully, reminiscing about his intense goth era when he didn’t have to worry too much about public perception.
Dick is mortified because for more than half a second he actually thought his Dad was super cool again. Jason is ooh-ing and awe-ing at the picture.
When Dick does back his apartment, he considers taking the piercing out and letting the hole close up, but he feels slightly bad since Bruce was trying to connect with him.