Mothman And BUTT-erboy: A Comprehensive Guide
On that fateful day where Bruce Wayne sat thinking of exactly what name would strike fear into the hearts of his enemies, a bat flew into the open window of the study, hence creating the vengeful, dark, mysterious Batman. But, ignoring the fact that Gotham City is every horror cliche put together, what if a moth had flown into the manor that night, attracted to the light (as moths often are)?
I give you: the mighty mysterious MOTHMAN!
(treat this crack seriously, okay? because i will)
So you’ve got a guy dressed as a moth going around beating up criminals. But then, you ask, what ever shall his little Robin be? Who is Dick Grayson, if not the human reincarnation of a cartwheel dressed like a stoplight?
Well, logic dictates that if one guy is a moth, the other is a butterfly. I present to you: BUTTERBOY!
I’m wonderful at MS paint shut up
But does he keep this up when he and bruce have their little falling out and he goes out on his own? Um, have you met Dick Grayson?
Our little butterboy has become a BUTTERMAN. We have all the classic nightwing arcs but with butterman instead. Think of the headlines.
“BLUDHAVEN VIGILANTE BUTTERMAN KILLS THE JOKER”
side note: Joker would absolutely love being killed by someone called Butterman
Joker, actively dying of internal bleeding: I was gonna have to go some way and it doesn’t get much butter than this
Everyone spells it butt-erman. Dick’s torn between loving it and hating it. Also Dick constantly smells like popcorn. For reasons.
(And yes, I am well aware that “butterman” sounds like a weird sex thing with vague relations to food and bdsm. But if we’re being honest, Nightwing sounds like a stripper name. So it’s not like this is anything new.)
Now Jason. Jason has a modicum of common sense. But he’s also dumb as shit. So he looks at the costume and goes “yea this isn’t happening.” He gets his hand on the costume plans and that’s how we end up with THE FLY.
Yeah I don’t know how flies work. That’s just how it is now.
(another side note: Jason actually looks super badass and hot in this picture i’m sorry for ruining it but like jesus chIST look at the siZe of his aRMS)
Fact: Jason is fully aware of how dumb it looks and sounds.
Fact: Jason is a little shit
Conclusion: Jason does not care and people are honestly terrified of the Fly because he will beat you up wearing what looks like those fairy wings with the elastic straps that you could put on you and pretend you were a fairy when you were a kid.
Tim would either go back to Butterboy or Fly. Either he’d be Butterboy because he has trash taste in costumes and doesn’t want to replace the Fly. Or he would take on the Fly because he has the creativity of marmalade. Or even worse, he would combine them. I present to you: FLYBOY
Tim genuinely does not realize how stupid it is. This is the guy whose costume includes that stupid cowl. I don’t think he has any fashion sense. Like at all. The only good fashion choice he makes is wearing Kon’s oversized shirts in the morning
Damain would reject both. Damian doesn’t even come to Gotham because he’s so embarrased about the titles that being with the League forever sounds like a better alternative.
Stephanie would think “Butterboy” is the single dumbest thing she’s ever heard.
Kate’s still batwoman. She has better taste and thinks bats are cool.
Babs? She looks at Dick and goes “this has potential.” Which honestly describes their entire relationship. She’s the Butterfly.
Cass is Spider. Like, very Black-Widow esque. Super badass. We Stan.
Duke wants to stick with the yellow but also he has a brain cell. But he’s got massive insecurity issues and wants to be part of the insect theme that the fam’s got going on. So now we have the Wasp.
Anyway, @magneticwoag , @yesboopityboop , and I came up with this thing and I am honestly quite proud. DC you should definitely hire us we will improve your work by leaps and bounds.
