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luminescentauthor · 1 year

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I feel like talia would try to avoid private jets because that’s really bad for the environment and Ra’s and the league of assassins are about ecoterrorism (or at least they originally were).

No offense taken at all! I love getting questions and comments, and it’s a totally valid point.

When I made first long post, I was so caught up in the excitement of “Jason does this! Jason does that!”, that I totally blanked and didn’t put two and two together to realize that since the Al-Ghūls are all about environmental preservation, they’re not going to be fans of private jets with massive carbon footprints, duh.

Shortly before I made the Talia post, I quickly went over the original post to make sure I wasn’t repeating anything I had already shared. This was when these two pieces clicked; I came to the same realization you did and felt like an idiot. That’s why there’s an off-hand comment in the Talia post about the plane being eco-friendly. What I meant was “electrically powered,” and while I’m fully aware IRL electrically powered planes can only cover really really tiny distances, I was thinking about something like Marvel’s arc reactor. Since it’s a big comic universe, I’m pretty sure if I poked through canon long enough I’d eventually find an energy source that would work and that Talia would be able to get her hands on. And obviously, electric vehicles still have an ecological footprint, but it’s very small compared to gas-powered, particularly if the electricity you use to charge the battery comes from wind/hydro/geothermal/solar/nuclear power sources instead of fossil fuels. Or Talia powered it with magic. And she probably doesn’t use her plane often; it’s for security. She’s a little afraid someone will try to attack her while she’s in the air, and she doesn’t want anyone else getting caught in that.

As I finished writing this out, I abruptly remembered the Zeta Tubes from the Young Justice TV show, and realized it would make much more sense for Bruce to set one up the vicinity of Jason’s apartment, perhaps in a neighboring building, since teleportation is a lot faster than the 20+ hour flight from Sydney to New Jersey, and as far as we’ve been told doesn’t have severe ecological effects.

And it’s not like he would have much time in Gotham anyway if he did fly, because it’s a 20+ hour flight in each direction, which I maybe didn’t realize before just now.

So, yeah, there’s probably now a tiny base near Jason’s place that he keeps sneaking in and out of to teleport to Gotham whenever he wants to say hi. Someone might ask questions at some point, but Jason's sneaky enough that he probably almost never gets seen anyway.

#rin answers #remained au #dc #dc comics #batman comics #batman #batfamily #talia al ghul #jason todd #red hood #skypalacearchitect

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luminescentauthor · 1 year

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just for the record, this also happened to all the robins, back when they were small enough to be slung around

it still happens to Tim pretty frequently, actually, to his irritation.

sometimes, even if you’re a Bat, you’ve just got to book it away from something. however, Damian has Short Little Legs, and while he manages to be pretty speedy most of the time, when it comes to a dead sprint he can’t match the rest of the family.

as such, it’s not uncommon for Bruce, Jason, or even Dick to simply pick him, sling him over their shoulder, and keep running like he’s not even there.

or they yeet him to safety like he’s a missile. whatever works.

and he hates it.

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luminescentauthor · 1 year

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as such, it's not uncommon for Bruce, Jason, or even Dick to simply pick him, sling him over their shoulder, and keep running like he’s not even there.

or they yeet him to safety like he's a missile. whatever works.

and he hates it.

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luminescentauthor · 1 year

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Good Mom Talia Headcanons

Because Talia al-Ghūl is a Good Mom Screw You

DC – Gotham Knights, specifically – is back on their evil Talia al-Ghūl BS, and they’re also back on their “the less white she appears, the more evil she is” BS and I am. So tired.

So, out of raw spite, here are happy headcanons revolving mainly around Talia being a good mom and generally kicking butt!

This is from my Remained AU, named that because it’s the AU where Jason remained with Talia and Damian after coming back to life. You don’t need to know it to understand this, but if you haven’t seen this AU before, you can find the original post here, or the tag for it here.

CW: Swearing and uhhh I think that’s it but PLEASE do lmk if I missed anything

+ One of the first things Talia did when Ra's was removed from the picture following Death and the Maidens (a batman comic in which Ra’s dies. He eventually came back) was buy Damian the biggest, most ridiculous art set in existence, and about 400 glitter pens. He loves it.

+ Jason and Talia will often have tea and chat while they play strategy games, such as chess, Stratego, and Shogi. She always kicks his ass.

+ Nobody is sure when she sleeps. Maybe she just doesn't.

Multiple members of the League of Assassins claim she has the ability to be in two places at the same time. No one is sure how she does it.

+ Talia calls Damian and Jason lots of affectionate nicknames. She only does this when they're alone prior to leaving the League, or with her few most trusted people, but once they're in Gotham she does it all the time. Some of the nicknames are beloved, habibi (Arabic, basically translates to "my love," I'm stealing it from the thousands of fanfics I've seen her use it in), sweetheart, darling, etc.

+ Absolute fashion icon. Owns the most gorgeous dresses, saris, and pantsuits. As CEO of LexCorp and later when she moves to Gotham, she absolutely redefines what is fashionable by virtue of being the best-looking person in the room. (For context, when Lex Luthor was president, he made Talia CEO of LexCorp, for about a year, I think. She spent most of it trying to give evidence to the Daily Planet about Lex’s criminal activity.)

However Jason makes fun of her for The Pink Jumpsuit relentlessly.

+ Talia almost always wears her hair in a braid or bun; the only time she doesn't is for business meetings and parties and whatnot. If she's just around a League base or fighting, it's tied back. This has nothing to do with the fact that it affects her fighting skill and everything to do with the fact that she finds hair in her face very annoying. Talia is far too good to be affected by whether or not her hair is in her face – she just gets tired of it falling in her eyes when she’s trying to read.

+ Doesn’t wear heels much; she’s an athlete and a fighter, and heels literally deform your feet. Will wear heels when meeting with Ra’s because she enjoys the look on his face when she’s taller than him. She’s also been known to do this to Lex Luthor and many others. She once walked into a LexCorp board meeting wearing eight-inch heels and towered over all the white men’s heads. Just because she doesn’t wear heels much doesn’t mean she can’t walk in them flawlessly.

+ (Tbh everything Talia al-Ghūl does is flawless.)

+ In canon, when Bruce and Talia met, she was studying for a medical degree at Cairo University. She now has that medical degree.

“Ms. Al-Ghūl—” “That is Doctor Al-Ghūl to you.”

Jason: When did even you do your residency???

Talia, drinking tea: Mmm.

Jason, exasperated: Mom.

+ She also got a business degree at some point, and no one is totally sure when or how. It does make explaining why Lex Luthor made the CEO of LexCorp much easier, though.

+ While she prefers tea, Talia did not get through medical school or a whole year of dealing with Lex Luthor’s bullshit without copious amounts of coffee.

+ Jason got her a “HBIC” mug as a joke partway during her year with LexCorp. It promptly became her favorite mug and can always be seen on her desk filled with coffee or tea.

+ After moving to Gotham, she spends most of her free time spoiling her kids or working on social reform. She's also working on a law degree.

"Mom, a medical degree, a business degree, and a law degree seems like overkill?" "It is, I just want the law degree because it will help me make Lex Luthor's life a living hell." "In that case, understandable have a nice day."

She and Barbara are both “yes I have far too many degrees just so I can wave them in the face of annoying white men what about it” energy and are also both very determined to enact social reform, so they get along quite well. Possibly too well. However, the only people who need to be afraid of their combined might are those who probably deserve it, so the rest of the Batfam has elected to simply get out of the way.

+ Talia owns a private jet, but don’t worry it’s eco-friendly. No ridiculous carbon emissions for this billionaire. She’s an al-Ghūl. Of course, it’s eco-friendly. (She’s also sensible.) Jason proceeds to use it to bounce back and forth between Australia and Gotham, and Talia is. So. Tired. Jason my darling I love you so, so very much, but that is a terrible idea for your education and your sleep schedule please—

For the record, all of Bruce’s vehicles are also electric.

+ Damian wasn't allowed to have pets with the League because Talia didn't trust Ra's not to kill anything Damian showed affection towards. Once Damian lives in Gotham, however, Talia 100% enables his animal-loving tendencies.

Like… maybe a little too much.

Bruce: I’m going to have to build an animal sanctuary in my backyard at this rate.

Talia: I think that would be wonderful, don’t you? It’s not like you don’t have the space.

Tim: *Wheezing*

+ The last name she uses is “Kareem.” Assuming my sources are correct (and admittedly they may not be; my faith in the internet is shaky, at best, though I checked a handful of different sites and they all seem to say the same thing), it is a name of Arabic origin that means generous, honorable, and noble, and is also one of the 99 names of God given in the Quran. It is also the name Jason and Damian use.

When the knowledge that Jason and Damian were Bruce and Talia’s kids becomes public, they both wanted to be Kareem-Waynes. Talia, who wanted to avoid any potential media conflict, pointed out (correctly) that somehow the media would find a way to make a mess out of that and added that she loves them both dearly and they will always be her sons whether or not they use her name. So in the name of Less Media Attention they were going to go with Wayne-Kareem, since it's normal to put the father's name first.

Two hours after they agreed on this, Bruce found out from one of the other batkids and went "WE'RE GOING WITH KAREEM-WAYNE THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY SCREW SEXISM”

Jason and Damian think it’s fantastic. Talia laughs so hard.

The media does try to make a thing out of it, and Bruce literally says “This is the 21st century. Consider it a statement. Also go fuck yourself.”

On a related note, when he marries Selina he becomes Bruce Kyle-Wayne and she becomes Selina Kyle-Wayne and his kids have never loved him more. We stan a feminist!

+ Talia loves animals as much as Damian, and they both get along with Selina because of it.

+ Selina and Talia can often be seen together at galas whispering to one another and generally making everyone else feel like they aren’t worthy to be in the same room.

+ Selina introduces Talia to Ivy and they immediately get along, since they’re both very passionate about environmental reform. Talia does networking and works on policy improvements, while Selina breaks into places for evidence and files, Barbara helps with political wrangling and gathers intelligence, and Ivy and Harley fuck shit up when all else fails. Ivy’s sense for where pollution is coming from is unparalleled, as well, so she can also help gather data to point Talia in the right direction to publicly destroy corrupt companies. Selina’s mostly here to steal things and protect endangered cats.

YEAH I SAID WOMEN IN HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS NOT DEFINED BY THEIR RELATION TO A MAN

WHAT ABOUT IT

For the record, Bruce is very impressed by what they're doing and also absolutely terrified.

(Oh sidenote HarlIvy canon.) (Didn’t even occur to me to say that because I deadass assumed it was a given.)

+ Talia’s initial feelings towards Harley were pretty hostile, given everything the Joker did to Jason, but she comes to understand what Harley went through. Harley and Jason actually bond quite a bit in this AU.

+ Also, not totally on topic with the general theme of this post, I’m going to Own Up to a mistake I made on the last post: I completely forgot the Wayne family is Jewish and was like “yeah, they celebrate Christmas??? Right???” So. Hannukah! They do celebrate Christmas – Tim and Steph grew up celebrating Christmas – they just also celebrate Literally Everything Else.

+ It’s canon in DC that Talia made Damian ox blood soup when he was a kid, so presumably she made it for Jason too. Jason asked her to teach him how to make it. Damian's a vegetarian now, so they're trying to figure out how to replicate the taste.

Talia, affectionately and teasingly: Damian, habibi, I love you dearly, but you are making cooking for you incredibly hard.

Damian: :)

+ She, Jason, and Alfred have been learning how to make a bunch of dishes Damian already likes with tofu and other alternatives, as well as trying out new vegetarian recipes. He’s a growing boy, he needs protein, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be meat.

+ Talia and Alfred go to the farmer’s market every Saturday. Jason often comes with, and the other kids sometimes tag along.

+ Talia bought a cashmere blanket and to this day it is one of the best purchases she's ever made.

She kind of wishes her kids would stop fighting over it, though.

The problem is usually solved by yoinking both children into a cuddle pile.

“Just buy another one—” She has. She owns like six of them, now. It’s this one specific one they want for some reason.

(It’s because it’s Mom’s.)

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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i take it all back. this is like watching a car crash in slow motion. i’m terrified to see what happens but i’m still reading because i’m too horrified to look away.

what are the writers doing?

anyway i’ve been re-reading WFA “Strong Enough” after every task force z issue and u will catch me doing the same thing whenever i deign to read #12 after it comes out

i’m lowkey really excited to see where they’re taking Task Force Z because they’re pulling in a lot of really cool characters?

I mean, there’s the objective hilarity of the Arkham Knight and Jason Todd being on the same team, but this comic also has Amanda Waller, Two-Face, Bane, Deadshot, Solomon Grundy, and Man-Bat, all of whom are pretty big in their own right in the batman comics?

Suicide Squad ft. Jason Todd as the main character!

also the summaries for future are leading me to believe that they’re going to be dealing a fair amount with the dynamic between Jason and Bane, which is going to be REALLY interesting. I’m kind of starting to wonder if Jason blames himself for Alfred’s death. Because when Barbara called him to ask for his help when Bane invaded Gotham, Jason flat-out refused. Unless I’m forgetting something (possible) did nothing during that mess. And I’m guessing he’s probably hating himself for that right now, since Alfred died.

And Jason wasn’t the only one who wasn’t there! Dick wasn’t there either, because he was amnesiac. And do you remember why Dick was amnesiac? Because he was shot in the head by a guy named KGBeast!

Who, oh yeah, is the leader of the other zombie task force, and as of the end of issue 4, is standing across the room from Jason.

#dc #dc comics #task force z #red hood #jason todd

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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u know when u read a whole bunch of individual words and comprehend NONE of the actual meaning?

hate that.

#adhd is acting up and i hate it here #rin rambles

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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You know what? Dumbass rich boy Brucie Wayne has gotten old. Give me fierce social justice advocate Bruce Wayne who consistently and publicly works his ass off for the sake of his city, who advocates for medical care, gun control, disability rights, and racial and gender equality, who adopts every orphan he sees, and who also manages to batman in his spare time somehow.

#dc #dc comics #batman comics #batman #bruce wayne

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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i’m lowkey really excited to see where they’re taking Task Force Z because they’re pulling in a lot of really cool characters?

Suicide Squad ft. Jason Todd as the main character!

Who, oh yeah, is the leader of the other zombie task force, and as of the end of issue 4, is standing across the room from Jason.

#dc #dc comics #batman comics #task force z #jason todd #the red hood #red hood #suicide squad #bane

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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another idea, that, while completely crazy, would nonetheless be VERY funny: put him in charge of designing security for ARKHAM. Eddie gets to have fun messing with super villains, and suddenly Arkham is 10 times harder to break out of. Win-win.

In today’s modern society, Riddler would be the EASIEST of Batman’s villains to rehabilitate

All you have to do? Give him a job designing/running an Escape Room facility

It’s perfect for him. A non-violent outlet for feeding his need to flex how intelligent he is, he still gets to create his elaborate puzzles and riddles, and people will willingly PAY HIM to lock them up in a room where he can mess with them for an hour or so

Someone get Bruce Wayne on the phone I have an idea for a thing he should invest in

#dc #dc comics #batman comics #batman villains #rogue gallery #riddler #the riddler #edward nygma #batman #dc headcanons

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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Hey folks! Sorry for not posting in forever.

i’m currently working on a proper fic for the Remained AU. It’s a rewrite of Batman and Son, the arc where Bruce first meets Damian. The reason it’s taking so long is that the scene where Jason and Bruce reunite and the scene immediately following are both giving me a whole ton of trouble. It took 4 completely different versions of the reunion scene to get one that wasn’t absolutely godawful, and i’ve yet to manage a version of the following scene that doesn’t make me die inside when i re-read it. The short version of the scene from the original remained au post has been scrapped completely; i couldn’t make it work to save my life.

Hopefully i can make this draft work, but don’t set your expectations high for the writing quality. i might post some more remained AU hcs and lore (because it wouldn’t be one of my AUs if i didn’t fuck with the universe’s lore a little, now would it?) before i get around to that, just depending on how long it takes to Get This Fucking Draft To Cooperate.

i’m -- writing isn’t normally this hard????

still, i really like this AU, and i’ve gotten a lot of support for it! i have to get through this scene to be able to write the next arcs, which i would like to do eventually, so i’m doing my best.

#rin rambles #dc #remained au #writing #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writer problems #i’m going to step back from writing this one for a few days #hopefully when i come back to it i’ll feel a little better about it or have some new ideas #either way after that i’ll fetch my writer friends to help out with either brainstorming or proofreading #which one it is depends on how well it goes #honestly versions 2 and 3 were some of the worst things i've ever written. i normally don't have this much trouble with emotional scenes #but this one was like nahhhh #btw! i will soon require a beta reader for this fic #none of my friends read dc so i need someone else to help me make sure the characters aren't too ooc

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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re-posting part 2 because part 1 had some Extremely Important Edits about Dick and Damian and the original reblog of pt. 2 didn't show that bc reblogs are weird. anyway:

I’VE GOT MORE!

Poison Ivy is an ecoterrorist and not a seductress goddammit! Let her be a skilled biochemist and botanist! Let her be nerdy! Let her wear pants and flannel and straw hats like the farm girl she is at heart! Let her go from “destroy humanity” to “destroy factories that are illegally dumping waste and sure Batman doesn’t love it but she’s not actually killing much of anyone and they were ILLEGALLY dumping waste so he’s going to focus on bigger problems”! Let her be morally gray instead of evil from the get-go because she has totally understandable motives!

Deathstroke constant characterization be it good or bad, so long as it’s CONSTANT

Sexy Talia has been done too many times I’m bored of it PLEASE this is a woman who was raised to be an assassin from BIRTH she’s GOING to be practical about clothing unless she’s being a seductress and seductress Talia is SO overdone

Let Talia just be a straight-up badass PLEASE I’m begging you

Sexy Catwoman is ALSO overdone LET HER ZIP UP HER TOP DAMMIT

Harley Quinn is consistently squeamish about the involvement of children in Joker’s BS, and is absent during A Death in the Family, and is VERY not happy to hear about Robin II when she next shows up (maybe she was locked up in Arkham or something idk.)

Harley Quinn breaks off on her own as usual after that and it’s great

Harley Quinn stops being oversexualized once she escapes from her abuser

STOP OVERSEXUALIZING ANY CHARACTER DESIGNS NO MATTER THEIR GENDER

Wonder Woman is an Amazon and a warrior LET HER WEAR PANTS????

Any athlete who has had long hair will tell you: constant motion + long hair is NO. vigilantes/heroes/warriors TIE THEIR HAIR BACK. I require a certain level of realism, and the fact that “long hair is really goddamn annoying when you move around that much” is one thing that I am Not Quite Willing to handwave

…..where the hell does Dick carry things. He’s wearing a spandex suit with no visible pockets and no utility belt. Dick. What. No. How. ?????

Robin please wear pants and sleeves YOU JUMP INTO FIREFIGHTS ON A REGULAR BASIS DAMMIT

Jason, who lived on Gotham’s streets and knows precisely how dangerous they are, after taking one look at the Robin costume: might I make some suggestions about, uh, ARMOR?

Bruce, relieved: OH THANK GOD FINALLY

Dick, sauntering into the cave wearing the Discowing suit, chest and neck (and!! fairly important organs!!) completely exposed: Hey B, I got my new suit finished! So where’s this new kid Alfred told me about?

Bruce:

things i want in a DC/Batman reboot, a non-comprehensive list:

Consistent characterization for Talia al Ghul, returning her to the way she was originally: morally gray but also a genuinely caring person who truly loved Bruce, cared for Jason, and LOVED Damian, fuck you

GIVE JASON TODD A CONSISTENT CHARACTER ARC THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE GODDAMMIT

Romani Dick Grayson! I previously had this bullet point as “Romani Dick Grayson who isn’t white bls” until @sw-enev corrected me – I reblogged their post, but to quote, “Romani people come in all different skin tones. Just because he isn’t darker, doesn’t make him any less Romani. In fact, Romani people with lighter complexions often face the most confusion of identity because they are neither “white enough” to be white, nor “dark enough” to be Romani. Deeming that to be Romani one must be dark skinned is a bit misguided and disrespectful, and really stereotypical. Of course, there are still ways to make his representation better, such as speaking Romani or exhibiting Romani behaviours. What a person looks like isn’t the entire makeup of their identity or ethnicity.” Instead, it would be better if the opportunity was used to represent the Romani people by showing Dick’s culture and even showing this. My sincerest apologies for my ignorant error, and thank you to @sw-enev!

Multiracial Damian Wayne and let him embrace his mixed ethnicity! acknowledge that in his character! let it affect his sense of identity that he belongs to multiple cultures!

The Batgirls being more prominent because dammit if Cass can get over her assassin upbringing Damian can too and LET CASS INTERACT MORE WITH DAMIAN SHE’LL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HIM BETTER THAN ANYONE???

I think Jason would also benefit greatly from interaction with the Batgirls in terms of his character arc but also I just!! Want!! All! The Batgirls!! To get the love and attention and development and writing quality that they DESERVE!

Give poor Tim a break for once please

LET BRUCE LOVE HIS KIDS GODDAMIT

Bruce refusing to ever, ever use offensive moves against the people he considers his children.

If you MUST make him fight Jason, then have him not TRULY believe in his heart that it’s Jason (even though he knows logically that all the proof is there) until like, the very very last moment in the Under the Hood arc, and then max out the regret potential. However, I think the potential for Bruce running into a moral dilemma of “the Red Hood is hurting people but I just can’t make myself actually fight Jason” is also really interesting

yeah that’s all I can think of right now

edit: thank you to @nekokats for pointing out to me that Damian isn’t just Arab and Caucasian, but also of Chinese descent!

edit 2: as mentioned above, thank you to @sw-enev for correcting me for the bullet point “Romani Dick Grayson who isn’t white bls” – that was ignorant of me, and my sincerest apologies to anyone I offended.

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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Oh my god, I'm so sorry -- that's entirely my error. Thank you so much for correcting me! I've edited the post... I'm not sure what to do about the reblogs it's already had. Again, I'm very sorry.

things i want in a DC/Batman reboot, a non-comprehensive list:

GIVE JASON TODD A CONSISTENT CHARACTER ARC THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE GODDAMMIT

Romani Dick Grayson who isn’t white bls

Multiracial Damian Wayne who isn’t white either bls and let him embrace his mixed ethnicity! acknowledge that in his character! let it affect his sense of identity that he belongs to multiple cultures!

Give poor Tim a break for once please

LET BRUCE LOVE HIS KIDS GODDAMIT

Bruce refusing to ever, ever use offensive moves against the people he considers his children.

yeah that’s all I can think of right now

edit: thank you to @nekokats for pointing out to me that Damian isn’t just Arab and Caucasian, but also of Chinese descent!

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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fact: you can do more with a bad draft than a blank page

also fact: ...sometimes you don't know where to start fixing the bad draft because it's just. that bad.

#remained au #writing #rin rambles #writeblr #writers on tumblr

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luminescentauthor · 2 years

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help i'm having more ideas??? i love this AU of yours so much

again, obligatory forewarning that I haven’t read any comics with Zatanna or about magic in the DC universe and I really said “screw the canon rules I do what I want.”

if Tim is allergic to cats (since Alfred the Cat exists, idk) -- or anyone is, really, he'll do this for any of them -- Jason gets Zatanna to make magic allergy meds and leaves them on Tim's bathroom counter with a note from her. Tim is Understandably Salty about having to take the meds, but Jason is actually pretty considerate about not shifting inside the house -- when he does, he'll often stick to Damian's room for Tim's sake, and Tim isn't going in there for love or money anyway.

Jason will never, ever admit it though. or that he's the one who got the meds. but Tim still knows. (Shifter Jason is fairly considerate. when he was turned into a cat that first time, though? ....not so much. he sat on Tim all the time.)

Jason has always had a Thing for climbing high things -- all the Bats do -- but it's gotten infinitely worse in the years since he learned to shift and Roy is suffering. He's almost as bad as Dick now, and Dick is the one who regularly climbs on chandeliers.

Selina is threatening to adopt him. Dick asked if she meant legally adopting him as catjay or Jason the Human and she just said "yes." Jason says "just marry my dad, it'll be faster and you get Alfred the Cat too," and Selina and Bruce both devolve into sputters. She's also told him he should be her sidekick now that he's a cat-person, which made him break down cackling.

The Arrows, including Ollie and Dinah, come to visit Roy and Lian not long after Jason figures out how to shift at will. Ollie has no idea that the cat is Jason, but Dinah does because she's a Bird of Prey. Ollie coos at catjay, who's sitting on the back of the couch mostly asleep, and goes "how cute! who's this?" because it's been a year since catjay was a thing and he doesn't recognize him. Dinah has to slap her hand over her mouth. catjay opens his eyes and stares at Ollie for five whole seconds, then leaps off the couch and transforms while in midair. He lands on his feet in human form and says mildly, "I'm your son-in-law, Oliver, don't tell me you've forgotten me already," and Oliver falls over while Dinah bursts out laughing. Roy is too busy freaking out over the son-in-law comment to laugh because he and Jason aren't actually married (yet.)

Damian, who is 100% willing to feed cat-form Jason literally anything he wants (to Jason's glee), takes to calling catjay "Jason" and human Jason "Jason the Human" because Steph made him watch Adventure Time. Tim and Steph immediately latch onto this idea and now he's just. Jason the Human. He's been demoted. Jason absolutely hates it. Roy think it's hysterical.

Lian often naps on top of catjay, leaning on him with her face half-buried in his fur. This doesn't work as well as she gets older and bigger, because he stays the same size and starts getting squashed. He also adores her far too much to make her stop.

Tim makes catjay pose as a photography subject, because, well, how many cats can pose? Damian is immediately onboard and tries to make catjay pose for a painting and Jason's like aw, hell no. Still, occasionally Jason and Tim (and often Steph) make cat videos. ("are you kidding me. Jason. Jason. this is the opportunity of a lifetime. you're a cat and you can act.")

Normal humans actually have a fairly hard time carrying catjay's chonky ass around, which is why he's prone to acting like a large furry scarf, but Kori, Artemis, and Donna have all been known to carry him around. Kori and Artemis both carry him under one arm sometimes. Donna is slightly more gentle with him. Slightly.

Catjay will occasionally sit on your face while you're lying down or sitting if he's really annoyed at you. He does it to Bruce regularly. The only people he's never done it to are Alfred, Cass, and Lian. Roy is not exempt from getting a face full of cat fur when Jason's irritated at him.

Jason also learns magic basics from Z! He doesn't really cast/use magic himself, but he's pretty good at detecting it, and he eventually decided practicing a handful of spells for emergencies would be good. The two he uses most are an emergency signal -- goes to Z probably and then she can contact the Bats for him and tell them where he is, or just go after her Dumbass Student herself -- and a shield to protect the people around him and himself. They're really exhausting though, since he doesn't cast spells very often. He mostly sticks to the All-Caste stuff he already knew (SWORDS.) He and Damian are the family's occult specialists.

The same way his eyes changed, Jason's nails are sharper and tougher than a human's after long enough, and he can turn them into full-blown claws. He rarely does though. He can also slightly change his ears or nose if he wants to; his ears are keener than normal, too. But usually, he just turns into a cat for 30 seconds to use his senses and then turns back.

Human Jason occasionally forgets he doesn't have a tail for balancing on things and falls off because of it. Almost nobody has figured out that this happens, but Z has and thinks it's hilarious. Jason is semi-seriously considering asking her if partial transformation can give him a tail just in the name of Not Falling Off Shit, even though he knows no one in the family will let him live it down ever. Catjay frequently forgets he doesn't have opposable thumbs or fingertips and tries to open doors or interact with screens, and then will generally bonk his forehead against the nearest surface.

Tim and Steph constantly call Jason a furry up until Dick points out that "Wouldn't Roy be the furry?" and then everything dissolves into chaos. Roy defends himself by saying that Jason was already dating Roy when he became a cat. Eventually, they come to the conclusion that Roy is Probably a furry, Jason is definitely a furry, and Bruce and Selina are both furrys with actual fursonas and therefore nobody gets to judge here.

If Jason learns any other magic, I'm inclined to say it would be negation. He has a move or two with the All-Caste that are power-negation or similar, and I think learning to limit/temporarily negate/fuck with other people's magic/powers would fit into his current fighting style more easily than other things.

Jason eventually realized he's accidentally switched from guns to unarmed fighting aided by magic without even noticing. He's literally the last person in the family to figure that out. Bruce is crying with happiness somewhere. (Jason still carries his guns for emergencies though.)

The furniture in the Harper-Todd apartment is just perpetually covered in cat scratches, even though they have at least four cat posts from that one Christmas everyone simultaneously got the idea that it would make a great gag gift for Jason. None of the posts have ever been touched. Jason turns up his nose at them. ("Dude, where are all the scratches from???" "My cat." "Roy... there isn't a cat here..." "Yeah he's an outdoor cat, he'll wander back eventually." "THIS IS THE TWELFTH FLOOR." "I'm aware of that.")

Remember how I mentioned Jason sneaking into hideouts as a cat? Well, Jason is A Big Ass Cat and occasionally gets stuck in vents. Everyone thinks it's the funniest thing. Tim has an entire hard drive of pictures/videos of catjay doing stupid shit, including him trying to get out of vents. Jason has destroyed it at least three times, but Tim always??? Has??? Another two backups of it??? (The hard drive also has the cucumber video. And multiple videos of catjay chasing lasers.)

He's known to sit on Babs's lap and purr while she works. She's one of the best to sit with, as long as he stays away from the keyboard. He sometimes can't resist (HOLO DISPLAY-) but generally, he knows better than to mess with her.

Cat law does not apply to catjay because he will shamelessly abuse it to annoy you. Bruce is the only one who Absolutely Will Not Move unless the world is actually ending when Jason sits on him.

Jason has been legally resurrected for a while and whenever anyone visits Wayne Manor and he doesn't want to deal with them, he turns into a cat so he doesn't have to interact, and also he gets to watch the entire family fumble over not calling him Jason which is hilarious. Unfortunately, the first time he did this, Dick panicked and when someone asked what the cat's name was, Dick went "uhhhhh his name's Fluffy!" and now Jason's stuck with it. He. Hates. It. But Dick and Roy both immediately latch onto the name and now he's just doomed. He's Fluffy the Cat now. Zatanna gets him a tag for his collar that says Fluffy as a gag and he throws it at her in retaliation.

In general, when he doesn't want to talk to someone or doesn't want to deal with them he just turns into a cat and ignores them. Or if he's upset. He'll do this literally while you're talking to him if you know he's a shifter, just to be annoying. If the person in question doesn't know, he'll shift before they enter the room and pretend he isn't at the manor/whatever place.

Catjay's had to run away from vets attempting to neuter him four (4) whole times now and he won't ever let anyone know. A lot of people have tried to adopt the random bigass cat wandering the street, okay? Yes he has a collar, it's enchanted and makes his clothes stay on -- god bless Z -- but there's no nametag on it. (He refuses to wear the Fluffy tag.)

Dick makes a cat-nap joke one (1) time when he runs across Jason the Human asleep on the couch and then it's just a THING. It's been years and everyone except Jason still makes them all the time and still thinks they're hilarious. Jason does not agree.

Eventually all of the family can hold a conversation with catjay where he just meows back or makes other various noises and they can tell what he's saying and it's absolutely the weirdest thing to see Tim or Dick heatedly arguing with a cat because they're getting bizarrely specific meanings out of the sounds/expressions he's making.

Even years after he's learned to shift and is no longer learning from Zatanna, he visits her once a week or so. They generally share tea and talk about books. It's relaxing.

As years go on, more and more members of the hero community figure out that Red Hood can Fucking Shapeshift Now, but there's a solid two years there where really only the Bats, Zatanna, and the Arrows know, and they aren't telling. The other magic users probably figure it out but also elect not to say anything because it's funny watching everyone be confused. There's at least one "sINCE WHEN COULD YOU DO THAT?!" incident every time they let Jason join a large team-up.

Cat!Jason, Part 3, meme edition [parts 1 & 2]

When Bruce tries to pick him up: [clawing and struggling and yowling] I've never met you in my life, you bastard, you fiend! Stop this at once!

When Roy has to set him down for 5 seconds: [crying and reaching up] Where Are My Kisses From Roy? Where Are My Snuggles And Cuddles That I Crave So Dearly? You Are A Cruel And Unjust Lover, And I Am Going To Scream.

Tim, trying to get to the the fridge: [gently nudges Jason with his foot] C'mon Jay, move your fluffy butt.

Jason: You KICK Jason? YOU KICK HIS BODY LIKE THE FOOTBALL?! Oh! OH! Pee-soaked bed for brother! Pee-soaked bed for brother for ONE THOUSAND YEARS!

Half the family: [yelling at him for stealing their food]

Jason: i Amn just............. a litle creacher. Thatse It . I Canot change this

Dick: [Isn't paying attention and not used to having a cat around, trips over Jason] Oh, I'm so sorry Little Wing, c'mere let me make sure you're oka--

Jason: You have chosen death. [Attacks]

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