AO3: Alis_Corli166620 • Libra • English Major • Asexual • Call me Alistair/Alise!! <33 • He/Him"Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists and it is only raining outside."
there are so many things on gods green earth that are not platonic but are also not romantic. the erotic, the familial, the unconditional, weird codependency, weird codependency (hatred edition), etc. let us all broaden our horizons
Broke: Bruce wayne uses his batman voice to spook his children at 2 am to get them to stop playing video games
Woke: Batman used his Brucie Wayne voice to interrogate JL criminals in custody in a sealed, soundproof room untill they're begging to be let out and give up the information freely
Hyperwoke: Brucie Wayne and his ensemble of children attend the met gala in their full vigilante costumes and Brucie flirts aggressively with anything that moves
Superhyperwoke: Brucie Wayne and his ensemble of children dress up in fifteen dollar Walmart knockoff versions of JL members and go on a sightseeing bus tour of Metropolis.
While I'm sure bad guys in Gotham have learned over time that the Bats don't kill, that even after bashing your teeth in they'll flag down an ambulance or dump you unceremoniously at the ER, it's still a shaky trust.
One that is easily shaken seeing a child wielding a sword in the dead of night; nobody wants to learn how that is handled nonlethally. Or bad guys just surrendering one late night after running into an alley and Nightwing's standing over their unconscious buddy, holding the gun he wrestled away. They watch Red Hood break into the place they're robbing with a crowbar in hand and just decide they'd rather not chance it. They see a shadow that could be Black Bat and-- you get it.
after the whole reconciliation with jason thing, dick quickly learns that he just CANNOT say certain things around him anymore, ex:
"god it would make things so much easier if _____ just died"
(2 hours later jason comes back and drops an inconspicuous "i don't think _____ will cause you trouble anymore)
or
"i wish someone would knock some sense into _____"
dick, patrolling later on realises, that particular person hasn't caused any trouble around the city for a few days, and asks jason about it, to which he gets a:
"oh i got some goons to go issue him a 'warning'."