im tired of damian looking exactly like bruce. give me damian who looks like talia.
damian who bruce looks at and can't see any of himself in. damian who instead reminds bruce of talia with every smile and glare. damian who grows his hair when he's older as he's growing into his mother's face. and bruce suddenly has to be enforcing gotham/bat morals and rules on someone who looks far more like an al ghul than a wayne. damian who never gets as tall as his father or brothers and who doesn't build muscle the same way leaving him to fight like his mother and cass. like an assassin. damian who can't be batman the way he's always dreamed of because he will never be a looming vengeful presence capable of physical intimidation. and that's ok. because he can be worse. he's a batman that matches black bat. silent and terrifying and no one knows he's there until the fight is over. he fights quickly and efficiently with a combination of techniques that pull from black bat, huntress, batgirl, catwoman, and even nightwing (who is a gymnast/aerialist first and foremost) at their most terrifying. and on top of that everyone knows he used to be sword robin.
he doesn't need to look anything like bruce to be a terror inducing batman. and he doesn't need to look anything like bruce to cause bruce emotional turmoil.
I think about how chaotic and confusing it must have been when out of the blue Batman got a nine year old dressed like a traffic light following him around
Talia and Bane... these statistics keep surprising me.
Talia didn't win one of my recent polls on which character I should make a ship chart for but I was very curious myself if it was going to be like 90% Talia/Bruce, so... here you go.
I assume no guarantee or liability for the completeness, correctness and accuracy of this chart despite my best efforts.
Includes fanfictions in all languages available on Ao3, NOT English only.
Includes all fandoms connected to the character "Talia al Ghul".
Percentages were rounded up or rounded down to natural numbers for easier comprehension.
Poly ships were included.
More charts will follow. :)
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I refuse to believe Batman would be anything but asexual. Batman has a strict code of ethics that restrict him from getting too attached to enemies.
However, Bruce Wayne is an absolute slut.
The ideal way to resolve this conflict is simple: even if Bruce Wayne gets up to some nasty shit with Selina Kyle, Batman still has to fight Catwoman. Meanwhile, Catwoman does not have the professionalism of Batman and keeps insulting Batman via thinly-veiled innuendos.
Who’s your favorite Gotham vigilante, besides batman
I have a huge respect for Nightwing and Batwoman, they don't always operate in Gotham but I think they count.
And Catwoman is pretty amazing too, although she and Batman used to be a thing which should in theory make me skeptical of her, but I think she does a great job in her own way.