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folk-ever-lore · 2 years

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Abandoned

“Are you kidding me?” She yelled, finding it hard to believe that someone could really be that stubborn. But Bruce Wayne always did find a way to surpass expectations didn’t he? “I know you don’t like me and all that, which is your call, but those are your sons. Are you really going to abandon them like that?”

“I’m not abandoning them,” Bruce hissed, angry spitting from his words. It was clear to anyone in the room, even if it was just the two of them at that point in time, that he couldn’t stand her. Although he’d actually had decent reasoning to hate her in the past, he had no such reasons now. If he could get on with Harley and Ivy then he could get on with her. “You’re a villain. You’re just telling me this in order to distract me so that you can go through with another one of your plans.”

“Goddammit,” Marinette yelled, disbelief showing evidently on her face. But he wasn’t looking, didn’t care. All he cared about was himself. As always. How anyone could ever remotely consider him a good parent was beyond her. She was very glad that Dick had taken on the role of parenting Damian, because hell if Bruce had ever done it. “In case you haven’t noticed I’m dating Damian, one of your sons, one of the good guys in this scenario, and I haven’t hurt anyone who wasn’t one of your rogues in over a year. You’re just too stubborn to see past your big head to see that your kids need help.”

He shook his head. She’d made false attempts to change in the past, only to later betray them and he wasn’t going to start believing her and her lies now. All that would do is put him at risk for further betrayal. “No,” he said harshly, typing on his computer, doing nothing in particular just to show that he didn’t need to pay attention to her. To show that he was the superior one out of the two of them, that he didn’t need to listen to her. “This is what you do. You lie, you gain our truth, you betray us, you steal and the cycle starts again. I can’t trust that you won’t do the same again now. And I can’t believe you’d come up with such a ridiculous lie. My sons would never put themselves in a situation where we were the only ones that would have the power to save them.”

“So you’re not going to help me save them then?”

“I will not support you in anything that you will use to betray us once again with.”

“I thought you were all about giving your villains chances for redemption.”

“I am,” he agreed. “Just not when they’ve exploited those chances as many times as you have.

“Fine then,” she hissed, venom dripping from her words, begging to kill, to attack. “I’ll save them myself.”

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She may have been anxious to go and recover her friends, and her boyfriend, but that didn’t mean she didn’t have common sense. She had to take the time to formulate a plan rather than rushing in immediately. Her first plan of action was to head down to her nearest safe house and use the resources she had there to help her search and narrow down where they could be.

And who had them. But she could guess who that was though, there was only one person who’d semi-recently broken out of Arkham and hated their entire family more than anyone else did. Who else would it be but the Joker? No one else would dare kidnap the Bat Family, or at least not that many members of it at one time.

She grabbed anything she thought she may need to rescue them, including but not limited to some of the guns Jason had left over from one of the he’d visited to get away from Bruce (those would certainly be helpful if she wanted to shoot Bruce is he ever showed up), a spare miraculous to wear (but hopefully not to use) incase something happened to the cat one and some bataarangs that she totally hadn’t stolen from the Batcave. She also decided to pick up some of Damian’s daggers that he’d left with her in case anything ever happened to his main stash.

After that she sat down at her computer and began her work on finding her friends; she wouldn’t leave Damian, or Tim, or Jason, or Dick at the hands of the Joker - not like Bruce had. Especially not after what happened last time Jason had been locked in a warehouse with the psychopath. She didn’t have much time to spare, and she wasn’t willing to waste a second of it.

First, she looked into the many warehouses in Gotham. It was the classic villain place to hold hostages, she’d certainly held a few hostages in a warehouse before. There were a few Joker branded ones that he tended to have used a lot in the past, but after quickly checking those over Marinette soon decided that he would have found a whole new place to store the bats he’d managed to collect today, so that he’d have more time to play with them.

After what felt like far too long, she finally found where the Joker had taken them. A warehouse on the east side of Gotham. It had been abandoned for the last couple of years, but every so often some street kids would find it and use it for a bit, so she’d placed cameras inside so that she could help any that made their way to the warehouse.

She may have been considered one of Gotham City’s Rogues, but that didn’t mean she was a completely horrible person (even if Bruce couldn’t see that). After all, she’d been a hero for years, she couldn’t have done that if she didn’t care about helping people.

It was even one of the main reasons why she’d ended up being classed as one of the many rogues of Gotham. She’d moved to the city in order to make a difference and help the people that lived there, but when she’d tried Batman had only told her that he didn’t accept help from outside heroes. So she’d started using the cat miraculous instead of her normal ladybug earrings, started going by Lady Noire instead and stole what she could from the obnoxiously rich and gave to the street kids who needed the money to survive.

Of course, over the past couple of years, she’d used some of the money she’d stolen on herself, but that’s all Bruce focused on when he was making her out to be the bad guy. Honestly, it hadn’t even been that much. Only enough to support her in the months when she wasn’t getting as many commissions.

Not that the oh so great Batman had ever noticed what she’d really been up to, all he’d cared about was that she was a thief in ‘his’ city. His kids had figured out what she had been doing though, and then soon became her friends. Or, in Damian’s case, became her boyfriend - much to Bruce’s disgust.

With the information she needed to go save her friends, Marinette called her transformation, grabbed her supplies and headed over to the warehouse as fast as possible.

She couldn’t be too late. She couldn’t be. She refused to be too late. She refused to be.

If she was too late … she didn’t want to think about what could have happened in the time it had taken her to find them without the superior resources that Bruce kept locked away in the Batcave just because he was a controlling, prejudiced asshole.

She wouldn’t be too late. She wouldn’t be.

She’d arrived. But was she too late?

The door to the warehouse had obviously been locked, but she had no time to waste trying to undo it using the ‘proper’ Batman approved techniques. “Cataclysm!” She muttered as quickly as she could in order to avoid the Joker noticing, calling her power to destroy the door as quickly and efficiently as possible.

As the door crumpled into dust, she moved to a blind area in the cameras to transform and recharge Plagg. “Eat quickly,” she begged the kwami, “we don’t have much time to spare.” And soon enough Lady Noire was ready to rescue those that had been abandoned by the oh so great Batman.

She didn’t exactly sneak in as the collapse of the door had caused a bit of noise but she was as quiet as she could be, but it seemed like it was safe to say that if the Joker hadn’t really noticed her at all, he wasn’t paying too much attention to anything but his captives.

Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian had all been tied up and hung from the ceiling with their bodies tied with rope, so that they didn’t stand a chance of escape on their own. That didn’t matter anymore. She was going to save them, unlike Bruce.

Marinette hated to think of how the Joker could have gotten his hands on all of them. What had that mad man done to those she loved? How had he hurt them? She was going to kill him (and Bruce) if she got the chance.

She used the darkness of the miraculous to almost blend into the shadows so that she could get closer to her friends without alerting the ignorant Joker that she was there.

“Damian,” she whispered as she got closer using the baton provided by the miraculous to carry her voice upwards, quiet enough so that only he could hear her. “I’m going to get you down from there but I need you ready to land safely and be ready to fight while I get the others down. Can you do that?”

There was as big a nod as he could manage while tied up without alerting the Joker.

“Excellent.”

She brought the baton back down so that she could hold onto the end before elongating it to use it to propel herself upwards, to Damian’s height up in the air. Pulling one of her boyfriend’s daggers from her suit, she used it to cut the rope holding him up. Once free, Damian slid down her baton in order to make a safer descent to the floor and pulled one of his daggers from his utility belt and made a start on attacking the Joker.

Meanwhile, Marinette focused her attention on freeing the others. First Tim, then Jason and finally Dick. When she moved onto Dick, it was easy for her to tell that he’d been injured the most, probably because he’d been focusing on protecting the others than himself like usual, so she made sure to keep hold of him as she freed him, and brought him down towards the ground by changing the height of her baton once his ropes had been cut.

“You’re safe,” she repeated to Dick when he looked at her with a confused look on his face. “You’re safe, Tim’s safe, Jason’s safe, Damian’s safe. You’re all safe now. He can’t hurt you.”

“Thank you,” he managed to say slowly as she sat him against the wall so that he didn’t take part in the fight with an obviously very broken leg.

She nodded, “of course,” before heading off to join the fight.

Once everything was over and done with, the Joker sent back to Arkham and those she cared about as safe as they could be, she got help from Damian to carry Dick over to her safe house. It was much nearer than the stupid Batcave, and hell like she was going to let any of them head over there anytime soon.

“We should go to the Batcave to get medical assistance,” Tim had argued when she’d told them where they were going to spend the night, at least the night longer if she had anything to say about it.

“Not a chance in hell,” she’d hissed. “You will go back to that cave over my dead body.”

Damian had simply sighed and inquired, “What has father done now?”

“He abandoned you,” she admitted after a couple of seconds of glares from them all. “I told him what was happening and he refused to help.”

“He abandoned us, what a big surprise,” Jason retorted. “What else is new?”

“Come on,” Marinette sighed, leading them in the direction of her safe house. “Let’s get you all to safety.”

#maribat #marinette dupain cheng #marinette x damian #damian wayne #damian x marinette #daminette #bruce wayne #batfamily #marinette x batfam #bruce wayne is a bad dad #angst #angst with an ending #idk if its good or bad #you decide #rescue #dc x mlb #mlb x dc

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porcelaintoybox23 · 2 years

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The fake person I made up: you’re saying you don’t like a happy batfam?

Me: No, I don’t want a happy batfam. I don’t want Bruce Wayne to be a good “dad” or mentor. At best, he tries and falls short because he isn’t suited to properly caring for others.

I don’t want dunce, can’t cook, nerfed Dick Grayson, I want one who’s just as cold and calculating as Bruce can be. One that suffers from perfectionism and anger issues because Bruce demands so much and this orphaned boy needed a father, not an adult child soldier.

I want a Dick Grayson that’s angry that his supposed “family” failed him and literally left him with amnesia and blamed him for it. I want the Dick Grayson who moved to New York instead of Gotham because even nuclear fallout can’t make him be near Bruce.

I want a Dick that resents Bruce. A Dick Grayson that considers John his real father and hates that he’s still so much like Bruce regardless.

I want a Jason Todd who keeps his distance because Bruce keeps making the same mistakes. I want a Jason Todd that kills because Bruce’s views should be challenged. I want a Jason Todd who is independent of the Batfam and does his own thing.

I don’t want the edgy, street trash Jason. I want the excited boy who had his joy beaten out of him.

I want a Tim Drake that’s still Red Robin. I want the neurotic kid who cloned his bf(f) like 99 times, accidentally killed Cass’s mom, and goes toe to-toe with Ra’s al-Ghul. The kid who’s morals are a little more suspect. The one with the potential to go Savior.

I want Barbara Gordon as Oracle. I want the Barbara with the sirens. I want the Barbara who wouldn’t kiss Jason and berate Dick for his amnesia.

I want a Cassandra Cain that’s utilized more.

I don’t want a happy batfam because there is no reality in which a batfam can be healthy. Bruce dedicated his life to “vengeance.” The man is focused on the mission. He will lie, manipulate, and use people. Bruce Wayne is the kind of man who keeps a list on how to kill his teammates despite being against killing. Bruce Wayne is paranoid and needed a child to rein in his murderous rage. Bruce Wayne beat Dick into faking his death. Even is his best iterations, he’s a paranoid recluse who can’t distinguish between himself and the mask.

I think batfam is fun…crack. I consider it crack. This urge to make them close and loving feels so out of character at times. I’m not saying none of them have positive relationships. I love Dick and Damian as close brothers. I think Tim and Jason are funny at times. BUT if any superhero family should be fucked and full of tension, it’s the bats. The supers and speedsters can be healthy. Maybe, maybe the arrows, but not the bats.

#this is my manifesto as to why dick Grayson should be a bitch #dc #batfam #according to omniverse everything is canon #reminder that this is my opinion and characterization #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #barabra gordon #cassandra cain #Bruce Wayne #dc comics #anti batfamily #it can kinda be read like that #I don’t mind batfam I just want them miserable #yes I watched Batman beyond #Bruce Wayne is a bad dad #a negative opinion?#oh no! anyway

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psychologeek · 1 year

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short explanation: Bruce Wayne was a bad dad. returning to Gotham, during the titan's sower attack, Jason finds out B abused the robins, in every way.

(no matter what you vote, Jason kill the Joker.)

ways it could go: 1. both b and joker disappear at the same time, or found dead, or b is "considered dead after killing the joker" (wrap this all up easily, but the problem here is - now roughs gonna see Gotham is free to go)

2. Dick takes the cawl. complicated, and IDK if D can be the batman we need in this AU, at least not without a LOT of therapy. i don't want the cycle to start over.

3. J take the cawl? also, not a great fond of it, bc he's very different and I don't like how it would force him to be different and not his own person.

4. batman just disappeared. no explanation.

5. something else (please reply\tag)

#batman #badman #bruce wayne is a bad dad #family abuse #tw: csa #tw: childhood trauma #tw: child abuse #joker #polls #bad batman #dc #dcu

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confessedlyfannish · 7 months

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DC x DP Writing Prompt 4?? 45?? 2,321?? HUT!!!

"So you eat ectoplasm," Flash says hands clasped and index fingers pressed against his mouth.

"Ayup," Phantom says, punctuating with an obnoxious slurp of his goopy ectoplasm. "Does a not body good."

"But the place you come from is made of ectoplasm."

"Ayup."

"So you are literally eating the fabric of your universe?" Flash says, voice rising in pitch.

"No, the fabric of the Infinite Realms is space-time, same as Earth, well not the same," Phantom says, scrunching up his nose. "Earth is more cotton, The Zone is kinda stretchy...huh, like spandex. Neat!"

"But you're eating up the matter that makes you you--" Flash says, hands waving.

"Dude, everything you are was once a star," Phantom says, waving a hand at all of him. "Every last bit of you and everything around you. Star. Now replace it with ectoplasm, and we just cut out all the middlemen."

Flash watches him guzzle up the last bit looking faintly green himself. "That still kind of sounds like a justification for cannibalism."

"I promise to never eat you," Phantom says with uncomfortable emphasis, suddenly solemn. He stares at Flash without blinking until Flash, deeply unnerved, backs out of the room.

"Not funny," Batman says, flipping a page in his newspaper. "He was supposed to be on Watch Duty."

"Now Batman," Phantom drapes his tail across the man's shoulders and lets his fangs elongate and multiply.

"W̵̢̛͓͉̼͔͉͖̖̥͍̪̲̥̯̞̝͎͔̩̹̙͌̽̐͜ͅh̵̨̠̳̖͔̬̭̟̗̠̹͕̟̮̬͓̺͙̊͛͒ͅo̶̧̢̡̨̨̦͚̼̞̫͈͚̤̜͉̰̱̭͙̣̼͙̱͚͓͐͌̒̋̇ͅ ̵̡̡̰͙̠̦͙̼̘̪͈̻̟̙̳͚̤̮̖̱̎̐̀̇̾͛͊͛͊̈̋̈̋̿̍͑̔̏̎͑̒͗̚͘͝͠͝ͅs̵̡̹̣̗̼̙͓͖͉̒̃͋̂̄̄̈́͋̾̈́̀̎̉̓̒̇͐̎͊̚͝͝a̵̡̧͔͍͍͙͔͖̮̦͚͍̖̲͖͖̻̍͊͆̊̿́̿̅́̈͠͠͠i̴͙͙̾̌͊̓̂̌̒͒d̶̨͚̳̟̲̻̤͇͖̞͙̹̯͙̟͓͙͇͖̺̺̎͊͐̏͌̌̅̄́̏̽̓̃͂̓͜͜͝ͅͅ ̵̧̢͎͔̜̮̼̻̫̗̼͙͍͔̺͎͐̍̈́͜͜͜I̵̢̢̛̙̤̳͈̮̜̩͇͕̠̻̫̳̟̤̭͙͖̓̾̓̇̈́̂͒͂͌̍̎̅̑̇̔̇́͌͜͝ ̵̛̣̮̩̩̞̯̻̱̻̳͍̞͙̗̤̗̥͔̭̥͒͒̌͗̿͐̓̇̈̔̌͒̋̑̽̇͜͝ͅẁ̷̧̮̳̗̗͍̠̦̃a̸̡̧̛̛̺͈͍̟̣̫̺̟̗̥̲̻̥͔͔̲̱̣̩̠̖̰̿̋̄͆̀͋́̐̈́́̈́͌͆̅͂́̈́̓͗́̇ş̵̨̨̨̛̛͔̦͚̦̝̺̯̗͓̼̟͙̼̩̣̺̠̭̘͂̏̓̋̓̋̇̏͊̃͊͊͋̊̑̀͌̂͋͐͘̚͜͝ ̶̢̧͍͓̹̘͍̱̬̜̙̮̖̒̃͊̀̀̓̈́̆̀͐̇̿̀̇̿̆̔̂̈́͘͠ͅͅj̵̯̱̇̈́̌̈͌͆̋̑̇̋̎̐̈̇̓͘͘̚͝o̷̢̙͎̹̰̟̳̼̠̖͉̦̘̺̙͑͂͑̌̉͗̑͑̉͌͜͜͠͝͠ͅk̶̡͇̈́͋̈̈́̐̀̂̈́̽̾͌̂̾̊̑͘͠ḯ̸̢̢̢̞̱̦͙͖̱̙͕̞̮̫̱̣̤̥͍͍̫̗͔͙̞̘̓̂̄͂̿̉͒̈̍̅̍̅̍̏̋̕͘͝͠͝ͅņ̴̛͉̲̮̫̩̙̠̯̤͚̠̥̳͈̝͇́̂͑g̶̛͎̻̟͍̯̪̺̬͍̲̱͇̪̩̰͆̓͊̃̅͗̆̈́̊̈́͘?"

Batman lifts his head from the newspaper silently.

"Ugh, fine!" Phantom says, throwing his hands up. "I'll take next watch."

"Hn."

#danny phantom #dp x dc au #dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #flash #batman #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc #this is inspired by a previous tag of mine #bonus points if you find it #space nerd danny #but bad at science me #these were the ingredients chosen to create #a lying dumbass #danny: lol i don't eat the fabric of the universe #danny: I AM the fabric of the universe!#danny: I am the embodiment of all space bab-ee *finger guns*#bruce disappointed-dad-stare wayne

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blackbatcass · 5 months

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I’ve said this in tags before but I want to make it known: dick and cass desperately need regular brunches wherein they can get some fucking moral support. It’s called the ‘we understand batman a LITTLE TOO WELL to be healthy’ club

#dick grayson #cassandra cain #batman #batfam #THEY NEED THIS.#people who Know bruce wayne in a way no one else probably ever will.#dick (was raised by him since he was 8) vs cass (Is Exactly Like Him)#anyway they’re the older siblings and i need them to bond so bad #their dynamic could be SO GOOD they had such sweet interactions in the early 2000s #basically they get brunch every tuesday to bitch about their dad

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bruciemilf · 7 months

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Somebody tell me if this is a bad take, or if my love for Bruce is causing my objective brain to glitch, but-- something about advertising Batman, a hero who's very popular for being good with children, for being NURTURING with children, a bad father kinda defeats the whole purpose of what he's supposed to represent.

Batman is a protector; He protects people the world (and especially law enforcement) does not care about. That's literally the point of him.

Something about marketing " you can be incredibly violent to people you care about! And Its fine, because you care about them even if you abuse them, and that's what matters!" towards people, but especially men and young boys, is REALLY fucked up to me.

#it's not really 'wahhh think of the children' because the media you consume isn't a vessel of your character #but. gotham war is so incredibly shallow to me for pulling the 'no no its another personality bruce would never!' like. thats worse.#you get thats worse right?#because 1) dc loves demoninsing DID for some reason but it doesn’t add any substantial weight because bruce will be associated with #the actions of his 'alter' anyway. and dc knew that. 2) if you truly cannot write an interesting comic book where bruce is not abusive #and the batkids aren't being abused. you failed.#this isn't a reprouch or an attack to people who prefer that format. but the creator isn't doing it as genuine exploration of dark tropes #if that's the case -- dont cop out with the personality thing. let him be a bad dad. but its kinda fucked how dc STILL try to paint him #as a good person while doing so. its the collen hoover effect. 'we know the guy is an abuser. thats not the problem. the problem #is that the author wants us to pretend thats a good thing.'#bruce wayne #dc comics #dc #batman #text post #dc critical

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oifaaa · 1 year

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How good is Bruce at parenting a toddler? Did Damian come with any instructions?

Bruce doesn't need any instructions he's great with kids its when they get older then 8 that he starts to struggle a wee bit but with baby Damian he's great

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sophiasrant · 10 months

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I love the two very different reactions that Bruce would have to his children dating their respective superboys

Damian: Father, I am romantically involved with Jon. I know this may-

Bruce: OH THANK GOD.

Damian: what

Bruce: someone responsible who can keep you in line

Meanwhile

Tim: Hey Bruce, I just thought I should tell you. I’m dating Conner-

Bruce: Conner? Like Kon-el Conner? Like Conner Kent Conner? Like Superboy Conner?

Tim: Uh, yes

Bruce: Oh no. I always knew this day would come. I have to get the Kryptonite ready. Maybe I can still salvage this.

Tim: I don’t understand. You already knew I was bi. I thought you were supportive. What’s going on-

Bruce: Hey, I don’t care that you’re dating a boy. I CARE THAT YOU’RE DATING THAT BOY. MY SON IS TOO GOOD FOR THAT SCOUNDREL.

Tim: I don’t know what I was expecting, honestly.

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snakeredbirdbatkatana · 1 month

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I like to believe that one day Bruce sits down at his dining room table that is once again empty and just regrets.

This table is not where little birds came giggling and shoving each other, shouting about who would be the first to get their grandfather's food.

Oh no.

This is the table that nursed broken bones and is stained a rusty red that Alfred has no hope of ever getting out.

This is where secrets have been ripped from souls, where screams of grief or betrayal have lingered.

No colorful wings dancing between Rooms.

Or books yellowed with age and whisperd aloud to slumbering siblings.

Coffee and sprinkles no longer on the grocery list near the fridge.

The pitter-patters of claws following a young boy are nothing more than a bittersweet memory.

The man who sits at the head of the table in another universe would call to wrangle adults home to the nest. Returning back with partners and children who would run across the halls causing almost as much chaos as their parents before them.

This is not that man.

Any number he would dial has long been out of service.

Not that it would answer.

The funny thing about an angry father is one day that boy will have a choice to dance in the same flames as his dad or to walk away.

To have their children fear a raised voice or to know nothing more than kindness.

To have sons that understand what love should look like to know that words have no double meaning.

Bruce Wayne will not have children sitting safely wrapped in the kevlar of his cape.

For there has never been safety to be found in the arms of Bruce Wayne.

He will eat his breakfast prepared from his loyal butler and sit in his empty mansion and he will wonder what went wrong.

He will die a lonely and forgotten man a cautionary tale of an angry boy who could never get out of the flames.

#batfamily #bruce wayne #bad dad bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne

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mysterythief · 2 months

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Single dad who can’t stop adopting kids has become one of my favorite troops.

#they really do just keep adopting kids #a kid looks at them and goes #yep #that’s my new dad #and I AM HERE FOR IT #star wars #tbb hunter #tbb omega #tbb #the bad batch #hunter and omega #bruce wayne #batman #more like batdad #batfam #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #mysterythief rants

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rubydubydoo122 · 5 months

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As much as I hate to say it, and as much as I love Jason ToddI'm gonna need DC to kill him again, and keep him dead this time.

Now before you come at me, let me explain why I think this. Jason Todd is a character that while alive will always be connected to Gotham, and because of his differing morals with Batman, he will always be in a cycle of conflict with him. We saw it in UTRH, we saw it in RHATO, we saw it in Gotham Wars. Because Jason isn't a villain (I feel like in UTRH he was an anti-hero, and any actions that didn't align with the morals he set during that time is because he was villainized by Batman) Bruce's actions feel overtly brutal (batarang to the neck, beating him so har his helmet broke, chemically altering him to feel fear) especially since it's towards his SON the one he claims to have mourned. It's a vicious cycle that isn't fair to Jason, and it's major character assassination of Bruce. It's overdone and I am sick and tired of it, but I do not see either characters backing down from their moral stances.

Now you might be thinking, just because Bruce and Jason don't get along doesn't mean they can't make up-- they've tried. Multiple time. Every time Jason and Bruce take a step in the direction of being close to each other again, Bruce becomes a control freak and abuses Jason like he's his own personal punching bag, and there's only so many times someone can forgive someone before enough is enough.

But I still haven't explained why specifically I think Jason should die again. And it's because of two reasons. Jason deserves peace, and as long as he's a ghost walking on earth, he won't be able to get that. Also because it would make Great Angst. We all know Bruce would break if he lost Jason again. He's going to push everyone away, and if you're going to have Bruce push everyone away, give him consequences for his actions.but we saw how protective Dick got during Gotham Wars. Just imagine Dick walking up towards Bruce and saying, "It might've been my fault last time for not picking up his calls, but this time, you can't deny that this, is all your fault." "How dare you! He was my son!" "You lost him once, and when he came back you treated him worse than any of the loonies in Arkham. You don't miss him at all. You only feel guilty because of your goddamned savior complex. You only treat him like your son when he's dead."

and while we're at it, maybe Tim can have a complete crisis. He had to pick up the pieces of Bruce in the aftermath of Jason's death last time, and look where that got him. All of his friends and family died. He was never truly recognized for guiding Bruce out of the dark, and we all know that Tim is one inconvenience from killing a bitch. Maybe this is it. I actually think it would be hilarious for Tim to take up the Red Hood mantle, Only to screw with Bruce. Because he knows that's what Jason would've wanted.

Have Damian afraid of what Bruce has become in guilt. Have Damians castle of worship for his father come tumbling down, because Damian always knew his father loved all of the previous Robins more than him, and if his father no longer wanted them, what was stopping Bruce from sending him back to the League.

Like DC if you're going to use Jason as a catalyst for an event, kill him off again. last time it was on a whim. This time, do it on purpose. This time, give his death a purpose. This time, make sure his death changes something, because god, Bruce has fucked up so much.

#jason todd #bruce wayne #tim drake #dick grayson #damian wayne #dead jason todd #bad dad bruce wayne #dc comics #I triple dog dare you DC #let my boy have some peace #let Jason RIP #maybe cremate him this time #he would hate crawling out of a grave a second time #unhinged tim drake #protective dick grayson #insecure damian wayne #rhato #utrh #gotham wars

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babygirl-but-a-boy · 7 months

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Let Your Father Die

#dc comics #robin #dick grayson #tim drake #batfamily #jason todd #damian wayne #bruce wayne #batman comics #batman #web weave #quotes #poetry #angst #batman 138 #bad dad bruce wayne #It's what he would do for you #let your father die #cecilia corrigan

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dilfs-comics · 1 year

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Batman - One Bad Day: Mr Freeze (2022) | Art: Matteo Scalera, Color: Dave Stewart

[ID: A comic panel of Bruce, Alfred, Dick, and Ace at the manor in front of a fireplace. Bruce is in purple pajamas, sitting in a green armchair and holding a cup of cocoa. There’s a bandage over his eyebrow but he’s smiling down at Dick and Ace, both on the rug at his feet. Ace has a bone in his mouth and Dick is lying down, grinning at Ace. Alfred stands beside them holding a tray with scissors and bandages. End ID]

#Bruce Wayne #Dick Grayson #Alfred Pennyworth #Ace the bathound #Bruce being a dad #DC comics #One Bad Day: Mr Freeze #Matteo Scalera

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No because Damian angst could be so much more interesting if it wasn’t “Oh, thank GOD, Damian’s white saviors took him away from that awful, cruel and wicked pseudo mom Talia, oh thank god that he has Selina Kyle now!” and instead talked about how Damian was proned to violence since the moment he could walk and make noises with his mouth and was taught never to feel emotions THEN it goes to oh, son, you’ve made the choice to be with me so let me show you how to cope with that… with more violence as a pattern of unhealthy coping mechanisms instilled in you and me at a young age and you can show emotions! buuuut you have to wear this suit and take on a whole other identity then when out of the suit you have to wear a facade so no one truly knows about the suit in the first place and this won’t be confusing for a child at all! … Bruce Wayne.. what? And oh, this guy who thinks you’re a responsibility and generally vexing is going to take you under his wing because he thinks no one else can deal with you otherwise and you get a little close but eventually he hurts and abandoneds you as well but now you’re on good terms because the narrative has decided that no one can wrong you except the only person who loved you at first (Talia, the only person who thought it’d be a good idea to take you out of their lives in order to keep you away from this exhausting path of violence and masking) but it’s fine! … Okay, Dick… and then you’re fighting with your brother because he’s jealous of you taking his place and he calls you worthless, unworthy of love and your mantle and unworthy of your fathers trust… Okay, Tim…? Does anyone wanna love Damian for Damian and not love him only when its convenient to their own personal mission please? No?

NO ONE REALIZES THAT ITS NOT ABOUT DAMIAN NOT BEING AN AL GHUL! BEING AN AL GHUL DOESNT MAKE HIM EVIL! ITS NOT ABOUT HOW HE’S TREATED BY HIS FAMILY. ITS THAT CHOICE!! Damian needs to make more choices for himself instead of living by some destiny and going by whatever everyone else expects of him! His heart is good and worthy and he doesn’t need to be an Al Ghul or a Bat to figure that out! He needs to make more choices to be the best version of himself he can be but we’re too busy demonizing the Al Ghuls in fandom and in comics to realize that!!!

#AGH LIKE PLEASE I BELIEVE IN GOOD DAD BRUCE THOUGH I SWEAR… at least for damian #he has done bad things to damian in the past just aghh #i also like dick and damians relationship but jesus guys he is NOT his father #this might surprise you but GASP he has two parents alread and is not the adopted one #this was way longer than needed jesus #damian wayne #batfam #bruce wayne #talia al ghul #damian wayne meta #dc comics #dick grayson #batman #rant #THE FACT THAT HE WANTED TO BE BETTER SHOWS THAT BUT THE WRITERS WONT LET HIM DO MOREEE AHH WEVE ALOST THE PLOT

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