Painful and angsty headcannons that are true to the cannon comics have an important place in the fandom (to be sure). But I am SOFT and want to read about the batfam being an actually family who loves each other and do dumb dysfunctional found family things together
Things Citizens Of Gotham Have Seen The Batfamily Doing
A/N: Believe it or not, it’s so much easier to write HC’s about the Batfamily as a whole than as individual characters. Enjoy! -Thorne <3
ª Saw Nightwing misjudge a throw on
one of his wingdings and accidently hit Red Hood who turned around, pointed to
the metal imbedded in his arm and screeched, “Bitch! Do I look like one of
them?!”
ª
Evidently,
Nightwing wasn’t in too great a mood as he just yelled back, “With that
big-ass red bucket you got on your head?! Yeah! Yeah you do!”
ª
Watched
Red Robin pull a French press from his backpack and press coffee grounds with a
red bull.
ª
He
took a sip, looked over and said, “I’m fairly certain I’m gonna die at some
point tonight. I can’t wait.” Then he downed the entire thing.
ª Saw Robin stand on the ledge of the
old clocktower and do the whole, “I am vengeance…I am the night…I am
Batman!” speech. Except he replaced Batman with Robin, and when he was
done, someone screamed, “Hell yeah you are! You’re my favorite superhero!”
ª
Robin
didn’t stop smiling for a solid hour.
ª
Watched
Batman go through a self-checkout in the store buying four separate first aid
kits.
ª When asked why he needed so many,
he simply stated, “The boys get boo-boos.” He paused for a moment,
picked up the Superman band aid box and asked, “Can I get another superhero?
Maybe Wonder Woman instead?”
ª Saw Red Hood sit with Harley Quinn
on a curb and talk about how shitty the Joker is. Harley broke down crying, and
he obviously didn’t know how to handle that, so after a moment, he asked, “…Do
you wanna go beat him and his goonies up or something?”
ª
Harley
sat up, wiped her eyes and said, “Can we go get milkshakes after?” Red
Hood agreed.
ª
Watched
Red Robin look at his un-extended staff and ask Nightwing, “Do you think if
I hit the extension button mid throw, it’ll hit Robin before it extends
completely?” Nightwing sighed and said no.
ª Red Robin looked unconvinced and
questioned, “Are you saying ‘no’ as in you don’t think it will? Or ‘no I
can’t throw it at Robin’?”
ª
It
was the second one.
ª Saw look at Red Hood and quietly
say, “I’m proud of you.”
ª Red Hood didn’t know how to
respond, so he just said, “Right on Ghost-Rider.”
ª
Watched
the Batfamily argue in the middle of a Taco-Bell at two A.M. while Batman
simply stared at the menu.
ª When the fistfight broke out over
who ate more tacos from the box then was allowed per-person, Batman gazed at
them and deadpanned, “Why are you all the way you are?”
ª Each boy turned to him and silently
pointed at him.
Thinking about how much I love a Jason who unintentionally builds a community around him. Little old ladies, working girls, single moms and neighbourhood kids, just by being his naturally compassionate, protective self. He cares for them and they care for him, whether he likes thinks he deserves it or not. He gets given so many ‘leftovers’ to eat because otherwise they’ll go to waste and the majority of his tips for crimes actually come from the people around him, because he actually lives among them and they know he listens and is the one looking out for them.
One time Bruce tries to visit and gets told off by a ninety-five year old Italian grandmother who has no idea what he did, just that Mr. Todd doesn’t want to see him so go away right now, please, sir. Or the local kids join him in egging the Batmobile and Bruce looks at him afterwards like ‘Jason, why…’ while Jason shrugs and smirks he’s not even particularly mad at Bruce that time, but it was funny.
Just Jason being the best boy and people responding to that. It makes me the most happy.
oh god yes
I like it even more when the community builds without his knowledge or without him even trying. His goons care for their boss, because they’re human and see how hard he works and how much he can tank, and how he doesn’t take care of himself at fucking all - and it starts as caring for their own paychecks, but in time it’s more than that. The boss is a really decent guy who works within his means - like the most of them, tbh. Not the friendliest sob in the city, but he’d never fucked over his own men, so that’s something you wanna keep.
And it’s not like he knows the working girls and boys by their names, but wherever he is, johns are decidedly friendlier and street-work is safer, so they follow and try to make him stay - by providing well-timed intel and waylaying Police whenever necessary. He doesn’t have to pay them or ask them for it, they will do it to keep him where he is.
And even people who are not that good go, I can respect that, because Red Hood comes through whenever he sets his eyes on something. He wants you in jail? You gonna end up in jail. He wants you dead? You gonna end up dead - maybe not today or tomorrow, but you will. He tells you he will pay you? You’re gonna get that money come hell or high-water. Dependable, has solid values, you know where you stand with him. They stan.
Like Jason is a great white wandering the lowest levels of Gotham and all the other creatures situate themselves according to him;]
“i don’t include steph/cass/duke in fancontent because i just don’t know much about them!”
stephanie brown was created in 1992 - that’s 28 years ago
cassandra caine was created in 1999 - that’s 21 years ago
duke thomas was created in 2014 - that’s 6 years ago
not knowing them isn’t an excuse anymore. plenty of reading lists showing all of their appearances exist. look them up and start reading.
“i’m not comfortable writing/dealing them!”
oh so you’re not comfortable including women, people of color, and disabled people? you see how that’s a bad look, right?
“i just don’t want to include them!”
okay just say you’re sexist/racist/ableist and go
While I do understand the point you’re trying to make, it’s important to understand that there’s a difference between “I hate this character and don’t want to write/draw/associate with them” and “I don’t know enough about this character to include them yet in my works.”
The reason so many people focus on Dick, Jason, Barbara, Tim, and Damian in their fanworks is because everyone KNOWS them. We’ve had their backstories shoved down our throats a thousand times over in canon, to the point where we know enough details that we can delve into every aspect of it, turn them into new plots and storylines. Nearly everyone has a grasp on who they are, where they came from, and how they operate.
Sometimes people are afraid to write Cass because of her speech problems and don’t want to be insensitive by doing it incorrectly. Sometimes people don’t feel like digging through decades of comics to find out when the hell Steph made the switch from Spoiler to Robin to Spoiler to Batgirl and back to Spoiler. Not everyone knows how to write Duke yet, what his mannerisms are and how his origin was set up. Hell, I didn’t start including Duke in my stories until recently because I don’t read current comics very often, so I had no IDEA what he was like or how to write him. Then I decided to do the research so I could get a grasp on him, and I’m glad I did! But not everyone has access to comics.
Not everyone wants to do research on a new character just because some random person on tumblr said that not including them in every single fanwork from now on would make them racist/sexist/ableist. In fact, there’s so much gatekeeping on this site that people are terrified to represent groups of people they are personally not a part of, because there will always be some asshole saying things like “you shouldn’t write trans characters because you aren’t trans,” “you shouldn’t write POC because you aren’t a POC,” “you shouldn’t write a character with this disability because you don’t have it.” Then they go, “Oh, you aren’t writing this LGBTQ+ character in your fics? So you’re a fucking homophobe then.” It’s a rock and a hard place situation, dude. Either you choose to do the research and represent these characters only for people to invalidate you for it, or you choose to focus on the characters you know better and get called a bigot.
“If you don’t write/draw/include Kate Kane you’re homophobic!!!”
“If you don’t write/draw/include Luke Fox you’re racist!!!”
“If you don’t write/draw/include Cassandra Cain you’re ableist!!! Don’t try to defend yourself, I’ve already canceled you uwu.”
Sometimes people know every single fucking character on the roster, sometimes they don’t. I’ve never written a fic centered on Harper, Luke, Carrie, Kate, Terry, any of those other people because I don’t KNOW THEM enough. And, to be honest, I’m okay with that. I would much rather rehash Damian’s emotional development a million times than write a clunky, OOC fic about Harper Row because I’ve only read maybe ten issues about her at most. It’s as simple as that.
TLDR; Not including a character does not inherently mean you hate them or think they have no value. Sometimes people just don’t read every single fucking comic in the world and that’s okay. Stop trying to create discourse where there isn’t any.
This!
I legit only learned about Duke a few weeks ago because I started reading Wayne Family Adventures.
I only knew about Cass because of Scribblenauts.
Yes, these characters were created years ago, but the fact is that shows/movies/games seem very slow to utilize them. (Gotham Knights uses Barbara and Tim as Batgirl and Robin, and the website even calls Tim the youngest member of the family)
I still sometimes have to explain the different Robins and Batgirls to friends who don’t read comics.
You know how humans are instinctively scared of things like snakes and spiders and bats. Even just things that are vaguely shaped like them. It’s an evolutionary thing that helps keep us safe.
Well, Superman is an alien. He’s from a planet that likely evolved very differently from ours (convergent evolution of humanoid intelligence aside).
What if he has a completely different set of instincts surrounding which animals are safe and which ones are dangerous?
Imagine little baby Clark terrified of sheep for no apparent reason but happily playing with snakes.
And also, imagine people (probably Green Lantern) hyping up how creepy Batman is, but when Clark finally meets him he just. Doesn’t. Get. It.
Bats seem like a perfectly sweet and easy-going creature to him.
To Gotham’s elite, Red Hood is a dangerous murderer with a steadily growing criminal empire. He has no limits, he’s unpredictable, and even Batman hesitates before stepping up to fight him.
To Gotham’s underground? To it’s poor and downtrodden, Red Hood is a guardian angel. He walks sex workers home at night. The minute a drug dealer even thinks about hanging out near a school, they’ve got a bullet through the knee. Red Hood fist-bumps the kids walking through crime ally and plays lookout when they run jobs. He’s their protector, their Saint. Red Hood is their hero.
I’m sorry but you can’t convince me that Bruce Wayne doesn’t love his children with all of his fucking heart. I don’t know which comic writer has failed to understand basic human emotion and chose to portray Bruce as some stoic asshole who views the robins as nothing more than disposable soldiers, but they’re wrong. There is no way you can convince me that the little boy who lost his parents so young and in such a traumatic way, who then took it upon himself to save his city and the world doesn’t absolutely cherish and love his sons. And you can’t convince me that he doesn’t absolutely consider them as sons and as a part of his family. Nope. Sorry. Next.
BRUCE WAYNE LOVES HIS CHILDREN MORE THAN LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE AND THAT’S THAT ON THAT
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