Jason doesn't get to announce his revival dramatically because Talia decides to be petty (she is her father's daughter, alright) and randomly sends Jason's photo with little Damian to Bruce in a random Monday.
Bruce: (minding his business)
Talia, messaging in the middle of the day: Beloved. Look at our beautiful sons.
Talia: (sends a photo of Jason reading little Damian a book while he drools)
Bruce, with his eye twitching: IS THAT JASON?
Bruce: SONS?
Bruce: TALIA?
Talia, turning her phone to Jason: A family photoshoot would ruin him completely. I'm just saying.
Jason, staring at the screen: ...
Jason: Call Ra's. We are doing the sweetest family photoshoot this world had ever seen. I need the old man to get a stroke.
Talia: ...I sense like I made some mistake here.
They ship printed photos of this photoshoot directly to Wayne Manor in the various copies. Jason brings little Damian to his father in a few weeks and announces that he himself will stay only for a short amount of time before returning to "grandpa Ra's." Bruce locks up all doors and forbids anyone from leaving it. .
To tell 2016 me I had the power to draw klance would be the same as the writing of the Ten Commandments
Bonus
tfw ur uhhh """"partner""" uno reverses your kabedon
sasuke's real reason for leaving konoha
Jason and Damian meeting at the league but Batfam doesn’t know Jason’s alive is one of my favourite fanfic tropes.
Dick, in his hoe era talking about getting beat tf up by some girl’s boyfriend: I genuinely thought the dude was gonna kill me! I was framed, I swear! Istg someone must’ve planted a strawberry handkerchief on me or something.
Damian, barely listing: was that an Othello reference?
Tim: how did you know that? I didn’t even catch that.
Damian: it was ja- *long pause ensues*
Tim: is his programming malfunctioning?
Dick: Ja??
Damian, brain farting: yep. “Ja”
*frantically messaging Jason saying he almost broke his cover*
—
Damian, annotating Jason’s old copies of the classics: I forgot how much of an idiot you were back then. *takes sticky note off page* “RIP queen, this is actually so depressing.” Yeah, Ophelia just died. Way to state the obvious.
Dick: ??
Damian:
Damian: I’m a medium. He-uh, talks to me.
Dick: oh okay- wait. What?
—
Damian, sneaking back into the manor after having a visit with Jason: *tip toeing his way to the stairs*
Bruce, waiting in the living room with a lamp: Damian, Where were you?
Damian, who can’t improv for shit: uh-
Bruce: *eyebrow raise*
Damian: I was kidnapped by red hood *runs upstairs*
—
Bruce, in his feels era: I wish jaylad was around to see this.
Damian, not thinking: can we not just ask him to come over?
Bruce:
Damian:
Bruce: what-
Damian: we can use a ouija board. That’s how I communicate with him.
Bruce, concerned: what???
Bruce truly hates magic with every pump and beat of his heart.
What kinda curse is Slang, anyway?
“This is the best day of my life.”
“You thought you ate that.” Bruce physically feels a full body shiver, charged with nausea and cringe. “This is level 10 cringe. Can’t have shit in Gotham.”
Dick is his earth bound angel, but he laughs like a demon at him, holding onto Jason for support, pledging his eternal loyalty to Zatana and her pettiness.
—
“Hey, old bat, hook me up with an adrenaline shot.”
What he wants to say is Jay, do not try and fight with 6 bullets in your stomach.
What comes out instead, through Bruce’s grit teeth and intense, fierce glaring, “Not you trying to go back to your corpse era. See how I only took 2 shots? Very demure. Very mindful.”
Jason passes out from blood loss, but mostly laughter.
—
“Chat, is this real?”
Stephanie barely bites back a full belly cackle. “I think he just asked us if we copied.”
“I wish I was Jason, 15.”
—
“This is not a slay environment. Killing is flop behavior.” He keeps his eyes shut and buries his face in his hands. Trying to convince Damian not to stab someone doesn’t seem to work.
Damian gives him a pat like he’s a pitiful cat. “I’ll only stab the non lethal areas.”
“God, I wish that were me.”
Part 30! I'm with Duke ngl
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Alfred, looking at Damian: he looks more like his grandparent everyday
Cass: Ra's?
Alfred: no, miss Cassandra, his other grandparent
Cass: *confused head tilt* uh?
Hours later:
Alfred: *doing chores*
Corrie: *runs in* there you are!
Alfred: *takes extinguisher* is something wrong?
Corrie: no, no, all's fine, we just needed you a second, I found him!!
Everybody runs into the room, Jason steps forward while holding Damian by the armpits, leveling his face with Alfred's
Damian, hopefully: so?
Corrie: right th- no, that's not it...
Steph: if you squint... maybe?
Tim: if you tilt your head kinda... no
Jason:... *sigh* nope, I don't see it
Damian: tt perhaps the suit wasn't such an horrendous idea
Steph: a moustache?
Dick: don't worry, I know you will grow on it
Bruce: what's going on?
Cass: Alfred said Damian was growing to look like grandpa, so we wanted to check... *frowns* but he doesn't look like Alfred
Damian adjusting to his new hairstyle in B&R 2023
Dick is the type of person to yell “Bruce catch!” And let go of his grapple while swinging full speed.
When Dick eventually left behind was fired from Robin he still continued swinging at Bruce, and Bruce never failed to catch him.
And when Jason became Robin, and Dick got mostly past Bruce giving his name to the kid. Dick told Jason stories about it, never showing him except once, when he and Bruce were on slightly better terms. Dick did it more forceful than usual.
It took Jason a month or two as Robin before he was comfortable enough with Bruce to trust him to catch him.
For Tim, they didn’t show him. But he’d picked it up from seeing Dick and Jason do it. The first time he did it, it damn near gave Bruce and Dick a heart attack.
For the short period Steph was Robin see never got the chance. But you bet she remedied that when she became Spoiler.
Damian was more hesitant. Always worried it would be a trick. Because it was an easy way to ‘accidentally’ cause him harm. But after seeing Dick, Tim, and Steph do it and be caught every time, he eventually gave in. You’d never catch him admitting it but that first moment wrapped in his Father’s arms as Bruce caught him for the first time, and the small smile Bruce gave him when he stepped away, that is one of his favorite memories.
Cause Bruce would always be there to catch him.
He couldn’t catch Jason, never again.