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Random Duke Thomas Headcannons pt 4
Insired by @overcookedfool 's headcannon about Cass and Duke being banned from hide and seek, Bruce uses their hiding skills to train the other batfamily members.
The training involves Duke and Cass hiding around Gotham and the others having to find them before sun up (for Cass) or sun down (for Duke). So that everyone can still get their work done, this only happens once a week.
If someone finds them in time, they can get a trophy from the batcave, if Duke or Cass remain unfound, they get the same deal.
Dick gets them to use carnival rules so winning a lot of little trophies can get you a big one. After a few months of the training exercise Duke and Cass put their trophies together to offically own the dinosaur.
Random Duke Thomas Headcannons pt 3
I think Duke would gets given a lot of gifts while on partol. It comes with working the day shift, really.
The first few weeks people were hesitant about a Bat being out during the day, some openly hostile, but now many see it as just a part of Gotham's charm.
One day, a girl runs up to him, holding a paper tightly to her chest. It was a drawing she made in class of Batman. The girl asks all shyly if Duke could give it to him and what was he meant to say? No?
So Gothamites started giving him things, first with kids crayon drawing, the some teens who made badges and pins, adults with letters of gratitude. Soon Duke was passing on drawings, t-shirts, crocheted dolls, poems, etc to all the batfamily.
Gothamites wanted to share their love to their heros. Bruce, Dick, Barbara, Cass, Damian, Stephanie, Tim, Kate, even Luke now had piles of trinkets after only three weeks.
One day, while on patrol as usual, a kid waved him down. He held poorly wrapped box in his hands. Duke swung down and took the box from the boy. When serching for the same he was shocked to find "Signal" written messy across the top.
Inside was a drawing of Duke a week ago, saving the boys dad who got trapped under his car. He hung to photo up on an empty wall in The Hatch.
Soon, that wall became more full than the rest of the family's piles.
When he gets in his own head, doubts clouding his brain, he stares at the wall. Art, photos, poems, letters, badges, stickers, patches, pins, shirts, dolls, shoes, all the items from Gotham, showing how he is loved by them. How he is their hero.
Duke still is asked to pass on gifts for the rest of the Batfamily, but more often he gets given gift for himself.
Random Duke Thomas Headcannons pt 2
I think Duke and Bao (Clownhunter) would be childhood friends.
Bao and Duke both grew up in the Narrows. I imagine Duke meet him at Bao's parents pho restaurant and dragged him off to play together.
The two would run through the steets, play tag with the other Narrows kids, do their homework, which at that age was mostly just colouring in, in a cornor seat at the restaurant.
When Zero City happened, Bao's family would move in to the apparentment block with Duke's family and others. It was that point when their relationship chnaged from friends to brothers.
They were attched to each other. Duke took it upon himself to be the older brother (dispite only being a year older). He would tell Bao to do riddle while he went out to get fish, no matter how much the other protested (or how much he was scolded when he got home). Bao use to pretend to be more scared than he really was so he could stay with Duke, hoping to protect him a bit.
So their bond grows, as they start middle school they don't hang out as much being in different grade but are always together at lunch. They get into petty fights, play video games together, were general hooligan(/aff) on the streets.
Then Bao's parents we killed by Joker. He started living with his aunt and uncle, Duke and his parents would bring food around, mostly as an excuse for Duke to just sit with him. In the grief, Bao closed himself off, stopped responding to Duke's messges, stopped going to school, stopped leaving the house.
Duke tried to keep contacting him, he would show up at his house, force Bao to sit with him and do his online school homwork while Duke did his, like when they were kids in the restaurant. That stopped by Joker got Duke's parents too.
Duke got washed away in the foster system, in being Robin, in becoming Lark and later Signal, in joining the Outsiders.
The Joker War started, Bao became Clownhunter, was washed away in his bew found duty to finally stop the Koker how Batman never could.
They almost naturally just stopped talking.
Until, while waiting for Jay to be able to take custody of him, Bruce sent him to Gotham Academy.
There was Bao again. The first thing they did was fight. They were both mad at each other for abandoneding the other. A few hours later they made up. Dispite not talking for so long, they were best friends, more than that, brothers.
They caught each other up if their lives, keeping the vigilante business out. They started messaging each other regularly. Duke would fight the people who builied Bao, the two spending a few afternoons in detention because of it. They would just sit with each other, happy to be in each others space.
Bao joined Batman incorporated which caused Clownhunter and The Signal to finally meet.
After taking down Professor Pyg's operation, some of the Batkids, lncluding Signal, arrived for clean up. Clowerhunter knew about the Signal, he was Gotham's hero. Signal knew about Clownhunter, he'd read the file Batman had on him. When they saw each other they immediately understood who was under the mask.
There wasn't a chance to talk that night, they didn't want to reveal each others identifies to the other vigilante's and Ghostmaker had an argument with Nightwing, quickly ending Batman Incorporated's time in Gotham.
They meet the next night, in costume, on the roof of their old apprentment building. Once they shared during Zero Year. Not much was said, Duke didn't mention the people Bao had killed, Bao didn't mention him joining the Batfamily. However, they understood each other mor now. Not much needed to be said. Duke gave him a Signal beacon, a promise to help if Bao ever needed. Bao gave the same sentiment. The two parted ways again.
They knew at that point they were closer than ever, dispite being so far apart. They had their own paths to follow but they felt more secure now knowing they had family in the hero community who will help them in any way.
Random Duke Thomas Headcannons pt 1
Duke is my all-time favourite character, and he doesn't get enough love, so I'm going to share some random head cannons I have for our boy.
I love the idea of sensory seeking autistic Duke.
He is canonically a fan of a metal band and I can imagine after a log day of patrol and school him just listening to them full volume. Even with headphones his cousin, Jay, still have to bang on his door sometimes to turn the volume down.
His meta ability would let him visually stimming by causing the light in a room to flash repeatedly. This would also work with him manipulating shadows to make the area dark and light again.
Or he would use his Ghost Vision and pace around a room so the versions of him all burn into one. Duke would also do this during bat family dinners. With so many bats around running all over the manor to help with food or run from each other in importune game of tag. I image the overlapping visual would be immaculate.
Did I give his these head cannons as a form of projecting?
Mostly, yes, but it's my post so I can do what I want./lh
I am not immune to magical animal transformation fics. Also, my cat!Danny agenda. So, like, Damian finding a magically transformed Danny, mistaking him for a regular cat, then sneaking him into the manor obviously tickles my fancy. But also, Cat!Danny winning Alfred over by being a complete narc every time one of the bats try to do something stupid while injured is just... *chef's kiss*
Bruce- *trying to sneak down to the batcave while injured* Danny- *looking for mischief, sees injured Bruce swaying in hallway* Mrow? Bruce- Shh. Danny- *slightly louder* Mrep?! Bruce- I will give you all the tuna in the world if you- Danny- *air raid level yowling*
Dragon Dictionary
Ra's Al Ghul - Lung | Asiatic Jade Dragon
- Known for diamond hard scales that come in all shades of green
- Sharp teeth curved inwards for catching fish; Hooked talons for catching fish
- Breath poisonous gas
- Fly through the sky in a serpentine fashion
Talia Al Ghul - Lung | Asiatic Jade Dragon/Black Mamba
- Known for diamond hard scales that come in all shades of green
- Sharp teeth curved inwards for catching fish; Hooked talons for catching fish; Fangs filled with venom positioned at the front of the mouth in place of canines
- Black mouth
- Breathe poisonous gas
- Fly through the sky in a serpentine fashion
Bruce Wayne - Wyvern | Black Nightwing
- Wyvern with large black wings and three claws at the end of its wrist to walk on; Diamond hard scales that blend in with the night sky
- Breath black plasma
- Long, straight horns pointed back
- Crocodile like tail for balnce when on hind legs
Slade Wilson - Drake | Sand Drake
- Sand colored scales with darker plates along their back like armor; Impenetrable scales with thick skin
- Wide paws for balance on sand with straight claws; Slender body for moving across sand and hiding in the desert
- Barbed tail like a scorpion
- Breath fire
Chato Santana - Lindwurm/Zilant/Quetzecoatl | Born a Sand Lindwurm - Everburning Feathered Zilant
- Sand colored scales with darker skales specked in, uniquily suited tofold front limbs back and move like a snake through the sand
- Fangs situated at the front of the mouth filled with highly corrosive venom
- Long red, yellow, and orange colored feathers along the top of the skull, down the neck and along large wings, tipped with hooked foreclaws
- Real embers along the spine; Runs naturally hotter than almost any other dragon species
- Feathered tail that leaves behind trails of deadly smoke
- Breathes golden flames
Damian Al Ghul - Wayne - Yinglong | Asiatic Jade Nightwing
- Diamond hard scales with mottled black and green scales that allow them to blend in with the night sky and shadows
- Black mouth with inward curved teeth to catch fish; Hooked talons for catching fish
- Large black wings with single foreclaw and moveable wrist that he can walk on
- Black plasma
- Thin whip like tail
- Long horns curving slightly backwards
Respawn (Achilles Al Ghul - Wilson) - Lung | Jade Sand Dragon
- Impenetrable sand colored scales with green armor like plates down the spine
- Venoumous barb on his tail; Fangs positioned at the front of his mouth are filled with deadly venom
- Wide paws with hooked talons for fish; Black mouth with inward curved teeth for eating fish
- Fly tgrough the sky in a serpentine fashion
- Camouflaged in desert areas
Matteo Al Ghul - Santana - Feathered Yinglong | Everburning Jade Dragon
- Dimaond hard scales in shades of dark green with golden/sandy colored speckled in
- Black mouth; Fangs situated at the front of the mouth filled with corrosive venom; Straight teeth, like a wolves or coyotes
- Large paws with hooked talons for catchin fish
- Green and white feathers around his slender face, down the neck, over the wings, and down the spine
- Embers glow along his back, hidden with the feathers; Runs hotter than nearly all other species of dragon
- Breathes golden-green flames
- Feathered tail leaves smoke trails when he flies
Dick Grayson - Feathered Dragon | Thermotect
- Ice cold, diamond hard scales in all shades from black to white, blue to pink, and more; Specialized feathers along the face, neck and top half of the wings
- Large teeth, like a polar bears; Hooked talon for gripping ice and catching fish
- Blue-black tongue
- Breathe ice
- Wide paws with thick pads to walk across snow and ice
Jason Todd - Feathered Wyvern |Phoenix Drake
- Covered in thick red-orange feathers with darker red ones around the neck, wings, and tail; Fluff covered hind legs with long wicked sharp talons like a Harpy Eagles
- Sharp foreclaws on the tops of the wings 'wrist' to walk on though Phoenix Drakes are capable of walking upright on their hind legs alone
- Thin faces with angular snout; Razor sharp serated teeth, like an anacondas, to grab hold of prey
- Long tail feathers with two extra long white feathers that stretch several feet past the rest of the tail
- Run hotter than almost every species, but are vulnerable because they lack the thick scales of most species; Compensate by being reborn
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Timothy Drake - Dragon | Goldenfang
- Beautiful golden scales with short wings and long frills along its spine with a long tail with thin delicate looking veils connected by thin spines on the tail; Darker golden-brown scales on the head like a fer-de-lances
- Jungle dwelling dragons best at gliding through trees and weaving around obstacles
- Sharp needle like claws for clinging to trees; Delicate fangs positioned at the front of the mouth filled with potent golden venom
- Sharp teeth and molars like a monkeys; Short muzzle than most dragons
- Flexible bodies with a specialized flexible spine
- Incredibly delicate as their scales aren't diamond hard of inpenetrable
Cassandra Cain - Drake | Scorpion Drake
- Thick, impenetrable scales that comes in pale shades od brown or shades of black or in between; Long tail that curves upwards slightly tipped with a sharp stinger and poison glands
- Specialized scales along the wrists and ankles that let them feel vibrations in the air; Naturally thinner scales, a weak spot
- Large paws with flat claws to balance on sand
- Able to go long periods without water; Can hold still for hours
- Extremely fast and agile for a drake who are normally bulky because of their thick, armor like scales
- Fast runners because of their longs legs
Rare - Common
Successful Hybrids (that survive) - Extremely Rare
Everburning Dragon - Rare
Phoenix Drake - Rare
Goldenfang - Rare
Asiatic Jade Dragon - Uncommon
Sand Drakes - Uncommon
Thermotect - Uncommon
Scorpion Drake - Uncommon
Black Nightwings - Uncommon
(Inspired by @salparadiselost Dragon Au; The Thermotect, Phoenix Drake, and Goldenfang all belong to her)
"y/n was too short to get a mug from the top shelf so (random character) comes over and gets it for them"................................. as Roy Woods once said "GIRL, THAT'S NOT ME"
If I see another chatfic or smau, or wtv it's called, and y/n starts whipping out the "sowwy", all caps text, and other cringy shit, wallahi I'm logging off.
Cuz how can you type that out and not be hella embarrassed... I'm getting second-hand embarrassment just reading it fam 💀
Flipping hell, now I'm getting pissed off.
P.s. this is my opinion, so im sorry if I somehow offended someone 🙏🏼
Why is it, that y/n always ends up pregnant in almost every single fic with my favs?!?!
There's almost nothing to read for us who don't want kids or don't wanna be pregnant (I know its just fiction but still) 😮💨
And it's always the good fics that get ruined with y/n being preggo 😣
I'm cursing out everybody who had me fooled thinking he was extremely tall. All this time, this mf was only 3 inches taller than me?!😒 Why is reader always petite in every fanfic? justice for tall readers.
I just figured out Jason Todd is only 6ft. People are writing him like he's 10ft and 70 fucking inches across both width and height. Sure he's big but homeboy I reach his chin if not a bit over it. Y'all made me think he's abnormally tall.
HAPPY NEW YEARS 🎉 I hope this year won't end up as shitty as 2024.
Bye-bye 2024, and hello 2025!!!
CHEERS TO YOUTH!!
I have a suggestion for all writers reading this, please write more platonic fics, scenarios, hcs and e.t.c.
Sure I love romance but I also wanna read some wholesome platonic fics 😭🙏🏼
Anyways, love y'all 😉🫶🏼
I just once, ONCE, wanna see y/n fight back. I'm tired of all these crybabies, weak, petite, weak-willed, non-ambitious y/ns.
I think it's time to write about strong, ambitious, passionate, good-hearted, willed and not scared to face challenges Y/n.
And please for the love of god dont describe how they look, not all of us are blondes with blue eyes and 4'11, with a crappy sense of fashion!!
That's all I want to say, hope y'all have a good day/night/evening/afternoon and others 🙌🏼
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Thank you for your solidarity with me
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Look at how cute he is!!
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Okay, so I don’t know why, but this whole chapter and the one after it just reminds me of that “Which one of you motherf*ckers snitched on me to my mum?!” meme?? Like, obviously it would be changed to something like this;
Jason: *Stands up and looks at the other OutLaws and then at the Justice League (minus Bruce)*
Jason: Okay. Which one of you MOTHERF*CKERS snitched on me to my DAD!!
Jason: *Looks everyone in the eye before saying:* ‘Cause I’m coming for your left shoe, Buddy, and I’m sh*tting in it!!
Bruce: *Disappointed and embarrassed Bruce noises*
I don’t know why it does, but it does and I love the imagery so much that I had to share it. You’re welcome 😂.
i love it when men are transgender and also gay
You ever drank too much coffee or stayed up too late that you felt if you dissociate hard enough you’d clip right through the ground?
![MORE TIMBERN DOODLE FOR MY SOUL >:]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0ba0a46a8de17bc149b8d948e9fb06c3/e365a7da07df8c2a-d0/s640x960/761615ac42fe64a3438de0895b85810a4f851cea.jpg)
MORE TIMBERN DOODLE FOR MY SOUL >:]
when alfred isn’t home
Bruce has this hanging on the fridge by a little magnet.
(Dyou think the guy who shows up first when you look up "man cooking" on pinterest knows what his photos are being used for?)
[ID: a lineup of the Batfamily (Nightwing, Batgirl, Tim Drake, Red Hood without his helmet, Batman, and Robin) sitting at a table with tea cups. They all have little hats on that's allowing the Mad Hatter to mind control them. END ID]
(original panel below)
alfred in wonderland - batman tales: once upon a crime
[ID: the panel above but not edited. There's children sitting on the other side of the table and Alfred is watching. Everyone has a tea cup and there's serveral plates and platters of cakes, cookies, and pies. Clock King says, "Alas, we are here!" The Mad Hatter replies, "Alice? That does not look like Alice! Shame on you. You got my hopes up. And I have no ladder to receive them when they go that high." END ID]
this bitch doesn‘t know gravity exists!