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DC Characters as actual things my friends have said: Part 3
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Damian: You can’t talk you flat ass!
Stephanie: I may be part of the itty bitty titty committee, but i am NOT part of the itty bitty ass committee so shut your mouth
Damian: Oh sureee whatever you say
Stephanie: 38 inches Damian. 38 INCHES! that’s bigger than cass’s head
Cass: It’s true! we measured :)
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Roy: My friendship is your birthday present!
Jason: Does it come with a receipt?
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Dick: This is a circus, a certified circus
Dick: And I would know, I traveled with one for 6 months when I was 19
Donna: You know I always forget about that
Wally: Yeah you’d think it’d come up more
Roles for the batkids
The fact is, Batman might be the team leader, but he's not always around, and I firmly believe that every group of siblings is going to work out their own dynamic. Without further ado, the roles of the batkids among themselves:
Dick: keeps them together
Jason: keeps them motivated
Tim: tries to fix everyone
Damian: pushes them
Stephanie: keeps them honest
Cass: keeps them kind
Duke: steadies them
CRYING I LOVE IT SO MUCH
Fashion meme with the Batfam
Duke *about Tim*: Haven't seen him move yet but I left some coffee out and I keep checking, hopefully he'll get up and leave sometime.
things damian has learned from his siblings
Dick Grayson.
How to play Mario 64 on Dick’s old N64. Bruce was particularly excited about this development because he would play the same game with his oldest during his Robin days.
How to lead team-bonding with the Titans. He’s still working on how to be an effective leader, but with help from Dick, he’ll get there someday.
Jason Todd.
How to pick locks. Sure, Damian already knew how to get out of simple handcuffs and open some doors. But with Jay’s help, no where is off limits to him. Jason only slightly regrets this when Damian scares the shit out of him when the kid is sitting on his couch in the middle of the night after getting past Jay’s defenses.
How to make Jason’s “special” sandwich. It’s a combination that he came up with in his pre-dead days and only Dami and him seem to enjoy whatever it really is made up of.
Cassandra Cain.
When to act and when to be silent. He’s learned mostly from observing Cass and mimicking her behaviors.
How to braid hair. He’s always been curious about different hair styles, and the only other person in the manor with long enough hair to braid is Tim, and that was an awkward conversation he was unwilling to have. Instead, he hung around Cass every time she did Babs’s or Steph’s hair. She noticed immediately and started slowing down for him to watch and learn.
Tim Drake.
How to make paper cranes. It’s a compulsive nervous habit Tim has to grab any paper near him and try to fashion it into an origami piece. Dami would collect them when Tim fell asleep and try to reconstruct them with the folds he had made. After multiple failures, he woke Tim up and demanded he teach him. They spent an entire night making an army of paper cranes.
How to make real friends. Damian has always been jealous of how strong Tim’s friendships were, until he realized the root of that jealousy was his longing to have relationships on the same level. Damian’s friendship with Jon is built off of mannerisms he observed between Tim and Kon.
Duke Thomas.
How to enjoy reading. Before meeting Duke, Damian’s bookshelf was full of books about practical information like biology and self defense. Duke is a big reader of all sorts of genres, which piqued Damian’s interest. While his brother was out patrolling, he stole an old sci-fi book from his room and read the whole series in a matter of hours. Duke noticed later that his bookshelf had been slightly rearranged and put the pieces together. Sometimes he buys new books he thinks Damian will like and puts them where he can easily find them.
How to mend clothing. Damian has always been used to receiving new clothing when his current pieces have been torn or ruined in anyway. One day, Duke sat at the kitchen counter sewing a part of the zipper back his favorite hoodie and Damian sat down next to him, determined to fix a jacket of his own.
Justice League Meeting
Superman: where's Batman? The meeting was supposed to start 20 minutes ago.
Wonderwoman: could he be in danger?
Green Arrow: someone maybe should call him BEFORE we go into defcon 1
Superman: [calls the bat-line]
Oracle: [answers] this is O. How can I help?
Superman: Hi Oracle. Batman was supposed to be at the tower 20 minutes ago. Do you know where he is?
Oracle: let me check... yeah, he's at the cave, I can connect you to the security cameras?
Superman: Please.
Oracle: ok.
-The batcave shows up on screen, Bruce and some of the kids present-
Batman: [Mid sentence] -OUTRAGEOUS STUNT!!
Damian: [scowling, arms crossed] -tt-
Batman: Do NOT scoff at me, young man!
Jason: [snorts]
Batman: Are you Laughing?! This is reckless even by YOUR standards Jason!
Jason: yeah... but you said-
Batman: [menacing] What?!
Jason: [looks at Dick and mimes "young man"]
Batman: Don't look at-
Dick: [loudly and jovially] THERE'S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN
Batman: Wh-
Steph: I said YOUNG MAN [spins to point at Tim]
Tim: [Fingerguns at Steph] Pick yourself off the ground!
Batman: [floundering] En-
Dick: I said YOUNG MAN
Jason: 'Cause you're in a new town!
Duke: [from the locker rooms] There's no need to be unhappy!
Batman: [to Duke] You're not even in trouble!
Steph and Tim: YOUNG MAN there's a place you can go!
Dick: [throws an arm around Jason's shoulders] I said YOUNG MAN! When you're short on your dough!
Jason: You can STAY THERE!
Batman: That's EN-
Dick and Jason: [turn to Damian, grinning expectantly] and I'm sure you will find-!!
Damian: [glaring and without enthusiasm] ...many ways to have a good time.
Batman: Don't-
All the batkids: [chorusing] It's fun to stay at the B-A-T CAVE
Batman: [finally loses it] WHY???!!
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Superman: ...
Green Arrow: ...well someone has to say it.
The Flash: That he should get an award for parenting that lot?
Green Arrow: that clearly inherited behaviour has nothing to do with genetics. I grew up with Bruce Wayne; he deserves every second of this
Batfamily car trip headcannons
Car trips are absolutely hilarious with the Wayne family.
Split into two cars; the quiet one and the rowdy one.
Quiet one consists of Alfred, Bruce, Damian, Cass, Barbara & Tim, generally.
Usually has the most people in it.
Anything to get away from possibly ending up in the other one.
Will end up getting outside fifteen mins early to guarantee this.
Rowdy car is Jason driving, Dick, Steph, Duke and once, Tim
First time Tim was very unwilling, Steph dragged him to that car so, whoop that looked like where he staying.
Biggest mistake of his life.
Bass music came on instantly, all the windows down and shouting-singing that was more like screaming.
Hadn’t even left Wayne Manor yet.
Tim made frantic throat slitting motions out the widow which Damian recorded whilst laughing.
A drink had already been spilt on him.
Cass felt sorry for Tim, who was squashed in the middle between Steph and Duke who were both singing off kilter.
Damian vlogged it all.
Tim becomes an even bigger meme as he looked like he was living a nightmare.
Duke also looked a bit scarred, it was his first car trip, he wasn’t used to all the noise...the constant noise.
Honestly? Probably his last in the rowdy car.
Bruce was going to have to buy a bigger truck to hold everyone, because no one wanted to go with Dick, Jason and Steph.
Rowdy car sung ‘I want it that way’ by backstreet boys four times in a row.
Dick looked like he was having the time of his life, Jason thought the whole thing was hilarious, Tim looked like he’d just landed on a different planet.
He never, ever wanted to go in that car ever again.
Give him Bruce’s quiet, air conditioned and leather interior car any day over Jason’s beat up car with suspicious stains on.
The next time Tim got there early, super early.
Damian had to go in the other car.
Well, that didn’t end well.
Drove past them at one point, surprisingly the car was silent, no flailing arms or vibrating beats.
Damian was smirking out the window, waving a freshly ripped AUX cord around.
Dick looked heartbroken until Jason turned the radio on.
They heard Damian’s screams even with all the windows closed.
Next time anyone would wonder what the hell is going on in Batfamily they just should remember the fact the first Robin was raised in a circus
I cherish these.
does anyone have any recommendations for a batfam or similarly themed discord server?
i feel like it would be fun to talk about comics/fics/whatevers with other people because there is only so much my irl friends can handle lol
Could anyone tell me how old at least one of the Batboys (jason, tim, dick, duke, damian) were when Alfred died, or if any of them didn’t exist? I’m blending new and old comics for my writing and I’m having continuity errors.
My favourite characters as things my friends have said: Part 5
Duke: Hey Bruce, Dick showed me a picture of your ex
Duke: The standards are nonexistent
Bruce: its hard for me to have standards cause i’m my biggest hater
Bruce: Selina or Talia ?
Duke: Clark Kent
Bruce Wayne: THAT DOESN’T COUNT WE KISSED ONCE
AGHHHHHHHAJBRIWBWKXHEKABEIW. SO FUCKING PERFECT. WRONG TIME TO BE BROKE. SO MUCH WRONG TIME TO BE BROKE. I HAVE TO WAIT 8 FUCKING DAYS TO UNLOCK CHAPTER 4 AND 27 FUCKING DAYS TO UNLOCK CHAPTER 6. I STILL HAVENT SEEN DICK. WTF WTF WTF. I AM SO HAPPY I AM CRYING.
