That's Fucking Hilarious

The adrenaline is wearing off and now I feel sick. Fuck

Oh shit a pipe burst and my house is flooded. Shiiiiiiit

Incorrect DC quotes part 47

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This is the magic lucky word count. Reblog for creativity juice. It might even work, who knows.

So I've had this thought for a while. If anyone's seen the Suicide Squad movie, there was a scene with The Joker and Harley Quinn where he exclaimed how he was an "idea".

And I can't help but think of Batman being the same. An "idea," a myth. A method of suppressing the crimes that have haunted Gotham for years. I thought of Bruce not seeing himself as a person, merely an idea utilised for "the mission."

And how this is pretty angsty for the younger bats. Age consumes everyone if accidents don't. And I can't help but imagine the kids just watching as the man that built their world, that nurtured them the only way he knew best in a world he considered surviving another day as a luxury. They'd watch him push himself to the limit, surpass it, and make new limits just to surpass them again. They'd watch, knowing he could never stop. How he grows older, white hair overtaking the black, crows feet at the edge of his eyes. And he still wears the cowl every night and breaks his limits again and again and again.

It's terrifying. Being in the sidelines of that. Knowing you'd either die trying to live up to that or live the rest of your life like a ghost once you do. And they hate it. How much Batman has shaped Gotham, how his shadow has spread so far and wide they'll never escape it. And they hate it more when they can't even seem to make themselves truly leave. Yeah they'll spend time away, years even, but they'll always come back one way or another.

And every time they do, they know they'll come back to a consumed creature more than they'll come back to their father. I just love to think they can never truly leave because they are the humanity Bruce has lost to the cowl. They come back because they're the human part of him, battered and bruised but with beating hearts more alive than he could ever dream of being again. How he used the meagre humanity he had left to raise these children before it died when they grew independent and left.

Or maybe I'm just obsessed with the trope of Bruce losing himself to the cowl. Idk. I have a test, and I'm sleep deprived.

This is it, this is how the fam should be

Bruce, visibly overwhelmed by Emotions as he watches a ten-year-old Dick goofing around in the batcave: Alfred. Alfred I think I'd die if something happened to him

Alfred: *carefully doesn't say that he thought the same thing when Martha and Thomas placed a newborn Bruce in his arms for the first time because he knows that'll completely destroy the little emotional bandwidth Bruce has*

Tumblr usernames are so funny, "the ghost of jason todd started following you" okay well can he stop

Its so beauuuutiful

Patrol breaks are for gossiping with your brother (and for soup!)

Mmmm tragedy. Love it

What if Jason died, got resurrected, started his whole rampage as Red Hood, but ended up losing his memories? Maybe he hit his head too hard, or the lazarus pit finally screwed his brain over, or he just woke up one day unable to remember anything except his time with the league so he goes back and instead of turning him into a weapon Talia gives Jason a choice to live the normal life he deserves. And Jason chooses it, of course, he does. He leaves Gotham, enters a University, and pursues an English Degree.

Years later, when Jason is an English Professor or maybe a librarian, Bruce sees him.

And Jason looks alive. Real. Glowing. He still has a white tuft in his hair, he still has scars, he's unable to explain, but he looks happy in a way Bruce hadn't seen him since the first time he put on that Robin uniform.

Bruce doesn't force anything. He makes small talk but then, out of nowhere, he asks, with wet, sad eyes, "Are you happy?"

Jason stares. Blinks. And then smiles, "Of course." And it wrecks Bruce.

Because he knows, he knows Jason wouldn't have died if he never met him, he knows Jason wouldn't have come back as a monster, he wouldn't have been cut open and stitched back wrong.

He knows Jason would've been happier, but knowing it and seeing it breaks him differently.

Because now Bruce is wondering: Would all of them be happier if they never met him?

So happy to be done with another ye olde af WIP.

Meme reference under cut

Oh no he didn’t grow out of his gremlin Robin phase, he’s just like this