My favorite thing about the bats is that… they are gothamites. And sure they scare the shit out of people… but they are in Gotham. Superman is loved by his people, Flash is adored, people pray to Wonder Woman, Green Arrow is feared. But the Bats? The Bats are like all of Gotham's weird older brothers/sisters/parents. Superman and Green Lantern are visiting Batman in Gotham and all of a sudden he gets smacked in the face by a banana and they turn and find a group of teens skateboarding away and one kid calls over his shoulder ‘eat the fucking potassium you absolute brick.’ and Batman doesn't even do anything. Barry is chilling with Nightwing when a girl runs beneath the building they are sitting on and screams “Nice ass Night! But get it the fuck down here, my cats stuck in a tree.” And Nightwing does a flip off the building and just?? helps her?? Wonder Woman and Black Canary are passing through Crime Alley on their way to the Batcave and spot Red Hood standing in an alley, being lectured by a woman who is half his size and she ends the lecture by throwing two sandwiches at his face and walking away. Red Hood just takes his hood off and starts eating. Superboy is helping Red Robin defeat Scarecrow and while they’re hiding, waiting for him to walk into their trap, RR is casually conversing with a Gothamite about Hogwarts Houses, and when he says the Gothamite looks like a Gryfindor he pops his head out and screams “Yo scarecrow hes right fucking here!” J’onn is heading to the Manor to discuss League business with Bruce when he spots Robin(Damian) fighting Riddler all alone and is about to intervene when three teenagers show up and just fucking deck him instead. Damian doesn't thank them, just glowers, and one of the guys goes “you're welcome you fucking brat.” And the girl even smacks the back of his head and goes “manners.” Clark is sent to go find Tim and Steph and Damian and finds them at this girls birthday party, in full costume, eating cupcakes and drinking punch, jumping on the bouncy house and is like “errr, B-Batman needs you home.” And as one the entire birthday party group went “Fuck Batman.” Spoiler was spotted painting these guys nails, Black Bat was seen teaching calculus to a group of teenagers, Batgirl(Babs) was running after a group of kids screaming “Give me back my laptop you fucks!” Just- just the batfamily and Gothamites being annoying to each other and appreciative yet bitches.
Bus driver: stop getting thrown at my fucking bus, i got places to be and my insurance only covers so many shatter windshields and person sized dents Batman: I don't really control where I get thrown Bus Driver: well you better fucking start otherwise theres gonna be another fucking villain on these streets *drives away and almost runs him over* Superman: *gaping* yo-you're just gonna let him do that? Batman: *shrugs* Gotham insurance aint what its cracked up to be Superman: *staring dumbly*
dick grayson // robin
Bruce Wayne wakes up in the past, five months after Jason Todd died, and spends most days sat beside the grave because he never found out exactly when Jason had come back and he wanted to be there to save him when he did.
From an outside perspective, everyone is extremely concerned.
Batman and his kids
A Bat and his Birds by SalParadiseLost on AO3.
Another chapter of my "The Wayne's on Twitter" work on AO3
Masterlist of Tweets
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21 - Bats and friends
no thoughts just Jason blasting ‘white girl music’ on his motorbike as Red Hood
Minor villain: ahaha! The bats are nothing! I will easily beat them!!
*call me maybe starts playing*
Minor villain: oh shit
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Classmate or teacher: damian? Is someone coming to pick you up?
Damian: one moment *raises his head slightly*
*Superbass (Niki obvi) can be heard in the background at full volume, the ground shaking*
Damian: *heavy sigh* yeah my brothers here
Tim, muting the comms: "I'm telling you, Batman's onto us."
Stephanie: "We need to distract him. Maybe someone should fake an emergency."
Duke, stopping Tim: "No! That never ends well--"
Bruce: "Hello? Can you guys hear me?"
Dick, impatient as he hacks: "Someone say anything already before he shows up."
Bruce: "What's--"
Dick: "Trained by Batman and you guys are the worst liars--"
Jason: "Shut it." *clears throat*
Jason, to Bruce over comms: "Don't worry about it, we'll be home soon, Dad."
Bruce: ....
Bruce: "Alright, see you in a bit."
Jason: *ends call*
Dick, Duke, Steph: ...
Tim: "Am I evil for saying I'm a little impressed?"
Fic Recs?
Jason and Bruce are out late one night in Gotham as civilians. They get cornered by a mugger and Jason nearly pisses himself, he’s so amused. He teases the would-be mugger about their hand placement, even tries to goad the mugger into a fight because he’s Red Hood. He can disarm anyone in seconds. It doesn’t matter if you have a gun — he has two.
He’s Red Hood, and he has the literal Bat of Gotham standing behind him like a wall of muscle. They’re as close to invincible as humans get, in this town. And that kind of confidence scares off their would-be mugger.
But then Jason turns around, a smile stretching across his face, and Bruce is white. Bone white and so so quiet, eyes wide and trained on where the mugger had been standing.
[Jason on the phone with Bruce] Jason: Turn around. Jason: No, the other way. Jason: Again, the other way. Jason: No, not there, one more time! Bruce: OH MY GOD WHERE ARE YOU??? Jason: I'm not there yet, but the thought of you aimlessly turning around in circles amuses me.
Arrow-Family
You’re Not Dating a Kid!... Actually This Might Be Worse by heytheresunshine