The gaps that told him what Bruce Wayne did at what time, in what year as a child.
Tim is not Bruce, no, he is better. He will be better. If he can no longer be Robin, if can no longer be Tim then he will be a Batman the likes of which this dimension had never seen. The kind that would bring order. He could change them, all of them. Dick and Jason and Damian.
Timothy Drake has yet to be born.
Bruce, is the body he inhabits, is the skin he wears as his own. The burning sensation of holding back tears is easy enough to ignore. He’s had enough practice.
a Thought: the batkids looking and acting like a Creacher just as much as The Bat himself
like this:
bc my first thought was if damian leaned into being a Lil Gremlim more he’d very easily exude the same ~vibes as Creacher Batsy
imagine this tiny hellion
looking like a weirdo creature similar to the 6’ night demon he fights crime with
and then i realized, why stop at damian?
why not have dick perching on rooftops looking exactly like a gargoyle, but somehow this statue can jump and move like a monkey in the middle of a concrete jungle?
why not have jason looming in the shadows like a nocturnal bigfoot to scare the shit outta criminals in the alleys? why not have him move like a creature of the night that no one understands the physics of?
why not have tim be a half-zombie lurking around corners at god-knows-why-in-the-morning with his fingers curled around a shot of 5hr energy drink like it’s sauron’s ring and he’s gollum?
why not have cass be a Creacher exactly like bruce but just smaller and arguably scarier when she’s wearing her costume w the stitched up mouth? unlike the Big Bat, you can’t see any part of her face, and she looks like a wholeass Mini Bat but silent, and isn’t that just horrifying? what the fuck kind of expression is she making under that mask?? would a smile be less or more terrifying??
and this doesn’t just apply to the main gaggle of bats—it extends to the rest of the family too: duke, steph, kate, luke, babs, all of them
i guess what i’m saying is that i would like an urban legend version of the batfamily where all of them are funky looking cryptids that somehow communicate exclusively in grunts and fistfights LOL
everyone talks about how sleep deprived and 3-coffees-away-from-becoming-the-walking-dead tim is but i want this energy for bernard too
i want him up at buttfuck in the morning reading about soy grand theory and how the soyification of the world is part of the domino effect that caused movements like we are robin
i want him crouched over a screen with his eyes wide like (O_O) as he pours over hollow earth theories and how hollow earth houses all of the shadow government’s failed experiments to create metas
i want him red-eyed and clutching a can of redbull as he opens another page of how weather control isn’t done by secret towers placed around the world but by ex-members of the justice league who are mind controlled by the illuminati
and most importantly i want him and tim to stumble into each other in the middle of the night like this:
Time for another dump! got some Bruce and Dick (platonic of course) and Damian being a good lad with a cat and a box. Second pic is from one of Jersey’s fics that inspired me.
