#gothamites

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thisiswhereikeepdcthings:
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how must the Dick -> Jason Robin switch have looked to the Gotham Rogues. it’s not as if they did a formal ‘attention, Robin has quit his job and will now be operating as Nightwing’ announcement. like after a certain point it must have become like a Known Thing that periodically Batman gets new sidekicks. but that first changeover must have messed w people’s heads right??
like. you are a B-list Gotham Rogue. You haven’t seen Robin in months. You’ve asked around and no-one else in the circles you move in has seen him either. You’re starting to get worried but you aren’t sure if you have the kind of relationship with the Batman where it would be appropriate to ask after his sidekick’s wellbeing. Every time he shows up Robin-less you get progressively more stressed out.
you are a B-list Gotham Rogue. Batman has Robin again but he is very clearly a different, significantly younger boy. This suggests that the OG Robin being gone is a permanent state of affairs. You’re starting to fear the worst. You’re like 85% sure Robin died and Batman quietly replaced him with a different child in the same costume. You’ve been asking around to see if someone killed him but no-one will admit to knowing anything. You really want to ask but you don’t feel comfortable asking the Batman if his sidekick got murdered, especially not with the new kid right there.
#i don’t know anything about Jason’s early robin days #so I don’t know if JASON knows if Robin the og was alive either #like clearly it’s a touchy subject for Batman #i imagine if he didn’t know dick was still alive he would come to the relatively reasonable conclusion that nightwing killed him #like #Robin disappeared. nightwing appeared nearly simultaneously. Bruce refuses to talk about robin one and he has Complicated Feelings about #nightwing that can be interpreted as anger #some villain with more balls than the rest asks Jason Robin where robin 1 went #and Jason’s like ‘uhhhh I’m pretty sure he died and I think nightwing might have done it?’#literally the next day he learns dick is alive and is nightwing #this is really unlikely to have happened but it’s really funny
gfkhgfk ok but that gives me the image of the Rogue in question being like *loading up on weapons* ok I may be a villain but I draw the line at killing teenagers, that’s just messed up, I’m going straight over to Bludhaven to make that bastard pay ):<
& then they proceed to have just the Most confusing series of interactions w Nightwing before the two of them figure out what the hell is going on
Ok but what about three years later when all this actually happens to Jason?
you’re a B-List Gotham Rogue. You haven’t seen Robin 2.0 in a couple of months, but you’re not too worried, based on previous experience you figure he’s just moved on to do something else. You ask around to see if anyone’s run into any new costumed vigilantes who might be him and -
- wait he died? for real?
you’re sure?
ok who was the son of a bitch who did it, that’s messed up, we’re gonna find them and - oh it was the Joker? oh yikes. oh man. that’s just awful. I hope he didn’t - with a crowbar??oh my godoh no no-
AU where the Joker actually fucking dies and it’s because the villains and henchpeople of gotham all took turns beating the shit out of him until he died.
When Jason comes back he find out that it was the “bad guys”, NOT Batman, not his own dad, that killed the Joker to avenge him and he’s like “y'know what? I like these guys better” and becomes a crime lord to give them better working conditons
i don’t know the specifics but I want this to tie in with @thisiswhereikeepdcthings thing where Jason is the goons’ adopted dad
That would be perfect
Jason: The rogues killed the Joker before you ever did!
Bruce: I know, right? They didn’t even ask me about it!
Jason: *pauses* Wait what?
Bruce: I had so many plans formulated too! They couldn’t’ve sent me like a notice about it? Really?
Jason:…