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.
you are a B-list Gotham Rogue and you’re fighting Nightwing for the first time, he’s usually over in Bludhaven so you haven’t crossed paths with him before. And wow this guy’s voice sounds really familiar but you can’t place it - wait Robin??Oh my god Original Flavour Robin is that you?? Hey buddy how’ve you been?? Love the new costume! We’re so relieved we all thought you’d died!! :D Hey ow-
*B-List Rogue has been apprehended by the Batman and is sitting around waiting for the police to show up*
B-List Rogue: hey you know you could have told us the og Robin was Nightwing now
Batman:why the hell would I do that
Batman:waithow do you know that?
B-Lister:I’ve met you guys a bunch of times? I know what his voice sounds like and what most of his face looks like? so I recognised him?
Batman:
Batman:ok but why would we tell you? do you not understand how the whole masked vigilante with secret identity thing works?
B-Lister:you son of a bitch I thought he was dead??he straight up disappeared and I thought he’d died or something?
Batman:what the hell do you care
B-Lister:………………I rob banks and do museum heists and you knowall my methods are non-lethal, so yeah I care??
B-Lister:I don’t want your kid sidekick dead??
Batman:alright but I don’t understand why you assumed he was dead just because he stopped being Robin.
B-Lister:
B-Lister:he disappeared for months and then you partnered up with a similar looking kid in the same costume, do you have any idea how creepy this whole situation looks from the outside??
Jason, who’s been standing off to the side throughout this entire interaction: I’m getting kind of uncomfortable
B-Lister:…yeah that’s fair I’ll shut up
B-Lister:
Jason:
Batman:
B-Lister:so did you end things or did he end things or what
the great thing about batman’s rogue’s gallery is how they all directly reflect/contrast an aspect of his own personality: the joker representing chaos to his order, the riddler reflecting his intellect, two-face reflecting his duel identities, captain boomerang reflecting his tendency to throw boomerangs at people, and so on
Roman snuggling up to Victor, gently taking his face in his hands, giving him a chaste kiss, and smiling sweetly as he says, “I’m gonna fuck you stupid.”
Grant Morrison deciding to write their fav as a sexual predator in a book that would go on to become many people’s first introduction to that character in the comics
Sascha’s been around mobsters and rough characters her whole life and has a very advanced vocabulary for her age. Roman thinks it’s hilarious hearing her cussing in her little kid voice, but the calls from her teachers are getting tiresome.
Sascha: Dads said I can swear, just not at school. *intense whisper* But that’s where I need to the most.
She has to save it up all day until her driver picks her up.
Roman is trying. Not his fault that Victor was such a precocious child. Part of a group of sketches based on @doktorgirlfriend’s delightful zsaszmask fics.
MY BOYS!!! Victor looks so content. And I love the little details like Victor’s earring and Roman’s glasses. Thank you, Lou.
Sascha watches The Godfather and the next day has to make absolutely sure that Roman doesn’t kill horses. Otherwise she might have to rethink this whole adoption situation.
For the record, his answer is “Ew, no.”
Also for the record, she’s seen Victor kill people*, and this is apparently perfectly fine and not a cause for reevaluating her parentage like potential ponycide would be.
And, yes, Roman probably could’ve tried a little harder to figure out how to put parental controls on her TV instead giving up in a snit after fifteen minutes, but seeing as she had already seen Victor kill people*, he wasn’t sure what good they would’ve done anyway.
*(Technically, they were mostly reanimated Talons, so exactly how alive they were by that point is debatable, but still.)
So the Reevesverse Gotham PD show managed to morph into an Arkham Asylum series with a horror movie/haunted house theme because God exists and loves me specifically.
Reevesverse Penguin marriageability rating: Moderate-to-high. He’d possibly cheat on me, but it might be worth it for the power and money and getting to perch on the arm of his chair while he meets with important, scary people.
The subject of this year’s bag is FireMoth because I am nothing if not predictable. But I think it came out pretty fun. I’m actually stupidly pleased with it.
Hope you’re all having a great day and treating yourselves nice. Go ahead and eat that one more piece of chocolate. You deserve it, you sexy beast.
I think I wanna keep baby Babs’ crush on Killer Moth in Earth-24, but since I cannot properly imagine Drury with a deep voice, the attraction will be less “Is something wrong, Principal Moth?” and more “I want that twink obliterated.”
Though I suppose it’s possible he was using a voice modulator initially, so it was the first kind until the helmet came off and he’s squawking indignantly, and you know, this is fine. She can work with this. She’s adaptable.
