Remember when his helmet would sometimes have facial features. Anyway, I have been sitting on this idea for so many months and the unfinished files just sat in my folder for weeks until now. Jay’s costume change next month kind of kicked my butt into gear heh
I like to think he has a giant warehouse full of helmets and that he gets his jackets from a magical wardrobe that produces an infinite amount. And that also leads to Narnia.
hello, are you aware you’ve sent me the most amazing possible ask? let’s just consider what Bruce’s must look like to people who don’t Know about the Batman thing
okay, so. let’s start with Bruce. tragic orphan of beloved local rich people who died in a dramatic murder – obvious bait for the news cycle. the Gotham news cycle eat, sleeps, breathes, and shits the Wayne case for a while, and would kill to talk to little Bruce. Alfred VEHEMENTLY ensures that doesn’t happen, and keeps Bruce out of the public eye for as long as he can.
he starts resurfacing as he hits puberty, though, because that’s when Bruce starts getting weird but hasn’t quite learned to hide it yet. to quote myself: “tragic teen orphan Bruce Wayne insists on increasing Wayne Enterprises philanthropic efforts, Wayne heir rumored to have been caught in raid on underground fight club, wild child Wayne heir spotted rappelling down Wayne Enterprises corporate headquarters ‘for fun.’”
Bruce started picking up a reputation as a goodhearted but slightly stupid, thrill-seeking kind of kid fairly early on. he wasn’t displeased about this, since he knew he’d need a cover story when he became whatever it was he was going to become to bring justice to the city.
however, he didn’t really become a News Magnet until he came back from college and started a.) taking a more active role in Wayne Enterprises and b.) having week-long publicity flings with a series of models and actresses to enhance his party boy image. (he was really overcompensating that first year.) he started playing up the stupidity, making quirky comments to reporters who ate it up. Generous But Naive Billionaire Bruce Wayne began to emerge.
then he spontaneously adopted some acrobat boy whose parents got murdered in front of him and people WENT CRAZY. a 24 year old who was dramatically orphaned adopting a young child who was also dramatically orphaned out of the goodness of his heart? how precious!
Dick also contributed to making the Wayne family popular subjects, because unlike Bruce, he wasn’t acting. he’s actually just that charismatic and camera ready. there are countless youtube clips of baby Dick Grayson, dressed in impeccable little suits, chatting away happily to reporters who are suddenly wondering if they can adopt him themselves. plus, you know, sometimes he’d start doing handstands on tables in the middle of charity events, and that’s always fun.
then Dick hit puberty, was the star of his school’s gymnastics team, and became something of a local Teen Heartthrob™.
and then Bruce Wayne adopts this whole-ass SECOND CHILD, some poor kid from right here in Gotham! what a nice guy! what a family man! ladies, is that an eligible bachelor or what???
the local Gotham news stations take it as like. a personal affront that sweet Gotham boy Bruce Wayne is still single. the almost-wedding with Selina was the Event of the Year. Megan and Harry who? nobody in Gotham cares, that’s for fucking sure. there were nearly riots in the streets when it was called off. Bruce got letters of condolence from complete strangers.
and. AND THEN. the second adopted son DIES MYSTERIOUSLY on a trip overseas??? which is when the Internet Conspiracy Nuts™ come out in force. what the fuck is that weird billionaire with no day job doing with these kids?
Bruce doesn’t murder but whenever he stumbles onto one of those message boards he considers it.
and then there’s a third!!! fucking!!! kid!!! where does he even keep finding them??
“haha, man, Bruce Wayne adopts orphans like Batman hires new Robins” some chucklehead party-goer says while Tim sweats in the background
and then. and THEN. the fucking headline to end all headlines. out of NOWHERE Bruce Wayne just. has a fucking ten year old son??? who’s snarky and serious and talks to everyone in way that’s vaguely aristocratic in its condescension. Gotham tabloids spend a good year and a half trying to pinpoint the mother and boy do they have some fucking candidates.
Damian is as much as a natural for media exposure as Dick, although in totally different ways. he loves getting fawned over (although he pretends he doesn’t, because his siblings will never let him hear the end of it) and enjoys feeding them all wildly different stories for the drama of it all.
not to mention there’s this, like, inexplicable gaggle of other teens who just??? materialize around Bruce? Barbara Gordon, okay, she’s the commissioner’s kid, she and Dick grew up together and everyone knows they’ve been a Thing. and the blonde girl who’s always shoving the hors d’oeuvres in her purse, right, that’s Tim’s girlfriend. but who’s the nice dark haired girl that doesn’t talk? the girl with the blue hair and the suits (who becomes an overnight hit on gay twitter)? the kid with the fade who seems as baffled as everyone else about being here? where do these kids come from
honestly the people in the DC universe probably joke about Bruce’s adoption habit as much as we do here in our universe
I wouldn’t say they’re celebrities, exactly, but the kids and especially Bruce are all Known, which can be… inconvenient, sometimes. Bruce can explain getting caught having lunch with, say, Diana Prince and Clark Kent – highly respected ambassador/advocate for women and respected journalist, sure – but who the fuck is Barry Allen?
Dick has an unreal number of instagram followers because all he posts are videos of himself doing flips and mildly thotty selfies that are tolerable because they’re not SUPPOSED to be thotty? he’s always just like ‘went out for some morning coffee at the place across the street! I love it so much! have a great day everyone!!!’ followed by hundreds of people asking him to rail them. he pretends he doesn’t notice though his siblings have pointed it out 22,000 times.
Tim is on twitter and has a reasonable number of followers. he’s verified, even though all he posts are (alternately) lengthy and intelligent political threads and shit like ‘if you can’t make your own endorphins then slamming five 5 hr energies for 25 consecutive hours of energy is fine’ at 3 in the morning
for the record, I don’t think people know Jason is alive for the most part? he has all his social media under that name but given that Jason’s tweets mostly read like elaborate shitposts nobody really questions it
AU in which Sora fell with the world in kh1 and turned into a summon gem but still has the Keyblade.
Sora would still be the hero. He would just… need to be carried around.
Imagine it: Sora talking very seriously to a boss, only for Sora to disappear suddenly and Donald is like “ooops timer ran out gotta refill my drive” and goofy is like “gwarsh, sorry for the wait mr. Big Bad” and Sora just appears again and continues with his conversation like nothing has happened
Bruce giving Cass some of Martha’s old jewelry. Just pulling out a bracelet and a necklace, gently putting it on his daughter and going “Your grandmother would have wanted my daughter to have these.” And cass just smiling SO big and hugging her father’s neck bc she feels like she belongs in this family
i was reading yesterday on quora an answer to “If Batman were real, who do you think his secret identity would be in the real world?” and the guy one of the answers suggested had a company motto literally be “don’t be evil” and i’m tearing up thinking of bruce having the same motto for wayne enterprises, despite the different sub-divisions. that’s the exact kind of passive-aggressiveness he’s capable of
reporter: mr. wayne, how come Wayne Tech’s motto is Don’t Be Evil? how does it fit— bruce: it’s simple: don’t be evil 🙂 reporter: yes, we got that much but— bruce, staring straight into the lens of the camera: evil? don’t be it, pal :))
She shows throughout the movie that she is forgetful, impulsive, emotional, distracted, always late, creative, nonconventional, awkward, hard working, and very hard on herself. She constantly tries to fit into a society that really doesn’t accommodate someone like her.
Throughout the movie she works as hard as she can, but always comes up short. It is only when she embraces her true self and uses what she has come to know as her weaknesses to her advantage (creativity, nonconventional thinking, impulsivity, emotional reactivity, etc.) that she turns things around and actually saves her country from its biggest threat.
She reveals that she didn’t go to the army to save her father, but rather to prove that she could do something right for once and be someone worthwhile. Her self esteem is fragile from start to finish and she never truly accepts that she can do something right (until the end, arguably) because she’s so used to being a screwup. The scenes at the end where the crowd bows to her and her father hugs her choke me up to this day because she finally gains acceptance for who she is and what she can do, and she’s never felt that before.
Basically what I’m saying is this: Mulan is a character with ADHD who displays a lot of the internal turmoil that people with ADHD actually feel. She compensates for her weaknesses, feels shame for being different, feels the sting of rejection when she fails to meet expectations, and has a hard time accepting herself and her achievements. She doesn’t bounce off the walls like the stereotype of ADHD is always portrayed, but she is a good example of the actual effects of unidentified ADHD on a woman who just wants to “prove that she can do something right” for once.
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