Call Me Nove

Like seriously, not everyone wants to see the next death defying event and world ending crisis every freaking month DC.

Bruce, every 5 seconds:

Chat, are we deadass?

Tell me you never TOUCHED a comic without saying that you never touched one.

You get an F

F for Damian, Jason and Tim portrayal

You know what?

Timbo

Timmy

Ohhh this is absolutely a safe space.

I hate this trope too!!! I often see this with Helena Wayne fics tho, but yeah I have seen this with Jason/Tim/original characters too. It’s so disheartening reading a character get praise and love simply for being the cute youngest sibling when…the cute youngest sibling is already there. And he’s getting treated like crap.

I’m not against the idea of Damian becoming an older brother somehow (it’s definitely not a trope I like very much but I’m okay with it) but it gets really weird very quickly when it’s turned into “this character is so much better than Damian because they aren’t a brat etc etc” like yeah, a kid who didn’t grow up in the league is gonna act a lot more polite and cutsie. Obviously.

Reverse Robin aus are great but sometimes they annoy me to no end. I rarely read them because it often makes Damian into some monster of a brother or is a long-winded spiel on how if Damian was the first kid everything would suck cause nobody likes him blah blah blah Bruce would have a difficult time and wouldn’t raise him and Bruce would hate him blah blah blah.

Something something, Dick Jason and Tim are temporarily deaged. Damian is an older teen at this point and tries not to laugh at how untrained their forms are at whatever younger age (10ish idk). They have their memories and are like …you do know normal kids our size are typically like this, right? Damian knows this but given the fact that his brothers are bats, their childhoods never really occurred to him as too much different from his own in terms of training and danger. Hell, he’s never really taken time to think about their upbringing until now. Why would he? He has a moment to think about his conflicted feelings regarding his upbringing with the good, bad, and hideous.

The deaged brothers fall into old habits they had growing up. Dick’s high energy, corniness and old “holy blank Batman” pre crisis call backs, Jason’s old feeling of trying to survive on the streets and feeling too small in his own skin after everything he’s been through, and Tim being reminded of the normal life he could have had before, well, everything that’s led him to this situation. Ofc all the deaged boys are, at some point, reminded of their parents, and it’s an out-of-body experience for them.

After a few chapters of everybody going through it, they decide to just let this ride out until the status quo is reestablished. During that time, the deaged brothers decide to be little gremlins to Damian and because Damian is that boi he’s easily able to counter them. Snark for snark. Prank for prank. Sarcasm for sarcasm. Fun is had by all and they all get a chance to connect in ways they hadn’t had a chance to before. It’s nice. Dick’s still a trained acrobat and Jason is still a street smart kid. They did some cool stuff around these ages. Tim is really just a kid. Sure, he still has his memories but he’s not going to be anywhere near as good as the others as he’s not familiar with his current child body having his young adult skills. (Yes they make fun of him for it but it’s the fun ‘brothers ragging on each other kind’, not the whump Tim junk.) look I just wanna make fun of my favorite character really just being some upper class white boi next to a circus kid, street kid, and assassin raised kid

Oh. And Bruce is there I guess.

Idk. He’s going through it, seeing the boys so young. He sees his first son Dick around the age he met him and is metaphorically gut-punched because ‘oh look at my small son who I’ve had the longest relationship with’ and oof ouch the EVERYTHING we’ve been through up to this point hurts. Same with Jason but more ‘damn. I really grabbed a second kid to replace the one I fired. A CHILD that had NO similarities to me in the way Dick did but like… Batman needed a Robin’ (post crisis ofc). Bruce still feels terrible for Jason’s death obviously. Then Tim. Bruce is like ‘I really had to be put under the care of a Child because of the grief I was put under by my own doings. Like. I really had the third one be my emotional support Robin after I f’d up with the first two.’

Bruce watches Damian from afar seeing how far his son has truly come since the first day he met him and seeing him be a cool older brother figure to the deaged brothers makes Bruce see how much heart Damian has. Has ALWAYS had. Lock tf in Bruce.

Cass honestly is pretty chill about the whole deaging thing. She’s accepted her past and the murders she’s committed as a child because that was how she was raised. It sucks but it happened and all one can really do at that point is move on and hopefully forgive themselves. She’s obviously the most dangerous one of her deaged family and Dick Jason and Tim know better than to try and pick a fight with her. Forget her getting princess treatment, she’s getting champion treatment. Ain’t nobody winning against this little girl.

If anything, she’s enjoying this time being a kid again. She gets to briefly live a childhood she never had. Watching fun cartoons, playing with dolls, dressing up in cute clothes without blood staining them, etc. Plus she can talk now, something she was never taught at this age. What a wonderful experience.

And if she wants the remote or last cookie, she’s getting it. Back off boys, you’re not winning this fight.

Ohhh this is absolutely a safe space.

I hate this trope too!!! I often see this with Helena Wayne fics tho, but yeah I have seen this with Jason/Tim/original characters too. It’s so disheartening reading a character get praise and love simply for being the cute youngest sibling when…the cute youngest sibling is already there. And he’s getting treated like crap.

I’m not against the idea of Damian becoming an older brother somehow (it’s definitely not a trope I like very much but I’m okay with it) but it gets really weird very quickly when it’s turned into “this character is so much better than Damian because they aren’t a brat etc etc” like yeah, a kid who didn’t grow up in the league is gonna act a lot more polite and cutsie. Obviously.

Reverse Robin aus are great but sometimes they annoy me to no end. I rarely read them because it often makes Damian into some monster of a brother or is a long-winded spiel on how if Damian was the first kid everything would suck cause nobody likes him blah blah blah Bruce would have a difficult time and wouldn’t raise him and Bruce would hate him blah blah blah.

Something something, Dick Jason and Tim are temporarily deaged. Damian is an older teen at this point and tries not to laugh at how untrained their forms are at whatever younger age (10ish idk). They have their memories and are like …you do know normal kids our size are typically like this, right? Damian knows this but given the fact that his brothers are bats, their childhoods never really occurred to him as too much different from his own in terms of training and danger. Hell, he’s never really taken time to think about their upbringing until now. Why would he? He has a moment to think about his conflicted feelings regarding his upbringing with the good, bad, and hideous.

The deaged brothers fall into old habits they had growing up. Dick’s high energy, corniness and old “holy blank Batman” pre crisis call backs, Jason’s old feeling of trying to survive on the streets and feeling too small in his own skin after everything he’s been through, and Tim being reminded of the normal life he could have had before, well, everything that’s led him to this situation. Ofc all the deaged boys are, at some point, reminded of their parents, and it’s an out-of-body experience for them.

After a few chapters of everybody going through it, they decide to just let this ride out until the status quo is reestablished. During that time, the deaged brothers decide to be little gremlins to Damian and because Damian is that boi he’s easily able to counter them. Snark for snark. Prank for prank. Sarcasm for sarcasm. Fun is had by all and they all get a chance to connect in ways they hadn’t had a chance to before. It’s nice. Dick’s still a trained acrobat and Jason is still a street smart kid. They did some cool stuff around these ages. Tim is really just a kid. Sure, he still has his memories but he’s not going to be anywhere near as good as the others as he’s not familiar with his current child body having his young adult skills. (Yes they make fun of him for it but it’s the fun ‘brothers ragging on each other kind’, not the whump Tim junk.) look I just wanna make fun of my favorite character really just being some upper class white boi next to a circus kid, street kid, and assassin raised kid

Oh. And Bruce is there I guess.

Idk. He’s going through it, seeing the boys so young. He sees his first son Dick around the age he met him and is metaphorically gut-punched because ‘oh look at my small son who I’ve had the longest relationship with’ and oof ouch the EVERYTHING we’ve been through up to this point hurts. Same with Jason but more ‘damn. I really grabbed a second kid to replace the one I fired. A CHILD that had NO similarities to me in the way Dick did but like… Batman needed a Robin’ (post crisis ofc). Bruce still feels terrible for Jason’s death obviously. Then Tim. Bruce is like ‘I really had to be put under the care of a Child because of the grief I was put under by my own doings. Like. I really had the third one be my emotional support Robin after I f’d up with the first two.’

Bruce watches Damian from afar seeing how far his son has truly come since the first day he met him and seeing him be a cool older brother figure to the deaged brothers makes Bruce see how much heart Damian has. Has ALWAYS had. Lock tf in Bruce.