MANTIS

Oh my boy...

Bernard: I would be happy if you ate, stayed hydrated and got a reasonable amount of sleep.

Tim: I said within reason, Bernard. How about I ruin the life of that guy who called you a slur at the club?

Bernard: So ruining someone's life is in reason but proper self care isn't?

Tim: Well, duh. What kind of question is that? I bet his internet history is weird and illegal.

Bernard: I'm not against you checking that.

Tim: I might have already started.

Bernard: Well don't stop now. That guy was an asshole.

redraw of a piece I did a year ago! Unfortunately the quality is crazy compressed but it’s okay. Grieve trio I still love you

First of all, since I don't know how to draw a body/chibi/whatever, I used the last pic I found on Pinterest as a base. Unfortunately, I don't know who the original artist is 🥀🥀 and i dont know color theory, anatomy or things like that so dont hurt me pls😓 im just freestyling with colors...

TW: Mention of suicide

Now let's come to my dear Spidey Bernard... I first drew the classic one, but then I remembered that the other spidey people in spiderverse have their own suit designs, so I wanted to try giving him one too. It sucks, though, so I'm probably gonna draw another one later...I kinda planned out his origins..? So, he got bitten about a week before the Louis E. Grieve accident, but he didn't think much of it back then. After Darla, and then Tim, left him, along with the whole shooting incident, he fell into a depression, and the rest is history.

I'm not sure if I want to involve the pain cult thing, but even if I do, I don't think I'm gonna add the part where he almost gets sacrificed. Anyway, throughout all of that, his spider powers were basically repressed because of how messed up his mental state was. Things got worse, and eventually he climbed to the top of a building. With so many regrets, he jumped, or maybe he changed his mind at the last second and slipped, idk, but he fell. Then, instinctively, he shot a web and swung himself onto another building.

And that's when his whole life changed. He tried to sew his first costume using things he learned from the Internet and those boring fashion catalogues his mother had. He became a new vigilante. A neighborhood friendly spider-man! Maybe spider-sun? I don't know how to name these things...He helps people, deals with small-time thieves, and does his best not to get noticed by Batman. He's kinda nervous about him. Sue me. And, like... what would Bernard even do if Batman decided he wasn't allowed to swing around Gotham? Thennnnn Tim comes back😋 to town and shit happens.

- Bernard is like the second or third prince in line for the throne, but he has the misfortune of being a pretty boy so all the available suitors from neighbouring kingdoms want to marry him and not the actual crown prince

- To deal with this, his parents send him away to live in a tower and “hire” a dragon to get rid of Bernard’s suitors. (“Hey you can have a bunch of our gold if you stop these people from trying to marry our son” “Deal???”)

- Because Tim was basically raised by a human (Bruce) he prefers not to kill anyone if he can help it, he usually just grabs them and dumps them on a mountain or something.

- Tim is extremely down bad for Bernard and sneaks him out of the tower every so often because Bernard likes flying with him.

- Kon is a freshly graduated knight with a massive ego and was talking huge shit about “bringing back the dragon’s heart and the fair prince’s hand.” Task failed successfully.

Apollo cabin occasionally visiting and checking in on Duke after everything with his parents and one time they're there when one the Bats come visit him and its just awkward-

"Uuuh- who's this?"

"My brother, Michael."

"...Okay- second question."

Michael and Duke brotherism would go hard actually. I always seen Michael as climber and generally acrobatic type archer so Duke learning some his skills outside of just general fighting when he's in We Are Robin would be so interesting. Duke learning to fight and lead from Lee and/or Michael and that showing in even in how he works with the rest the Bats.

Especially with how some plans some Batfam members come up with include not communicating with the rest of the team and that irritates him so much especially compared to Apollo cabin that have lot of open communication. Hiding info or lying is a struggle for Apollo cabin especially Head Counselors. You don't make a plan about getting captured on purpose without communication (im looking at you Richard. Hdg) in Apollo cabin or anything of the like.

Also. Might still lean to Son of Dionysus Bernard- but alternatively son of Ariadne would be interesting.

Tim saving him from the cult actually saved the cult from being absolutely wrecked by Dionysus for trying to sacrifice one of his step-children.

Imagining that he managed to get that bad in the cult despite knowing actually Dionysus is something probably have figure out gsgd