Starry ⭐

-Carl and Grace get closer during the months it takes to work on the astrophage problem. It starts with the shopping trip and somehow evolves over time into Grace sleeping on Carls couch.

-the night of the going away party for the project hail Mary team Grace gets drunk and kisses Carl. Carl(who is also very drunk) kisses him back and- well you know the rest.

- the next morning Grace panics thinking that he fucked up the first real friendship he's had in years only to be immediately soothed by an amused Carl who was planning to ask Grace out after phm lunched anyway. They have breakfast and they talk about where they want the relationship to go.

- Grace tells Carl that he eventually wants to go back to his kids. Carl makes it clear that he'd be happy to go with him. It's that easy admission that makes Grace spill everything else about his boring little life. From the diner he visits to the brother he no longer speaks to Grace tells it all.

-By the time he's done he's a little bit of a mess, crying against Carl's broad shoulder and squeezing the other man's hand to ground himself. Carl ends up having to carry Grace back to bed after he falls asleep exhausted from crying.

-Carl watches him sleep and let's himself hope. Hope that everything goes well and that when it's over he and Grace can walk away. Go back to Grace's little town and maybe start a new life there-for however long they got to live it.

-Carl hears about the explosion just an hour after it happens. He says nothing. Just bows his head and prays that there's someone, anyone, else for Stratt to ask.

-there isn't.

-Stratt tells Grace that he has no one waiting for him. Grace's eyes cut to Carl for just a split second. There's no trace of the man he'd slept with just hours prior. No trace of the man who talked about building a life with him.

-Carl listens to Grace beg and plead. Feels the knife in his chest when Grace shoots him the most beytred look and mouths that he'll never forgive him just before he passes out.

-Grace and the others are launched into space. Carl quit the next day.

-When Grace wakes up he'll find a note attached to the packs of Skittles in his carry on.

-'I'm sorry'.

-He tears it to shreds.

-When Rocky asked about a mate Grace got a head so intense he almost fell over remembering the man he'd almost had.

-He doesn't tell Rocky about him. Some small selfish part of him hopes that maybe they'll get to go home, to earth, and Rocky will get to meet him. And besides even if they don't he doesn't want Rocky to hate Carl. Better to hate Mark instead.

-Years later Grace and Rocky will rescue Simon. Grace will slowly let himself open up as Simon does the same. He gradually stop thinking about Carl. He'll stop dreaming of him. He'll stop loving him. He won't notice because he can't even remember Carls face clearly.

- but sometimes. In the dark. Simon's hands will feel familiar in the most unfamiliar way.

-Years later Stratt will appear on Carl's door step and show him the videos of Grace and Rocky. Grace looks so alive and so happy that Carl almost doesn't care that he'll never see him again.

Remember folks these are opinions not facts 🤙🏾

-Dukes favorite Robin before meeting the batfam was Tim. Tim is still his favorite after meeting the Batfam but now it's less of a 'oh my god look at this cool hero!' and more 'i would literally die for this guy.'

-Dukes powers severely skewed his senses when it comes to light so he has to minimally bend the light around him so that he doesn't pass out every time he so much as looks at the sun.

-Dukes didn't realize this until after he started working as Signal but Poison Ivy is his favorite villain. Shes nice to him and her plants really like crowding around Duke.

-When Duke first started staying at the manor he kept to himself as much as possible. If it wasn't Batman related you couldn't find him anywhere.

-It took Duke a lot longer to warm up to Dick than everyone else. Dick couldn't figure out why until Jason off handley mentions Duke being part of the We Are Robin movement. He spent weeks apologizing and basically being an overgrown puppy. Duke forgives him just so the guy will stop following him.

-Dukes has very strong feelings about Batman's code and steadfast refusal to kill the joker but he also understands it more than he wished he did.

-Tim and Duke bond over their strained relationships with Dick and Bruce.

-Jason and Duke bond over being 'hood' kids( there's already a few really fun post about this one actually!)

-Damian and Duke bond over going from essentially being only children to being the youngest out of like 30.

-Cass helps him to perfect his stealth.

-Steph drags him to the mall with her.

-Alfred only allows Jason and Duke in the kitchen.

-Dukes makes a horrible patient. It's impossible to get him to sit still and even more impossible to find him since he can just disappear at will.

-Dukes never tells the Batfam or his friends about his lineage. He never tells them that he's functionally immortal. Not even as everyone he loves starts to age and die around him.

- Years into the far off future all the Wayne's will be buried together in the family plot. Their graves have been pristine for hundreds of years and the whole world is confused. Many of the general population think that it was black magic. A lot of the hero community assumed it was the Kent family.

-No one ever stops to think about the only original bat family member remaining. Duke cleans the grave and gives them fresh dirt and flowers every week. He does the same for his parents, Izzy and Riko when they die.

- Kon figures it out one day, when he comes by to visit a very old Tim. He makes Duke give him his number and they hang out regularly. Kon sometimes helps with the graves.

-Eventually he loses Kon too. Some battle or another. Duke is far too old to remember. But not too old mourn.

-Duke gets so tired of losing the people he loves that he just leaves. He disappeares into the sunset and is never heard from again.

Sunshine- Dick and Bruce

Light Bright- Jason and Barbara

Solis(Latin word for sun)- Tim

Lightning Bug- Bruce

Sunlight- Buce and Dick

Firefly- Bruce

Narrows- Jason( Ik it's not light related but shhhhhhhh)

Filius Lucis(son of light) - Damian and Poison Ivy

Little Sun- Elaine and Doug Thomas(his parents)

I mostly realized that I incorporate some of these when I write fanfiction so I thought I'd get em written down somewhere ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Remember folks these are opinions not facts 🤙🏾

-Conner is an amazing cook. Like he sees someone make something one time and BOOM he knows how to make it now.

-Conner has a very hard time expressing his feelings. The guy spent years struggling with his identity and was often told he was unwanted by the people he was supposed to consider family so he just keeps all his emotions to himself. Unless your name is Tim Drake the only emotions you'll ever get out of that man is humor or anger.

-He prefers flying in Gotham. The city stinks at ground level but ever since Bruce motioned for more environment friendly building the air is breathable. It also helps that he's usually the only one who flies in Gotham regularly. The others are too scared of Batman and his no metas rule.

-Conner is insanely smart. Half of his dna is lex so of course he is but nobody really remembers until he does some shit like list the periodic table from memory. With all the extra DC universe elements included.

-But he's also very naive. He can theoretically know something and if it can be calculated the he can do that but if it's not something that can be explained with math or science then hes lost.

-He and Tim had gotten into a very severe fight(before they started dating) about why Conner kept going out with older women and people who clearly wanted to use him. This is how Tim found out that Conner took everything at face value.

-Conner could be a Green Lantern. Was even offered a ring by the guardians. But he can't quit being himself to break away from being a 'super'.

-Conner likes to think that in another life he was born in Gotham.

-Damian goes to Conner when he feels like he's not a real person. He's the only one who kind of gets it. Conner always lets him stay the night on those days.

-Conner is a little possessive Not just over Tim but also Cassie, Bart, and Jon.