#batarang

Bruce: "Number four-"

Dick: "Why do we have to do this another time? Steph's the one that took a selfie down here??"

Bruce: "Because if one of you falls short, that leaves the opportunity for the rest of you too."

Dick: "Ughh-"

Bruce: "Like I was saying, rule number four: No one outside of the family is allowed down here."

Bruce: "And Damian, if Jonathan eats another one of my batarangs because you bet him to, you're both banned."

Damian: "That was only one time..."

CW for blood/injury

Let down

There's something so heart-rendering about Jason confronting Bruce. He died. His funeral service was closed casket because his body had been so severely brutalized. His brother wasn’t even on the planet when they lowered him six feet down. They buried him and moved on.

He dug himself out, breaking open his own casket with a belt buckle. He shredded the skin off his fingers and splintered his bones, choked on dirt and worms, almost suffocated without oxygen. He wandered the city begging for his dad.

When Jason came to after the Pit, Talia told him his father replaced him and let the Joker live. He makes his way back to his city, but he has a passenger riding around in his brain. There is a thirst for blood and vengeance that blurs his vision. He needs to be good, fix things, and prove himself all over again. Jason is half insane, but he still needs to help people.  He needs Bruce.

He catches the monster that killed him, stands him in front of his dad, and says, 'my killer or me.' He clawed his way out of his grave, fought the Gauntlet in Nanda Parbat, and battled the Lazarus Pit eating at his soul, all to beg his dad to love him.

In scenarios where the batfam are not able to retrieve them back after use and civilians happen to find them due to being too injured, broken, straight up did not see where it ended up, etc.

Do desperate civilians seek them out and buy them to lie and say, they can't get jumped / intimidated from loan sharks, gangs, villains, etc? Or they'll face the Dark Knight himself and / or his affiliates?

If so:

How often do you think this gets misused? Do you think the Batfam ever follows up on this so they can evaluate enough to "take it away" from those that do?

Or it's more so, "hey this is military grade equipment that shouldn't be in civilian hands. I'm sorry I have to take it back"?

I was thinking of it almost in the opposite way, like how the Bat brand is used in BVS to indicate who Batman has his eye on. Getting a batarang embedded in your doorway means you’re next, or you’re being watched, and you better shape up quick. Everyone else stays away because they don’t want a piece of the Bat’s wrath.