#batmanau

It started quietly.

Not with flyers, not with announcements—just whispers.

Old beings talking in corners. Doors in the Infinite Realms staying open a little longer than they should. Names being passed around like secrets.

The Prince pretended not to notice.

He was good at that.

He’s not a baby.

He’s not even technically young, not by ghost standards. But apparently, “young enough to be reckless” is still a category, and unfortunately, he fits.

And ever since he and his shadow-twin lost their original domain, the whispers got louder.

He needs guidance. Structure. Protection.

He needs a guardian.

The Prince disagrees.

Firmly.

Loudly.

Repeatedly.

The compromise?

A trial.

Not a tournament—no, that sounded too… fun.

This is something older. Stranger.

A series of tests. Of worth. Of intent.

Anyone powerful—or foolish—enough can try.

He didn’t expect humans to qualify.

Which is why the first time he sees one, he assumes it’s a mistake.

The man stands out immediately. Not because he’s loud—he’s actually very quiet—but because everything around him reacts.

The air tightens.

The ground stills.

Even the watching entities pause.

The Prince tilts his head.

“…You’re alive.”

The man nods once. “Yes.”

“That seems like a disadvantage.”

“…I manage.”

The shadow-twin likes him instantly.

Of course she does.

She circles him, curious, eyes bright with something sharp and playful.

“He’s weird,” she declares.

The Prince sighs. “That is not a qualification.”

“It should be.”

The man doesn’t try to impress.

Doesn’t boast.

Doesn’t even seem particularly concerned about the ancient beings watching his every move.

Instead, he asks questions.

Practical ones.

“Are you safe here?” “Who enforces the outcomes of these trials?” “What happens if no one qualifies?”

The Prince hesitates on that last one.

“…That hasn’t been decided.”

The man’s expression tightens, just slightly.

“I see.”

He doesn’t win the early trials.

Not in the obvious way.

There are beings older than stars here. Creatures made of storms and memory and hunger.

They overpower him easily.

But—

He keeps standing back up.

Keeps adapting.

Keeps watching.

And slowly, something shifts.

Not in the trials.

In the Prince.

Because this human—

This strange, stubborn, completely out-of-place human—

Doesn’t look at him like a prize.

Or a responsibility.

Or a problem to solve.

He looks at him like a kid.

“…That might be worse,” the Prince mutters.

The shadow-twin grins.

“Oh, definitely worse.”

Somewhere far away, something ancient laughs.

Because this?

I'm gonna redesign these guys eventually!!!! But here are some of my design choices.

I wanted them to be close to the breed buttttt.

Tim has some red to reference Red Robin

Dicks white patch is supposed to be his nightwing logo.

Bruce I wanted to add more color too but I might just make him grayscale so it's accurate to his suit

I wanna give Jason more scars and his eye are a green bc Lazarus pit moment.

bruce kills the joker after jasons death and is visiting jasons grave when he crawls out

instead of becoming robin again when he recovers, jason lets tim take on robin. dick helps him come up with his own identity as bluejay and jason goes to bludhaven to train with dick for a while :3

In this AU, there was actually no plan to kill Jason. The Joker had decided that the reason his original plan of “getting his own Robin” didn’t work because he just picked some random kid. He decided this time, he needed to get a real Robin to fill the roll. So he kidnapped Jason during one his and Batman’s more heated fights and essentially convinced him that the Batman had left him for dead while Bruce was entirely convinced Jason had been killed. Jason, similar to Clown was put into intensive near daily training, but Jason being… Jason, he resisted quite a bit, causing the Joker to be much harder on him. Clown tried his best to look out for Jason (not fully understanding why he was there) for those months. Whenever he wasn’t busy with training, Clown was usually there to distract him from their current situation. Jason, though young and full of rage, seemed to understand why Clown didn’t fight back, he didn’t feel like he should have to pay for a fight their fathers were having, so they got along well. Some nights they’d talk for hours about really anything but Batman and the Joker. After around six months of this though, Bruce found out Jason was still alive and being held captive. In a moment of desperation, he rushed over to collect Jason but Joker found out. This led to him moving him to a warehouse, trying to threaten the Batman away with harming Jason, but Batman kept pursuit, leading the the Joker simply “giving up” on the operation and blowing the warehouse up with Jason inside. This would become the main driving force that motivated Clown to leave home. After Jason died some of the pieces began to fall together and though, he knew his father was bad he only fully realized in that moment. After leaving, Clown visited Jason’s grave often, at least once or twice a month, apologizing for not doing more, having the conversations they used to have, ect. Once the timeline changed and Jason was back, the two met and became great friends again, especially after Clown detailed the whole “leaving his entire life behind for Jason’s sake” thing. They now hang out every so often, even working together on taking down some drug trades together on rare occasion.

Jason sees “clown” as an insult so he prefers to call him Jackie

Kept their friendship kind of secret for quite a bit so when Dick introduced the two you can only imagine how shocked he was when they got along so well

Though he never asked him to, Clown usually takes off the makeup around Jason just out of respect

The two refuse to tell anyone but Dick how they met and even he’s left in the dark about most of the details of their friendship

Jason loves to flirt with strangers but when they reciprocate he’s disgusted and runs off (aroace Jason is my fav)

They never really tell anyone when they hang out, they just sort of both disappear for 6-8 hours every so often

They actually met back up one of the days Clown had been visiting Jay’s grave and nearly had a heart attack when he just popped out

Batman AU OCs

Ace Valkyrie as Batboy (He started when he was a teen . Based on Arkham Batman)

Britney Valkyrie as Robin (Girl of Wonder)

Art by me

Okay, so i had this idea about everyone in the batfam. I'm already writing a fic but still wanna talk about it bcuz im better with small hc than a whole ass ff.

So, nobody knows Bruce has children.

He is still a playboy, airhead, nepo baby billionare to all of Gotham, as well as their beloved prince. But he has never, ever, talked, showed, or hinted at having children. Literally nobody knows.

And then, when Damian is around 11, little details start to get out. His secretary reads things in his calendar (about buying tim a gift, about a certain fair in a school, about a ballet dance, about a medical appointment, etc). He bails someone out of the police station for something stupid (and is actually white serious about it, very unlike brucie wayne in front of the GCPS). He seems with people who ARENT young beutiful women in public, and people start to get curious. And there are conspiracys, there are rumors, photos, people talking, etc etc etc.

(I belived i had this idea of his secretary or lawyers seeing how he wants to fucking ADOPT Thimothy Drake after the -honestly suspicious- death of his father, one year after the death of his mother. And the kid, who has NEVER EVER seen with Bruce Wayne, is like yeah okay there is no problen, A ok. And everyone is super preocupated abt it and Bruce has to like,,,, talk abt it)

And when Bruce does talk about it is white a shock, bcuz apparently a child he adopted at 9-11, HIS FIRST SON????, is already 27. And the second one, who has some really weird documds laying around, is 22, and his little girl is 23, and the Drake Heir was adopted by him last year when he had 16, and he also has a bio son who is 11???? and suddeny Bruce is a family man, and when the people get a hold of the social medias of the batfam that are made public or smh, bruce looks SO different. That isn't the fucking man that takes one girl to his bed each night. That is a tired af dad trying to keep up Just Dance with half of his children.

That is an old af photo of him and Dick Grayson, of him and Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cass Cain, Damian Wayne, etc, etc.

OR

Also Tim, having a normal bussiness life, hiding his status as drake heir or relationship with bruce, having his co workers realize A or B, or his classmates.

Dick, in the police station as a detective, or in the circus he works at as an adult

Damian, taking the surname Head in school, his classmates totally sure he has something shady going on

Jason, a "normal civilian guy" who has arrested by error and the policemen who know him from around watching Bruce Fucking Wayne bailing him out

Cass, in his ballet class, or school/uni, with her friends wondering so much abt her life

AND