I am so excited for this! From the loyal/protective prompt list, I'd love "get your hands off my __brother__". Up to you which one :)
“Yes.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
“I said no!”
A scoff from behind Dick. “And I said, yes, you imbecile.”
There’s a sound of inarticulate frustration, also from behind him. Dick waits two beats, three. A fourth. And then–
“Fine,” Tim mutters. “Fine, but I’m not paying for any of it.”
Dick can practically hear the triumphant smirk on Damian’s face, and as entertaining as the argument between his two brothers has been, Dick is also still trying to teach Damian that he can’t demand things, so–
“Tim isn’t going to set up your studio for you,” Dick says, turning away from the selection of tablets to face the two. He turns just in time to see Tim’s eyebrows go up in surprise and Damian’s sink down as he scowls. Dick raises one of his own eyebrows in challenge as he stares Damian down. “At least, not until you ask him politely.”
Damian’s scowl deepens, but he doesn’t immediately snap in anger, and Dick bites back a smile when Damian thinks it over a moment before sighing.
“Would you help me set up my art studio, Timothy?” Damian murmurs, not quite looking at Tim.
Dick takes it as a win. It’s progress. A thousand and twelve steps further than a few years ago when Damian’s pride was keeping him from any sort of kindness or politeness at all. And he’d even used Tim’s first name.
Now if only Dick could get Damian to treat the staff at Gotham Academy with the same sort of politeness. It’d probably mean a lot less frustrated calls from Bruce asking Dick to pick Damian up from school when he or Alfred are busy. And considering Dick gets a call at least once or twice a month, Dick thinks Damian’s probably been wreaking havoc on the place.
In front of Damian, Tim’s eyebrows have basically flown off his forehead. He opens and closes his mouth with wide eyes for a few moments, before he says, “Uh. Yeah. Sure. No problem.”
Damian nods, spinning on his heel and stalking towards a fancy drawing tablet that’s at least fifteen feet away from the awkward turn the conversation has taken.
Tim stares after Damian before turning towards Dick. “We’re not in a simulation, right?”
Dick snorts, curling an arm around Tim and bringing him to Dick’s side. “Nope. Damian’s been trying harder, lately.”
“Wow,” says Tim. “Yeah. He called me by my first name.”
Dick shrugs. “He calls me by my first name.”
Tim pulls a face and mutters, “Yeah, but he likes you. You and Cassandra are the only ones he ever calls by their first names. The rest of us are distanced to surname only.”
“He’s not as bad as you guys make him out to be,” Dick says quietly, smile falling to something more melancholy. “He’s just got a lot of the al Ghul brainwashing still in his head, and it takes time to unlearn that sort of stuff.”
Tim sighs. “I guess.”
“Well,” Dick says, pushing Tim towards Damian, “why don’t you see if you can help Damian pick out the best tablet for what he needs before we head over to the monitors. I’ll go grab the USB hub we were looking at earlier and meet you back here in a minute.”
“Dick,” Tim whines. “Seriously?”
Snickering, Dick shoos Tim towards where Damian had disappeared to. “Go bond with your little brother.”
Tim rolls his eyes. “Fine.”
Dick is still laughing to himself under his breath when he reaches the aisle he needs. Tim and Damian are both such teenagers that Dick sometimes can’t help but mess with them.
“Hi. Can you help me?”
Dick looks up from his perusing, meeting the dark-eyed gaze of a woman he has never seen before. He’d noticed she was there, of course. Bruce would have thrown him into training a hundred times over again if he’d let someone sneak up on him in an electronics store. He just hadn’t thought that she was going to start talking to him.
Still, Dick takes barely a second to recover from his surprise and throws her a small smile as he grabs the correct USB hub. “Hello. I know I look like I know what I’m doing, but I can promise you that I don’t work here.”
“No, I know,” the woman says. She tucks a lock of brunette hair behind her ear. “It’s just, you’re Richard Grayson, right?”
Dick is too good a performer to let his smile slip even an inch, but he instantly puts up his guard. He says, “Guilty as charged.”
The woman smiles, almost looking relieved. She reaches over to touch his shoulder, and Dick tries his best not to stiffen. He’s not sure he succeeds on that front.
Luckily for him–
“Get your hands off my brother, you vile wench!”
Well, Dick isn’t going to try to stop a train that’s already been derailed. Best to leave it and go over the social niceties with Damian later.
The woman’s eyebrows scrunch up in disdain as she turns her head to the beginning of the aisle. “Excuse me?!”
Dick coughs lightly, stepping back and away from the woman just as Tim and Damian both approach. Damian slides in between Dick and the woman, and Tim stays at Dick’s side. Damian looks furious, but Tim just looks sort of concerned.
“I said unhand him,” Damian sneers. “Or are you too incompetent to–”
“Damian,” Dick says, cutting off his little brother’s rant before he can really get going. He can still mitigate some of the damage, even if the train itself is a lost cause. “She’s not even touching me anymore. It’s fine.”
Damian’s green gaze whirls to meet Dick’s bright blue head on. There’s a fury there that Dick doesn’t quite understand. Luckily, after only a few seconds of silent cues, Damian backs off with a scoff.
Tim, on the other hand, completely ignores the woman. “Hey, Dick. We found the tablet that Damian needs. We came to get you so we can grab the monitors and go.”
Dick blinks. “Okay?”
“I…have to go,” the woman says, eyes darting between the three brothers. And before Dick can say anything else, the woman is gone.
Befuddled, Dick looks at his two brothers. “What the heck was that?”
“She’s been watching you from the moment we walked into the store,” Damian huffs, looking slightly more settled now that it’s just the three of them again. “And when Timothy informed me that you’d gone off by yourself, I staged a rescue before she could ensnare you in whatever nefarious plans she had for you.”
“I think she was just trying to hit on me, Dami,” Dick confesses.
“Probably,” Tim says mildly. “Still weird and better safe than sorry, right?”
Damian nods. “Timothy is correct.”
Dick sighs in exasperation. “Right. Sure, okay. If deflecting any sort of romance with strangers is what gets you two to agree, then by all means, continue to sabotage my dating life.”
“You didn’t even want to go out with her,” Tim snorts. “It was written all over your face.”
“Not the point.”
Tim rolls his eyes and starts walking towards the back of the store. “Whatever. Let’s just go get the monitors for the gremlin.”
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We know Buck is (or was) a bit of a hothead, but we haven't really seen Buck *lose it* the way we have with other characters. I find this deeply intriguing for some reason.
if i'm not misunderstanding you, and you're referring to a breakdown-like scene, i think we've already got something like it, especially in the buck begins arc. there's this really well-written post that talks about it, and how breakdowns don't necessarily come with healing afterwards; just pain, and i think the way buck breaks in the warehouse fire is an example of that. on the whole, though, buck tends to deal with traumatic situations by making terrible decisions. that's his own version of a breakdown, how his trauma tends to manifest. i think we always assume that buck wears his heart on his sleeve and he's open about his emotions, but...he really isn't. we rarely know what he's thinking. he tends to lose it when the people he loves are in danger, but that's only in the face of those single moments of fear and adrenaline. outside of it...communication really isn't his strong suit.
So keep in mind that my DC headcanon canon is like this gibantic branching tree of aus and concepts that is ever changing and growing and splitting into yet more fractals of “I will think this for this story specifically”.
Also, I have never read a comic in my life.
BUT, for Bruce and Jim (not Jim and Batman) it’s like... distant mutual affection. Like, Jim doesn’t really know Bruce, but he was there when Bruce’s parents died, and that specific tragedy wasn’t important in Jim’s life, but it did happen when he was just a baby police officer starting out, so it made an impact. Also, Dick and Babs were BFFs and then dating for a long time, so Bruce and Jim know each other as “My kid’s friend’s dad who must be doing something right because their kid is pretty great.”
Then Jim and Batman is... Mutual respect. They’re like coworkers? But they’ve been working together for a long, long time. On Bruce’s side it’s fairly straight forward “You’re good at your job and I respect you a lot and we’ve known each other for a long time so we have a sort of quiet understanding.” But on Jim’s side, like. He was there. He was there when Batman was just starting out, and he figured out fairly quickly that The Legendary Batman was just this very skilled kid in his twenties who had no idea what he was doing. He was there when the first robin appeared, and after the second robin died. He’s watched it all, but he wasn’t ever quite part of it all. It’s this weird thing where he knows Batman so intimately in a lot of ways, knows him in some ways better than anyone except like, Dick and Alfred. But in some ways in some ways he doesn’t know him at all. He’s very fond and weirdly protective of his Bat.
Hey! I was wondering, what color are the LED lights in the desk prisms? Are they "warm" or "cool"?
They’re definitely slightly on the cool side but not like led car headlight blue in my opinion. Also I think the filtration through the resin white balances them very slightly but that might just be my perception.
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Listen... I will try to express my love for your mer batfam art. I am IN AWE. Its all so perfect and good and I love it so much. Dami cradled in Dick's arms. Dick's very long tail. Tiny Tim. Cass and Steph looking so happy and playful. Jason is Big and and his siblings are all twines around him and it fills we with FEELINGS. And then!!!!! Orca Bruce!! With tiny Duke!! I can just *see it* "Come and meet your new siblings" and they are a FAMILY and I CRY WITH JOY!! And bioluminescence?? I am slain
AAAA THANK U SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! they are all a family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you have the skritt love poem from thunderhead peaks somewhere? I loved it, and that whole interaction with the pact guard.
Back when that bit was new, I had the worst luck catching it in a recording and getting all of it without interruption, and to this day I have yet to finish it. Someday I’ll go back to it, but in the meantime allow me to direct you to @roelski-gw2‘s version. :)
