Tell us more about your goth bat boy!! Anything you want
The only toys he had as a child was an EXCEEDINLY ratty and beaten up baby doll (dubbed “Bigfoot Larry,” both because I refuse to believe that this bat didn’t have a weird phase, and because this is from a tumblr post that made me laugh myself to tears and I’m grafting it onto my headcanons), and potatoes he’d sneak from a basement larder. To this day he doesn’t realize that uncooked potatoes aren’t actually suitable toys for children.
Speaking of things he doesn’t know about food, he knows NOTHING about what constitutes as a healthy diet (he pretty much lives off of blood so it’s not like he’d need to or have much experience with it).
Was actually very fond of Yuck during the brief window of time they spent together. Lamented he’d already made enemies with Yin and Yang/his previous disguise blew up, because he would have MUCH rather had Yuck as his apprentice than Coop.
Piggybacking off of this, he doesn’t realize Yuck got turbo shrunk in Journey to the Center of Yo, and thinks he just got bored and blew the whole scene. He since refuses to think about him much, because he similarly refuses to admit he’s actually genuinely hurt by this.
Still kind of piggybacking off the one point, he does NOT like Coop. Like yeah he taught him a bunch of techniques and moves and shit, but it was solely a means to an end. He hated every minute of it and just BARELY managed to keep his patience through the ordeal.
He created Dank and Dire, and typically just uses them as general dogsbodies. They aren’t very good at henchman-ing, as proven by their first (and only!) episode. He consciously refuses to acknowledge he might view them as things he had a personal hand in giving life to, and instead keeps a fair distance.
(They don’t though - they’re actually kind of worried where he might’ve gone after season 1)
DISASTER PANSEXUAL DOWN TO HIS CORE. He was able to dodge a lot of self-loathing and denial that hit a lot of other lgtb+ people that grew up in his day and age (shoutout to our poor gay panda) by hiding behind the justification that since he’s EVIL, he doesn’t have to give a fuck whether society thinks of him as a degenerate or not, and he can basically do whatever.Â
LOVES his evil guard dogs, you don’t understand. He’d never admit it openly, but that is literally ONLY just because his reputation doesn’t allow it. They (seven in total) were all regular strays he adopted and gave a shot of Evil to. They will happily rend and maul absolutely anything in their path, with the sole exception of their Dad. Around him they’re your average lovey puppers.
