#oracle dc

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Can we have feral bat kids? 👉👈

I will preface by saying composure where? Everyone is losing their shit.

"Sound off!" Barbara orders, a hand pressed to her comm. She has all of her monitors set up, she can see the red dots in her peripheral, but she can't tear her eyes away from her main monitor.

Not when that is the screen where she is watching Batman die.

"Two minutes out," Nightwing pants.

"Turning onto Henel Ave; three minutes." His bike's engine roars, but she switches her attention to the growl of the Batmobile's engine.

"Catching up to Nightwing now, Oracle."

"Red Robin."

"I'll get there."

"Where are you?"

"I'll. Get. There."

"Then fucking hurry," she snaps back.

Bruce arches as another surge of electricity hits him, and Joker's laugh crackles through her headset. It sends a shiver down her spine, and she watches Bruce intently. He's too good to give Joker the satisfaction of the torture, he won't make a noise, but selfishly, she wishes he would. Just once. Something to let her know he's still breathing, the boys aren't too late, she hasn't just lost another person to the Joker.

"Medbay's ready," Duke reports. "Leslie's on the way, Alfred's ready to scrub in, Cass and I are ready to receive Bruce however you bring him in."

"You bring him in," Cass repeats, a demand.

"We will," Damian swears.

Dick's follow-up somehow doesn't feel like a reassurance. Or, not just a reassurance. Given how bad Bruce looks, it also stands to possibly be a goodbye.

"We're not coming back without him."

Barbara watches Joker throw his head back with a laugh, and two thugs lumber into frame, lugging with them—

"Hurry," she orders. "Bruce needs you."

"What's changed, O?"

"Joker has— fuck, I don't even know what it is, but it's clearly... fucking hurry up."

"I'm there, I'm here, where the fuck are you guys?!" Hood yells.

Dick heaves a deep, whistling breath. "Red?"

"I'm here, let's go—"

"Going dark," Damian rasps, and four beeps sound in her ear as they cut off their comm lines.

"Are they gonna make it?" Duke asks, and she presses her fingers to her mouth, watching the masked goons aim the whatever-the-fuck at Bruce's exposed, battered, bleeding chest.

"One bad day," Joker sing-songs. "You never agreed, Bats. Shall we find out whay your birdies think?"

Barbara breathes a sigh of relief as the flash of blue she glimpses in the pixelated shadows.

They made it.

Bruce is safe.

They converge around Joker, stepping out of the darkness to surround him from all sides.

Nightwing holds a glowing baton under his chin, and Joker tinkles a laugh that is cut off by the crackle of electricity.

“They’re like siblings” 0/10 they’ve kissed and been inside each other

“It’s basically incest because she’s apart of the batfamily!!” 0/10 Barbara is apart of the batfamily but that doesn’t mean she’s related to Dick. If she were apart of the Wayne family then yes it’d be weird. Also keep in mind that Tim and Steph are apart of the batfamily and I almost never see any incest accusations towards them. Same with Steph and Cass.

“I LOVE Barbara but not with dick!! Give her to me instead!” 5/10 only because I also want Barbara but you lose five because I know ur lying you don’t like Barbara and you’ll never pick up an Oracle/batgirl/birds of prey comic

“Barbara and Kori should drop Nightwing and kiss each other!!” 7/10 I also want them to kiss but YOU want them to kiss so that he isn’t with Barbara. You also coincidentally only post/comment about dickkory so…

“She’s passed around!” 0/10 poor writing and if we’re talking about slutiness then we’ll talk about Bruce and Selina, Bruce and Talia, Bruce and Vicki, dick and kory, dick and bea, dick and zatanna (that fuckass tv show), dick and Harley (fuckass writing), dick and Selina (seriously), Tim and Steph, and Tim and Bernard

“She deserves so much better than dick!! Let her have Dinah and he can have Kori!” 0/10 because Barbara “deserves better” but Kori…doesn’t?? Because what is so bad about dick that Barbara deserves better but is just right for Kori? Also you had no idea who Dinah was until a dinahbabs edit came across your fyp and it gave you another excuse to want dick and Barbara to separate

“Love Barbara but dickkory is my endgame” 8/10 not sensing any disrespect but I’m automatically taking two points off because this comment almost always appears on a dickbabs edit or a solo Barbara edit

“Why would he choose HER over the beautiful alien princess?” -1000/10 just say you hate her because she’s in a wheelchair

“I don’t like how Barbara always follows dick around like a puppy!!” 0/10 pick up a dick or Barbara comic that isn’t written by tom Taylor please

“Their relationship only happened to keep Barbara relevant” -1000/10 Barbara will always be one of the most important characters not only to DC but to female superheroes as well. Whether you want to admit it or not she is iconic and Nightwing and dickkory fans will never change her importance by dogging on her for being with dick

“But dick and Kory had a child together!!” 3/10 …in another universe, babe. Also I never see this argument when it comes to Selina and Bruce being together while Bruce and Talia had a child? Wanna explain that?

My personal favorite is when people claim that Barbara being with dick is encouraging the “disposable black girlfriend trope” toward kori when—

a.) yall were just on the internet a few years ago arguing that starfire “isn’t black or white she’s an ALIEN 😠 (but they wanted her to be played by a white woman)”