#ra's|character

Consequences of a corrupted youth, a Ra’s/Tim playlist

 playlist || fic on ao3

 Let’s jump ahead to the moment of epiphany,             in gold light, as the camera pans to where the action is,             lakeside and backlit, and it all falls into frame, close enough to see                                                the blue rings of my eyes as I say                                                                                                   something ugly. I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way,             and I don’t want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn’t work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats.

Nasir Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani && Ra’s al Ghul                  

Most of Ra’s’ children learned to hate him eventually; some took longer, and some cut every tie they could think of to him, Fahim al Ghul was different. He was the result of- not the last wife- but the last long-standing affair Ra’s had had. (He had intended to marry Fahim’s mother, but he never got the chance, she died giving birth to their son). 

Fahim was born in 1886, and Ra’s loved him, and thought that he may have found a suitable heir. Fahim was brilliant, and quick with a blade, even if he preferred books to fighting. He always reminded Ra’s so much of his twin; Nasir was- had always been the more patient twin, the one that was more content to read and learn. Ra’s had never been quite so easily pleased by the simple thing that it was (though time, and experience had made it more enjoyable, and he’s collected a vast library at Nanda Parbat, one which Fahim had read through much of). 

And had things gone differently, he very well may have taken over, but he died when he was 26; his health had always been brittle, and while as a child, the assumption had been that he would outgrow the childhood illnesses, it never came, and eventually, proved fatal.

 Fahim refused the Lazarus pits. He had accepted his father, and accepted what he was, but that didn’t mean that Fahim wanted to be like him, he had always been so much like Nasir in that regard; ever so sure of himself, and ready to face death. Ra’s, jaded but not quite so yet granted the wish, and he let Fahim die. 

In the months directly following Fahim’s death, there were times when Ra’s considered bringing him back, the Lazarus put could do miracles, and there was still a body, he still could. But every time he discarded the idea. Fahim had not come to hate him like so many of Ra’s’ other children had, and he knows that if he had brought Fahim back, he would. So he doesn’t, and he lets his scholar of a son pass undisturbed. 

Ra’s has killed, and has had killed, many, many people, so to narrow it down to one person is a difficult task. There’s a lot of people he wants dead, but that’s not quite the same. Perhaps... perhaps if he could choose only one person, he may choose the Batman. There are a lot of reasons he hasn’t killed him; Talia’s lingering affection, his reasonable use at times, the fact that people would notice if Bruce Wayne were to die suddenly, and there had been a time when Ra’s had wanted him as an heir.

But if he could do it without any consequences? the idea is tempting. It would remove him as an obstacle, and allow Timothy to rise to his full potential-- because Bruce wasn’t the member of that family he saw as the most worthy heir anymore. That honour would go to the young Drake. His grandson had refused, and taken ever so strongly to being Robin, but Timothy... Timothy was smart and cutthroat in a way that the others either didn’t realize or didn’t like to see. He could be great.

@wordbound​ sent in some children!

One of these can get kind of long, so I’m just going to cut my losses and put them all under a read more. 

Multiples run on both sides of the family, and it’s a surprise when instead of one baby, there’s three. 

AESTHETIC     HEADCANON     MUSIC     CHARACTER

• QUICK STATS •

NAME :: Ra’s al Ghul NICKNAME :: n/a FANDOM :: DC comics GENDER :: Male ORIENTATION :: flexible BIRTHDAY :: February 8th, 1393 || Jumada al-awwal 9, 799 as it would have been for him ZODIAC :: Aquarius SHIPS :: /Tim Drake (verse dependant)

• BIOGRAPHY •

There had been a time before he was Ra’s al Ghul. He had a wife- Sora, and she was beautiful, and intelligent, and the equal Ra’s had always wanted. And then they saved the king’s son with the newly discovered Lazarus pit, and he killed her. 

That had marked the end the idealistic scientist in love, and from that  Ra’s al Ghul was born. he gained power over the next several centuries by working as an advisor to those in power, and to those who asked for his help. Extending his life beyond possible spans through the use of the Lazarus Pits. 

He took multiple lovers, some he had children with, and most of them would learn to hate him. 

The League had been a half thought out plan. It had started with him building a small settlement to guard the Lazarus Pit, and then it grew, and grew until Nanda Parbat was a secure fortress; a city build into the mountains. The League had come with that- men who threatened his power, or chose to seize the pits would be dealt with, and his power continued to grow.

And then he met Melisande, and it was like being with Sora again. She was beautiful, and intelligent, and she understood him like almost no one else had in many years. They had one daughter, and for a decade, it was ideal, and then Melisande died, and nothing he did could have saved her. 

He withdrew from his daughter, and left the majority of the League’s running to Ubu, his trusted second. When his daughter grew old enough, she took Bruce Wayne home, and Ra’s thought, for the first time in a long time, that he had found a worthy heir. He wasn’t, as Ra’s would come to learn.

But then there was Damian, and his grandson, Ra’s was certain, would grow to be a worthy Demon’s Head. It was Talia who sent him away, to live with his father. In the last half a decade, Ra’s has found a growing fascination in the young Drake, and a hope to convince him to his side. 

• PHYSICAL •

FACE CLAIM :: Alexander Siddig HEIGHT :: 6′2″ BUILD :: fit, athletic, trim VISUAL AGE :: mid 40′s to mid 50′s ACTUAL AGE :: 627 HAIR :: black, peppered with grey EYES :: green SPECIES :: Human HAND :: learned ambidextrous GLASSES :: as a disguise, and after long enough without the use of a Lazarus pit.  IDENTIFYING :: Ra’s is covered in scars, some of them are removed when he goes through the Lazarus Pit, but because of the use, his eyes are now the Lazarus green. 

• MENTAL •