#shush

Or it can just be Bruce dropping random lore to anyone and moving on. Just. . Batman’s lore which is 80+ years of story telling condensed in a 40 year old

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Dick "I know my dad best" Grayson vs everyone on Bruce's past.

He has a list. The reasons for hating on Khoa might go from "He's an ex criminal" - which will get him an obnoxious eye roll from Tim or a cautious look from Jason - to "he betrayed Bruce".

The truth condenses to pure, unaltered, visceral jealousy.

He enters the manor with a grin. He hasn't come over in a while. He uses the spare key.

As soon as his bike helmet is off, he announces himself.

"Your favorite kid came!!" He wouldn't mind if Damian ran just to kick him in the stomach, Bruce's amusement is always worth the punishment. But nothing comes. Nothing but silence.

Did he confuse the dates? No. He confirmed with Bruce if they were to be home for today. He emptied his calendar.

After a few moments of silence, he steps inside the quietness.

There's a faint sound that he understands as voices. Down. The cave? It's too early. Something in the back of his brain tells him he won't like what he'll find.

Of course he doesn't listen to the warning.

He should have listened to the warning.

Bruce is sat on his chair, civil clothes on. Damian is cross-legged, on the floor in front of their dad, Jon is at his side. Both kids are looking up with eyes filled with stars. He might even find it adorable... If it wasn't for the man leaning on Bruce's space.

Ghostmaker moves his arms around as he retells the story.

"Jack was on the floor, he looked like shi- garbage."

"Father?"

"I was young, son"

"Someone bestest you?! You're BATMAN!!"

"I wasn't back then, Jon. And it wasn't someone"

"It was all the strongest guards and students!"

"What? Why?"

"Ok, little flea-"

"Hey-"

"I already told that part, so If you ain't going to listen-"

"Apologies, please keep going"

Dick keeps moving down. He doesn't want to admit he's also intrigued. Bruce's eyes subtly come to him, lips already turning upward. Damian must have noticed, by the way he tilts his head towards him, but the kid is too involved in whatever the white cladded man is saying.

"So I saw my opportunity and just jumped to action"

"You followed him"

"He followed you!!"

"He followed me" Bruce smiles. And Dick's stomach churns with anger.

"The important part here is that I saved his a- butt"

"That he did"

"I'm guessing you allowed him to follow you to your next destination, then."

"He had no other choice"

"I had no choice. He was going to be hunted as well. Chum." Bruce fully turns to him. And the smile on his face almost makes Dick forget he's angry.

Almost "If it isn't the first pup!" Khoa's grin has Dick gritting his teeth.

With no subtlety whatsoever, he pushes Ghostmaker far from Bruce's form, and perches at his neck. If he could still climb him he would... Fuck it.

He gloats at the deep laugh his father gives him as he tries to position his long body over Bruce's shoulder. He knows Khoa is rolling his eyes under the mask.

Jon laughs "He looks like a scarf!"

"Richard, you interrupted at the best part"

"Right! Mister Khan was telling us about Bruce's training years together!"

Dick's eye twitches at that. He had barely been able to make his dad talk about that time. The man usually avoids the topic.

"We can keep it up after dinner" Bruce pats Dick's head as he dead weights across his back. "I can hear your tummy rumbling"

Tummy rumbling. Dick doesn't have the heart to tell him those are his bowels acting up at seeing Ghostmaker after so long. He can eat with his dad even if his insides burn in acid. After all, he knows-

"Are you joining us?" He smirks at the man at Bruce's side.

"Nah. I have other things to do"

He knows Bruce must be making that sad kicked puppy face, but dammit if he appreciates Khoa's repulsion towards the manor.

my second-ever attempt at pinching sum sculpting clay from my bestie 🤏🏻 sculpted cooper howard from memory, but checking the reference for his clothes was a mistake... why is my man so baby-smooth? 😭

Since yall loved the last batch so much, here are some more hcs of my son! (I have so many of these)

Should’ve had this on the last post with him wearing makeup, but he wears nail polish!! He more so does it as a way to get himself to stop biting his nails, but Ilya gets so excited to see Luca freely express himself and so they match their nails at practice

This man is a pencil BITER. Like all his drawing pencils looked like a 5 year old got to them

I see Luca as a very tactile person. Like feeling is very important to him, but especially human touch. He’s demisexual but really craves platonic touches. Touches on his shoulders, hugs, any form of cuddling. When he does get into a relationship, he doesn’t get the normal ‘man I wanna fuck them’ urge others would, he gets the ‘man I wanna cuddle the fuck out of them’ urges. This is defiantly not projecting

I see you Luca having a tooth gap and raise you Luca covering his smile with his hand/sleeve because he’s shy/embarrassed about it. Also when he blushes, which is a lot. (Tooth gap Luca curtesy of @nonymous06 )

He never lets his phone get below 50%. It died once on him in a city he didn’t know, and never again

His love language is physical touch/quality time

Obviously a tumblr girly, but I also see him getting lost for hours scrolling Pinterest and making mood boards, he’d find it really relaxing

He is a Taylor Swift listener at heart, especially having three sisters

Speaking of sisters, he has two older sisters and one younger sister. There’s 4 years between him and the oldest, 2 years between the second oldest, and 3 years between him and his younger sister, who I believe he’s the closest with

I have a million different ideas for how Luca would come out, but I feel like the poor boy would deal with fan mail 2.0. Like he’s out on a date (cough cough, with Young) and some fan captures a video of them kissing and holding hands and stuff. Not like the filthy making out Hollanov had, but still. The media reaction to this would half be really supportive, and half be like ‘wtf is being gay contagious why is half of Ottawa gay’

Alternatively he just off handedly mentions it in an Ottawa centaurs social media post that’s not even related to Pride and the internet loses its mind.

“I don’t get paid enough for this, but also like good for you kid.” - Harris

He loves animated movies. Like old cartoons, anime, modern animation, whatever. He will pick something animated over live action

Plant dad

Unless you want to be yapped at for four hours straight, don’t ask him about the history of art and it’s cultural significance throughout history. Just don’t

Uses chronically online language without even realizing it