I Really Like Those Superbat Fics Where Bruce Realizes That The Super Cute And Funny Journalist Hes Been

i really like those superbat fics where Bruce realizes that the super cute and funny journalist he’s been dating/flirting with is Superman and is quite literally his coworker.

and he just sits there like this:

my favorite self-indulgent headcanon is that jason looks a lot like bruce. from height similarities to the way that he presents himself in situations, he’s very bruce and there’s nothing he can do about that.

and because i really like to torture myself with angst, jason knows he looks like bruce. he knows, that every time he looks at himself, all there is staring back at him is the man who chose a villain over him. all he sees within himself is someone else, he can never quite feel like he is his own person. his very drive is bruce. his very drive is how bruce failed to save him. and what better to fuel that drive than the fact that you look exactly like the man you’ve sworn to be better than?

and in the case where he and bruce mend their relationship and jason spends more time at the manor; occasionally, some of the sleep deprived batfam members mistake him as bruce from behind. maybe, damian himself has accidentally called out to jason as “father” on occasion.

damian wayne, son of bruce wayne and thalia al ghul. a trained killer and the perfect assassin. he’s ever-vigilant and lacks the usual playfulness associated with a child. there’s meaning in his movements and he does not tolerate non-sense.

but when he’s around his pets, his animals, his entire demeanor flips. damian’s usual glare softens, maybe he even lets out a rare laugh if titus has done something humorous like chew up grayson’s shoes. the glimmer of a child’s wonder finds its way back into damian’s eyes when he’s with his animals.

and bruce sees this, it’s a why, even after a giant red demon-beast, he allows damian to keep all these creatures. it’s one of the only times he gets to see his son truly happy.

!!blood warning!!

yea so just a little jason animation i’ve been working on for like 3 or so days straight.

-you must stop being so reckless.

-you treat me as i am but a child.

(unrequited care, but why?)

this is just nonsense crack, but i think it would be funny if jason was an angry crier. like- before all the red hood stuff when he was still robin, if dick made him mad (sibling things, of course), he'd just sort of stand there in all of his anger and start sniffling with tears running down his cheeks. and dick, not having expected his little brother to start crying after messing with him, just sort of watches in a kind of baffled worry. and i imagine, in this same circumstance, bruce walking in and automatically turning his half disappointed and half annoyed gaze to dick, assuming that he'd done something horrible to little jason (they had been bothering each other, dick was just better at making jason angry).

and maybe, even as red hood, as grown as jason is, sometimes, when he gets especially angry, he still does cry. but most of the time, it's hidden with his helmet.

it's never really me posting if i don't add some sort of batfam angst: so i think when jason and bruce have their usual arguments at the manor, after an especially difficult argument, tears start to fall from jason's eyes. at first, neither bruce or jason say anything about it. they just stand still, angry glares locked onto one another. but bruce's eyes soften as tears continue to stream onto jason's cheeks. jason, seeing bruce's worried change in expression, turns away from him, wiping the tears from his face hastily, wanting to avoid looking weak or showing emotion in front of bruce. he doesn't want bruce to see him like this.

but all bruce can see at the sight of jason's tears is that little boy who loved to read in the manor's library and would get in playful arguments with his older brother; who he looked up to greatly. and bruce wonders to himself in that moment. did he do something wrong? had he said something that made jason upset? had he done something that would envoke such emotion from jason? from his son?

and bruce would put a hand on jason's shoulder in an attempt at comfort, but as always, jason shakes off the expression of care and walks out of the manor. avoiding any attempts by bruce to get him to stay and talk about it.

as he drives off on his motorcycle, the tears don't stop. he's angry. so horribly angry. at bruce. at himself. at the fact that arguing with bruce could get him so angry he'd cry the same way he would when he was younger. then his angry tears would turn into tears of an unfamiliar emotion when he thought about the look on bruce's face when he'd seen that jason was crying. it was a look that a father would give to his child. an expression that held both affection and distress at his discomfort. did he manage to surprise bruce? was jason... sad?

(i might've gotten a bit carried away with this one lol. half way through, i was definitely tempted on just turning this into a fic instead. but i suppose i prefer short form content like this, since i am already working on a few personal works at the moment. perhaps i will consider making a fic based off of this post when i am feeling up to a break in my current writing.)