Having online friends is insane because how the hell did you forget to tell me you met Obama and shook hands with him???
So Bruce now has several adult children that could very easily take up the cowl (and already have in some cases) but he doesn't seem to be retiring any time soon. So let's say he gets injured in the field, like Bane back-breaking stuff, and he is forced to retire. He wants one of his kids to take up the mantle. Not necessarily pretending to be him, but as the new Batman (like Terry McGinnus in Batman Beyond).
Issue is he doesn't know who the cowl should go to, so he calls a meeting. Everyone is sitting at a long table in the manor when Bruce discusses his sudden, but overdue, retirement.
Bruce: So now we come to the splitting of assets.
He places the cowl on the table in front of him.
Bruce: Figure it out yourself.
He gets up and leaves.
Expecting a fight to break out, he waits to listen at the door in case things get out of hand, lord knows he doesn't want a physical brawl over the cowl. He doesn't expect what happens next.
*silence*
Stephanie: Not it!
Tim: No way!
Dick: Been there, done that.
Damian: No.
Cass: no.
Babs: Already got a job.
Duke: Uh, I think I'm busy that day.
The only person who hasn't said anything is Jason
Dick: Looks like it's you Jay.
Jason: Fuck no, I figured killing people made me exempt already.
Bruce happily sheds a tear, knowing his raised his kids so that none of them want to follow in his footsteps.
After an all nighter where the kids argue over who should take the role
(notable points include:
Tim: I thought you were the 'Blood Son's Dames, it's your 'birthright' and all.
Damian: I plan to donate blood tomorrow.
Jason: Dick, you're the oldest, you take it.
Dick: No! Have you seen how good my ass looks in my current suit? A cape is gonna ruin that silhouette!
Stephanie: Why don't you want it Tim, you're already CEO of WE, why not become full Bruce?
Tim: *shudders* Ra's already is obsessed with me, if I become Batman, he won't leave me the fuck alone.
Eventually they call Bruce back in, having come to a decision. Bruce walks in, not sure who has taken it, but his bets are on either Cass, Dick or Damian. He looks up at the table to see:
Sitting at the head of the table, with the cowl over their face...
Bruce: Um... Alfred?
Dick: Yeah! He has the most experience out of all of us!
Duke: This also means we can keep doing our own things as well.
Jason can't stop laughing at Bruce's face.
Bruce: You're really playing along with this Alfred?
Alfred: I am the night Master Bruce.
Bruce: Real fun-
Alfred: I think you'll find that I am vengeance sir.
Bruce: Okay, I ge-
Alfred: I, young Master, Am Batman.
Bruce phones Kate who laughs in his face.
I love snails.
foliage study :-) there's an angel in the garden
This is genuinely a very good idea, especially for April's Fools. Confusing, relatively harmless, funny.
what if you wore a shirt that featured a picture of you trying to claw your way out of the shirt with a horrid desperate expression and the text "THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME I'M TRAPPED IN THE SHIRT"
Guys I'm actually so normal and chill-
*Finds stuff in the books that I can interpret as Severitus*
MY SHAYLAAAA
They're off to fight and solve crimes like Batman and Robin.
BBNO$ is the kind of guy to write a song about cheques and name the song "Chequemate." The song would probably be about money idrk. Maybe like. How he's cornered the "King"/Banks with no escape.
I don't think fantasy writers play enough with the concept of the different fantasy races having distinct ethnicities. Like imagine a group of mixed peoples, where the dwarves are all roasting each other like dwarves do, and one of them remarks that when he first saw one of the other dwarves in the group, he mistook her for a man. The other dwarves in the group blink in surprise - the closest that dwarves will go to an audible gasp of shock - and she pulls out a knife and tries to stab him.
Once the dwarves have been separated from each other and the situation has calmed, one of the humans asks another dwarf what that incident was about. Naturally a human woman would have been insulted too, but dwarves are so jovial about insulting each other, why was this matter different?
And the dwarf who was asked explains that there are things you can brutally insult another dwarf about, and there are things you simply do not touch. The dwarf-woman in question is from a completely different region of The Great Underground as the others, and her people have different norms about what kind of patterns men and women braid into their beards. The dwarf insulting her wasn't only insulting her appearance, he was being racist.
The human is surprised to learn that dwarves have different peoples, and the dwarf looks at them like at an idiot. Of course they do, they even look completely different from each other. And the human listens as the dwarf lists off various distinguishing clothing details too nuanced for a human to notice, and then how dwarves coming from different corners of the world have different physical traits, according to what kind of conditions their local stone types dictate.
The human spots a connection and goes oh! We have that too, though ours are not about rock types and tunnel air, but the weather aboveground. Humans' facial features vary by how hot, cold, arid or windy their ancestors' homelands were, and our skin tone varies by how much the sun shines in their native region.
The dwarf frowns at the last part, going "I thought you people just paint your skin and dye your hair for fun", and the human admits that yeah, we do that too, but not all the time, and not the whole skin. The dwarf asks, what of that tall woman the colour of dravite, her palms and the soles of her feet were lighter than the rest of her. Does that mean she paints herself dark to be more beautiful?
The human says no, that just happens naturally. Maybe it's because one's palms and feet aren't exposed to the sun as much, so they are paler.
The dwarf nods, still unsure whether this is actually legit or just the human habit of lying for fun, and proceeds to ask about the wild northman of their party. He is as pale as an olm, but the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet are dark. Are they painted, or naturally that way?
No, the human answers. That guy just doesn't bathe.
So this actually relates/parallels to my Dabi headcanon with the sandwiches being a comfort to him.
I imagine that Keigo likes chicken so much, despite being salty and everything, is because it’s something he was never allowed to have as a child. It’s a freedom he didn’t earn until adulthood.
While I don’t know how much chicken is in Japan, I’d imagine it can be expensive with inflation, compared to beans, crackers, water, and bread, which is most likely what Hawks had when living with his criminal father while he was in hiding, because it was easy, simple, and cheap, and money would be tight in hiding.
It could also be why he’s not the biggest fan of salty foods and prefers sweet and savoury food, because it’s something he didn’t have as a child, he never had that comfort.
He was forced to eat salty crackers and stale bread with a bit of bean because it was all he could afford.
So chicken to him was a luxury he never got until he was an adult; it made the bird part of him preen at the fact he was eating something that was natural as a hawk.
Chicken is a comfort to Keigo because it shows how he can make his own small choices, and it shows how he’s free from the shitty childhood he had, being able to eat things his father never would have allowed him to.
So, while sandwiches are a comfort to Dabi because they were the only stability he had when growing up, chicken is a comfort to Keigo because it shows how he’s relatively free from the hand he was given when he was younger, a stability that he’s more free than he was as a child.
Keigo with open back shirts to show off his wings. That’s it. That’s the post.
Guys is this trend still a thing? Guys? GUYS- COME BACK-
I’ve been watching MHA recently can u tell