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tweet reference under the cut, and the curlya pose is of course refβs off none other but @joetastic2739 <3
I drew all of this just to make a stupid joke
Chat about the youngβun from 1610
One of my first ever Star Wars fanart was this screencap study π
Transformers fandom: oh my god starscream so hot π
Starscream 90% of the time:
Fic idea: Raβs al Ghul grows tired of waiting for Bruce Wayne to come back to his service in the League of Assassins after spurring his offer ten years ago at the end of his training. He can no longer function as the Demonβs Head due to repeated exposure to the Lazarus Pits, and Talia cannot take his place. Raβs travels to Gotham with his closest shadows/guards, desperate to make a deal. He corners Bruce Wayne as his famed Bat on a rooftop and gives him an ultimatum: one year of service, one year as the Demonβs Head in his place, and Raβs will spare his city and family.
Bruce, as Batman, prepares to fight the League shadows and Raβs, defending his beloved Gotham, until Raβs adds that amid the carnage and confusion of their resulting fight, he will take a son β any son β and force them to the Demonβs Head in Bruceβs stead. Even the Bat cannot run forever, not from the League. Their existence has always been in passive recognition of the other; fighting will draw heavy losses on both sides.
And so, recalling his own days of training under Raβs and the horror that await, Bruce agrees. He swears to service for one year, and one year only; no more, no less. No killing. Raβs tells him his moral code may outlast all of them.
Bruce returns with Raβs and Talia, faking his death for his family to discover. He hides the traces of League activity and follows them back to Nanda Parbat, where he had trained ten years before. As he embraces his year as the Demonβs Head, certain strained seams begin to appear. Raβs is dying, and will not return to service in a year. There is no clear successor after Bruce. Killing is βoff the tableβ when he meets with his advisors, but everyone gives him an amused, indulgent look when he mentions it. Talia is not interested in him romantically or sexually, but he gets the impression the word soon is floating around somewhere in her mind.
Soon comes around quickly into his tenure and new life. Raβs orders him bathed in the Lazarus Pits one night. It takes sixteen League shadows to wrestle him into the water. Once submerged, he sinks without knowing how, all the way down. In the waters, he realizes that the Pits remember everything. This cave system knew Raβs, it held Jason, and it drowned and changed dozens of powerful men over the years. The waters know, and he knows. He sinks past the shallow cove of Jasonβs trauma, so blotted out that he cannot remember the Pit at all; he sinks down into Raβs life, at the very bottom, and it becomes him. He becomes it. There is no line between them down here, where knowledge simply is.
The man who emerges from the Pits is not Bruce Wayne, not entirely. But it is the man he would have been, had he agreed to LoA service all those years ago. He is sharp and uncompromising. He is the Bat without his code, without his guardrails or rules. He is everything the Demon Head had lost, in the last few centuries of existence. He glows with a dark fire so bright, it sucks away the light from every other source in the room. He is dressed in dark, simple armor and black robes that call back to his former life. His face is bare. His eyes are a bright, all-knowing green.
Our fic picks up after this Demonβs Head comes into his own destiny and power. Told from the perspective of the children Bruce Wayne left behind, who find themselves chasing a shadowy figure around the world with the help of the Justice League. The new Demonβs Head is causing problems for everyone, and things have changed at the global level under his mysterious hand β so why does it feel like the Batkids know him?
It all comes to a head (heh) when the Justice League arrest the Demonβs Head and bring him up to the Watchtower. Only for him to be unmasked as Bruce Wayne, a dead man walking, an unfulfilled legacy, the person who built the very satellite under their feet in another life. Batman himself, with glowing green eyes and a Fatherβs face. Gone, but remade again. All in service of something greater than one man.