Ms. Girl
To anyone who thinks Bruce has a clear and consistent favourite child I raise you this: it is infinitely funnier for Bruce to have a complicated and elaborate ārankingā system of his kids that only heās privy to.
Picture this: Batman, dosed with truth serum, gets asked as a gag from one of the goons holding him captive who his favourite bat-vigilante is and instead of giving a straight answer, he launches into this whole explanation about the ranking system and whoās in the current lead, whoās hanging behind, etc. At some point (this is a mystery to everyone involved) a whiteboard appears and he starts explaining his system like heās a football coach before an important match. Out of nowhere he starts pulling out little cardboard cutouts of his kids and pins them to the board. At some point the red string comes out.
Jason hasnāt killed someone in a week? Automatically promoted to favourite. Tim hasnāt caused an international incident in the past month? Puts him a few points ahead that keep decreasing the longer he refuses real sleep (20 minute power naps donāt count Tim! Says powernap inventor Bruce Wayne). Cass gave him a hug this morning and wished him a good day? Favourite until he gets a call from dick telling him (without shouting!!!!) that heāll be there for this weekās Sunday dinner. Duke accidentally scratches the Batmobile? Demoted to the āin troubleā zone (which, honestly, thatās where his kids spend most of the time inš). Damian did not attempt to free all the animals in the zoo they visited? Favourite. Until Bruce found out he was just trying to conceal the cat hidden in his room that Bruce explicitly forbade him from keeping.
Dick arrives at the family dinner with a busted shoulder and a bruise the size of Texas on his face? Gets demoted so far down that even azraeil scores higher than him. Heās in the āin troubleā zone for a constant month after that. Oh one of them survived an almost death? Favourite for at least the next week. At least. Multiple people survive an almost death? EVERYONES the favourite. The least favourite is the growing grey hairs on his head.
The end of day results are decided by who bothers to wish him goodnight and if all of them have fucked up in some way the past week then Jon (Kent) becomes the automatic favourite until someone cracks a joke that Bruce actually finds funny.
The favourite child changes daily, hourly even, and his kids are aware this system exists and keep trying to crack the code but he always Knows and just smirks smugly.
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Okay, but, the GCPD and the Batfamily having a dysfunctional working relationship would be hilarious. Like, the cops know they need the Bats to help keep Gothamās streets clean, but man, they are fucking troublemakers.
Take Dick, for example. Heās already naturally at home in a police station, so heāll regularly waltz into GCPD headquarters to give pointers on cases, act as a translator, and will occasionally bring donuts for the night officers. But heās also been trying to get them to unionize since 2009 and will also unabashedly steal things from the evidence locker. (He always returns it, usually with the adjacent case completed, but itās a lot of red tape and thatās very annoying.) He also fucks up the coffee machine every time he uses it.
As for Jason⦠On one hand he is excellent at tracking down perps that have escaped custody or gone to ground. Itās not uncommon for him to pull up with a van full of criminals on the wanted list, which is great⦠expect for the fact that Jason is also on the wanted list. So whenever he shows up the GCPD cops have to put in effort (minimal as it may be) to try and ācaptureā the Red Hood so that they donāt get audited by Homeland Security. So now like once a month they have to chase the Red Hood across Gotham proper, because he handed the Penguin into their custody or something, and they have to look good for their bossesāitās a waste of resources and really fucking annoying, but, hey, they got the Penguin?
Surprisingly, Tim and Stephanie are the most frequent visitors of the GCPDāand they are also the most dreaded. Because Tim is a plucky little know-it-all, but also he can and will update their entire database in a single night and will, at random, solve a cold case theyāve been sitting on for 20 years. The problem is that heās just fucking annoying about it, and every other week heāll break into the vending machine to steal the energy drinksāthat shit is impossible to get replaced. And Steph? Sheāll talk the ears off the night shift and get everyone off task, because theyāre busy gossiping about the accounting department in the Manorās office and planning a prank war on the fire department.
You would think Cassandra would be everyoneās favorite because sheās quiet and much less destructive then her siblings, but youād be wrongāCassandra is an absolute menace and the night shift workers have spent years trying to prove it. She will sneak up behind people, leave random pebbles in peopleās shoes, and will put googly eyes on anything she touches. The day shift thinks the night officers need to chill because, āisnāt she the chill one?ā (No. No she is not. None of the Bats are chill.)
And then thereās Damian. As Robin, the closest he usually gets to the GCPD is through Batman, via his consultations with Commissioner Gordon. But on the rare occasions heās permitted inside the GCPD, he is dotted on extensively by the officers. Heās deadly and abrasive but they love him. They give him candy and head pats and let him use the sketch-artist supplies to do drawings, which they religiously pin to the break room refrigerator. Damian will pretend to despise this despite the fact that he so clearly loves it.
Lastly, thereās Duke. As the only day shifter, heās widely considered to be the most well adjusted and relatable Bat. Half a year into his tenure as Signal, heās on a first name basis with half the GCPD, has his own locker and fridge space for his lunchbox, a coffee mug with his logo on it is kept in the break room, and heās already been nominated for Employee of the Year despite the fact that he does not actually work for the GCPD. The night shift refuses to accept that he is real.