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I had an idea.

This could be either Dickjay or Jaytim, choose a favourite, hell put all three of them together.

The point is, Jason realises he has a crush on a batboy of your choosing and after the first freakout, he decides that fuck it, they're all adults they can do whatever they want. But, he needs to be sneaky about it, the bats are all repressed disasters with emotional intelligence of a brick.

So he sets up a plan, nice 100 step plan with all the proper contingencies to get his love interest at first comfortable with him and then eventually seduce him. And I'm talking extremely thorough detailed plans, this needs to be perfect, He needs to be perfect. Toss in some self-esteem issues for flavor.

At the same time said love interest also has a realisation and comes to the exact same conclusion, Bruce fucked all of them up in the emotions department, so he needs a good detailed plan if he wants to stand a chance.

So now you have two, or three if you decide to go that route, genius dumbasses dancing around each other. The misunderstandings, the pining, the colliding plans. Even better if they recruit friends for strategy meetings and to help with execution.

Do you see my vision?

What if I wrote a fic where an older and more jaded Tim slowly loses himself as he tries to break the back of corporatised America from the inside, while vigilantes--ignorant to his greater plot--assume his grey morality has finally got the better of him and he's now a liability. And what if only a select few people, like Dick, know but they also begin to have doubts as Tim, in order to ensure success, has to convince even himself that he is a callous, money-loving and compassionless monster. And what if all this comes to a head and engenders deep emotional turmoil, mistrust and physical jeopardy from many corners.

Dick sat across Bruce's desk from Tim and stared. The days had long since passed when Tim would have balked under that particularly pointed expression, but he'd be lying to say he wasn't at least a little rattled. Dick had crested forty and age mattered less now, but he'd always be the eldest and the first, and that came with an authority in their small ranks all of its own. Besides, Dick's resolve, always ironclad, had only grown since Bruce's retirement. His resolve for justice, for fairness, for process, for transparency among their depleted community, and above all, for protecting his people. Tim ran his tongue over his teeth and waited.

'No,' Dick said at last.

Tim snorted. 'It's not a request, Dick.'

Blue eyes narrowed. 'We made a promise a long time ago, Tim–one that's very important to me–, that there'd be no more unilateral plays.' He lowered his voice. 'Especially between us.'

Nodding slowly, Tim played with the soft leather arm of his chair and conceded the point without meeting Dick's expectant gaze. He sighed. 'Then it is a request,' he said, lifting his eyes. 'If I keep going this way, I will go insane, Dick. Do you know how many forced labor workers we freed in the last year?'

Dick shook his head.

'Hundred forty three. Do you know how many of them have been imprisoned or deported? No? Hundred twenty nine. Two died. One disappeared. The ones in prison are now sewing garments for Huxley and Marr. The same Huxley and Marr we have dinner with once a quarter to keep WE in "good" company.' Tim let that percolate for a moment before he leaned forward in his seat and continued: 'You know how many forced labor units operate under Huxley and Marr right here in this city? Seven. Fifteen hundred workers, Dick. And the suits bringing them in and letting them down keep getting sanction after sanction, and maybe–maybe–a nominal fine here and there.'

Dick made a face. He knew. Of course he did. He was the last person Tim had to explain all this to, and yet, to buy his way into the solution he was trying to sell, he had to massage some amount of guilt. Which was fine; he was well-practiced. He pushed his hair back from his face and began. 'I can't keep protecting people with the mask on when we keep feeding them to the mill when our masks are off. I can't.'

The bones of the house creaked around them. Somewhere upstairs a door opened and closed. Damian maybe. Or Bruce alert to the growing plot here at his own desk. He was retired, yes, but not out. 'What do you propose?' Dick asked, then smirked: 'Assuming you already asked for this meeting with an entire strategy already at hand.'

Tim barked a single laugh. 'Okay, so... Remember my time with the League?'

Would Tim, in order to cosy up to certain corporate and moneyed corrupt shits, go after the vigilante community in a show of centralised, authoritarian strength? Would Tim even start to believe a bit–jaded as he is–that the vigilante community needs to be fixed or regulated? Would Dick begin to wonder if Tim is starting to lose himself in his own theatre of deceit? Would vigilantes unaware of the ploy begin to whisper among themselves about the need to neutralise this dangerous threat?

Delicious to think of the consequences.

Jason weaponizing his coming back to life by going to the media and telling a story about how he'd been kidnapped and held hostage for months/years so that even his family believed him dead. Months of torture before he bravely escaped and returned to his beloved family, who took him and helped him heal (even keeping the story secret and him away from the media until he was mentally prepared to go out in the world again).

Forcing Bruce to sit beside him in an interview about what happened. Forcing Bruce to talk about how he's happy that his believed dead son is back (and oh, how hollow those words sound, but he sometimes pretends they are true, even if Bruce has never told him those words when it wasn't in front of a camera). TEARING UP during interviews.

Talking about social projects he has for Park Row and that he's doing that with the support of Wayne's social projects (which is true, for the appearances and the IRS, but he's also putting a lot of money he obtained through Red Hood means into it). Becoming the darling of the gossip columns (even if he hates that the same people who say they like him now were calling him "Bruce Wayne's charity case" back in the day).

Doing all that in a way that makes him become sort of high-profile, a known face, and springing that on Bruce before Bruce can react in any way that doesn't play right into Jason's own plan. What is Bruce Wayne going to do? Reject the boy who's already been through so much? Try to expose Jason's lies, when Jason holds many of his secrets? Tell people the truth???

Jason Todd's connection to Bruce Wayne becomes a dangerous thing, because if they find out that Jason is Red Hood, then he'll have nothing else to lose.

Thinking about Jason and Bruce and some other Batfam people (Dick would kind of be needed too, and Cass and Damian would fit here as well) and only one of Tim, Steph and Duke (it's important that only one of these three are present here).

Anyway, for convoluted plot reasons, they all get trapped in some magic realm place by some random villain. The villain says that only a person without blood on their hands can "open the door" to return them to reality.

Intense discussion starts, and from the get go, Jason, Damian and Cass are not in the list of options. Now, this is from Jason's POV, so he's thinking like "well, idk the technicalities but it seems reasonable that Dick would be the one to do it."

Cue Bruce and Dick (and Tim if he's there) eyeing each other awkwardly when Jason suggests Dick.

Something something Dick says that the person he killed was brought back to life, but he doesn't want to risk the wording of the spell trapping them to consider that he did kill someone.

(no they don't say who he killed, and obligatory "no, it wouldn't be good for Jason to find it out, because it wasn't done for him 👍").

Anyway, more discussions happen and then Bruce decides he's going to try to free them and Jason is just "???????? Excuse me????"

Everyone is "???????" at Jason.

And Jason is like "well, if it still counts if the person came back to life, then Bruce obviously can't do it. It has to be Tim/Steph/Duke".

And Bruce is also "???????"

And the worst thing is to notice that Bruce didn't even notice that he killed Jason with the batarang :/ he thought there was something there, that Bruce's choice revealed something, but the bastard doesn't even know what he did.

Jason is conflicted about revealing the truth, because admitting that Bruce chose to kill him instead of letting him kill the Joker is his most shameful secret.

thinking more about jaytims praise kinks

so let's play with that, tims normally the one tied up and at jasons mercy when they play, but sometimes it goes the other way

and jason loves it when tim gets bossy and mean and stays in charge, so when tim starts to tie jason down he only puts up a token fight cause he wants to see where this goes

he doesn't expect tim to use the opportunity to handle jason /gently/, didnt expect the soft touches and slow riding and all the- the praise

all the "people overlook how clever and strategic and patient you are"

the "im jealous of your self control"

the "youre always so good to me- giving me things no one else can"

"let me give it back to you"

don't be sorry! thank you for adding on! you are correct!! tim having prepared a list in advance and memorizing it to just, ,,, ,, rattle back verbatim to jason is so so sosososo good!!! he would do that!!!

and jason just, shaking, crying beneath him, stuck in a loop of "please, tim, please" over and over again, not even knowing what he's asking for but not being able to stop! tim feeling a little worried that he fucking broke jason somehow in all this until jason finally fully comes apart

Imagining Jason stumbling upon Batman/Red Hood or Nightwing/Red Hood RPF fanfic in-universe lol

Welcome to Mimic Ikea! Don't worry about it.

smthn smthn tim being so focused on a case but still letting jason fuck him, jason sitting in his computer chair with tim sat in his lap, tims whole focus on his research on the screen while jason is steadily losing himself to the feel of tim around him and getting increasingly turned on by tims constant attention to his work despite what jasons doing to him

what i need to finish: the media finding out about bruce & jason's relationship, jason being an absolute tease and bruce pretending nothing is going on & arkhamverse slowburn.

what i want to write: absolute degeneracy. jason with a Dad kink. voyeurism. burning jealousy. nasty hate-fucking. jason not remembering that he and bruce used to have sex when he was robin and bruce doesn't tell him after the resurrection but then he finds out on his own and—

Cute Jason/Eddie moment that sprang to mind while I was writing my silly essay about Eddie:

Jason hands Eddie a cigarette. They don't know each other well enough anymore for Jason to know if he smokes, but he figures he might? Also it seemed like that might make this monumentally awkward rooftop co-habitation a little more comfortable.

Eddie, being used to Rose, and lost in his own head a bit, gently cups Jason's hand and kisses his cigarette lit: "There."

Jason, blushing beet red and internally melting down from receiving the most tender, romantic gesture anyone has ever given him, completely unprompted, from a guy he's desperately hoping could at least still be a friend: "...thanks..."

anyway superior helena wayne origin:

when helena is around 2 or 3 -- too early for her to have conscious memories -- some horrible crisis-level tragedy takes out most of the batfam and bruce just. he stops. he stops being batman. he stops having anything to do with that life. he can't look at it anymore. he moves back into the manor and he raises his daughter in that lonely, enormous house and he never talks about any of it. not about his other children, or about batman -- certainly not about robin or spoiler or batgirl or --

anyway, he marries selina and they wrap themselves around their daughter and they raise her to have an Extremely Normal life.

(dick might be alive, but if he's alive he's definitely on a long, self-flagellating super-spy mission somewhere very far from here. bruce doesn't really talk about him either. cass and tim and damian are all definitely dead, though. so is steph. probably kate is too, to facilitate, well --)

helena was not actually named for helena bertinelli, but she does know that there's a lady with her name who comes to see her dad a lot and talks with him in urgent tones inside his office, even though neither of them really seems to like the other. (it's because in the absence of other vigilantes, huntress is now the primary protector of gotham, and she needs the batcave equipment, bruce.) both her parents maintain that other helena is Bad News and you should stay away from her, honey, because they have a primal fear of her finding out about the vigilante life and deciding she wants to be a part of it.

(this, naturally, works just as well as it usually does on adolescent children.)

Bruce spying on Jason and Slade fucking (he is very creepy about it, but rationalizes it as being something he's doing having Jason's best interest in mind).

Of course Jason calls Slade daddy. And Bruce is like "damn that should be me :/"

“Yeah, I’m a new student.” “Well, welcome to Gotham University! What’s your major?” “Criminology.” “What dorm are you in?” “Oh, I live off campus. My Aunt Pam owed a favor to my mom, so I live with her and her partner, my Aunt Harley.” “Excuse me?!” “It’s not as bad as you think.”