M!A Duke is six years old and is still a vampire. Since he’s size he doesn’t really understand that he needs to stay away from the sun.

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

Wha- what’s happening? Where am I? Where are my parents?

Duke? What happened to you? 

Who are you? How do you know me?

My mom says I shouldn’t talk to strangers

-Conner takes his jacket and glasses off to reveal the Superboy logo- I’m Superboy 😎

I don’t know a Superboy. Are you like Superman?

Yes I am. I’m related to Superman too. 

Oh cool! So you’re his family? Are you his son?

Can you fly? Can I fly with you?

Of course I can fly, and you can fly too if you turn into a bat 

But I can’t turn into a bat! Please fly me?

Yes you can Duke you’re a vampire. And if you don’t believe me you can run your finger over the points of your fangs. 

Vampires don’t exist! Some lady tried to sell me that too already! But Vampires don’t exist, mom told me that and mom is always right!

Duke you have fangs. I know your mom told you they don’t exist, but she dint know that they existed. She didn’t know about magic at the time. 

I just have sharp teeth? I can’t be a vampire! I already keep having people talk to me I don’t know and don’t remember! I can’t be a vampire and not remember it! *his eyes fill with tears and his lower lip is wobbly*

-Kon stands on his knees so that Duke can easily look at him. He places a hand on Duke’s shoulder. He doesn’t know if Duke wants to be hugged since Duke really can’t remember Conner- Duke I know this is scary, but I promise you’re gonna be okay. We’ll find a way to fix this buddy. -Conner hands Duke a silver mirror- Duke it’s gonna be okay. 

M!A Duke is six years old and is still a vampire. Since he’s size he doesn’t really understand that he needs to stay away from the sun.

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

Wha- what’s happening? Where am I? Where are my parents?

Duke? What happened to you? 

Who are you? How do you know me?

My mom says I shouldn’t talk to strangers

-Conner takes his jacket and glasses off to reveal the Superboy logo- I’m Superboy 😎

I don’t know a Superboy. Are you like Superman?

Yes I am. I’m related to Superman too. 

Oh cool! So you’re his family? Are you his son?

Can you fly? Can I fly with you?

Of course I can fly, and you can fly too if you turn into a bat 

But I can’t turn into a bat! Please fly me?

Yes you can Duke you’re a vampire. And if you don’t believe me you can run your finger over the points of your fangs. 

Vampires don’t exist! Some lady tried to sell me that too already! But Vampires don’t exist, mom told me that and mom is always right!

Duke you have fangs. I know your mom told you they don’t exist, but she dint know that they existed. She didn’t know about magic at the time. 

M!A Duke is six years old and is still a vampire. Since he’s size he doesn’t really understand that he needs to stay away from the sun.

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

Wha- what’s happening? Where am I? Where are my parents?

Duke? What happened to you? 

Who are you? How do you know me?

My mom says I shouldn’t talk to strangers

-Conner takes his jacket and glasses off to reveal the Superboy logo- I’m Superboy 😎

I don’t know a Superboy. Are you like Superman?

Yes I am. I’m related to Superman too. 

Oh cool! So you’re his family? Are you his son?

Can you fly? Can I fly with you?

Of course I can fly, and you can fly too if you turn into a bat 

But I can’t turn into a bat! Please fly me?

Yes you can Duke you’re a vampire. And if you don’t believe me you can run your finger over the points of your fangs. 

I’ve signed you up for the “We Hate Zod More Than You Club” and the “We Hate Lex More Than You Club” the clubs are basically plans to ruin them. We’re gonna make for the Joker as well.

prettierinpinkandleather:

connerkent-speaks:

rp-kiara-dragul:

connerkent-speaks:

chriskent-speaks:

connerkent-speaks:

chriskent-speaks:

kylerayner-speaks:

connerkent-speaks:

rp-kiara-dragul:

connerkent-speaks:

jasontoddspeaks:

Can I get in on all of them?

Yes. 

Can I join?

Yes. You can, welcome aboard. 

I would like to help too!

I founded the we hate Zod club

Trust me I know that. The mans the worst. 

Man is liberal. More like monster.

The reason he can’t die is because down under doesn’t even want him 

More like they hate his guts as much as we do.

Probably 

I am president of We Hate Lex Club and Lex Luthor is a Deadbeat Piece of S*** Dad Club

I’m signing up for the ““Lex Luthor is a Deadbeat Piece of S*** Dad Club”

M!A Duke is six years old and is still a vampire. Since he’s size he doesn’t really understand that he needs to stay away from the sun.

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

Wha- what’s happening? Where am I? Where are my parents?

Duke? What happened to you? 

Who are you? How do you know me?

My mom says I shouldn’t talk to strangers

-Conner takes his jacket and glasses off to reveal the Superboy logo- I’m Superboy 😎

I don’t know a Superboy. Are you like Superman?

Yes I am. I’m related to Superman too. 

Oh cool! So you’re his family? Are you his son?

Can you fly? Can I fly with you?

Of course I can fly, and you can fly too if you turn into a bat 

“I love disaster man early 20-something bruce trying to parent” have you got some headcanons? I’d love to hear them!

batmanisagatewaydrug:

mahnoorn15:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

this is a gift

  •  so, I tend to HC Bruce as being 24/25 and having been Batman for literally a year when he adopts his first kid, because. you know. Dick was literally introduced to comics the year after Bruce. that’s just meta canon.
  • so we have this emotionally stunted 20-something who’s currently navigating how best to fight crime while dressed up as a bat meeting another orphan and deciding “oh, shit, I should do the noble thing and adopt him. what’s the worst that could happen?”
  • so much
  • once all the excitement of catching the peeps who killed Dick’s parents wore off it gradually dawned on Bruce that he was now responsible for a whole ass human child living in his fancy house
  • there’s this, like, grieving but shockingly well adjusted and sociable pre-pubescent boy doing cartwheels up and down the halls, breaking the antiques, and gradually it hits Bruce that this kid is going to need, like. outlets for all that energy. and kids his own age. school? probably school.
    • (Alfred home schooled Bruce from the age of 8 until college – and yes, I have a LOT of feelings about Bruce Wayne’s college years – so he’s a little out of his depth here)
  • emotionally stunted manchild with no real friends Bruce Wayne listening with an increasingly furrowed brow as young Dick Grayson cheerfully chats about his favorite classes and which of his classmates he gets along with and the birthday party he got invited to and which teacher was mean. Bruce realizing that this child is going to be so, so much healthier than he is and almost choking because he is absolutely terrified of fucking that up.
  • picture: 25 year old Bruce Wayne, still perfecting his idiot billionaire act, sitting in a parent teacher conference with an increasingly flustered teacher. (flustered because Bruce is hot? because he’s weird? you decide!)
  • honestly what would feed that harmless idiot playboy image better than spontaneously adopting a little circus boy and bringing him along to inappropriate places like Wayne Industries board meetings or fancy formal dinners?
    • they absolutely have system worked out where Bruce makes a certain very small gesture and Dick immediately causes a disruption, such as:
    • [mid-board meeting] “oh I’m so sorry, gentlemen, I’d love to keep talking about these numbers for another hours but as you can see, I’m sure, my young ward is doing a handstand on a rolling chair and we really need to have a word about that”
    • [at a fancy dinner] “goodness gracious I wish that I could keep talking about this very interesting socialite gossip but it seems that my young ward has just knocked over quite a large number of champagne glasses and I must go tend to him”
    • once they’ve ducked out of this latest obligation Dick asks which bad guy they’re rushing off to fight. sometimes there isn’t one and Bruce was just shamelessly using the child as an excuse to leave something extremely tedious.
  • what do kids eat? Bruce has no idea, having spent a quarter of a century mostly eating whatever Alfred put in front of him. conversely, little Dick has never been allowed to go ham and get whatever he wants in a grocery store before. suddenly Wayne Manor’s cupboards are overflowing with frozen pizza and poptarts and sugary cereals. 
    • food is basically an afterthought to Bruce, who is actually delighted that calories and sugars are now so readily available in quick and easily consumed packages. 
    • I implore you to imagine Bruce and Dick in full costume sitting on the kitchen counter eating cold slices of pizza and handfuls of dry cap’n crunch for breakfast after a particularly hellacious night 
    • actually if you can draw I implore you to do that too
  • I keep thinking of the Stranger Things directors talking about how working with kids is weird because sometimes they just show up covered in glitter or red in the face because they’ve been slapping each other? sometimes Robin goes radio silent on stakeouts and Bruce panics and goes looking for him, only to discover Dick found a stray dog or he’s perched outside someone’s window watching their TV because a movie he likes is on or he’s staring in the windows of a candy store.
  • the first time Bruce Wayne realized Dick had fallen asleep in the passenger seat of the Batmobile and he had to awkwardly lift him out and carry him to bed was an Experience 
  • Bruce and Alfred methodically “babyproofing” the manor before Dick’s first birthday with them so that he can invite friends over without having to worry about them finding the cave
  • Dick realized pretty fast that Bruce doesn’t have any concept of how money works and that he’ll hand over 200 dollars for a night at the movies without even questioning it. Alfred had to step in and tactfully course correct on this one
    • for the record, Bruce never actually stops doing it. to this day, any one of his kids could ask for his credit card (the Batcredit card, Steph insists on calling it) and be given it without argument. does Bruce trust his kids? does he just not give a single solitary shit about money? you decide!
  • Dick is easy to travel with, even internationally – he got plenty of that in the circus, and he knows when to just sit down and take a nap. but he’s not accustomed at all to the kinds of places where Bruce stays. you know the opening of Spider-Man: Homecoming where Peter is losing his mind and jumping all over his hotel bed? it’s a little like that, with a side of Dick trying to drag Bruce off to look at everything that looks even remotely interesting.
  • at some point Bruce and Dick inevitably got into an argument and as it was getting heated Bruce said “don’t make me ground you!” and Dick shot back “you can’t ground me!” and their fight came to a SCREECHING stop as they both stared at each other and tried to do the mental math to figure out if Bruce actually could effectively ground Dick or not. like, he can say it all he wants, but will Dick respect his authority and listen?
    • neither of them knows the answer
    • they don’t want to know the answer
    • “well, don’t make me then,” Bruce grumps, before twirling his cape dramatically and storming off to cover his parental panic.
  • as the weeks and months and years go by Bruce starts getting better at remembering all the little nuances of Dick’s social life outside their vigilantism. there’s a tiny segment of his methodical brain dedicated to it, tucked away behind all the knowledge of combat and crime solving techniques, a mental map complete with figurative yearn connecting the different pictures and snippets of information. when Dick talks about the Titans, his school friends, teachers, Bruce knows exactly who he means. he just wishes he had better advice to offer. he wishes he was better at showing Dick that he cares about all of his life, not just what they do as Batman and Robin. he wishes that Dick wasn’t so perceptive, because after a while Dick realizes that Bruce is out of his league with personal stuff and stops sharing so much. 
  • when he looks back at all the bumps of figuring out his first kid, what Bruce remembers most is how much Dick wanted to talk to him about ordinary things. none of the others do that; they’re old enough to know – or think they know – that Bruce isn’t a guy you talk to about college applications or crushes. he never gets to hear about their day-to-day. he misses it.

I just… i just felt so sad at the end of this. Why? WHY?

because my favorite thing to write about Bruce Wayne is his difficulty interacting with people he cares about I’m SORRY it makes me sad too

I’ve signed you up for the “We Hate Zod More Than You Club” and the “We Hate Lex More Than You Club” the clubs are basically plans to ruin them. We’re gonna make for the Joker as well.

rp-kiara-dragul:

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chriskent-speaks:

connerkent-speaks:

chriskent-speaks:

kylerayner-speaks:

connerkent-speaks:

rp-kiara-dragul:

connerkent-speaks:

jasontoddspeaks:

Can I get in on all of them?

Yes. 

Can I join?

Yes. You can, welcome aboard. 

I would like to help too!

I founded the we hate Zod club

Trust me I know that. The mans the worst. 

Man is liberal. More like monster.

The reason he can’t die is because down under doesn’t even want him 

More like they hate his guts as much as we do.

Probably 

M!A Duke is six years old and is still a vampire. Since he’s size he doesn’t really understand that he needs to stay away from the sun.

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

connerkent-speaks:

duke-thomas-suggestions:

Wha- what’s happening? Where am I? Where are my parents?

Duke? What happened to you? 

Who are you? How do you know me?

My mom says I shouldn’t talk to strangers

-Conner takes his jacket and glasses off to reveal the Superboy logo- I’m Superboy 😎

I don’t know a Superboy. Are you like Superman?

Yes I am. I’m related to Superman too.