An Assortment Of Tims

Wes and Danny aren't enemies. They are two individuals with a highly complex and tremendously confusing relationship composed of mutual deep respect, begrudging fondness, an unspoken understanding that they can never be overtly friendly to each other but would in fact commit murder unprompted on the other's behalf, and petty antagonization.

Danny helps Wes hone his detective skills to a level never before seen on planet Earth. Wes cannot merely connect the dots, because as soon as he does, Danny pulls some temporal-bs/clone-shit to unconnect those dots and Wes has to start over from scratch. No, Wes must find the most hidden dots, the obscurest of connections, the most shrouded evidence that even Sherlock Holmes himself wouldn't be able to deduce, because anything less gets Clockworked out of existence. And then those obscurest of connections get Clockworked out of existence anyway, and Wes progresses to the next level of detective-ing.

Wes helps Danny stay safe from the government and any potential hostile forces in the world of the living -- including Danny's parents. Because if Danny is destroying proof of his halfa status that needs Wes fucking Weston to get uncovered, there isn't a human being or shady government agency in the history of humankind that could deduce Danny Fenton is Phantom.

Outside of their little game of deduction and destruction, Wes has straight up made some of the GIW disappear. And Danny... well. Lets just say that Wes came to school a grand total of once with his makeup smudged -- allowing a trained eye to just barely make out the presence of a bruised face underneath -- and Wes's P.O.S. step-dad was never seen in town again.

In the cafeteria, they absolutely will try to trip each other, and some of the insults they throw back and forth behind the teacher's back are enough to make Dash want to step in and deescalate the situation.

People don't seem to understand how truly terrifying the third Robin was. Sure, the current one runs around with a sword sometimes and has unprecedented levels of anger trapped in a too-small body, but he will never be scarier than his predecessor. The one who managed to keep a grieving Batman in check. The one who can destroy you without ever laying a finger on you. The one with a speedster, the daughter of Zeus, and a Kryptonian on his side. He leads them. He keeps up with them. He outpaces them.

They love him, respect him. They call him for backup. It is rarely the other way around. He can keep up with Impulse, go toe to toe with Wonder Girl, overpower Superboy.

If you ask the Red Hood or Spoiler, the third Robin can outsmart the Batman. If you ask Batgirl, he is the only one she truly views as challenge. If you ask Nightwing, he will tell you the story of the first time the third Robin ever saved his skin. Before he'd even been Batman's partner, when he was just a stubborn kid with a stolen mask.

He flies without wings and scales buildings on human legs. Gothamites will swear up and down that he can bend steel and break concrete. Even Metropolis respects him, cheers him on. No other Bat has that privilege.

And yet he has the gentlest hands. The softest smile. There is nowhere safer than in his shadow. Nowhere better protected than in his care. Nowhere as comforting as under his watchful gaze.

I'm just absolutely in love with the fact that Alex is the one who's most aware of when he's being weird and he's always the one who tries to apologise and stay level headed when the guys are overstepping. He's also the one who's most likely to shout at a stranger.

Coz he's literally rude in almost every single first interaction he has in the show. Like after The Screaming, he gets the "why are you in our studio. (said softly)" line to Julie, he would have Absolutely kept shouting at Ray for touching his drums if he'd been able to hear him, he called after Caleb despite Alex being the one who walked into him, and he snapped at Willie when they first met too. The most polite he ever gets during a first meeting is when he meets Flynn

Like yes he's sweet and awkward, yes he'll forget that about himself if a stranger annoys him. He's just so weird (complimentary) and I love him <3

Do you think the reason the sky is dark and land is ruined in the original timeline is because of nukes? Hear me out, I’m the original timeline the Team and Justice League DIDN’T win. So the governments of the world had to step in (once they figured out the reach is bad) and probably used nuclear weapons. Maybe they had the citizens of their countries hide in bunkers while that happened, so at least some people survived and would later become slaves.

What are your thoughts on this (sorry for the ramble)

Interesting thought… I think that’s certainly possible, I can definitely imagine it happening, though one thing I’d add is that I’m not sure if Neut is supposed to have played a part in causing at least some of the destruction we see. He was literally a walking nuclear weapon under the control of the Reach and pretty much the reason Bart's original timeline became what it did… the flash failed to stop him and he possibly never went off mode like he does in Bloodlines, therefore Neutron likely became a major threat for the heroes - causing way more destruction, maybe even taking out more of the heroes which would lead to the military definitely feeling the need to get involved and that's when you maybe get the using of the nukes. With them, the military would have hoped to take down neutron, but instead probably just destroyed the earth more, reduced the human population and quality of life due to all the consequences that come with nuclear weapons, and ultimatly failed to actually kill neutron, because like we see in bloodlines - he can just regenerate. It would be interesting to know how long neutron remained a bigbad before people discovered he was a weapon controlled by the reach - i can imagine it taking a while and when the truth finally does comes to light - it's too late - the damage has already been done, the reach are in control and humanity has pretty much lost everything… i don't know if that would actually fit with what we do know of barts timeline - which is not a lot - but that my current thinking based off of your thinking anon…

Also, another possibility with the nukes regarding the survival of the human population (if not in bunkers) is that they could have caused more people becoming meta-active and that could have helped those who couldn't escape the nuclear fallout survive… it could also give the reach more test subject to further their understanding and work with the meta gene for their diabolical reasons…

Anyway… those are some thoughts of mine - thanks for sharing yours anon, it definitely makes sense that nukes must have been involved in some way - if not, then i don't really know what could create such bleekness… whatever it is, it would be fascinating to know — GIVE US THE BART FLASHBACKS WE ALL WANT YJ!!!

LB

imagine Dash going to his Aunt Harley’s for the summer

A friend sent me this tiktok the other day and my first thought was this is the video that Tim sends to all his possible love interests to try and convince them to date him

a mutual lack of understanding

i couldnt really leave it at this so bonus happier ending for those who also need a resolution

Personally I think they should let Bart go up against Batman villains more since I found it hilarious the few times he did.