So I Decided To Use References And I’m Happy With Them :D

I find the whole topic of Dick’s emotional competence really fascinating because it’s clear that has an understanding of emotions in a way that Bruce has completely suppressed and cannot because he straight up doesn’t talk about emotions but while Dick recognises and understands it -

He never really uses it for ethical reasons ( exceptions like E.G having that call with Tim after he talked the jumper of the roof because if that was Bruce well .. I don’t think it would of helped much )

He mostly uses it for tactical reasons and manipulation.

And despite being able to use it on others and have emotional intelligence with them when it actually comes to him …. Well it goes less well because he holds himself up to this insane standard BECAUSE of Bruce .

Its especially interesting because Dick has wished before that unlike Bruce he could bottle up his emotions and shut it out .

Idk correct me if wrong but it’s nice food for thought!

dick grayson is sooooo normal i want to study his brain under a microscope. yeah id say that’s a pretty fair interpretation of his rich inner world — i do think that like bruce he tends to force himself through emotional trauma by brute force (we see this in the 96 run, for example) — but he’s also really cognisant of other people and specifically how he’s viewed by other people.

there’s this panel out of titans 99 where vic is like “i can’t believe dick lied to me!!” and the other characters say yeah. that’s normal for him. he’s a manipulative person when he wants people to do what he says, yknow? i mean i do think he does it for good a tonne, he just uses shortcuts to cut to where people are hurting. like….. he will explain to u ur emotional intricacies to get u to open up. he’s similar to bruce in the sense that they both care — possibly way too much — but while bruce struggles to express that dick is a lot more outwardly open, but also u never know how much of it is a facade.

it also makes it more impactful when he is profoundly known by others — specifically the fab5 and kory and babs and bruce. he has (imho) some degree of depersonalisation about his identity and his body and his autonomy, so people seeing through the performance and wanting to protect the core is truly. chefs kiss

it’s so interesting!! i cannot emphasise how much more of an interesting character he is when writers actually incorporate his intelligence into his stories. like people will follow him to ends of the earth because despite how bitchy he gets u know he’s going to do the right thing, even if dick himself doesn’t necessarily believe it

im literally rattling on the bars of my cage like

Everyone says Technoblade would be a child of Ares in the PJO and HoO books, but no. I say Demeter, the Goddess of agriculture. (I'm going to put this all below a cut because I'm really enthusiastic about mythology and will be writing a lot and I know not everyone will want to have to scroll past a large block of text.)

Firstly, Demeter riots when her daughter is kidnapped, straight up almost killing all of humanity by not letting crops grow and starving them until she got Persephone back. She is the cause of winter happening out of pure defiance against the king of the Gods because he is not bothered to rescue her daughter.

Less commonly know is her connections to the underworld. In early Mycenaean myths Hades did not exist and instead there were three main underworld gods. Poseidon, Persephone and Demeter. Demeter was, in the earliest of the myths, a goddess of the underworld. Of course in the myths we all know know she isn't, but that version still exists, and I feel like it should at least be considered. If you want a better explanation I would suggest Overly Sarcastic Productions' video on Persephone and Hades but to summarise it, Demeter and Persephone might have been two spooky eldritch goddesses before Greek speaking immigrants moved to the region and Poseidon fathered Persephone who was a horse while both he and Demeter were horses.

Demeter, as said multiple times now, is the mother of Persephone. Persephone whose name means 'bringer of destruction'. Persephone whose name was never said aloud as the greeks feared her wrath just as, if not more, than her husband's, whose name was also never spoken aloud. (I'm going to go off topic for a second here but Hades may not even be called Hades, and that might be the name of the underworld, showing just how feared he was if they were scared to even speak his name, scared of summoning his presence and causing death within the household. If that is how feared Hades was, imagine how feared Persephone must have been.) Persephone who killed a nymph (Minthe) because she said Hades was her lover and that she was better than Persephone, turned her into a plant (mint) and uses that flower as her own symbol. If Demeter can birth this well-feared goddess, then who is to say she couldn't birth an anarchist with a thirst for blood.

All in all, Demeter is, in my eyes, the best fit for the godly parent of Technoblade. She is loyal, vengeful, a goddess of harvest and has no mercy for those who have wronged her, as well as possibly having been a goddess of the underworld at some point and being the mother of one of the most feared gods during the era of Ancient Greece. If you think I'm wrong, about the myths or who his godly parent would be, please do disagree with me and tell me why I'm wrong, I would love to know why and what your opinions are! (/sincere)

It was either a fic or the clock app that established that Wayne enterprises pays people to return them

Do you think after a battle when Bruce has to collect all the Batarangs he threw he feels embarrassed like how you feel chasing after a ping pong ball?

Mmmmm i love line weight I think i might change their names tho

☮ Holmes ! Love your headcanons ^^

☮ - friendship headcanon

Holmes isn't exactly a social creature. That's what any respectable gentleman who knows him would say. No-one would blame them for coming to this conclusion: after all he always turns down wedding and dinner invitations by grateful clients, he's utterly uninterested in gossip unless there happens to be a murder involved, and avoids clubs like the plague.

All of this is perfectly correct: they simply missed the fact that he would much rather spend his time hanging out at a soup kitchen, discussing the different roots and shortcuts around the city with cabbies, and teaching the Irregulars how to win any game of écarté than be anywhere near rich people for a period of time longer than one hour.

"Put a symbol (or several) and a character/characters in my ask box, and I’ll give you a headcanon"

I don't really care for Sealand except as a source of jealousy for America. He sees this "child" that looks so much like himself at that age and how England dotes on him and is so frustrated by his own feelings. He's frustrated how jealous he is and how badly he wants to be held in England's arms again, frustrated that he wants to be loved that way again (even if he has England's love romantically) after all he did to be on his own exactly so he wouldn't be coddled anymore. He isn't unkind to Sealand but I like to think he's a bit quieter and more reserved when the principality is around, particularly with England because he feels he needs to be more 'adult' to make up for his childish feelings of jealousy. At any other time he's clingy as a barnacle but when England has his attention focused on Sealand, America grits his teeth because it reminds him of being that beloved child that constantly saw the world over England's shoulder and he hates it as much as he wants it again. He hates that he only wants it again because now someone else has it.

I posted this on an aroace subreddit and what I loved is that everyone seemed to have their own interpretation of what it meant and how it applied to them.

AU where Jason gets his revenge by becoming a lawyer and getting joker sentenced to the death penalty

Bruce is conflicted about it but any time he tries to say anything on the subject Alfred just talks over him like “oh we’re so proud of you master Jason you finished college and you didn’t even use your father’s extensive resources that could’ve easily gotten someone in this family a degree aren’t we so proud master Bruce that Jason got himself a respectable profession–”

We’re half way thereee~ WOooAah living on a PRAYERR!

5 hours and 45 minutes, estimated time of completion 10 hours 22 minutes (hopefully I still gotta do the others in SBI) ;-;

"why is Bruce trying to be Nightwing, they should have let Tim or Jason do it" why does ANYONE else have to be Nightwing. Can't Dick have one thing that's just his