Ooooh I Like That

Ooooh I like that

Bruce froze when his parents died, but Flashpoint Thomas and Martha were a flurry of motion.

Martha cradling and soothing her son into death while Thomas frantically tries to fix this. He's a doctor. He knows what's coming, has seen it hundreds of times in his clinic and desperately tries to fix this and he fails.

Character design ideas for Duke Thomas because I love him (again, some of this might be canon, source memory skill issue)

-his shadow lags. Just a little. Don't think about it too much.

-braids/natural hair

-one gold tooth. The story of how it happened keeps changing to make him look more and more badass but actually it was a case of too much candy and lousy teeth brushing when he was a kid.

-you know that thing when after staring at the sun you look away you got a black dot in the center of your vision? Well, that. Look at him for too long and your eyes might get stuck on the afterimage.

-he's one of these people who naturally run a little warmer than others. His base temperature is 38°C, and 36.7°C means hypothermia for him.

-he throws his head out backwards when he laughs.

-Duke can see way more colours than your usual human. I'm talking shrimp colours. He's not really aware of the fact.

-a lot of shirts with pop-culture characters on them, merch from his favourite band ($&#?!! Batman), and of course his All Colours Are Beautiful shirt.

-before beating someone's ass, he'll bump his fist against his palm to hype himself up. One time, he forgot he had borrowed one of Dick's rings for a prank, and that's why there's a little dot-shaped scar in the middle of his palm.

-one of his leg is longer than the other, just a little. It's not enough to stun his growth or fighting abilities or anything, but he always has to readjust the hem of the leg of his jeans a little bit.

-he has a simple little necklace he wears under his clothes and in the suit, with two beads with his parents' initials and one with an "r" for the We Are Robin kids. Sometimes, he'll roll the beads between his fingers when he's nervous or thinking.

-when Duke is standing next to you, you might see kaleidoscopic shapes in the corner of your eye. They're beautiful, but most can never see them clearly.

-he can look directly into the sun even during an eclipse. His eyes will never burn.

Holy shit I would wear that shirt so bad

I'm not a nice person, I'm putting this on a shirt.

@hainingart

Steal my style! It's really easy:

> character driven to the point I'm no longer in charge of the plot, these people just do what they want and don't pay their taxes.

> long sentences with lots of 3 verbs rythms. All the three verbs rythm. Life is a dissertation and by god am I getting an A.

> where are we at in terms of plot and dramatic tension? Easy, just check out the weather. I just realised it's in all my stories, all the time. I'm writing glorified weather forecasts at this point.

>Imagine characters speaking in themost dramatic way possible. You got it? Good, now double it, here's your dialogue.

> Married to the comma, cheating on her with the em-dash, sexting with the parenthesis. Sometimes if we're lucky I remember periods exist.

> Colours, comparisons and metaphors, all the time. If I can't create an efficient image of the scene in your mind (and you don't have aphantasia) then I have failed as a writer. My dream is to write stories that imprint themselves into the reader's eyelids after they close their eyes.

> A small but statistically significant amount of monkey references.

> angst. This one isn't specific at all but it's a core component always.

> complicated relationships with love that can be twisted and damage and codependency and projecting issues on eachother and such a mess but it's still good. It's still there and it matters and it's good.

> gore/corpse imagery.

> literature/movie references. That's why I love writing Jason, he lets me get away with being as obnoxious with them as possible. It's so much fun!

Do you ever think about the fact you very much have a particular writing quirk/style/habit that even if you were to post anonymously someone could very easily tell It's your work?

I wonder what mine is. I could guess probably

The urge to straight up write a potion book and hire someone to do the illustrations

No offense but I think some of you would be a lot happier writing a fictional atlas or encyclopedia instead of a narrative story