Batfamily Headcanon: Air Fresheners.

Batfamily headcanon: Air fresheners.

Okay, so for anyone who has ever encountered a belfry of real live bats you will know, bless their lil hearts, but they reek - like we need to get out of here asap because it smells like the room has been drowned in ammonia bad... 

So, batcave. Bats. 

If you try to tell me Alfred Pennyworth and Bruce Wayne with their extensive cleaning routines/ wealthy lifestyles/ just bruce in general tbh, don’t have buckets of upper class febreeze you are lying and I will not stand for it.

They all have favourite scents as well. And I bet each batkid picks a new air freshener for the batmobile as Dick makes it sound like a robin tradition. 

Dick I personally think would go for the giant jelly bean air freshener or sugary cotton candy like scents. They remind him of the circus and have bittersweet but happy memories. So much of robin for him at the start was for his family so this would another way of keeping them around. The cave always smells like sweets or strawberry soap when he’s around. It also is nostalgia without really setting him off, you know he needs quiet time or is seriously contemplating something when he starts to light scents like grass and the outdoors and the sea. When he wants to mess with Bruce he hides all these jelly beans in different places like vases or in batman’s utility belt, or just uses them as paperweights for case files. Bruce is presenting to the justice league and is trying to get one up on Clark and Hal and just pulls out a giant strawberry jelly bean. 

Jason would like more cloying incense smells or old books. It’s a combination of his old life and his new and brings home comforts together and with stronger smells he’s also present and lets other people know he was there as well. He’d use them as occasional bookmarks until the smell completely ran out before getting a new one and even then he’d hold on to old favourites. Maybe Dick hides one for him in the robin outfit after a few months of being at the manor and then after that it’s free reign. After his return all his safehouses have faint traces. After a while, everyone in contact with Roy starts to notice he also smells like incense. 

Tim would be more tentative starting out his air freshener collection. I think he would like smells like cedar or woods or citrus, smells that remind him of forests and being outside and feeling free. I think he’d like the cool ones shaped like trees as well. It takes a while for him to feel comfortable leaving them around for Bruce to find. Maybe Dick and Tim find a collapsed stall on patrol selling some and Dick inducts Tim into the tradition. The day he’s adopted by Bruce he leaves that same one Dick gave him finally on the rearview mirror. (...+Kon smells like cedar not that that as anything to do with it...)

Dami I think other people would assume he likes all the really spicy scents and I think he’d like the cinnamon smells. But he really secretly likes the delicate scents that are more gentle and make him feel safe. Scents like chamomile and jasmine and oranges. In his own space now he can finally explore what it’s like to be a child and have a family unit and some of the spicier smells he may like but more for the nostalgia for his mother. Damian needs to be needed and really he just wants people to love and be loved by and I think him displaying more subtle delicate smells is his non-verbal way of being more vulnerable. When dick was his batman he put a jasmine scented one on the batmobile after a difficult patrol and realised he had a home here with him. 

Steph goes for purple when she can. but rather than being drawn to sickly or artificial scents (she and Dick frequently squabble over acceptable “sweet” smells) she likes dark berry scents and blackcurrants and smoky tones that smell like campfires. She doesn’t have as much time to make her place as robin but after she’s gone Bruce always keeps a purple berry freshener in a drawer by his desk. When she’s back she always leaves blackcurrent or blackberry throat soothers in Tim’s pockets or wears berry scented lip balm. 

Cass would like the soft ones. Similar to damian but she likes scents like cotton or blankets or baby shampoo. They’re warming and soft and not jarring for her when she’s overwhelmed. On her more energetic days she likes mango smells and some fruits but also loves them for the bright colour and yellow. (purple and yellow being complementary colours has absolutely nothing to do with this at all...) She likes leaving some of them in her really rogue hiding places and hoards them in small batches. 

Babs doesn’t like too thick scents often as I think she’d get headaches. But she’s also such a sap she has candles and fresheners she lights to remind her of others. She always has a jelly baby scented candle she lights when she’s missing dick. He sees it once accidentally and is an emotional but adorable mess. Cass and Steph get her mango and blueberry candles respectively as thanks for being their mentor and as a batgirl ritual of their own. One day babs wakes up and a small black candle is waiting on her windowsill. 

They like to find sterotypically english scents sometimes for Alfred for fun like Earl Grey tea scents or fresh rain and he always stops whatever one he’s currently using and uses that one instead. He always knows whose been in the manor depending on the scent and bakes their favourite cookie in response. 

Bruce keeps them all pressed in a book or in a box and none of them know because he’s a fucking closet sap. 

@captaincarol-s thanks for helping me with this xx 

My idea of fun is- not- conventional-

(Also they were super cute when they were small, just look at Wally!)

oh my lord

dami is like the hannah montana i’m the best sparkly kid goes to country and meets bathorse and lives his best farm life i’m here for it 

i know none of you can agree on anything but you must agree with me here, because i demand it. i want damian wayne to be the classic horse girl who unironically watches horse girl movies and reads the black stallion 17 times. i do not simply ask, you understand, i demand

Oh Tim

Do you realize that Tim forgot his Robin suit?

— Nightwing vol 2 #142

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Batman and Robin Eternal 13 2016-02 >> Sculptor innocent, desperate, contentment

Batman and Robin Eternal 13 2016-02 >> Batman Detective Comics 950 2017-04 >> Batman supportive, reassuring, protective

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Steph being the broke college student/secret-not-so-secret vigilante/online superstar she is always manages to find the complete goldmines 

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