Weird Potential Cryptid Au Thing?

Weird potential cryptid au thing?

I've had this idea for a while now, I don't know if you can really call it a "cryptid au" but I didn't know what other name to give it.

So imagine a universe where certain humans or animals can enter into connections with an element (example Bruce with Gotham) to become a kind of creature that represents it. To give you an idea, imagine if by devoting his life to Gotham Bruce BECOMES Gotham. Like he loses a little of his humanity and Batman literally becomes a mystical creature with strange powers that people talk about like an urban legend. And if we follow this path, imagine that the Robins, the Batgirls and other sidekicks become the same by joining the Batfamily? Which now leads me to my basic idea:

Ra's could not stop, for years he bathed in the Lazarus Pits with the hope of entering into connection with them, but never succeeded. It drove him crazy. Then Ra's had a daughter, a daughter he thought worthy of the one thing he was not capable of, but a daughter who also failed, rejected by the healing waters of their family. This girl also had a child, a glimmer of hope, the son of an assassin and a being who managed to link himself to what was dear to him, but a son who attached himself to something different. And when all was lost, when Ra's sank into madness, Talia did not accept: she took a courageous soldier, a soldier who died for nothing, a soldier who would have a chance, a soldier who was welcomed with open arms.

Red Hood, incarnation of the Lazarus Pit was born.

(Anybody wants more of this?)

Smoking

The denial

I always hated the fact that we never saw (at least not to my knowledge) Dick's reaction to Jason being alive and Red Hood. But I always found hilarious the idea that he was in complete denial because his little brother who was only 4'6 the last time he saw him is now an absolute tank of a man at the height of 6'4 ( headcanon) and is at least two heads taller than him.

I imagine the scene going like this:

Dick: Is everything okay? What's the emergency?

Bruce: Ah there you are, I have an... important announcement to make...

Dick panicking slightly: What is it?

Bruce: Well...

Jason who comes out of the shadows still in his Red Hood suit but without the hood on: Sup Dickhead...

Dick with his eyes wide open and looking at Jason up and down: ...

Jason: Look I know I have a lot of explaining to do but-

Dick: No.

Jason: What?

Dick: You're not Jason.

Bruce: I know it's probably upsetting but I assure you Dick, I've done some testing and it's the real Jason.

Dick: No. No he's not my LITTLE brother.

Jason: Wait... You're not denying my existence and my life because I'm bigger than you now are you?

Dick: I refuse! Never!

Bruce: You can't be serious Dick.

Dick: Never! He's my little brother and he has no right to be bigger than me!

Jason: Dick I'm even bigger than Bruce.

Bruce: No you're not.

Bruce looks at Jason and realizes that he is in fact taller than him: Who are you and what did you do to my adorable little sunshine boy?

Jason: SERIOUSLY!?

A few weeks after Ayla's arrival at the mansion, the batkids quickly noticed her resemblance to a Viking warrior. Whether it was her impressive muscles, her Mohawk braid or the Viking symbol tattoo on her arm, everything could make you think that she is a Valhalla warrior. So they secretly started calling her Valkyrie until Jason started openly calling her that. This nickname has stuck ever since.

Duke already asked her why she wore her hair like that, she simply replied that she found it badass.

BONUS!

Ayla's size has never been defined, which makes her difficult to draw next to other members of the batfamily.

Old art redraw!

Hey guys, I've been having a bit of a hard time drawing latelly because I felt like I wasn't making any progress in my art so I decided to redraw some old drawings of very old OCs to boost me up!

These are the four options I have:

Old vs New

Here's a redraw of an old drawing I did back in 2020!

Then:

Vs now: