duke and jason as dumb stock images! these were really fun to draw so i'll probably do the other robins

there's something about nickname drift that always gets me, so it starts like this:

steph call duke a pineapple one time, duke retaliates by calling her aubergine, then he calls her eggplant, then finally just "egg", steph calls him "pine" and eventually just starts calling him different tree varieties

this culminates with duke calling on the comms "this is tree boy paging egg" (babs, who hasn't run day shift comms for a fat second has to be like uhhh come again) this is their little inside joke when its just them and eventually when they run into each other at GothU

This was so fun to do!!! I usually draw the same 3 characters so this really helped me get out of my comfort zone. Also Rose has such a cute design, I really should draw her more sjdndfhh

Eye reference for some of the batfam

god damnit im gonna have to get more funko pops. look at them

how i hc duke's relationships with the other (main) bats

bruce: mentor/friend/weird HS teacher u bond with kinda thing, i think bruce on his end still feels simmering guilt for not being there for duke when he needed him, duke feel simmering resentment towards bruce for being another adult that left him, this will boil over at some point but then they'll get over it, they will never be that dumb nuclear found family thing, i think doug and elaine would like bruce tho so maybe one of those friend of the family situations where u call someone ur not related to aunt/uncle

cass: very very good friends, would probably consider her a sister from another mister if u will, i would hesitate to call her a best friend *gestures at all of war* but i think she's up there, i really love the headcanon that there is some tension on duke's end because cass has the ability to be more efficient but she actively chooses not to, i think for a long time duke is going to be holding some unhealthy and unrealistic standards both for himself and also people around him, like everything else this causes tension then erupts before it gets resolved, cass i think would know about said tension the whole time but have no idea how to bring up the issue or how to even think about resolving it so it drags on

Real subtle y’all

[ID: tumblr user @melancholiaenthroned’s reply “shape of his cape is based on this too! u can see in the refs at the back of tpb of batman and the signal”

WHAT????

W H A T ?????????????

Real subtle y’all

The Signal as a cat!1! He has kitty ears so therefore: cat. :3

The fact that I’ve never seen anyone draw Duke Thomas as a cute baby upsets me greatly

it was fun to draw this

(other color version below)

Headcanon that Duke Thomas has a diary, but instead of it being regular journal entries it is a poem he writes about each day.

duke thomas fans are there any fanworks or posts out there that explore Signal's relationship with average gothamites more and just generally talk about him interacting with civilians ?? that's one of my fav things when it comes to vigilante/hero stories but I want more than what the comics give, am I just not looking hard enough???

A proposition.