I Made A Bird :D

Jason, being a semi-canonic common hallucination in the family after his death, could lead to the stupidest AU ever.

Imagine everyone seeing him — Bruce, half of the time, Dick non-stop, Tim more often than not, and eventually even Alfred starts seeing little boy's silhouette in the corner of his eye, but he never admits it, because someone needs to stay sane in this family.

It is a lot like real-life cases when cult families start to see collective hallucination, and it somehow syncronises in their minds, so they hear and see the same things, you know?

So, yeah, everyone sees Jaybin around.

Everyone but Damian. Damian is a normal one. He also knows his Akhi is alive and well, so whatever. And it takes him some time to figure out that his family is bat-shit insane, but when he does, he decides to use it on his advantage.

Damian, calling Jason: Akhi, you should visit me. It is getting awfully boring here.

Jason, frowning: You know I can't. They think I am dead, and I can't risk my plan, especially now, when Red Hood is gaining-

Damian: We will pretend you are a hallucination.

Jason: ...What?

Damian: So, there is a plan...

So, a few days after this call, Jason arrives at the Wayne Manor. He still thinks his brother's plan sucks, but gaslighting is one of his many talents, so surely, they will figure something out. He can lie his way through this meeting.

Expect, he doesn't even need to lie. His family is actually insane.

Bruce, bumping in Jason:

Jason, staring back: Uh-

Bruce: Wow. You look so grown-up. And we look so alike. Nice one, brain.

Jason: ?..

Tim, leaving his room: Hi, B, hi- Oh, damn. Hi, Jaybin. Nice leather jacket.

Bruce: Right? I guess his ghost just grows up with us now.

Jason: ????

Alfred, nodding along, out of nowhere: Master Dick will hate it. He looks taller now.

All of them: (peacefully leave the room)

Jason: What. The. Fuck.

Jason waits for the moment of clarity to happen as he chats with Damian in the kitchen, but... nothing changes. They really, really think he is a hallucination. So... he starts hanging out around more. Both because Damian is getting angsty, and because it is kinda... amusing.

Tim, stuck on the same case for a few nights, non-stop: Oh, it is really just me and you in this, Jason.

Jason, playing Mario Cart on the table by his side: Maybe take a nap, dude.

Tim: No, I need to figure out this case with-

Jason, rolling his eyes: Red Hood had already dealt with it. Go to sleep.

Tim: ...You are such a good self-care kind of hallucination.

Jason: ...

Damian: Your bets, when will they realise that you are a real person?

Jason: At this point, I am not sure that they will, even if I start screaming that I am real.

Damian: Fair. I bet a year would do.

Jason: ...A year and a half.

Dick visits the Manor. He cooes at Jason, muttering something about "of course, he would have grown up in a punk," and Jason almost breaks his role to hit him on the head.

Jason, arms folded on his chest: You know, you need serious help, dad.

Bruce, blinking at him slowly: Probably. You know what else I need?

Jason: Sleep? Retirement? To stop adopting strays? The list is endless, man.

Bruce: ...Coffee. I need more coffee.

Jason, groaning: What the fuck!!!

Alfred figures out that Jason is real, eventually. Solely because he catches him sneaking a few extra cookies, and hallucinations are not supposed to eat. He plays along with him and Damian until the very end, anyway.

(Damian ends up winning the bet because Jason loses it once and pushes Bruce down the stairs, when he starts reciting some precautionary tale about him. Everyone is flabbergasted.)

IM GOING TO BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOREVER OH MY GOD

But on a similar note, I’ve always felt like tell her I love her is just such a beautifully poetic song, like sure, there’s the funny moments in it too, but at its core it’s what stirs Hope and the rebels into a full revolution. It’s Bobby’s last dying words to the people he tried so desperately to lead, to SAVE. One line that has always stood out to me specifically was “I’ve lost my sense of sight/and yet I see them” because AUGH isn’t that just so beautiful???? He’s ACTIVELY dying, his senses are failing him one by one but the people he cares so much about are the last thing he sees, and he still has so much hope for these people he JUST had to convince out of killing his girlfriend but he truly believes they can still do it and it just KILLS ME EVERY TIME.

That song has SO MUCH to it, and so do SO MANY OF THE OTHERS, and I just feel like they get looked over so often as “oh funny haha” which yea, but also!!! You can tell there was just so much thought put into this show when you get into it and istg at some point I wanna do a deep dive into the whole script because I feel like there’s a lot that gets missed

i don’t know of a urinetown community on tumblr, but there’s something i noticed on first listen that i can only pray reaches its target audience.

in act one, you get “follow your heart,” (the most gorgeous song in that show, but that’s another post) and every chorus in it ends with “if only you follow your heart.” in act two, during “tell her i love her,” little sally relays bobby’s last words as “if only…”, saying he expired before he could finish his sentence.

you follow your heart. bobby strong was trying to say “there still is hope, i see it in this land / if only you follow your heart.” ouch. i never saw the point in spending too much time on this detail until i was in the show, and i realized nobody else had noticed it.

urinetown is… dumb. yeah, it makes an enormous point about corporate greed and climate change, but it’s a music about peepee. there’s a REASON nobody reads into this nonsense— it isn’t super necessary to putting on a good production. there’s also the fact that so many urinetown lyrics (probably intentionally) are just there to make performers and consumers alike hear them and make a face. i’m completely here for it, don’t get me wrong, but is this one of those hidden nuggets of meaning?

do i need to go outside?

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I only started my blog recently but anyone who follows me and is a fucking pedo can go ahead and leave now. You aren't welcome here.

If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again

Yeah I’ll incorporate this into my belief system

dick grayson started saying shit like "teamwork makes the dream work!" and "hydrate before you die-drate!" specifically to annoy his new baby brother on patrol after jason showed up but it became so second nature that he started doing it with the league and the titans and now it's hhis brand whether he likes it or not

bruce has no sympathy. this is karma for the batmobile.

I don't feel like Josephine gets enough love in this fandom, i love her so much what a supportive mom <3

AUGH MY HEARTTTTT

tell her I love her

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CLOSING NIGHT HAPPENED AND WE PISSED SO HARD FOLKS!!! WE ATEEEEEEE!!!!!!!