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dcxdpdabbles · 4 months

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Congratulations! It's Triplets. Part 3

@unadulteratedsoulsweets said: In Congratulations! It's triplets! As much the entire thing is so wholesome I wanna see some bit of angst. Imagine dis the entire family is out in public.Includes the Batfam, Jazz and the triplets for a huge family bonding activity. Some random person( a karen) commented on how Jazz is a teen mother, an irresponsible person, a whore... Etc (you know the usual comments of being a mother too young) and the Batfam reaches the conclusion that the Pit Rage transfers onto the kids as two of the triplets have already green glowing eyes with rage filling it by the second and ready to tackle/punch the person who made the comment but the last of the triplets have their other "siblings" by their collar but despite holding the two back they too have their eyes switching from blue to eery toxic green and was one second to join them to murder whomever bad mouthed Jazz

It's not that Jason didn't think that the Pit would only have repercussions in his life. He just always assumed it would only be his life.

He never considered the possibility that it would affect his offspring in any way. (Besides having a father that was completely mad in Pit Rage)

Maybe it was a pipe dream to think that or maybe it was just having hope that his messed up second life had already been hard enough so the universe was going to give him a break on this one.

The three small children currently growling at a reporter, eyes flashing in and out of green, told him that wasn't the case.

It had started off as a fun little day out. Jazz and the kids mainly kept to themselves in Wayne Manor. Bruce had housed them in the west Annex, a place usually only used when guests of high importance would stay in the Manor's history.

It came complete with its own kitchen, bathroom, sitting room, seven bedrooms, and three bathrooms. It even had its own entrance that usually stayed out of sight of the main gate- a compelling feature for Jazz, who didn't want her kids in the limelight until everything legal was settled.

The distance between the two buildings was one acre, giving the family of four the privacy they needed and keeping them close for Jason to get to know.

As far as Jason knew, Jazz had not revealed the father of her children to anyone.

As far as the world knew, Jazz had recently moved to temporary housing until her insurance could help her rebuild her house or, if she was at a total loss, find new housing.

Thankfully, no one thought it strange as they weren't the only ones displaced. Poison Ivy's latest Save the Earth stunt targeted overpopulated neighborhoods guilty of destroying the land to build upon (in her own words).

She returned the favor and broke down the buildings to give back to the Green. Never mind the people inside the buildings or the livelihoods she destroyed in progress.

Ivy had gone through five streets before the Bats stopped her and returned her to Arkham Asylum.

It's been a week since the incident. Jason hasn't seen much of his kids, not for the lack of trying, but it was hard to fit their schedules. The three were in school most of the day, and when they got out, Jason usually had to run to prepare his "nightly" job.

He couldn't just slack off- doing so would mean those scum bags that didn't directly work for Red Hood would think that they could get away with breaking his rules.

He had slowly been dividing his responsibilities among his men- drug dealing, weapon dealing, illegal car races, prostitution, and protecting kids and street workers- so that he could have one night off without worrying.

That didn't mean he didn't see his kids at all. Jason usually had two hours a day with them, where he tried his best to connect to his kids, but the triplets seemed weary of him.

He could tell they didn't feel comfortable with him invading their space, so he tried to stay outside the annex. As someone who worked a lot with street kids, he knew never to break the sense of safety their hiding holes were to them.

Instead, he decided to meet his children in the open space between the Annex and the Manor.

The four-five with Jazz casually reading on the Annex floating balcony. Jason pretended not to notice she was doing so to keep an eye on her kids- would sit down at the garden table to have an after-school snack, enjoying the multiple rose bushes nearly as tall as him that Alfred cared for.

It was always one of Jason's favorite Wayne gardens because it often made him think of magical castles with giant mazes and lovely scattered flowers.

He noticed that his eldest- Dan- might have felt the same, given how the boy would sometimes spread his arms and run through the rose bushes pathways. He even picks up sticks and plays knights against invisible enemies.

(Jason pretended he was a knight in these gardens when Bruce first took him in.)

Danny, his second, seems more interested in lying underneath the rose bushes and reading about the stars. If Gotham had clearer skies, he think his boy would be a cat napping in the sunlight and sitting around at night to glance at the starlights.

His daughter seemed even more adventurous than her brothers. She often would test Jazz's patience because she wandered away from the Annex garden to explore the others. Jason had seen her climb statues and trees to get a better viewpoint, marking whatever she saw on a little map.

He got a look at her map and felt his heart swell at the childish little drawings- Damian's painting corner in the east Garden was now "Artist Alley", the south garden had a dragon fountain so Dani had decided it was "Dragon Keep" and she had found the north floating balcony where Bruce liked to go practice his not so secret love of singing.

Dani had marked her map as "Siren's Side" with a cute little drawing of Bruce singing.

The more he learned about his three kids, the more Jason loved them.

Jazz wasn't kidding when she said she didn't mind him in their lives- she was just worried that he would try to take them, and with his money and connections, she wouldn't be able to stop him. Her worry bled into the three children, and with intelligent eyes that belied their five years of age, they would watch him with guarded caution.

The moment they would finish their snack, the three would make excuses to run off and do their own thing. Jazz would continue reading, but Jason wouldn't be a Bat if he didn't see the way she relaxed whenever the kids left the table.

It was rough....to want to be accepted by them but also understanding why a random man wanting a family connection would be difficult to establish.

That's why Jazz's suggestion that they all visit the zoo had been such a shock. She gave Jason a strained smile, but her eyes were soft. For a moment, Jason felt his heart skip a beat. "It would be nice for the kids to see the zoo with their...dad."

The five had headed to the zoo- with Bruce and the rest following behind in disguises because they are all nosy assholes. He had gotten so used to the clicking of Tim's camera- as his brother was over-excited to capture his nephews' and niece's first zoo outing- that he hadn't realized a second camera was following them.

They had just finished watching the penguins swim when Danny tugged on the leg of his pants. "Mr. Dad, sir. Can I tell you something?"

Jason's heart jumped. Is Danny starting to like him? Sure, he put Mr and Sir, but he called him Dad! Grining widely he kneed down to get to his level.

"What up, bud?"

Danny leaned in to whisper in his ear. "There is a man taking pictures of me in the bushes."

Usually, Jason would have told him something like, "Tim is weird, but he's harmless." However, he knew for a fact Tim was on the roof of the Penguin exhibit and that meant some random man was taking pictures of his kid.

Green bleeds into his vision slowly, and Danny jerks back, surprised by the sight. "Go with your mother-"

"Pervert in the bushes!" Dan's voice cuts Jason off. They both turn to the little five-year-old throwing stones into the surrounding bushes and a man stumbling out of them with a shout. "Pervert in the bushes"

Danny facepalms, which is not the reaction his son should have. How in the world did Dan even know the word pervert?

"Dan! What on earth are you doing!?" Jazz screams alarmed. She raced back, a tray with four ice cream cones in her hands, and Dani, not far behind, also carrying her own cone. The girls had gone to get some frozen treats for everyone not too long ago.

The man turns to her with a very familiar predatory glint in his eye. Shit, Jason knows who he is. He is a paparazzi and one of his kids called him dad in front of the stranger.

The man takes Jazz's picture, momentarily blinding her with the flash, before firing questions and taking more pictures of her reaction to each one, "Miss, are you the baby momma of Bruce Wayne? Or one of his many kids? How did it feel to be a mother so young? Were your intentions to get pregnant to have access to the Wayne Will? How much money did the Wyanes pay you for a night?"

What?

Jazz's eyes go wide, her face drained of blood, and she looks frozen in fear. "I don't-why would- I'm not!"

"Not a whore or not a gold digger?"

"Neither!" Her voice wabbles like she's about to break into tears.

Jason sees green. He is about to beat the disgusting pig to the ground but his children are faster. Dani races forward, little arm pulled back and throws her whole body into a jab at the paparazzi's manhood.

The man drops his camera in a wheeze. Dan smashes it with another stone, hitting the lens five times just to make sure it is broken and starts to advance at the man.

Dani is currently yelling at the top of her lungs, swearing, and punching the man with her belt buckle wrapped around her knuckles. It's satisfying to watch- his kids beating down a full-grown man with no training, just vicious righteousness to protect their mother.

That is, until Danny- the apparently more level-headed triplet pulls them both off by the back collar of their shirts. Jason sees it for the first time.

The kids eyes are glowing green.

Horror creeps into every part of his mind, and he doesn't even realize the creep is screaming about suing them or Tim and Bruce's fantastic entry to get a handle on the situation.

He is distantly aware of Steph and Cass, helping a silently crying Jazz walk away, and that Dick, Damian, Duke, and Harper form a protective circle around the kids, but it's Cullen that realizes Jason is frozen.

"Jason? Are you alright?"

No, he is not alright.

Pit's madness ruined his life. It left blanks in his memory. Left him lashing out and killing quickly. It makes him attack Tim and others. It made the child Jason used to be, feel sick and revolted.

It made it hard to look in the mirror and not be disgusted. It was everything that was wrong with him since the Joker took all his innocence away with his blasted crowbar.

Pit Madness is a curse that he has to live with sometimes where he claws at his own skin in a pathetic attempt to get away from it. But he could never escape its taunting whispers, its controlling green, or its presence sitting somewhere behind his eyes that turned him into a monster.

A curse he gave to his children.

He truly is Wills Tod's son, isn't he?

#dcxdpdabbles #dc x dp crossover #Warning: bits of self-hate #Paparazzi are scum #Jason trying to connect to the kids #The kids: You shall not succeed #Jazz thinks Jason is sweet #In a strange turn of events it's Danny the voice of reason among the triplets #Congratulations! It's Triplets #part 3 #angst???

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ohpollenpowder · 4 months

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These are all the new faces that were made during 2023 and have made it to the end of the year! I've put their names, race, and profession in the description box but I'll also attach it below with a bit about them!

Row 1 (left to right)—Shiori Konu is a Human Necromancer who is the youngest of the Konu siblings, and the one that's going to inherit their family's noble title once she's proven herself. Yunru (eldest) is a member of the Shining Blade and Ryon (middle) is the Commander, he was also formerly a Necromancer before he died and became a Revenant. Both of them are keeping the fact that Ryon died a secret from Shiori but neither of them realize that she...already knows. Since she's a Necromancer as well. Shiori also has a secret she's keeping from them—she contracted Scarlet's Rattle during the battle for Lion's Arch and is using her abilities to keep her lungs functioning while investigating a cure.

Nilo Liberti is a Human Mesmer who I'm planing on making a Mirage, and he's part of a twin-set with Nicoletta Liberti. They're both part of the Five Commander Guild, making up the Human portion of it. He's the elder of the two and the more reckless one of them. He lost his hand rather stupidly during a battle—which one I haven't decided yet—and thus he's been tempered a little in holding back from throwing himself into the wind.

Row 2 (left to right)—Tarsicia Ghostpyre is a Charr Guardian who's destined for Willbender eventually. She ends up being the Mom Friend of the Five Commanders when it's all said and done, but the road to get there is hella bumpy. Right now she's in her grump stage, still attempting to mend herself after Claw Island and ready herself for all that comes now that Zhaitan is gone.

Emrys the Sly is our Sylvari Thief who's already been dumped into Deadeye. He's the charmer of the Five Commanders, he knows he's handsome and a smooth talker to boot so he uses it to his advantage more than oft. He's formerly Nilo's lover without the romantic entanglement of it all, mostly because he and Nicoletta are plotting to get Nilo and Izar together somehow.

Oiba Pathfinder was the last of the Five Commanders to be made, she's our Asuran Ranger who will eventually find her way into Soulbeast. An unwanted secondary child, Oiba's made her own way in the world and found a new family with her guildmates. She's eventually going to be able to merge with her pets in their form via Soulbeast (as well as vice versa) but enlarged by like...3-4 times the pet's normal size. She's going to become an absolute terror on the battlefield.

Row 3 (left to right)—Elara the Seeker is a Sylvari Elementalist whom found her way to Elona right after it opened up to northern Tyria again. She had a pull there and while outwardly prickly herself, she's more than kind to her apprentice whom she's teaching/has taught to be a Weaver, aka Zivis.

I Want Uppies is a meme of an Asuran Thief, she runs about permanently miniature'd so she's no more larger than the Progeny that've been sized down in that one Metrica event. You'll become a climbing post for her to scout from if you stand still long enough. And she gets away with it too, because she's just so darn cute!!

Fiszél is another Sylvari Elementalist, this one styled after the Koi weaponset that we got this year. I haven't done much with him yet story wise, so for now he's just a pretty plant to look at.

Row 4 (left to right)—The Ever Given is another meme character, a Norn Warrior of the largest model we can do. And embiggened permanently much like Uppies' opposite. Again, not much of a story for him just yet other than he likes to lay across the track in the races just before the finish line.

Ethrreana is a Sylvari Ranger who's story is not what you expect. Move those letters of their name around and you get...Trahearne???? Yep, that very same Pact Marshal is locked inside a body that is not his own and now has to wander about the world learning a new set of skills and doing all the Commander things. Oh boy...

The Strange Voice is a Kryptis Sylvari Mesmer who has Mirage as her Elite. She's a cosplay of Peitha and thus, the character ought to be well enough known. This is what I interpret her to look like if she was trying to disguise herself as a Sylvari to wander about Tyria without attracting too many looks. But she's also permanently embiggened so...

Row 5 (left to right)—Comndarem is in a situation similar to Ethrreana, however this Sylvari Necromancer is the (once again, unscrambled:) Commander! The opposite of what happened to Ethrreana happened to Comndarem in their universe and so the former Commander has to try and become the Pact Marshal and lead the new Commander around.

Edgelady Vineflower was supposed to be Vineblossom but guess what was one character too many. Still, this Sylvari Revenant is another weaponset inspired take! So we don't have much story for her yet.

Oighrig thë Atlas is a Sylvari Necromancer who is a clone of a Sylvari of the same name/profession. Mostly because I missed the initial coloration that he had. I want to say this set of tones is pre-death for him, so pre-Zhaitan. The richer yellows/greens coming after his resurrection by Trahearne not willing to let go of him so soon.

Row 6 (left to right)—Spirït Halloween is yet another meme character, this time the Asuran Revenant-Herald was inspired by the Halloween pop-up shop that takes over the corpses of dead department stores every October. He's just...borrowing this body for the time being. No one was home anymore so it's more than fine. Right?

Nichneven of Lilac is our last one, a Sylvari Ranger who is the new Commander for Comndarem! She's the one who's taken over their previous spot, all of this information is in the post from yesterday about her for Dreamcember.

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