having to ask people if you’re still hanging out is one of the worst things ever . like is our playdate still on? im gonna stab myself
yknow what. i think that gotham has a celebration day for their protectors. it's nothing something so overt as a holiday - that's a guaranteed way to prompt a villain attack, and they're technically still not legally sanctioned. it's a quieter thing, and there are different ones.
there's one catch-all day - the summer solstice, where there are banners in windows expressing thanks and pastry baskets left on roof-tops with cards upon cards inside, diners & restaurants with take-out "on the house" with an insignia in their window. it's a night of celebration. those are for all of the vigilantes, all of them - but it was originally for batman. it's just... grown, since; now it's the designated day for batman & robin (whichever robin it happens to be); the original dynamic duo.
there are also the separate ones, typically in certain neighborhoods those vigilantes frequent a lot.
nightwing's night happens in the diamond district, because that's where the lights shimmer and his gymnastics is the most apparent; that's where everyone leaves their cards and their home-made merch. on patrol he'll wear a hand-made necklace with an enamel nightwing pin.
near gotham academy & gotham university is where they celebrate red robin, often near the beginning of fall, with people leaving out posters and pens and newspaper headlines with gratitude written all across them.
the neighborhood near the clocktower, nearing the business district, is where blackbat and batgirl, and batwoman, are celebrated; typically on a warm summer's night in july. batgirl is more likely to interact with people on that night, and they leave out pastries galore and typically sit around a big bonfire. sometimes blackbat comes, too, though it's rare. batwoman always sends her regards in the form of small gifts for batgirl to give out to the kids who come to see her, just to see she's real.
crime alley... now, crime alley has two separate people to celebrate. the first is the red hood, who is treated as a protector more than any crime lord could; they celebrate him on the winter solstice, with graffiti with his insignia, notes in windows and the quiet excitement of a neighborhood so used to fear that they don't quite know how to be happy again.
the second one is a mournful one. the second one is at roughly at the end of April every year, where candles are lit in windows and the whole of crime alley is dark and quiet; there are robin symbols and doves in every window and alley, messages to the dead written in spraypaint on every wall. the end of April is when they mourn the disappearance - and death- of the second robin, of crime alley's robin. no one knows what happened to him, really, but they still mourn.
gotham celebrates her own, after all. she has to mourn them too.
Obsessed with going "No... i shan't say..." when it's very clear what I shan't say
my hobbies? uhh.. peeling back the layers…. uncovering metaphors.. mirroring…..connecting dots…..stuff like that
being aware that your behavior is shaped by childhood experiences is so cringe every time i notice it im like ooo look at her can't even get over what someone told him when she was 7. grow up
i’m just like sisyphus except instead of rolling a boulder uphill i have to wash my hair
fuck i completely forgot i need to curl up on my couch and scroll my phone for six hours. can we reschedule
