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The Waynes of Gotham

General

The Wayne family is the oldest, richest, and most powerful family in Gotham, who also double as their vigilante protectors: the Bat-Family. Their legacy as vigilantes began with the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne, causing their son Bruce Wayne to swear an eternal war against crime. After years of training, he became the vigilante Batman, who would terrorize Gotham's criminal element for years to come. Following in his footsteps would be his various adoptive and biological children, who would all become skilled and feared vigilantes in their own right. Even after Bruce's death, his children would carry on his work, establishing one of the most enduring superhero dynasties in the world in the process.

Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Jason's overall relationships with the entire family are much better here, because he's a time traveler who came to deeply regret his canon relationships with them. To say nothing of his children, all of whom never had any connection to him in any continuity.
    • Justified with his relationship with the Original Cass. In the comics, they barely interact with each other (Pre-Flashpoint, it's doubtful they ever met). Here, because of the time jump and the fact that they were the last two surviving children of Bruce Wayne for decades, they're much closer. It's outright stated that Cass was the most important person in Jason's life next to his children.
  • As a consequence of that, Bruce has no relationship with Carrie Kelley, his daughter Helena Wayne, and his sons Terry and Matthew McGinnis, because he died long before he could meet any of them.
  • Damian is on a First-Name Basis with everyone except Tim, and even then that was because he was unimpressed with Tim during their first meeting rather any genuine maliciousness on his part. Also, the brother Damian is closest to is Jason, due to Jason being the one to take him away from the League and teach him to act like a normal human being. It also doesn't help that Dick is still living in Bludhaven at this point in the timeline, so he isn't around much, limiting their interactions.
• Badass Family: One of the most badass families on the planet, who also double as a superhero team.
• The Beautiful Elite: So much so that they're considered royalty in Gotham.
• Berserk Button: The gun that Joe Chill used to shoot and kill Thomas and Martha Wayne is considered a family-wide taboo. It's noted that Jason, who loves guns, would never dare to even think of using that gun (at least, not against family), even at his worst. The very fact that Future Tim was willing to use it to murder Original Dick is what made Dick decide he was Beyond Redemption.
• Blue Blood: By American standards, anyway. They're the most powerful of Gotham's First Families, and the only one guaranteed to survive to the next generation. Those with Wayne blood especially count, seeing as they're descended from all five of the First Families if you trace the family tree back far enough.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family:
  • The first generation was filled with so much Dysfunction Junction that it was a miracle any of them (let alone all of them) managed to live past the age of twenty. This is lampshaded by Jason, who notes that none of them had anything close to a normal childhood, which resulted in all of them being severely messed up as adults.
  • Not that this is not portrayed as a good thing. A lot of the Bat-Family's problems, including the Rise of Joker IV and Future Tim could've been completely averted if the family hadn't been so dysfunctional to begin with. One of the reason's why Jason wants Bruce to a better father is because of that.
• Big Fancy House: Wayne Manor, which is described in loving detail by Stephanie in Chapter Twenty.
• Broken Ace: The first generation. They were the greatest vigilantes in the world, but each of them had a boatload of personal issues that screwed them over frequently and eventually led to the deaths of four of them.
• Changing of the Guard:
  • Take Up My Sword:
    • Bruce Wayne to Dick Grayson, after Bruce was murdered by the Joker.
    • Dick Grayson to Jason Todd, after Dick made a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Earth from Brainiac.
  • Passing the Torch:
    • Attempted by Jason Todd to Damian Wayne. Didn't happen because Damian was killed before he could take up the mantle.
    • Jason Todd to Terry McGinnis, after Terry passed the Batman Succession Exam. According to Word of God, the reason Jason chose to retire and hand off the mantle to Terry despite the latter's young age is because he didn't want to perpetuate the idea that all Batmen had to die in the suit to his future successors.
• Famed In-Story: A family-wide example. They're considered the "First Family" of Gotham and the pinnacle of the Gotham elite. That makes them a target for the media, especially after Jason returns home with Cass and Damian in tow.
• Family of Choice: With a few exceptions, almost all the children are brought into the family through adoption and/or raised by someone who is not their biological parent. Even so, they still quite happily regard each other as family and act as such.
• Foil:
  • While both sides are displayed sparingly, the Original first generation and the second generation. The first generation was a Big, Screwed-Up Family whose Dysfunction Junction caused just as many problems for them as the criminals of Gotham did, and eventually saw four of them dying violent, tragic deaths in the line of duty. The second generation, meanwhile, was a Quirky Household that adored each other and had minimal to non-existent resentment between them. Not only did they manage to mostly clean up Gotham, but all of the children managed to survive to adulthood and two of them have already started families of their own.
  • The reason for this seems to be rooted in their respective patriarchs, who are foils as well: Bruce, the head of the first generation, was a well-meaning, but ultimately poor parent whose emotional constipation, utter devotion to his mission, and overall instability left him unable to mediate between the various conflicts between his children and even caused him to neglect and abuse them; meanwhile, his son Jason, the head of the second generation, was by all accounts a great parent who was deeply invested in their happiness and wasn't afraid to sacrifice his own desires for them. This was actually invoked by Jason, who recognized that Bruce's bad parenting is partly why their family fell apart like it did.
• Heroic Lineage:
  • Bruce sired four biological children (willingly or not): Damian, Helena, Terry, and Matty. All four of them went on to become heroes, with Terry eventually becoming the fourth Batman.
  • Jason sired a daughter with Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, named Penelope. She too is meant to become a great hero one day. In fact, it's heavily implied her destiny is to become the third Wonder Woman, if Donna's words are anything to go by. This is later offhandedly confirmed by M'gann during her brief journey through Jason's mind, after she encounters a mental projection of a young Penelope.
• Legacy Character: A whole family of them. All of the second generation adopted different mantles of the first generation Bat-Family.
• Master-Apprentice Chain:
  • Original Timeline:
    • Bruce Wayne → Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain → Carrie Kelley, Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis, Matty McGinnis, etc.
    • Dick Grayson → Jason Todd → Carrie Kelley, Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis, Matty McGinnis, etc.
    • Richard Dragon → Jason Todd → Carrie Kelley, Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis, Matty McGinnis, etc.
  • Current Timeline:
    • Jason Todd → Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown
• Old Money: They're the richest family in Gotham and one of the richest overall in the world. Their fortune dates back to before Gotham was even built, and has only grown since then.
• Omniglot: All of them are this to one extent or another. Jason in particular learned Irish for no other reason to piss off Kyle Rayner and considered it a mark of shame that Tim only knew five before he died.
• Poor Communication Kills: Their greatest shared flaw is emotional constipation. While Bruce is obviously the worst case, all of his kids have it too to varying extents, even Dick.
• Practically Different Generations: Three members of the second generation are technically the adoptive/half-siblings of the first generation. However, the age difference is so substantial that they are officially considered to be a part of the next generation instead. This is further reinforced by how they refer to the two surviving members of the first generation (Jason and Cassandra) as their father and aunt, respectively.
• Quirky Household:
  • The second generation Wayne family. While they clearly had some issues too, they were way more well-adjusted as a family than the first generation thanks to the efforts of Jason and Cass.
  • The first generation has become this by the time of the sequel. They've worked through most of their issues and their relationships are healthy and affectionate, which is a severe contrast to their original timeline counterparts.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training:
  • Played straight and deconstructed with the first generation. They were all top-tier crime-fighters but had horrible self-care habits, forcing them to rely on Alfred. Whenever he was taken out of commission, the operation grounded to a halt and the city suffered for it.
  • Deliberately averted with the second generation. Jason made it a point to make self-care one of the focuses of his training. All of his students were forced to learn how to cook and he deliberately overloaded them with work to force them to manage their time better.
• Tangled Family Tree:
  • Mostly through surrogacy. Because Jason had to raise three of his siblings as his children, this leads to a weird case where those three siblings view their biological father as a grandfather, their various older siblings as aunts and uncles, and their much older niece as their oldest sister. Just look at the first paragraph of Jason's entry to see how badly tangled it is.
  • The tree is further entangled by the fact that the Waynes are distantly related to the other First Families. Bruce's mother was a Kane, making him more closely related to Jacob, Kate, and Bette, but he also has ancestors who were members of the other families. That means he's related to Tommy Elliot (aka Hush), Oswald Cobblepot (aka the Penguin), and the extinct Crowne family — who further entangle the tree when it's revealed that Dick is their last-remaining direct descendant. That means anyone with Wayne blood is also distantly related to them.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Or 'The Rule', as Jason calls it. To date the only members of the family to have broken it are Jason, Cass (under brainwashing), and Damian, though they all eventually re-adopted it in their later lives.
• True Companions: With the Kents of Kansas. Ever since Clark and Bruce befriended each other, the two families have remained close, training, working, and going out together on a semi-frequent basis. They're so close that the Kents are some of the few to know the Waynes are the Bat-Family. This bond reached its logical conclusion with them officially becoming one family, when Jason gave his blessing to Damian Kent to ask his daughter Helena to marry him.

The First Generation

Bruce Wayne

Bruce Thomas Wayne | Batman I

The first Batman. Patriarch of the first generation of the Wayne family, the adoptive father of Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Cassandra Cain, the biological father of Damian Wayne, Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis and Matthew McGinnis, and the adoptive grandfather of Carrie Kelley and Penelope of Themyscira.

Haunted by the deaths of his parents at age eight thanks to a mugging gone wrong, Bruce dedicated the rest of his life to fighting crime. He spent several years traveling the world and learning many skills, before returning to his hometown of Gotham and donning the mantle of its first and greatest protector, the Batman. Bruce would continue in that role for several years until he was murdered by the Joker when he was forty-four.

Tropes

• Abusive Parents: Unintentionally. The original Bruce was not an emotionally stable individual and it caused him to act cruelly to his children. When Jason meets him during his Near-Death Experience and calls him out on it, Bruce doesn't even try to defend himself and fully admits to being a terrible father.
• Action Dad: Of the first generation.
• Being Good Sucks: After The Reveal, Bruce desperately wants to give up Batman and leave the vigilante life forever. Unfortunately, with so many criminals and super villains running around, doing so would just condemn Gotham, which his morality won't allow.
• Chick Magnet: Oh, boy! So far, he had serious relationships with Talia al Ghul, Selina Kyle, Silver St. Cloud and Zatanna Zatara. And that's not counting the bevvy of women he casually seduces in his "Brucie" persona.
• Control Freak: Lampshaded. Jason states that one of the reasons why he had a rocky relationship with most of his children is because he often decided what was best for them without taking in any of their input.
• The Corruptible: He's barely managed to keep himself together over the years and he believes that if he crosses the one line he has left (killing), he'll snap and become a Knight Templar. Jason initially resented this when he was younger, but his own experiences as he grew older made him more understanding and sympathetic.
• Crazy-Prepared: He has a special protocol in case one of his family was flung into the past, be it physically or mentally.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: The reason being that he was dead. His three youngest children had to be raised by his second eldest son for that reason, something Bruce deeply regrets because it was another burden among many that he unintentionally piled on his children.
• Disappeared Dad: To his three youngest biological children. He died before he could even learn Helena had been conceived while Terry and Matty were born years after his death (illegal genetic engineering had been involved in their conception). This forced Jason, and to a lesser extent Cass, to fill in the void.
• Everyone Has Standards: Downplayed. While he's not happy Jason killed Ra's, Ra's torturing Talia, killing Jason in front of him, and, in a possible future, trying to take over Damian's body means he's a lot less peeved than he would've been and agrees to let the matter go.
• Excessive Mourning: A more subdued version than most, but Jason points out to him to that he's never really been able to move on from his parents' deaths, and it's caused him to emotionally neglect his family.
• Future Me Scares Me: Bruce is rather freaked and horrified to learn he has the potential to completely shut down on the emotional level, which made him bordeline abusive towards his children.
• Guilt Complex: He has a tendency to blame himself for things that are in no way in his fault. For example, the orphaning of his three youngest children, Helena, Terry, and Matty. Never mind that he was long dead by the time any of those events happened.
• Has a Type: Starting the whole tradition that each Batboy has their own specific taste in romantic partners is the fact that despite his Chick Magnet status, Jason wryly points out that Bruce has a weakness for women who are just a little bit on the dangerous side and and have a notable edge to them: Selina Kyle, Talia and Silver St. Cloud being the most notable ones.
• Lethal Chef: He's the kind of terrible cook you think only exists in fiction.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • Jason's death. While it takes a while for the current Bruce to forgive himself for it, it's all but stated that the original Bruce never did.
  • The original Bruce has being a shit father to his children. When Jason starts calling him out for his behavior, not only does Bruce agree with everything he says, he even starts listing all the terrible things he did to them himself.
• No Hero to His Valet:
  • To Alfred, who essentially raised him.
  • Dick as well, as he's lived with Bruce the longest and knows full well how much of an ass he can be.
  • To Jason as well. While Jason loves his father, he has long since lost any reverence he had for Bruce and isn't afraid to call him out on his bullshit.
• Not So Stoic: Jason's comeback and the later revelations that follow outright push Bruce into several emotional breakdowns.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Gotham's elite holds Brucie for a complete dumbass who will screw any woman throwing herself at him and give an interview about aglets in his pajamas.
• Parental Favoritism: It's mentioned that Dick is his favorite child. Jason, contrary to his younger self's attitude, doesn't hold this against either of them because Dick was "everyone's favorite" at least once. Considering Jason became a Sarcastic Devotee to Dick after Bruce's death, that undoubtedly includes him.
• Parents as People:
  • Bruce is an emotionally constipated asshole who often lets his drive for justice take over his life and flubs when he has to support his children. He's painfully aware of it and thinks the kids deserve a much better dad than him.
  • The original Bruce was a horrible parent to his children because, as much as he loved them and wanted to be a good father to them, he wasn't willing to become the person he needed to be to do that. He fully admits as much to Jason and apologizes to him when they finally see each other again.
• So Proud of You: The original Bruce to Jason. He states that he must have done something amazing to have had such a wonderful son like him.
• Spanner in the Works: His adoption of Dick spectacularly foiled both the Court of Owls' and Raptor's plans for the young orphaned acrobat, as it made him too public a target for abduction and brainwashing.
• Uncanny Valley Girl: Bruce switching from his usual awkward yet serious and affectionate behaviour to the vapid, sex-addicted "Brucie" completely freak out his children and acquaintances.
• Warts and All: This seems to be the opinion that his children and most of the superhero community adopted towards the Original Bruce after his death. He was a great hero, yes, but he was emotionally incompetent and quite frankly a terrible father. Even so, his children still loved him in spite of it all and he was still reasonably well-respected by their contemporaries long after he had left the world.

Dick Grayson

Richard "Dick" John Grayson-Wayne | Robin I | Nightwing I | Batman II

The first Robin, the first Nightwing and the second Batman. Eldest son of the Wayne family, the older adoptive brother to Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis and Matthew McGinnis, and the uncle to Carrie Kelley and Penelope of Themyscira.

Dick grew up as a performer in Haly's Circus as part of their acrobat routine, "The Flying Graysons", alongside his parents John and Mary Grayson. His entire world however was changed when his parents were murdered before his eyes during their usual routine while they were performing in Gotham. Also there that night was Bruce Wayne, who adopted Dick not long after. After bring the Graysons' killer to justice, Bruce trained to be his first sidekick, the first Robin.

Dick spent many years in that role before "graduating" from Robin to become the hero Nightwing, the protector of Bludhaven. After his adoptive father was murdered, Dick succeeded him as the second Batman and as head of the Wayne family until his own death five years later during Brainiac's latest invasion.

Tropes

• Aloof Big Brother:
  • His initial relationship with Jason, something he came to regret, especially after Jason died. Luckily, both Original and Current Dick managed to make amends with Jason and the two remain close no matter the timeline.
  • He inadvertently became this to Tim in the previous timeline, due to the two never talking about and fully reconciling over the events surrounding Bruce's first "death", particularly the part about Dick taking Robin from Tim and giving it to Damian. In one timeline, this eventually spiraled into Tim making a Face–Heel Turn, forcing the two to finally talk and reconcile for real.
• Arch-Enemy: Ironically, despite his status as a Nice Guy, Dick probably has the most arch-enemies in the entire Bat-Family. Only Jason outdoes him, and even then that's because several of them are all legacy characters of the same enemy.
  • Deathstroke. Their rivalry stems from Dick's Teen Titans days and has not once abated over the years.
  • The Court of Owls. Notably, Dick's biggest accomplishment isn't taking out Brainiac, but rather ending the Court's rule over Gotham. They later became his primary arch-enemy after he learned they were responsible for the deaths of his parents.
  • Future Tim, who hated him so much that he specifically went back in time to kill him.
  • Raptor, his mother's stalker. Jason even went out of the way to warn Dick about Raptor in particular, implying that their enmity in the previous timeline was particularly fierce.
• Awful Truth: His entire life is a lie — not only is he the last-living direct descendant of the Crowne family, but the circus he grew up in is actually an offshoot of the Court of Owls that grooms many of its performers to become personal assassins for the Court, and that they facilitated the murder of his parents to make him the newest one. It's so awful, in fact, that Dick even accused Jason of lying at first.
• Better as Friends: With Barbara Gordon in the previous timeline. This muddles his relationship with the current Barbara, as the two have feelings for each other but have yet to take it to the next level.
• Berserk Button: Jason's exploding helmet. It doesn't matter the timeline — Dick is always going to hate it and demand Jason get rid of it.
• Big Brother Instinct: Nightwing went ballistic on Deathstroke for accepting a contract on Jason's head, almost giving the mercenary a Groin Attack with his electrified escrima stick.
• Break the Cutie: Learning the Court of Owls used his beloved circus as a training ground for their undead assassins and used Zucco as a means to kill his parents because they thought he would be a suitable candidate to be the next Talon drives him to sobs.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He could easily run Wayne Enterprises if he wanted to but has no interest in a desk job which is why he's currently a cop. Though most of the Gotham elite are under the assumption that he's still the family's heir apparent.
• Broken Pedestal: There is some implication he became this to Tim after taking Robin from him and giving it to Damian, who Tim hated at the time. Confirmed in one timeline, where a future version of Tim came to hate Dick so much that he went back in time specifically to kill him.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dick is a Chick Magnet Ace who is one of the most well-beloved and well-connected superheroes in the world. He's also a Giver of Lame Names, has terrible fashion sense, runs on coffee and cereal, and is the frequent target of mockery by all his siblings.
• Cain and Abel: Jason and him were this for a time but eventually Jason made a Heel–Face Turn and ended up becoming the sibling closest to Dick (outside of, perhaps, Damian). Future Tim, on the other hand, was most certainly the Cain to Dick's Abel.
• Chick Magnet: On Jason's list of approved love interests for him, there's a huge list of women in the 'Maybe' column, many of whom Dick has yet to actually meet at that point in the timeline. That being said, there's only two women in the 'Yes' column (Barbara Gordon and Koriand'r).
• Childish Older Sibling: He's addicted to sugar, cuddles his family on a whim and is obsessed with Christmas. His siblings feel it means he signed off their respect and roast him when they think he's really exaggerating.
• Cool Big Bro: The very first one in the Bat-Family, but mainly to Jason, Tim, Cassandra and Damian.
• Corrupt the Cutie: A distressing amount of delightful people such as Deathstroke and the Court of Owls want nothing more than remake him into their murderous tool.
• Cuddle Bug: Dick is very tactile, so enjoys hugging his siblings. It's even more pronounced when one of said siblings is distressed. Jason notes to himself that after going decades without Dick's hugs, he doesn't have it in him to deny Dick a single one.
• A Day in the Limelight: He's the main POV character of the second flashback arc instead of Jason, due to the flashback taking place during his tenure as Batman.
• Death Seeker: Potentially. Jason muses he might not have tried really, really hard to avoid his ultimate Heroic Sacrifice, all because the mantle of Batman ultimately broke him.
• A Dick in Name: Damian isn't impressed to learn he picked a euphemism for testicles as his favorite nickname.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: To Future Tim. Note that while everyone agreed Dick screwed up in his case and that he had every right to resent Dick, it was still no excuse to take things as far as Future Tim did.
• Ditzy Genius: Jason's idle comments point out that Dick more-or-less qualifies. He's brilliant at crime-fighting but an idiot when it comes to everything else, mostly because he's rather forgetful. It's also the reason his Richie Wayne persona is more tolerable than Brucie — it's just Dick with an emptier head than usual.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: He kicked Brainiac's butt so badly the Coluan was forced to retire for two centuries from supervillainy.
• Fair Cop: His current job in Bludhaven.
• Foreign Cuss Word: His reaction when he learns Talia threw his baby brother into a Lazarus Pit was very exhaustive swearing in Romani.
• Giver of Lame Names: Everything in the Cave is named Bat-something because of him.
• Has a Type: Redheads. As always.
• Heir Club for Men: Discussed. Normally, Dick wouldn't have a claim to the Crowne fortune or name, as he's descended from a bastard, matrilineal line. However, because his great-great-grandfather had no direct male heirs, his great-grandmother never married anyone else before her suicide, and his great-grandfather never legally claimed his grandfather like his great-grandmother's family did (giving him the Crowne name), the fortune defaulted to Dick's grandfather, and thus, Dick himself. Tim even speculates that was deliberate, as Burton Crowne wanted a male heir and wrote his will with one in mind, and suggests Burton probably intended to find his grandson so he could fulfill the role.
• Hero of Another Story:
  • His tenure as Batman may have been far shorter than Jason's but was no less eventful. Arguably his biggest accomplishment was ending the Court of Owls for good, which decreased a great amount of the corruption in Gotham and laid the groundwork for Jason to clean up the city, particularly Arkham.
  • This later becomes literal during the second flashback arc in the first story, where he briefly takes over as the main protagonist and the main POV character.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners:
  • With Wally West and Roy Harper. The loss of both of them within a couple of years together are implied to be part of why Dick struggled so much as Batman.
  • With his younger brother Jason Todd. Jason filled the hole the former two left, becoming Dick's confidant and overall second-in-command for the Bat-Family. Dick even entrusted him with the ring he was going to propose to Kori with, displaying the deep trust they had in each other and suggesting that he was planning to ask Jason to be the best man at their wedding. Even in the current timeline, where they aren't as close, Jason still knows Dick better than most others do and can read his brother like an open book.
• Hidden Backup Prince: As the last direct descendant of the Crownes, he's basically the only viable candidate for the position of Grandmaster of the Court of Owls outside of the Vanavers. It's strongly implied that this is one of the reasons why the Vanavers wanted him under their thumb.
• I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: After the abomination the Discowing suit was, Jason outright refuses to let him design his new suit.
• Last of His Kind: The sequel reveals he's the last-living direct descendant of the Crowne Family, one of the First Families of Gotham. Not only does that entitle him to what remains of their fortune, but it also makes him distantly related to Bruce and Damian, along with three of Jason's children and their descendants.
• Likes Older Women: He had a relationship with Barbara Gordon, and is seen flirting with a middle-aged woman for Jason's gala.
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • To the entire Bat-Family. As the narrative puts it, the Family stayed in Gotham for Bruce, but only stayed around Bruce for Dick.
  • To Jason. Dick's death hit him hard and was the beginning of the worst period of Jason's life. Jason was only able to recover in part due to finding new people to lean on, such as their sister Cass and Jason's eventual adoptive daughter Carrie. The fact that Carrie was a lot like Dick helped.
  • Downplayed in the case of Donna. While Dick's death is what drove her to self-imposed exile for ten years, that was only because he was the latest in a long line of people she lost already.
• The Lost Lenore: He was posed to become this to Kori after his death, but it was ultimately subverted. Kori knew he wouldn't like the idea of his death holding her back, and so made a successful effort to move on after she was finished mourning him; this included never wearing the engagement ring he was going to propose her with (though she did keep it with her as a Tragic Keepsake).
• Loved by All: At least in the superhero community. He was still deeply mourned and missed long after he died, and it's stated that one of the only reasons Jason was accepted as his successor was because of Dick's endorsement. It's also one of the reasons why the Expansion Initiative (a proposal to have all heroes and teams join the Justice League as one organization to foster further collaboration) succeeded — Dick was its main architect and champion, and his death galvanized many heroes to finally accept the standing invitations in his memory.
• Loving a Shadow: What doomed his initial relationship with Barbara is that he was in love with who she was as Batgirl, not Oracle, the person she is now.
• Manchild:
  • Lampshaded by Jason, who still can't believe how anyone thinks Dick is a suave ladies man with his kind of childish behavior.
  • He still believes in Santa. Or rather, he still wants to believe in Santa, so he acts like he does by doing things like leaving gingerbread cookies behind for Santa to snack on.
• Men Can't Keep House: His bachelor pad is very messy and he primarily lives off of cereal and takeout. Neither Jason nor Alfred are impressed, especially since they know Dick is perfectly capable of taking care of himself.
• Missed the Call: A villainous one. The Court of Owls intended to snatch Dick in order to mold him into their perfect assassin, the Gray Son of Gotham, but Jason's timeline saw them destroyed before they could do so. Jason is currently bent on ensuring this call will stay unfulfilled.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • What he thinks of him being an Aloof Older Brother to Jason, leading him to tearfully apologize when they finally have a moment alone. The original Dick later admits to Jason that this is why he was so obsessed with being the perfect big brother and son — because he didn't want to fail any of his family ever again.
  • Jason implies that his actual great failure was forcing Tim to give up the Robin mantle to Damian. This is later confirmed when the second flashback arc reveals that, in one timeline, it snowballed into Tim making a Face–Heel Turn in his adulthood.
  • The deaths of Kate Kane and Renee Montoya during the Bat-Family's war with the Court of Owls were his first great failures as Batman. Dick's obsession with removing the Court from Gotham was partially motivated by what happened to Kate and Renee.
• Nice Guy: His superpower, according to Jason:
  Jason: You can walk over people, steal their girlfriends, and freeload off their money and they'd thank you for it.
• Oh, Crap!: When he first meets Damian and sees his Strong Family Resemblance to Bruce, quickly realizing just who his recently-resurrected younger brother brought over.
• Parental Substitute: Viewed Damian as more of a son than a brother. The rest of the family accepted that Dick was Damian's real father, not Bruce — including Bruce himself.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Donna Troy. Ironically, Donna ended up falling in love with Dick's younger brother Jason years after Dick's death, which opens up the possibility of them becoming Best Friends-in-Law in the new timeline after Jason and her get back together.
• Only Sane Man: Deconstructed. The original Dick was the only one really keeping the family together in the previous timeline, and it put a lot of undue stress on him that may or may not have contributed to his premature death. The original Bruce later admits that his biggest crime against Dick was putting so many expectations on him and forcing him to fix Bruce's relationships with the rest of the family whenever they were on the rocks.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: The crux of his estrangement with Tim in the previous timeline. He took Robin away from Tim without properly explaining that one of the main reasons why is because Tim had outgrown Robin and was ready to be a solo crime-fighter. He tried to convey this by giving Tim Nightwing, but Tim took it the wrong way and refused, becoming Red Robin instead.
• The Perils of Being the Best: Dick is The Ace: he's good-lucking, charming, brilliant, athletic, and has an aptitude for combat that few can match, let alone surpass. Unfortunately, that makes him the target of a lot of resentment, while a fair few others are obsessed with having him under their thumbs. On top of his long-standing enmity with Slade Wilson, the Court of Owls desperately want him to be their next Talon, Raptor wants him as his own apprentice, and some, like Raymond McCreary, hate him because they can't live up to his shadow or suffer in his place. Even some of his siblings resented him for a time, and, in one timeline, one went insane enough to go back in time to try and kill him.
• Really Royalty Reveal: By virtue of being the last-living male descendant of the Crowne Family, Dick is prime Blue Blood to Gotham's socialite scene — as the First Families were treated as Gotham's royalty. Not to mention, the rightful heir to the Court of Owls.
• Secret Legacy: Twofold — his great-grandfather William Cobb earmarked his descendants as prime candidates to be molded into Talons, while his great-grandmother Amelia Crowne gives him a claim on the extinct Crowne Family's money and status, including their status as the founding family of the Court of Owls.
• Serious Business: Christmas. He's obsessed with having an authentic Christmas experience due to Bruce ruining his first Christmas at the Manor when he was nine by revealing to him that Santa wasn't real. Even Jason, who takes holidays very seriously because it's the one time of the year that everyone in the family won't have outside responsibilities and can just spend time together, thinks he's being ridiculous.
• Someone to Remember Him By: A rather dark version, as Raptor is stalking him because Dick is everything that's left of Mary Lloyd-Grayson in the world.
• Superior Successor: To Bruce. Dick's tenure as Batman was much shorter than Bruce's, but Dick ultimately did more to clean up Gotham than Bruce did since he was the one to finally take out the Court of Owls. Jason himself will fully admit he would've never gotten as far as he did during his own tenure as Batman if it hadn't been for the work Dick did, and clearly has put his brother on a much higher pedestal than their father.
• Sweet Tooth: While his Trademark Favorite Food is cereal, it's implied he likes sugar in general. At one point Jason denies him dessert because he doesn't want to deal with his "sugary-high ass".
• Tacky Tuxedo: His siblings had to successively veto a bumblebee-looking black-accents-on-garish-yellow suit, a lime green suit and a searing pink suit when they went for a fitting at the tailor. And Dick genuinely liked the fashion disasters.
• Trademark Favourite Food: He happily survives on cereal, which his more health-conscious substitute grandpa and adoptive younger brother try to stop.
• Tragic Keepsake: He was planning to propose to Kori before he died, and left the ring with Jason for safekeeping. After his death, Jason had the unenviable honor of giving the ring to one of his closest friends and watching her burst into tears.
• Triple Shifter: In the daytime, Dick works long shifts for the BPD as a beat cop and then spends his nights flipping around as Nightwing, while spending his days off leading the Titans. This is later deconstructed after Raptor wrecks Blockbuster's organization and puts Bludhaven on the precipice of a Mob War, as there is no way Dick can hope to fight it off even with the help of the Titans with his current schedule, which is already running him ragged as is. Ultimately, the Bludhaven arc ends with him deciding to quit the BPD so he won't overwork himself to death.
• Underestimating Badassery: Despite being the venerated leader of the Titans, well-respected by the superhero community, and long-since proven to be an equal to his mentor/adoptive father, many supervillains still can't help but still see him as Batman's jumped-up sidekick. This actually works to Dick's advantage, because it prevents Blockbuster from outsourcing help to take him down since many of the heavy hitters would view taking a job to take out Nightwing as a hit to their Villain Cred.
• Unexpected Inheritance: As pointed out by Tim, his great-grandmother being Amelia Crowne entitles him with a claim to what remains of the extinct First Family's fortune, since he's the last-living direct male descendant.
• Vicariously Ambitious: Every time someone new begins living at the Manor, he tries to relive his lost Christmas fantasies through them.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jason in the previous timeline. The two poked fun at each other a lot but basically became attached at the hip after their respective best friends died within a couple of years of each other.
• Warts and All: While he was the best-regarded member of his family and a genuine Nice Guy, Dick wasn't perfect, even if he tried to be. He was human, and he made his own fair share of mistakes. Even so, his family loved him, and wished he never put so much on himself.
  Jason: You never had to be perfect, Dick. You just had to be you.
• What the Hell, Hero?: For all his love towards his eldest brother, Jason bluntly acknowledges Dick suddenly taking Robin from Tim was a terrible move. It's implied that this act is what helped start Tim on his road to being a Sociopathic Hero. Dick himself admitted in the second flashback arc that he didn't handle it as nearly as well as he should have.
• White Sheep: Through blood, he's related to a zealous assassin affiliated with a sinister cult and the Crowne family that Tim describes as the worst kind of Rich Bitch. You wouldn't know it from his behavior, as Dick is beloved by almost everyone he interacts with for being a complete Nice Guy.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Barbara. In the first timeline, they didn't; he ended up with Kori and she with Luke Fox.
• "World's Best" Character: Jason flatly states that he's the best acrobat in the world. When Dick tries to play modest, Jason immediately shuts him down and says it's not hyperbole, it's genuine fact.

Jason Todd

Jason Peter Todd-Wayne | Robin II | Red Hood | Batman III

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Tim Drake

Timothy "Tim" Jackson Drake-Wayne | Robin III | Red Robin I

The third Robin, who later became the vigilante Red Robin. The third son of the Wayne family, younger adoptive brother to Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Cassandra Cain, older adoptive brother to Damian Wayne, Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis and Matthew McGinnis, and the uncle to Carrie Kelley and Penelope of Themyscira.

The only son of Jack and Janet Drake, Tim was neglected by his parents for most of his childhood. As a result, he occupied his time with other pursuits — mostly stalking Gotham's resident vigilantes, Batman and Robin. He managed to figure out the secret identities of Batman and both Robins when he was nine, and continued to observe them until the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd. Upon Bruce Wayne's subsequent breakdown, he sought out the first Robin, Dick Grayson, to become Bruce's partner again. When Dick refused, Tim decided to take up the mantle himself and forced Bruce to train him as the third Robin. Upon the deaths of Janet Drake, and later Jack Drake, Tim was adopted by Bruce as his third son as well.

Tim remained Robin until he was sixteen, whereupon his older brother Dick forced him to give up the role in favor of their younger brother Damian Wayne. Tim subsequently took up his own mantle in Red Robin, and remained in that identity until his death eight years later during a conflict with Lex Luthor.

Tropes

• All of the Other Reindeer: Due to Nouveau Riche below. This led to the failure of his mother's social ambitions, causing his parents' Parental Neglect, the eventual destruction of their marriage, and arguably his mother's death. Tim is very bitter about this even if he doesn't show it often, and it's implied to be the reason why he hasn't taken advantage of his newfound popularity as a former ward of Bruce Wayne's — he hates most of Gotham's upper class for their poor treatment of his biological family and all the grief it caused him.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: For all his worship towards Jason, Tim is still petty enough to whine about being put on a diet and crush his brother in a Monopoly game out of irritation.
• Arch-Enemy: To Dick, of all people. His Bad Future self at least.
• Big Damn Kiss: With Stephanie right before sending her to the Bat-Cave for safety.
• Competition Freak:
  • A game of Monopoly shows him to be absolutely ruthless. The only reason Jason was able to keep up with him at all was because of his experience as Wayne Enterprises' CEO, and even then he still lost.
  • He takes his rivalry with Damian very seriously. Said rivalry is over who will have more Bat-Pizza tickets by the end of the year. To make it even more ridiculous, the only prize Tim gets if he wins is Damian having to call him by his first name.
• Cain and Abel: Future Tim was the Cain to all his siblings, but especially Dick and Damian. So much so that he brainwashed his past self and gave the "honor" of killing Damian to him, while he took the "honor" of killing Dick for himself.
• The Corruptible: While all the Bats are this to some extent, Tim is noticeable because there are two known timelines where he became Batman and turned evil. It's strongly implied that he's the sibling with the greatest capacity for evil, even more so than Jason or Damian, and that is why both Dick and him didn't want him to be Batman.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Damian's opinion of him, after seeing Tim bluster and tongue-tied in front of Jason.
• Everyone Can See It: His attraction to Stephanie is so obvious that absolutely no one was surprised when Jason outright calls him her boyfriend.
• Future Me Scares Me: He's horrified to learn that there are two possible futures where he makes a Face–Heel Turn. In fact, this is the reason why he all but banned himself from ever being Batman in the previous timeline.
• Hero-Worshipper: His initial reaction to Jason is a mix of disbelief and awe.
• Incompletely Trained: Played with. While Bruce trained him better than he did Jason (for obvious reasons), Jason believes he needs more training, and made the offer to mentor him. While this is true, Jason also admitted it was to get him away from his original mentor, Lady Shiva.
• Insufferable Genius: While the current Tim is confident in his intelligence, the original Tim eventually came to look down on everyone thanks to repeated traumas and abandonment issues. He later admits to Jason that this was his fatal flaw.
• Momma's Boy: He favors Janet over Jack, mainly because Jack was never home and more interested in his career than his own son. Janet also tended to be neglectful but at least she tried to be present when Tim was very young.
• Must Have Caffeine: Yup, he developed the addiction when he was barely a teen. It apparently got so bad when he was an adult that Jason has made it his mission to wean him off it.
• Nouveau Riche: His maternal grandfather started a general store, and his mother grew said store into a business empire.
• The One That Got Away: Stephanie always regretted their relationship crashing and burning and them not even trying to fix it afterwards, more so after his death.
• One True Love: Though Tim had many girls interested in him over the years, Jason makes it clear that he believes the only one who Tim would've married was Stephanie. Of course, like Bruce and Selina, this didn't mean it was enough. They wind up dating by the end of the story.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The normally calm and collected Tim recklessly confronts the Joker in an attempt to avenge his biological father's death.
• Parental Neglect: As Tim himself notes, it takes a special kind of neglect to make your kid think stalking Batman and Robin is a viable hobby.
• Refusal of the Call: It was generally believed that Tim would've succeeded Dick as Batman in the wake of his untimely death, so the most of the superhero community was surprised when Dick named Jason as his successor instead, and that Tim didn't protest it. Within the Family itself, however, Tim's refusal wasn't exactly surprising (though nonetheless heavily objected) due to the Future Tim incident.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: While all of the first generation had this problem to some extent, Tim's self-care habits were so horrible that it left Jason frothing at the mouth at the mere thought of it.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: The second flashback arc reveals that he knew from the very beginning that Dick had chosen Jason over him as his successor.
• Sibling Rivalry: Damian firmly considers him a complete dumbass who's barely able to breathe and speak after a lifetime of brainwashing in the American school system. Tim intends to make his younger brother change his mind.
• Sociopathic Hero: What he slowly devolved into, as Gotham's darkness and crime-fighting took more and more of a toll on him. In one timeline, at least.
• Spotting the Thread: He's immediately alert when he first meets Jason, since the older teen reacted as if he already knew Tim and loved him in a familial way. As Tim points out, that kind of affection only comes from time and meaningful interaction.
• The Strategist: Shows a growing aptitude for this throughout both stories. To the point that he was the only member of his family that was able to devise an effective counter-strategy against the brainwashed Batman Jason.
• Teen Genius: Jason outright states that he's the smartest member of the first generation.
• Took a Level in Cynic: While the exact circumstances have yet to be revealed, Jason implies that his overall morality started to degrade over the years. This is revealed to be the case with his Bad Future self, though the original did admit to having become jaded over the years as well.
• Trauma Conga Line: A very tragic deconstruction — being repeatedly submitted to various traumas and horrors chipped away at his empathy, until he became a Sociopathic Hero.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Tim in his Robin period was bright, vivacious, too curious and generally absolutely chuffed to be a hero. For Jason, it's both wonderful and painful to see, because Tim as Red Robin was decidedly not any of these things.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's probably the smartest and most clever member of the family. He's also unquestionably the worst fighter of the family's active vigilantes, largely because he has the least amount of training and physical ability. Dick is naturally more athetlic, Jason is naturally bigger and stronger (and a former Batman, but that's an entirely different issue), and Cass was trainined literally since birth to be the perfect fighter. Bruce goes without saying. Tim, meanwhile, has only been Robin for about a year or so and is naturally smaller than his brothers.
• Workaholic: According to Jason, his adult self was one that ran off of "coffee and spite".

Damian Wayne

Damian al Ghul-Wayne | Robin IV | Nightwing II

The fourth Robin and second Nightwing. The fourth son of the Wayne family, younger adoptive brother to Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Cassandra Cain, older biological half-brother to Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis and Matthew McGinnis, and the uncle to Carrie Kelley and Penelope of Themyscira.

The biological son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, Damian was trained from birth to be an assassin and heir to his grandfather Ra's al Ghul. When he was ten, his mother dropped him off with his father to learn from him, with the intention of using him to eventually draw his father to her side so they could be a family. Instead, Damian ended up rejecting his mother's family and their ideals entirely in favor of his father and siblings, becoming the fourth Robin.

Damian remained Robin until he was eighteen, where he officially gave it up to become the second Nightwing in honor of his oldest brother. He was slated to become the fourth Batman after his older brother Jason Todd, but died before he was able to take on the mantle.

Tropes

• Adaptation Personality Change: Justified. Damian is seven instead of ten in this timeline when Jason and him meet again for the first time, which means he hasn't gone through the worst parts of his training with the League of Assassins yet; to the extent that Jason is fairly certain he hasn't even committed his first kill (and now that he's with his family, most likely never will). That means he's more childish and immature than the original Damian, and far more innocent.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He gets along with his siblings a lot better thanks to his younger age and the different circumstances that led to him joining the family. Even his relationship with Tim, while still antagonistic, is much better than it was in the previous timeline.
• Age Lift: Courtesy of a wonky timeline, Damian is now ten years younger than Jason, instead of six. This makes him seven instead of ten, which is a major factor in his Adaptation Personality Change.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: He would not be Damian Wayne without it.
• Arch-Enemy: His cousin Mara, who ultimately caused his death.
• Berserk Button: Do not insult his mother. He was ready to try and murder Vicki Vale with a fork for writing a salacious article about her.
• Big Brother Worship:
  • He adored his oldest brother Dick Grayson and became the second Nightwing to honor him.
  • The younger Damian has a more downplayed version with Jason, who is the only person he really listens to.
• Break the Haughty: Chapter Two basically boils down to Jason shattering Damian's entire worldview with one revelation after another. While he hasn't completely lost his characteristic arrogance, it's much more subdued and manageable.
• Cain and Abel: Frequently. Ironically, despite his upbringing and general personality, he usually ends up the Abel.
  • Cousin variant with his sister Mara. Mara ended up engineering the circumstances that led to his Heroic Sacrifice.
  • With Future Tim, who murdered his alternate timeline counterpart for the Batman mantle.
• The Comically Serious: Part of the humor in the story comes from Damian reacting to everything in a completely straight manner.
• Dying Wish: He begged Jason to let him die instead of bringing him back with a Lazarus Pit, knowing what kind of effects the Pit would have on him. Jason obliged.
• Generation Xerox: After learning their first meeting concluded in a fight resolved by teeth-clenched cooperation, an amused Diana declares Jon and Damian are exactly like their dads. So far, the introverted, grumpy and temperamental Damian didn't make a liar of her.
• Harmful to Minors: While his family does their best to keep him out of danger, he frequently finds himself in trouble all the same. He was attacked and suffered several minor injuries trying to stop Stephanie's kidnapping alongside Tim, he was kidnapped himself by his grandfather's men, he saw his brothers tend to his mother's tortured and barely alive body, and he watched his older brother (temporarily) die Taking the Bullet for him. While he's bounced back for the most part by the time of the second story, he does show some strong attachment to his family, and to Jason in particular.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Jon Kent, in both timelines. So much so that after Damian died, Jon succeeded him as Nightwing in honor of his memory.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Damian is surprisingly good with four-year-old Lian Harper, leaving Jason to ponder if his younger brother is so gentle because of Lian's youth or her gender.
  • As arrogant as he is, he has no affection for sycophants because he knows they usually have ulterior motives. Since he was raised in the League of Assassins as the grandson and heir of Ra's al Ghul, this shouldn't be surprising.
  • The original Damian admits his Heroic Sacrifice was to protect Jason and Cass as much as it was to protect Bludhaven, stating that as much as he wanted to be Batman, he didn't want it over the corpses of his remaining family. He then gently scolds Jason for even thinking that his death wouldn't have hurt Damian as much as Damian's own had hurt him.
• Insufferable Genius: Very much so. He thinks Spongebob Squarepants is a communist allegory and gets into an argument with Tim over the differences between western and eastern philosophies.
• Last-Name Basis: With Tim and Stephanie. He's on a First-Name Basis with everyone else.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Currently unaware of his brother Jason's Peggy Sue status. However, Jason dared him to defy this and learn the source of Jason's metaknowledge by himself, so he's not likely to stay unaware. He finds out at the end of the first story.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Bruce's hidden son by Talia.
• Momma's Boy: He went into a frothing rage when reporters made insinuations regarding Talia and is obviously dismayed to be separated from her.
• Mundane MacGuffin Person: As Bruce Wayne's current only blood son, Gotham's high society views him as the key to obtain the Wayne wealth. The elites can't do much about this courtesy of Damian's extreme youth and closeness to his adoptive siblings, but they're ready and willing to play the long game.
• Parting-Words Regret: The original Damian's greatest regret is not telling his family how much he loved them before he died.
• Precocious Crush: His behavior around Stephanie hints that he might have one for her.
• The Promise: When Jon and him were children, they made a promise that they would be Superman and Batman together. It's because of this promise that Jon refused to become Superman after his father died, wanting to remain Nightwing to keep Damian's memory alive and close to him. Jon did eventually end up becoming Superman, but only after the death of his predecessor Conner Kent, and only doing so because there was no one else suitable for the job.
• Shipper on Deck: An amusing inversion — Damian outright states Stephanie ought to reject Tim's courting as she can find a much better mate.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Tim, though it's nowhere near as murderous as the previous timeline. Basically, it boils down to Damian thinking Tim's an idiot and Tim trying to prove him wrong.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Under his spoiled and violent facade, Damian shows deep insecurity regarding his place in the Bat-Family and his father's love for him.
• Spanner in the Works: His mere existence destroys the plans of several high-ranking Gotham families, since a blood heir means Bruce no longer needs a wife. And since he's seven, it'll be several years before they can even think of having one of their younger female relatives seduce him instead.
• Spoiled Brat: Tends to be rude and impatient. Jason outright calls him a horror, and concedes his original self was even worse.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Damian only has to show his face to establish he's Bruce's son, and Jason later identified Helena, Terry and Matty as his half-siblings because they all had strong resemblances to him.
• Tell Me About My Father: Having only heard vague descriptions about Bruce all his life, he makes this request to Jason. Jason agrees, if only to help Damian better understand that Bruce, while great, is still just a man.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Much like Jason himself, the original Damian became much more kinder over the years, as seen during his interactions with Jason during the latter's Near-Death Experience.
• Tragic Hero: Damian spent all his life trying to live up to his family's ideals and be a hero his family could be proud of, partially to atone for his assassin childhood which, in no way, was his fault. He saw becoming Batman as the culmination of that dream — but in the end, the same childhood he was trying to atone for ended up being his downfall, with his cousin Mara engineering his death by causing his Heroic Sacrifice to save Bludhaven.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Played for Laughs. While this Damian is generally more childish and innocent than his original counterpart, and a lot more attached to his adoptive family, he also displays a desire to Take Over the World (which prompts Jason to keep a closer eye on him).
• Tsundere: Oh so much. No, he won't miss Jon at all, but his lack of presence will indeed be an irritant for him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • With Jon, occasionally, resembling the friendship of their fathers.
  • With Tim. The two have a Sibling Rivalry and bicker constantly but there are several moments that show they do care about each other. Whenever the two are in danger, Tim always does his best to protect Damian and comforted his younger brother after they found out about Talia's torture. Damian, in turn, comforted Tim after his dad died.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Damian never ceased to worry about his father and siblings not thinking he was worthy of their pride until the day he died. The younger him also has this attitude, though not to such a damaging extent.

Cassandra Cain

Cassandra "Cass" Cain-Wayne | Batgirl II | Black Bat

The second Batgirl and later the vigilante Black Bat, the protector of Bludhaven. The first daughter of the Wayne family, younger adoptive sister to Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, and older adoptive sister to Tim Drake and Damian Wayne. Surrogate aunt to her siblings Helena Wayne, Terry McGinnis and Matthew McGinnis, and actual aunt to Carrie Kelley and Penelope of Themyscira.

The biological daughter of the assassins David Cain and Sandra Wu-San, better known as Lady Shiva. Cass was raised all her life to be the perfect assassin, left completely illiterate in exchange for unsurpassed body-reading skills and fighting ability. Upon her first kill at age eight, however, she rejected the life of an assassin and killing in general and fled her father, living on the streets for the next ten years until she met Batman. Batman subsequently took her in, making her the second Batgirl and adopting her as his first daughter.

Cass later gave up the Batgirl mantle and adopted the identity of Black Bat, first operating in Hong Kong before moving back to Gotham. After the death of younger brother Damian Wayne, she became the full-time protector of Bludhaven and the overall second-in-command of the Bat-Family under her brother Jason Todd, the third Batman.

Tropes

• Abusive Parents: David Cain wanted to break her into a weapon, while Lady Shiva wanted to force her to kill her in spite of knowing Cass was firmly against it.
• Arch-Enemy: Her mother, Lady Shiva.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Before she met the Bats, everyone after her only wanted her as a Living Weapon. Bruce's family deciding they wanted to adopt her as a sister and daughter so completely overwhelmed her she decided to be loyal to them forever.
• Break the Cutie: Poor girl bursts into tears when Jason confirms her blood relation to Lady Shiva.
• Cute Mute: Cass is extremely limited in vocabulary, and a total sweetheart.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Stephanie Brown. She was the godmother to Stephanie's children in the previous timeline.
• It's All My Fault: Her reaction when Shiva starts to target her loved ones to force her into a duel.
• Jabba Table Manners: Having lived on the streets for most of her life, with absolutely no understanding of speech, means her table manners are horrid.
• Laser Guided Tyke Bomb: While her father intended her to be his partner and the world's greatest assassin, her mother only had her so Cass could one day fulfill her death wish, even calling her an "investment" at one point.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Jason admitted that Cass was the only person keeping him going after Damian died. During a flashback, he outright told her that if he lost her, he would've (figuratively) died all over again, and this time, nothing in the world would've brought him back.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The Bats tried to keep as mum as possible her origins. When she finally learns how exactly her parents met, she breaks down just as they feared she would.
• Morality Chain: To Jason in the previous timeline. She was the one who re-inspired him into becoming a hero again.
• The Not-Love Interest: In the previous timeline, Cass was the most important person in Jason's life next to his children. She provided him with emotional support and was his most trusted teammate and confidant. Despite that, their relationship was completely platonic and they firmly saw each other as siblings.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: She's not surprised to hear Jason confess he's a time-traveler, as she could see he cared for her a bit too deeply and knew things he really shouldn't. She was just waiting for him to be ready to explain himself.
• Shrinking Violet: Cass is generally uneasy around people she doesn't trust or know very well, and her speech troubles don't help.
• Skilled, but Naive: Cass is easily the most talented fighter in the family, but she's barely literate and has, by far, the least amount of experience as a vigilante. This is the main reason why Jason refused to let her help with capturing the Joker — it takes more than just physical prowess to take that particular villain down.
• Sole Survivor: After Jason's death by cancer, Cass is the last living member of the first generation in the previous timeline.
• Spoiled Sweet: Technically, as the only daughter of the Wayne family Cass is the most eligible bachelorette in Gotham. However, she's a complete sweetheart and extremely down to earth.
• Strong Family Resemblance:
  • Downplayed, but Richard Dragon — who knows her mother Lady Shiva better than anyone — immediately pegs her parentage right barely a few seconds after meeting her.
  • Cass herself immediately suspects that Shiva is her mother the moment they finally meet face-to-face. Jason confirms it for her the next chapter.
• World's Best Warrior: According to Jason, she was the greatest martial artist in the world after Shiva's death. While Jason specialized in melee weaponry and Connor Hawke specialized in projectile weaponry, Cass was good at everything on top of being better at hand-to-hand combat than both of them.

The Second Generation

Carrie Kelley

Carrie Anne Kelley-Wayne | Robin V | Batgirl IV | Batwoman III

Tropes

• Affirmative-Action Legacy: The first (official) female Robin.
• Ascended Fangirl: Went from running around in a Robin costume to becoming Robin herself, then Batgirl, and then Batwoman.
• Chaste Hero: Very happy to bury herself into Park Row as a bachelorette, to every highborn Gold Digger's dismay.
• Distaff Counterpart:
  • To Dick Grayson, as she helped her Batman to become less grim and enjoy life again.
  • Also one to Tim Drake, having a similar background to his.
• Happily Adopted: Jason adopted her after her parents died in a car crash when she was sixteen.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Lian Harper. Jason explicitly compares their relationship to Roy's and his friendship when reminiscing about it.
• I Owe You My Life: Why she wanted to become Robin — Jason saved her from some thugs who tried mug her while she was lugging girl scout cookies. Jason finally relented after she returned the favor and saved his life in turn.
• The Idealist: She was the most idealistic of Jason's Robins.
• Legacy Character: For three different mantles, which has to be some kind of record (though her predecessor, Stephanie Brown technically matches her). After she officially gave up the Robin mantle, she became the fourth Batgirl and then the third Batwoman.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Platonic variant with Jason; her optimism and peppiness helped him to open up again.
• Parental Neglect: Carrie's parents were horribly neglectful, like Tim's. It's practically stated that the reason Jason and her latched onto each other so quickly is because of this.
• Supreme Chef: She helped Jason to maintain a diner in Park Row. After taking over the diner with his blessing, she later expanded it into a successful franchise.

Helena Wayne

Helena Magdalene Kyle-Wayne | Robin VI | Huntress II | Batwoman IV

Tropes

• Childhood Friend Romance: With Dam. She's not once shown an attraction to anyone else but him.
• Daddy's Girl: There are a lot of hints she was this with Jason. Jason fully admits to spoiling her when she first moved in, and it wasn't until she asked to be Robin that he realized that might be a bad thing.
• Dead Guy Junior: She shares her middle name with the first name of her deceased aunt, Magdalene "Maggie" Kyle.
• Deadpan Snarker: Even when Jason was on his deathbed she couldn't help but engage in some Snark-to-Snark Combat with him.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Implied. From what little is seen, Helena only seems to have good memories of her mother and her death is what drove her to become a vigilante.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Tim Drake. According to Jason she's the most clever of his Robins, and reminded him of Tim more often than not. This is one of the reasons why Wayne Enterprises was left to her.
• Family Eye Resemblance: Basically her strongest Kyle feature, she inherited Selina's green catlike eyes. She's described as a girl Damian with lighter skin otherwise.
• Generation Xerox: Much like the first Huntress, her mentor Helena Bertinelli, she swore a vendetta against organized crime after Black Mask II murdered her mother.
• Give Him a Normal Life: After realizing she was pregnant with Bruce's child, Selina immediately retired from burglary and raised her as normally as possible for ten years.
• Heroic Lineage: The biological daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, aka Batman and Catwoman.
• Last of Her Kind: With Damian dead, she was officially the last blood-related Wayne in Gotham. Unofficially, there were also her brothers Terry and Matty, but since no one knows about their genetic relation...
• Love at First Punch: Dam fell for her after she kicked his ass in a spar.
• Mundane MacGuffin Person: As the last blood heir to the Wayne fortune and name, Helena was very coveted among Gotham's elite. The main reason why Jason involved himself in the inner workings of the city's high society instead of staying on the sidelines like he had for the past few years, was to protect Helena from their toxic influence. As he was her primary guardian and the one currently in control of family's company and fortune, that made him the most powerful man in Gotham.
• Official Couple: With Damian Kent.
• Redeeming Replacement: To her predecessor Helena Bertinelli. According to Jason, she can be cold and vengeful, but she has her heart in the right place and is decidedly not a killer.
• Someone to Remember Him By: She was conceived barely one month before Bruce's death.
• Uptown Girl: She's basically royalty to Gotham, and she has only eyes for Farm Boy Dam Kent.
• You Killed My Father: She developed a hatred for organized crime after Black Mask II murdered her mother.

Terry McGinnis

Terrence "Terry" McGinnis-Wayne | Robin VII | Batman IV

Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Max and him are Childhood Friends in this continuity.
  • As a consequence, Dana and him are not Childhood Friends. In fact, they meet completely by chance before the start of their romantic relationship.
• Adaptational Badass: Since he was a Robin before taking the cowl, Terry will probably flounder less in his tenure as Batman.
• Adaptational Wealth: His canon self was from a struggling middle class family. Here, he and his brother were adopted into the Wayne family, the richest family in Gotham and one of the richest families in the world. This actually factors into his relationship with Dana, who is from a rising minor family — Terry deliberately hid his status as a Wayne from her initially because he wanted her to like him for who he was rather than for his name and wealth.
• Big Damn Heroes: When he was Robin, he saved Jason's life. Apparently, the manner in which he did it is what convinced Jason to make him the next Batman.
• Childhood Friends: With Max Gibson, who is a Fox in this continuity.
• Chocolate Baby: Jason couldn't help but notice how weird it was for a red-haired couple to have brunette children. Especially when said children looked a lot like his younger brother Damian.
• Determinator: The biggest reason why Jason chose him as his successor. He might not be as smart or idealistic as his older sisters, but he has more sheer grit and determination to do good than either of them, same as both his fathers before him.
• Don't Split Us Up: Right after being orphaned, ten-year-old Terry ran away with his four-year-old brother to avoid foster care.
• Happily Married: To Dana Tan, according to Donna.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Mentioned to be his only difference from his older half-brother Damian. That, and the lighter skin.
• In Spite of a Nail: In the end, he still ended up becoming Batman.
• Generation Xerox: Played with, but ultimately defied. For all his similarities with the younger Jason, Terry proved himself to be a hero through and through.
• Lonely Rich Kid: He couldn't truly connect with his agemates from Gotham Academy because they were too dazzled by the Wayne name to not worship him, and feared Dana would morph into a Gold Digger if she didn't get to know him without all the expectations of his status.
• Oblivious Adoption: He's unaware of the fact he wasn't genetically sired by Warren McGinnis, but Jason giving him the access to the Bat-Computer's secret files is implied to change this.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Max, who he considers family.
• Street Urchin: Briefly reduced to this after losing his parents. It only added to the similarities between him and Jason.
• Strong Family Resemblance: One of the things that struck Jason about him when they first met was his strong resemblance to his older biological brother, Damian Wayne. According to Jason, he looks just like Damian, just with lighter skin.
• Tyke Bomb: Played with. He was conceived specifically to one day replace Jason as Lyla Michaels' personal Batman. While he did end up becoming Batman, it was completely of his own choice and free of Michaels' involvement (she was killed not long after the death of his parents). Jason only trained him as the seventh Robin because Terry demanded it.
• Uptown Girl: He belongs to the Wayne Family, the royalty of Gotham, and is mentioned to happily date Dana Tan who hails from a scandalously minor lineage.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Max has no issues laughing at his embarrassments.

Matthew McGinnis

Matthew "Matty" McGinnis-Wayne | Robin VIII | Red Robin II

Tropes

• Adaptational Badass: In his original series, Matty was nothing but a normal child. Here, he's slated to become his brother's Robin, and after he grows up, succeeds his uncle Tim as the second Red Robin.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: While he adores Terry, he also enjoys making trouble for him as well, as seen during the special interlude in the second story.
• Big Brother Instinct: Inverted, the four-year-old Matty didn't hesitate to throw a wrench at Batman for busting Terry (who was busy trying to steal parts off the Batmobile).
• Foil: To his eldest biological brother/adoptive uncle Damian Wayne. Matty is currently The Baby of the Bunch from his generation and was thrown into fighting and vigilantism at a young age much like Damian was, but he's openly emotional, childish, and unaware of his bloodline. It helps that he grew up in a loving household, as opposed to a cult like the League of Assassins.
• Kid Hero: When he was seven, he managed to defeat a bunch of thugs that had invaded Wayne Manor on his own, with only Ace for help. This is partly why Jason didn't even bother protesting when he said he wanted to be Robin like his older siblings.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Poor little guy didn't take Jason's upcoming demise very well, since he already lost his birth parents.
• Took a Level in Badass: When he appears in the prologue, he's only a little kid struggling with his adopted dad's upcoming demise. Come the sequel and he has grown into the second Red Robin, protector of Bludhaven.
• Wrench Whack: How he introduced himself to Jason. In fairness, Matty was trying to defend Terry from the big, mean Bat.

Penelope of Themyscira

Penelope Todd-Wayne / Penelope of Themyscira | Wonder Girl III | Troia II | Wonder Woman III

Tropes

• The Apprentice: To Donna Troy, her father's second lover.
• Half-Human Hybrid: She was born from the affair her Amazon mother carried with the human Jason.
• Hero of Another Story: She was conceived because of a prophecy, so yes, she's intended to be one of these. As it turns out, her destiny is to become Wonder Woman.
• Legacy Character: She becomes the third Wonder Girl, the second Troia, and eventually, the third Wonder Woman.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Due to circumstances, she only met her dad while he was on his deathbed.

Close Associates

Alfred Pennyworth

Alfred "Alfie" Pennyworth | Agent A

Tropes

• Almighty Mom: A male example. Alfred is the true undisputed master of the house and while he may be subservient to Bruce and the family by principle, when he wants to be obeyed, he will be obeyed.
• Cool Old Guy: The epitome of this.
• Life Will Kill You: Alfred is older than Bruce, and a mere human with a human lifespan. So one day, he died from old age.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Deconstructed. The Bat-Family is completely unable of functioning without him. If he's put out of commission the entire operations falls apart within a week. This also forces more work on Alfred, which is not doing any favors for his health.
• Not So Stoic: Even his Stiff Upper Lip cannot hold when faced with Jason's resurrection or Damian's parentage.
• Parental Substitute: He raised Bruce, and all of Bruce's children love him as a grandfather.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Alfred's age became more apparent as the years went on. The reason why he wasn't able to serve as a Living Emotional Crutch to Jason and Cass like they had to each other is because all three of them knew he didn't have much longer to live.

Barbara Gordon

Barbara "Babs" Gordon | Batgirl I | Oracle

Tropes:

• Better as Friends: What she decided her relationship with Dick was in the previous timeline.
• Cool Big Sis: Jason certainly seems to view her as this.
• Happily Married: To Luke Fox in Jason's timeline.
• Loving a Shadow: The reason why her romantic relationship with Dick was doomed to failed: she was dating Nightwing, but she was in love with Robin.
• Mission Control: For the Birds of Prey usually, but also plays this for the Bat-Family if need be.
• Related in the Adaptation: To Max Gibson, who is her niece by marriage in Jason's timeline.

Stephanie Brown

Stephanie "Steph" Brown | Spoiler | Batgirl III | Batwoman II

The Rookie Vigilante, Spoiler, later the interim fourth Robin, the third Batgirl and finally the successor of Kate Kane as the second Batwoman. Family friend to the Waynes, best friend to Cassandra Cain, and former girlfriend to Tim Drake.

Daughter of Crystal Brown and Arthur Brown, the third-rate supervillain Cluemaster, Stephanie first became a vigilante to "spoil" her father's crime sprees much to Bruce's disapproval. When Tim was forced to quit because of his father, Bruce took on Steph as his replacement as Robin in a gambit to get Tim to come crawling back. Unfortunately, events spiraled out of control and Stephanie was forced to have her death faked by Dr. Leslie Thompson after being brutally tortured by Black Mask I in order to recover from the ordeal. Eventually when she finally returned, Cass handed her the mantle of Batgirl to become Black Bat. Stephanie continued on as Batgirl for several years before succeeding the deceased Kate Kane as Batwoman. After several more years as Batwoman, Stephanie eventually retired to get married and start a family, and passed on the mantle to Jason's eldest child, Carrie Kelley.

Tropes:

• Break the Cutie: She has a naturally cheery disposition in spite of being raised in Gotham, but her abduction by Lady Shiva flat-out traumatizes her, especially when Shiva begins her duel with Richard Dragon and Stephanie is exposed to how violent people can truly be when pushed.
• Damsel in Distress: She's abducted by Lady Shiva in order to force Cassandra out of hiding.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Little Miss Brown just was some charity case from the Narrows to Gotham's elite, until she miraculously ingratiated herself to the Waynes. Now, she's very much a person of interest.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her main color motif. Both her vigilante persona and her civilian plainclothes use a lot of purple — sorry, eggplant.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: The blonde Stephanie is noted to be one of the most empathetic members of the Bat-Family. Fittingly, the chapter where she finally appears in the new timeline is titled "Golden".
• Her Heart Will Go On: Genuinely did love her ex-boyfriend Tim Drake and regretted the fact that they never tried to repair their relationship. However, she did eventually move on from Tim's death, falling in love, marrying, and having a family with someone else.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: What she was to Cassandra, and is apparently bent on becoming again in the new timeline.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Serves as a platonic variant to both Cass and Jason, forcing them to get out more and enjoy themselves in different ways.
• Only Sane Man: Jason points out that Stephanie (the supervillain dad and the overworked junkie mom aside) is arguably the most normal of the Bats, especially compared to the core family. Her relatively normal childhood gave her a perspective that they lacked, which helped ground them.
• Penny Among Diamonds: She's low middle-class at best when she's thrust into Gotham Academy. This becomes especially pronounced when she befriends the Waynes, who are literally the richest family in the entire city.
• Scholarship Student: The Waynes discreetly arrange for her to go at Gotham Academy, giving her the opportunity to meet and interact with Tim and Damian.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Following the whole mess with Lady Shiva abducting her, Stephanie quickly puts two and two together and deduces that the Wayne family actually is the Bat-Family. She decides to keep quiet for now as she's not sure about how to tell them she's now into the secret.
• Social Climber: Accidentally done with her befriending the Wayne children.
• Took a Level in Badass: Massively so, enough that Kate Kane chose her as her successor before she died. In a flashback, Jason is perfectly comfortably leaving Gotham under her care while he spends an undetermined amount of time searching for Cass, who had gone missing at the time.

Duke Thomas

Duke Thomas | The Signal

Tropes

• Big Damn Heroes: Downplayed. He managed to stop Joker IV's rampage in its tracks, but this led to him being captured. It also gave Felicia Bell the opportunity to kill Joker IV, leading to her transformation into Joker V.
• Scholarship Student: He just happened to earn a place in Gotham Academy at the same time as Stephanie Brown.

Bette Kane

Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane | Flamebird | Hawkfire

Tropes

• Blue Blood: Belongs to one of the First Families, and is related to another through marriage.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: Downplayed. She's Kate Kane's cousin but considers her more of a sister.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: She deeply loves Kate and even partnered with her as a vigilante. When Kate died, the heartbroken Bette went civilian.
• Hypocrite: She considers Brucie's playboy lifestyle a complete embarrassment to the family, yet she tolerates Kate's Hard-Drinking Party Girl act in spite of it being just as embarrassing. The reason why? She's closer to Kate.
• Last of Her Kind: After Jacob and Kate's deaths, she became the last of the Kane family. Her decision to marry and not keep her maiden name spelled the end of the Kanes.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Bette is very much involved with Gotham politics and a mite elitist. She also genuinely loves Bruce and is happy to meet his adoptive children. She also treats their friends Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown very well, despite them being far beneath her in social status.
• The Mentor: Alongside Lucius Fox, she mentored Jason in Gotham politics.
• Nephewism: Following her parents' death, she was taken in by her uncle Jacob.

Kate Kane

Katherine "Kate" Kane | Batwoman I

Bruce's first cousin (her father and his mother were siblings). In the original timeline, she and her lover Renee Montoya were killed by the Court of Owls.

Tropes

• Berserk Button: Her discharge from West Point. When discussing the First Families, Jason point-blanks tells his family to never mention it around her. Ever.
• Blue Blood: Belongs to one of the First Families, and is related to another through marriage.
• Former Teen Rebel: Jason confesses he actually forgot how wild Kate was before she took on the mantle of Batwoman.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: The first thing she's seen doing at Jason's gala is downing glass after glass. Jason actually describes her as "wild".
• Inadequate Inheritor: Kate isn't a good candidate to perpetuate the Kane name, since she's currently a Hard-Drinking Party Girl and a lesbian. While she eventually grew out of the former, the latter isn't going anywhere and it's explained that the only way anyone is getting a kid out of her is if she goes the Chosen Conception Partner route or adopts like Bruce did.

Max Gibson

Maxine "Max" Gibson

The daughter of Tamara Fox and her husband Orenthal Gibson, and thus the niece of Barbara Gordon and Luke Fox. The best friend of Terry McGinnis, the fourth Batman.

Tropes

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Terry and her are Childhood Friends in this continuity.
  • Her relationship with the Bat-Family in general is much different here. In the original Batman Beyond cartoon, Max became a part of Terry's secret life as Batman largely by accident and was often shut out of it by Bruce and even Terry himself. Here, she's a Fox and the niece of two members of the Family, meaning she's in the secret right from the beginning. Hell, she's known Jason longer than Terry has and her mom even dated the original Red Robin, Tim Drake.
• Adaptational Wealth: It's unclear what Max's exact social class is in canon, but in this continuity, she's a Fox, making her one of the richest people in Gotham City.
• Laugh Themselves Sick: Collapses in laughter watching Terry try to explain to his girlfriend Dana that he's a Wayne.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Terry, who is her best friend.
• Related in the Adaptation: She's the daughter of Tam Fox here, making her the granddaughter of Lucius Fox and the niece of Luke Fox. She's also the niece by marriage of Barbara Gordon as a result.
• Secretly Wealthy: She doesn't like to advertise the fact that she's a Fox and uses her father's comparatively less famous last name to hide that. Of her immediate social circle, only Terry is confirmed to know, and that's because he grew up with her and is even richer than she is.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: She loves taking the mickey out of Terry.

Assorted Relatives of the Waynes and Associates

Jack Drake

Jack Drake

The father of Tim Drake, and acting CEO of Drake Industries.

Tropes:

• In Spite of a Nail: Is still killed at the hands of a supervillain, despite Jean Loring's plot being foiled. Only this time, the Joker is responsible, and since the Joker wasn't killed like Captain Boomerang, Tim immediately goes off the rails and tries to avenge him.
• Marriage of Convenience: He married Janet so she could fund his archaeological digs. Tim believes that they were fond of each other at first, but after Janet's social ambitions failed and she started tagging with him during his business trips, it became clear they were a poor match as a couple. Prior to the attack by the Obeah Man, their marriage was on its last legs and Tim was already trying to decide between which parent he was going to stay with.
• Not Enough to Bury: He was completely vaporized by the explosion and Word of God confirms that he was, in fact, killed. That means he's getting an empty casket burial.
• Parental Neglect: He was traveling the world for business trips while Tim was looked after by housekeepers and sent to boarding schools.

Crystal Brown

Crystal Brown

The mother of Stephanie Brown and estranged wife to Arthur Brown A.K.A. the supervillain Cluemaster.

Tropes:

• Parental Neglect: Downplayed in comparison to the Drakes, and portrayed far more sympathetically, but Crystal is still this on account of being both an overworked nurse and recovering drug addict.
• Parents as People: She cannot be a genuinely good mother to Steph on account of her working and drug issues, but there's no denying her love for her daughter when she goes to pieces over the girl's abduction.
• Triple Shifter: She's mentioned having three different jobs to pay the bills, so she cannot pay much attention to Stephanie.

Jacob Kane

Jacob Kane

The father of Kate Kane, brother to the late Martha Wayne, and uncle to Bruce Wayne and Bette Kane.

Tropes:

• Blue Blood: He belongs to one of Gotham's First Families.
• Everyone Has Standards: In spite of his estranged relationship with his nephew Bruce, Jacob is genuinely happy and relieved to hear about Jason coming back alive to his father. It might be Fridge Brilliance as Jacob himself lost one of his daughters: of course he wouldn't wish that kind of pain on Bruce.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He lost his first wife and one of his twin daughters in a car accident.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Inverted, he's mentioned trying to rein Kate in when she starts to get into the alcohol at Jason's gala.
• You Should Have Died Instead: Downplayed. Jacob never forgave Thomas Wayne for his decision to take a shortcut through Park Row (the future Crime Alley) with his family, leading to the deaths of both Thomas and his wife Martha, Jacob's sister. This strained his relationship with their son and Jacob's nephew Bruce.

Dana Tan

Dana Wayne, nee Tan

The girlfriend and eventual wife of Terry McGinnis, the fourth Batman.

Tropes

• A Day in the Limelight: She's the main POV character for the special interlude in the second story.
• Meet Cute: Met Terry after he accidentally tripped over her legs while trying to sit next to her on the bus.
• Nouveau Riche: While the Tans are a wealthy family, by the time Dana meets Terry they've only had their fortune for about ten years and have only lived in Gotham for about three generations, making them one of the really minor families. It's implied that Terry's relationship with Dana was considered something of a scandal in Gotham's more select circles for that reason.
• Official Couple: With Terry.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls quickly for Nice Guy Terry, in comparison to her other love interest Nelson Nash, who only dated her to make Blade jealous.
• Understanding Girlfriend: She forgives Terry for hiding his relation to the Wayne name after realizing he wanted for her to genuinely fall for him, not for his money or fame.
• Uptown Girl: Thought she might be this to Terry, who was cagey about who his family was in the early onset of their relationship. After finding out Terry was a Wayne, she quickly realized it was the other way around.

The Kents of Kansas | The House of El

General

The Kents are a simple family of farmers from Kansas. They would've never been anything of note, had fate not decided otherwise and crash-landed the space pod of the Last Son of Krypton near their farm. Adopted and raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent, Kal-El, known to Earth as Clark Kent, grew up as a normal child until one day he started developing extraordinary powers, beyond anything ever seen before. Learning of his heritage, Clark decided to use his gifts to help people, and became the legendary hero Superman — starting the greatest and most enduring superhero dynasty of all time.

Tropes:

• Badass Family: Unquestionably the most powerful family in the world, bar none.
• Changing of the Guard:
  • Take Up My Sword:
    • Clark Kent to Conner Kent, after his Heroic Sacrifice to seal Darkseid into the Source Wall.
    • Conner Kent to Jon Kent, after his (second) Heroic Sacrifice to save the multiverse.
• Legacy Character: Much like the Waynes, they have numerous mantles that they cycle through.
• Nice Guy: All of them are super nice, to the point one would think it's genetic. In fact, one of the reasons why Jason allowed Dam to date Helena was because he was a Kent, and there's no one that would've treated her better than one of them.
• True Companions: With the Waynes of Gotham. The Kents are some of the few allowed to know that the Waynes' Secret Identities, and vice versa. On top of that, several pairings of Heterosexual Life-Partners have emerged from the two families: Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne, Conner Kent and Tim Drake, then Conner Kent and Jason Todd (years after Tim's death), and finally Jon Kent and Damian Wayne. This reached its logical conclusion with the two families becoming one, when Damian Kent (named after the aforementioned Damian Wayne) received Jason's blessing to ask his daughter Helena Wayne to marry him. Donna, upon traveling back, reveals that the two are still married and now have a pair of twin boys: Clark Jr., and Bruce Jr.

The First Generation

Clark Kent

Clark Joseph Kent / Kal-El | Superman I

Tropes:

• Big Eater: Bruce ruefully confesses Clark could eat a mountain for breakfast.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: He managed to lock Darkseid into the Source Wall with a Taking You with Me gambit. Is that awesome or what?
• Happily Married: With Lois Lane.
• Honourary Uncle: What Bruce's many children think of him, and he happily reciprocates.
• Oh, Crap!: Played for Laughs when he's informed the playdate between his son Jon and Damian he just agreed to has all the odds to end with the kids kicking the piss out of each other.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Bruce. When Diana learns about Jon and Damian's tensed-yet-grudgingly-affectionate relationship, she laughs the boys are exactly like their dads.

Lois Lane

Lois Lane-Kent

Tropes:

• Doting Grandparent: When Jason died, Lois just became a grandmother for the second time and constantly spammed him with photos of the baby.
• Happily Married: With Clark Kent.

Conner Kent

Conner Kent / Kon-El | Superboy I | Superman II

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Kara Danvers

Kara Danvers / Kara Zor-El | Supergirl I

Tropes:

• Protectorate: To Kon, mainly because of what happened to her Original counterpart.

The Second Generation

Jon Kent

Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent | Superboy II | Nightwing III | Superman III

Tropes:

• Cheerful Child: Very bouncing and energetic. It makes for contrast with the grumpy Damian.
• Generation Xerox: After learning their first meeting concluded in a fight resolved by teeth-clenched cooperation, an amused Diana declares Jon and Damian are exactly like their dads. So far, the laid-back, friendly and agressively cheerful Jon didn't make a liar of her.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: In spite of a really shaky start, he grew into this with Damian in the previous timeline, and Jason ensures they meet and bond again in the current one.
• His Heart Will Go On: Platonic variant. He first refused to assume the Superman mantle at all when Damian's premature demise ruined his promise to be the Man of Steel to his best friend's Dark Knight. Several years later, he had mourned enough and was aware the world needed someone experienced to be Superman after Conner's death, and finally accepted his birthright.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Clark agreed to arrange a play date for him with Damian as he could see Jon was depressed over the fact he couldn't share his superpowers with other kids in his age range.
• The Promise: He couldn't bear to become the second Superman because he had sworn he would be the Superman to Damian's Batman, and took up the Nightwing mantle instead. He ultimately accepted the Superman title fifteen years following Damian's demise after Conner's death.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Damian. They may frequently get on each other's nerves, but their friendship is even tighter than their dads.

Lara Kent

Lara Kent | Supergirl II

Tropes:

• Dead Guy Junior: Named after her paternal grandmother, Lara Lor-Van.
• The Ghost: There was no mention of her existence until Jason brought her up during his discussion with the Kents about the future.

Damian Kent

Damian "Dam" Kent / Dam-El | Superboy III | Nightwing IV | Superman IV

Tropes:

• Childhood Friend Romance: He first met Helena when he was training under Jason to become the next Superboy. By all accounts he's never loved anyone else but her.
• Clones Are People, Too: He's a clone like Kon. To be more specific, he's one of Clark and Zod.
• Dead Guy Junior: Played with. He was allowed to choose his own name and happened upon 'Damian' by complete happenstance. When he learned about Damian Wayne it only cemented his choice, as it was the name of a great hero he had come to admire.
• Generation Xerox: Not only does he become Superman like Clark, he even marries a human woman and his children with her.
• Love at First Punch: According to Word of God, he fell for Helena after she kicked his ass in their first spar during his training with Jason.
• Official Couple: With Helena Wayne.

The Amazons of Themyscira and Bana-Mighdall

Diana Prince

Princess Diana of Themyscira / Diana Prince | Wonder Woman I

Tropes:

• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted. By the time Donna is done with her, Diana is a complete and utter wreck, with a bruised face, split lips, and a heavily swollen eye. She's so battered all over that Jason and Cassie immediately dismiss her weak protests that the latter get treatment first because she obviously needs it more.
• The Confidant: Due to her compassionate and kind nature, Diana is the first person Jason really confides to about his life in the previous timeline. She comforts him in return, and reassures him that though the family he has now isn't the family he remembers, they are still his family regardless.
• Cool Aunt: To Bruce's flock of children.
• Heroic Fatigue: Losing Clark and Bruce took a heavy toll upon her, and she grew tired of always fighting the same fights. This played a part in her decision to become the Queen of the Amazons when Hippolyta finally died.
• Retired Badass: Unlike Clark and Bruce, she simply retired from superheroics to succeed her deceased mother as Queen of the Amazons.
• The Worf Effect: Wonder Woman Donna gives her a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to show off how much more powerful and skilled she is.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She gently yet firmly scolds Jason for calling himself a mere replacement to Bruce and Dick's Batmen — he was their successor, just as worthy of the mantle as they were.

Artemis

Artemis of Bana-Mighdall

Tropes:

• Amicable Exes: Her ultimate dynamic with Jason.
• Easily Forgiven: Jason is surprisingly sanguine regarding the fact she hid their daughter from him until he was on his deathbed. He admitted that part of it was because he was dying and didn't have the energy to get angry at her anymore.
• Interspecies Romance: She's an Amazon who carried an affair with a human male.
• My Secret Pregnancy: She went back to Themiscyra to carry and birth her daughter Penelope, whom she raised there.

Donna Troy

Donna Troy | Wonder Girl I | Troia I | Wonder Woman II

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Cassie Sandsmark

Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark | Wonder Girl II

Tropes:

• Amicable Exes: With Conner Kent.
• Death by Origin Story: It was her death that eventually inspired Donna to return to Man's World to become the second Wonder Woman.
• Healing Factor: Jason confirms she has one, and claims that activating it was one of the first things Donna did when she was given control over Cassie's seal. He immediately regrets telling her when she uses that as an excuse to run off and help the rest of the Era 2 JL confront Wonder Woman Donna.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Yes, something Jason is not happy about. It seems she's taken his criticisms to heart, however, considering that she was a lot more reluctant to face off against a rampaging Giganta in the following battle.
• Legacy Character: The second Wonder Girl.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: She was rather shocked to learn Zeus was her father, but took it relatively better than she did in the original timeline due to the revelation coming from her mother this time.
• Plucky Girl: Which is admirable, but also the source of her Leeroy Jenkins tendencies, much to the exasperation of her mentors.
• Semi-Divine: She's the demigodess daughter of Zeus, and the only reason she didn't have any powers at first is because Zeus put a seal on her at birth at her mother's request. After Donna gains control of the seal, she begins to release some of her defensive abilities, with the promise of releasing/increasing her offensive ones when she grows more in skill and experience.
• The Worf Effect: Cassie didn't manage land a single meaningful hit on Wonder Woman Donna, instead reduced to being occasionally slapped around while the latter beat the hell out of Diana.

The Lanterns

Hal Jordan

Harold "Hal" Jordan | Green Lantern 2814 | Parallax

Tropes:

• The Ace: He's the greatest of the Green Lanterns for a reason. He was the only one that was able to restrain his Era 2 successor on his own with minimal help from their contemporaries. The fact that this was Kyle, the strongest member of the Era 2 JL, makes it all the more impressive.
• Demonic Possession: Parallax is still using him as its host at this point in the timeline. He's ultimately rescued when Era 2 is abducted by Vandal Savage.
• Heroic BSoD: Post-Parallax. Jason manages to snap him out of it long enough to enlist his help against White Lantern Kyle.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After he's freed from Parallax's possession, his normal morality 'reasserts itself', causing this reaction to his many crimes.
• Use Your Head: How he ultimately gives M'gann the opening to break Savage's mind control on Kyle — he headbutts Kyle, stunning him long enough for M'gann to invade Kyle's mind from behind.

Kyle Rayner

Kyle Aaron Rayner | Green Lantern 2814.4 | Ion | White Lantern

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Atlantis

First Generation

Arthur Curry

King Arthur Curry | Aquaman I

Tropes:

• Arch-Enemy: Black Manta, who was indirectly responsible for his father's death. In turn, Arthur ended up killing Manta's father, spiraling them into a Cycle of Revenge that saw a significant portion of Atlantis destroyed, Arthur dead by Manta's hands, and Manta dead by his own son's hands.
• Everyone Has Standards: He won't let Kaldur murder someone for his sake, especially Kaldur's own father, even when said father is his Arch-Enemy Black Manta.
• The Good King: Kaldur certainly seems to think so.
• Outliving One's Offspring: By the time the superhero game begins, he's still mourning the death of his son, Arthur Curry Jr.
• Parental Abandonment: He died when his surviving child Atlanna was barely three years old.

Mera

Queen Mera

Tropes:

• Mother Makes You King: Mera became Atlanna's regent after Arthur died, and did everything she could to ensure that Atlanna's eventual rise to power went smoothly, including mandating that her daughter marry a full-blooded Atlantean to assuage their people.
• Secret-Keeper: Regarding the fact that Black Manta — her love's archnemesis — had sired a child on her friend Shailana. She's understandably reluctant to break her silence, in spite of Jason revealing a potential danger looming over Kaldur.

Garth

Garth | Aqualad I | Tempest | Aquaman II

Tropes:

• Ambadassador: After he retired from superheroism, he became Atlantis' primary ambassador to the surface world.
• Legacy Character: The second Aquaman, succeeding his mentor and king, Arthur Curry. In turn, he was succeeded by Kaldur'ahm.
• Retired Badass: He retired from being Aquaman and passed on the mantle to Kaldur to save his marriage with Dolphin.

Kaldur'ahm

Kaldur'ahm / Jackson Hyde | Aqualad II | Aquaman III

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Second Generation

Atlanna

Queen Atlanna II

Tropes:

• A Child Shall Lead Them: She was barely three years old when she was crowned Queen of Atlantis, after her father was killed by Black Manta. Downplayed in that she was mainly a figurehead until she reached her majority, and that her mother did the actual ruling until then.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Cerdian.
• Heinz Hybrid: She's one-fourth Atlantean, one-fourth human, and half-Xebelian. Played for Drama in that most Atlanteans are deeply unhappy that she's more Xebelian than Atlantean, which is why she had to choose a full-blooded Atlantean as her husband.
• Protectorate: To Kaldur'ahm. Even long after she had outgrown him and his teachings, he was completely and utterly devoted to her.
• Uptown Girl: To Cerdian. While they were Childhood Friends, Cerdian was technically a normal Atlantean who happened to be the son of her father's first protege, while Atlanna was Queen of Atlantis and was descended from two royal lines.

Cerdian

King Consort Cerdian

Tropes

• Childhood Friend Romance: With Atlanna.
• Heroic Lineage: He's the son of the first Aqualad and second Aquaman, Garth.
• Insecure Love Interest: He was deeply insecure about pursuing Atlanna, despite knowing her all his life, because she was Queen of Atlantis. Kaldur'ahm has to give him a speech illuminating the qualities that would make him an appealing suitor to not just Atlanna but Mera as well in order to convince him to give it a shot. As you can see, it worked out.

The Martians

J'onn J'onzz

J'onn J'onzz | Martian Manhunter

Tropes:

• Always Someone Better: He shows some annoyance over how much better M'gann is at using their Martian abilities for combat.
• Hope Spot: He's overjoyed when informed of M'gann's existence, but after meeting her in the flesh, he realizes she's a White Martian instead of the Green one he thought she was. After seeing her memories, however, he quickly warms up to her.
• Last of His Kind: For the Green Martians.
• Morality Chain: For M'gann. After he died, M'gann's sanity and overall morality took a sharp downturn, and while she recovered, she's now an overall more cynical person. She noticeably perks up, however, when she meets J'onn again.

M'gann M'orzz

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The West-Allen Family of the Gemstone Cities

First Generation

Wally West

Wallace "Wally" Rudolph West II | Kid Flash I | The Flash III

Tropes:

• Alternate Self: Of his cousin Wallace West. Wally is in fact the original Wally, while Wallace was created by Flashpoint in the post-Flashpoint timeline.

Bart Allen

Bartholomew "Bart" Henry Allen II | Impulse | Kid Flash II | The Flash IV

Tropes:

• The Ditz: Thanks to his ADHD.
• Motor Mouth: Yes.
• Mundane Utility: Subverted. During the battle against Kyle, Jason charges with evacuating any heroes that are injured or exhausted, and plainly tells him he could be the difference between life or death for these people. While it may be seemingly mundane to use Bart's Super-Speed like this, it's actually the most important job Jason charged to one of the younger heroes.

Second Generation

Wallace West

Wallace Rudolph West III | Kid Flash III | The Flash V

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The Queens of Star City

The First Generation

Roy Harper

Roy Harper | Speedy I | Arsenal I

Tropes:

• The Bro Code: Discussed. He admits to Jason he would've been mad if Jason and Donna had gotten together when he was alive. However, since their relationship didn't start until literal decades after his death, he was just happy that they managed to find love with each other.
• Didn't Think This Through: Jason muses it was rather insensitive and stupid to ask a Quraci woman to babysit the daughter of Cheshire — the supervillain who dropped a nuke on Qurac "just because".
• Disappeared Dad: He died when Lian was very young, forcing her to be raised by Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance.
• First Love: Hinted to be this for Donna Troy.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted. Jason and Kori still fondly thought of him well into their late forties/early fifties, and Jason's close relationship with Lian (of whom he considers a treasured niece) and implied romance with Donna stemmed partially from his friendship with Roy. Even decades after his death, people never forgot him, not even for a moment.
• Good Parents: Utterly devoted to his daughter Lian.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The original Roy gives his retroactive blessing to Jason and Donna's relationship when he finally meets Jason again in limbo.
• Two Guys and a Girl: He formed the Outlaws with Jason and Starfire.

Connor Hawke

Connor Hawke | Green Arrow II

Tropes:

• Celibate Hero: Buddhist monk. This, ironically, means he's the only man Jason will allow to date his sister Cass without his explicit permission.
• The Ghost: He's been mentioned, but doesn't really have a presence in the first story.
• World's Best Warrior: Second best warrior, in fact, behind Cassandra Cain and above Jason Todd. According to Jason he was also the greatest master of projectile weaponry in the world during his lifetime.

The Second Generation

Lian Harper

Lian Harper | Speedy III | Arsenal II | Green Arrow III

Tropes:

• Affirmative-Action Legacy: A woman of Vietnamese and Navajo descent who later became the second Arsenal and third Green Arrow.
• The Cutie: Four-year-old Lian is nothing short of adorable.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: Spider variant, which made her shriek and bump her toe into a table.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Her dynamic with Carrie Kelley has strong shades of Jason and Roy's friendship.
• Morality Pet: Even Damian can't bring himself to be a grouch to her.
• Precocious Crush: After spending the day with Damian and him rescuing her from an errant spider, she's noticeably blushing.
• Raised by Grandparents: In the original timeline, after Roy died. It's implied Cheshire was still an option at the time (she did end up dying years later), but since she was a sociopathic assassin supervillain, obviously she didn't end up with custody.

Dakota City

Augustus Freeman IV

Arnus of Terminus | Augustus Freeman I-IV | Icon I

Tropes:

• The Cape: He's basically the Superman of Dakota City.
• The Mentor: To Rocket, Static, and Gear.

Virgil Hawkins

Virgil Hawkins | Static

Tropes:

• Shock and Awe: His power set involves electrical generation and the manipulation of electromagnetism.

Richie Foley

Richard "Richie" Foley | Gear

Tropes:

• Gadgeteer Genius: His specialty, thanks to enhanced intelligence.

Raquel Ervin

Raquel Ervin | Rocket | Icon II

Tropes:

• Legacy Character: She succeeded her mentor as Icon in the previous timeline.

Adam Evans

Adam Evans | Rubberband Man

Tropes:

• Rubber Man: He has a similar power set to Plastic Man and Elongated Man, being able to stretch his body and contort it for limited shapeshifting.

Other Heroes and Assorted Acquaintances

Starfire

Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran / Kori Anders | Starfire

Tropes

• Her Heart Will Go On: She loved Dick and she mourned his death, yet she still decided to continue to live on.
• Interspecies Romance: A Tamaranean who fell in love with a human.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Jason, who fully admits to Dick that he considers her family as much as he does Babs.
• New Old Flame: To Dick. Kori was actually Dick's first major relationship, with the two almost getting married at one point. They drifted apart romantically for several years only to get back together after Dick broke up with Barbara for good.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Formed one with Jason and Roy as the Outlaws.
• Second Love: For Dick. While he had a major relationship with Kori first, Barbara was his first major crush. He actually intended to propose again but never got the chance due to his death.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She was very deeply in love with Dick, who is one of the nicest men in the superhero community.

Zatanna Zatara

Zatanna Zatara

Tropes

• Childhood Friend Romance: With Bruce. Downplayed in that their relationship isn't very serious.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: She tells Jason his soul is particularly powerful.
• Friends with Benefits: Implied to have something of an arrangement with Bruce.
• Magicians Are Wizards: The archetypal example. She spices her stage act with a pinch of real sorcery.
• Ship Tease: While his affections for her don't quite reach the heights of those he has for Selina Kyle and Talia al Ghul, Bruce feels more than just friendship for her. Enough that Jason felt it necessary to cock-block him.

Richard Dragon

Richard Drakunovski | Richard Dragon

Tropes

• The Aloner: The more he ages, the more he isolates himself.
• Arch-Enemy: To Lady Shiva.
• Dating Catwoman: Downplayed as Sandra and him were together before she became Shiva, and her current lifestyle is what caused them to drift apart. Yet he can't help but still hold a torch for her, and tries to appeal to the woman he still believes her to be.
• Disappointed in You: Dragon is not impressed with Shiva's murderous methods in dealing with her grief over Carolyn's murder, and says as much to her face.
• The Dreaded: When you can make Lady Shiva (a full-blown nightmare in her own right) flinch at the sight of you, you are most certainly this.
• Fiery Redhead: Averted. His hair is said to be a striking red but Dragon is quite cool-headed.
• The Mentor:
  • A well-known one in the martial arts and vigilante communities. He's taught some of the best of the best, including four members of the Bat-Family: Bruce, Dick, Barbara, and Jason (who was one of his last students).
  • In the present timeline, Bruce sought him out to help Cassandra regain the lost portion of her body-reading ability (or at least teach her something to compensate for it).
• Papa Wolf: Dragon feels protective towards Cassandra, probably because she reminds him of her mother before Sandra became Lady Shiva. He outright goes to town on said mother in order to spare Cass a brutal beatdown.
• The Perils of Being the Best: Jason doesn't dislike Dragon himself; on the contrary, he has nothing but the utmost respect for him. What he dislikes is the fact that people eager to prove themselves more skilled than the man are going to stalk and attack him while he's training Cassandra — up to and including Lady Shiva. Ultimately, this is why Dragon is forced to leave after Stephanie is saved from Shiva. While he didn't draw Shiva to Gotham, now that his presence there has been exposed to her it will only be a matter of time before the information spreads and this trope comes into play.
• Renowned Selective Mentor: Dragon has a serious claim to the title of World's Best Warrior, but a combination of relative obscurity and his own retirement means he accepts few people as students. Oh, and Shiva apparently tends to kill them after they complete their training with him (since he's that good of a teacher), so he's not feeling very mentor-ly most of the time.
• Terse Talker: His sentences when talking with Jason are blunt, short and straightforward.
• The Rival: To Lady Shiva.
• Was It Really Worth It?: He asks this to Sandra Wu-San, regarding her decision to abandon her own daughter to a hellish childhood in the name of "strength". Shiva doesn't give a damn.
• We Used to Be Friends: The narrative notes that Richard Dragon is both Shiva's greatest rival, and possibly the only man in the world that has a place in her heart.
• World's Best Warrior: Lady Shiva's one true equal as a martial artist. Many of the people he's trained can also stake a claim to the title.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: He turns Shiva's accusation of wasting his potential against her, telling her she merely revels in violence instead of using her skills for something constructive.

Death

Death of the Endless

Tropes

• Big Damn Kiss: With Jason, both as a gesture of love, and to breath the breath of life back into him.
• The Chooser of the One: She's the one who decides the next wielder of the Balance. Specific criteria that are implied or mentioned including being willing to give your life to save others and having a particularly powerful soul.
• Deader than Dead: Any soul bearing her mark can never come back to life.
• Divine Date: Subverted. She shares a mutual attraction with Jason, but also accepts that they can't be in a relationship.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: As always. Unless you're trying to cheat her via being immortal, then she takes steps to ensure they're dealt with.
• God's Hands Are Tied: Word of God confirms she knew about Savage's plot and didn't like it, but had to go with it because it was written in the Book of Destiny.
• My Greatest Failure: After she forged the Balance, she handed it off to the best warrior she could find and instructed him to kill all immortals. He did — and then started killing innocents because he had fallen in love with her and wanted to keep seeing her. She was understandably horrified, marked him so he could never come back to life, and was a lot more careful choosing his successor.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Jason. Jason has fallen in love with her, and she returns his feelings, but both know they can never be together.