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The video starts with a blonde girl looking at the camera curling her lashes as a professor drones about the autoimmune system. Suddenly, a loud noise pops from the front of the lecture hall. The girl looks up, stunned, before flipping the camera to face the commotion.

A man stands at the door, drenched in water, head covered by a bucket labeled “Tardy”. He lifts the bucket off his head and glares at the lecturer, who looks unamused.

“Professor Drake, would you care to tell us where you spleen is located?”

Drake shrugs, “Probably in a jar somewhere. Why are you in the language hall?”

“Glitter bomb,” the professor blinks. Drake nods in understanding and leaves the room.

The camera zooms to the remaining man in the frame, mouthing “in a jar” with a confused expression. 

Comments

skibiditoiletrizz69: honestly, i thought organs disappearing would be a normal thing in Gotham

lexisbald: smash next question

Flash Victim: Why do they have tension?

poopypoo51: someone send this to @onlyingotham

spleensnatcher: stop tagging me in this ffs

ann0ying0range: @spleensnatcher

Vi: @spleensnatcher

nerdesh: @spleensnatcher

armyblink4life: everyone is worried about the spleen but is no one gonna talk abt how fine they both are? Im abt to transfer to gotham university

Anna (Taylor’s Version): Why does everyone immediately think someone snatched his spleen? Maybe he just got a splenectomy???

Jinx (49%): @spleen where’d you go babygirl

flashstolemyfood: I ated it

spleen: @flashstolemyfood you can ated me any day 😉

whodoomedmyyaoi: lowkey…ship

Kacchan: LMAO I THOUGHT IT WAS JSUT ME

vajayjay: YESSS! ENEMIES TO LOVERS 80K COLLEGE AU

Josh: these are real people? Stop shoving your agenda down our throats.

cvm: @Josh the only thing going down your throat are DEEZ NUTS BWHAHAHAHAH

Angel: Girl drop the lip liner shade

akiangelmybelobed: who gaf about his organs someone get me his number

Andy =/: He looks like a drenched rat?????

Chapter Text

A new video is posted a week later by the same girl. 

She is lying on the bed of her dorm room. “Hey, it’s Lola. Um. I was not expecting that video to get the attention that it did, but half the internet is thirsting over my teacher now, I guess,” she grimaces. “Please stop, by the way. He may look fun, but that dickhead assigned us a whole-ass lab report by the end of this week. It’s our second week! What the fuck do I know about biology!?

“I’m getting off track. The point of this video is the explain ‘the lore’ or whatever you nosy bitches feel entitled to. If I get a DM asking me about it, I’ll dox you on Lex’s site and claim you tried spewing alien propaganda at me,” Lola shifts her position on the bed, now sitting up.

“So I eavesdropped on some upperclassmen’s conversations and apparently, Professor Drake- the guy that got bucketed- is the new guy in the foreign languages department. His portfolio is super impressive and he’s a fun guy, from what I hear. He only started teaching about a year ago, but Professor Dowd and him have some sort of unspoken rivalry. They’ve been exchanging petty remarks the whole year and rumor has it, the teacher conferences they both attend end with a shit ton of back and forth.

“There’s a lot of speculation about why they act this way. But I’m too nosy to rely on speculation, so I asked the Dean,” Lola chuckles mischievously. “She said it was just hate at first sight that started with exchanged glares and it only got worse as they kept tying in teacher competitions- like GPA, passing percentages, attendance, stuff like that.”

Lola yawns. “Yeah, that’s all I could get. I’m gonna go to sleep now.”

The video ends.

Comments

picklebeater: awe im sorry all these ppl r bothering you :( stg they have jo sense of boundaries

ibeatYORmeat: i need to be a fly on the wall during theri teacherc onfrerence

flash is a food thief: Is it jyst me or do those names sound oddly familiar?

Robyn (Da Bank): ITS NOT JUST YOU!!! I THOUGHT THAT BLOND GUY LOOKEd SUPER FAMIALIR TOO

sshutURm0uth: girl the sun is high in the sky fym you’re gonna sleep?

iBalding: college is hard leave her alone :(

lexisbald: dooooon’t care. still smash

vajayjay: hate at first sight? 👀 drop the fics rn 

Vicky: I was in a cult with your teacher LOL

Robyn (Da Bank): 💀

The Bat: is no one gonna talk about how she threatened to dox us?

BBL DRIZZY @bbldrizzyyyy
So is anyone going to talk about how the two professors going viral right now are the people from the Louis Grieves Documentary?
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shakira shakira @myhipLIE
Replying to @bbldrizzyyyy
Oh damn. Now I feel like a fake American.
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Idiot 1 @thhreeidots
Replying to @bbldrizzyyyy
I just looked it up and what the fuck I feel sick
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xue yang @mdzsbrainr0t
Replying to @bbldrizzyyyy
would it be weird to say that i had a crush on Dowd when i was in elementary?
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I hate bald bitches @lexiisbald
Replying to @mdzsbrainr0t
would it be weird to say that I have a crush on him now?
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xue yang @mdzsbrainr0t
Replying to @lexiisbald
…yes

Flash the food thief victim #53 @yaoidemolisher
So do they like…not know they went to school together or what?
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Eat My @hairypossay
Replying to @yaoidemolisher
The Gotham Fumes got to them

Trending in United States

Louis Grieves

     trending with gun laws and gun violence

Trending in Gotham

Professors

     trending with don’t know? and stupid

Entertainment・ Trending

Louis Grieves: A Documentary

     trending with Darling Child Foundation

PeePeePooPoo @stacysmomma
For all of the non-Americans, the Louis Grieves Documentary was something we all watched during school assemblies in primary school. It focused on the 2008 Louis Grieves Tragedy. It remains the largest mass shooting in U.S. history (1/?)
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PeePeePooPoo @stacysmomma
Authorities speculate that the initial gunmen were aiming to capture Darla Aquista, a Junior whose father had ties to the mafia. The situation escalated into a shootout when Mr. Aquista sent people to retrieve or defend his daughter. (2/?)
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PeePeePooPoo @stacysmomma
According to the documentary, as many as five criminal organizations started joining as the whole fight was aired on television. (3/?)
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PeePeePooPoo @stacysmomma
Approximately 643 people died. 112 students, 7 teachers, 400 gang members, 68 police officers, and 56 bystanders. The injury statistic for everyone is unconfirmed, but 530 students came out physically injured. That leaves only 25% teenagers physically untouched. (4/5)
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PeePeePooPoo @stacysmomma
This is just the information about that specific area, by the way. Experts estimate more than 1000 deaths from the gang war in total when you include the shootouts all through the city. (5/5)

Aster @asterfromgotham
This thread is just surface-level. I will never forget how the federal government used this day to abandon Gotham completely and enact No Man's Land a bit later.

PeePeePooPoo @stacysmomma
For all of the non-Americans, the Louis…
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Show this thread 

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Gotham Knight @go4w4ymetropolis
Replying to @asterfromgotham
Not to mention the public’s reaction- it is one of the reasons I cannot stand the “only in gotham” meme. 

Fe @goldeelocke
I’m so confused what does Louis Grieves have to do with those professors
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shakira shakira @myhipLIE
Replying to @goldeelocke
Lets use our thinking caps 😀
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Fe @goldeelocke
Replying to @myhipLIE
???Can we not be passive aggressive???
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BBL DRIZZY @bbldrizzyyyy
Replying to @goldeelocke
the professors were close friends with Darla Aquista and were in the school when everything went down. there’s footage of both of them during the shooting as well as after. there’s also pictures of them all together in the yearbook

Amore @amore_santini
I remember being in 5th grade and getting to the part where they brought Darla Aquista out of the infirmary with my class. My teacher skipped that part because we were too young, but he told us that the medics had to break her fingers to remove her hold from her friend’s hand
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Amir @gorkhekukri
Replying to @amore_santini
i remember that too. my classmates started this thing where held their best friends’ hands in front of the whole class and declared they would die holding each others’ hands too
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Amore @amore_santini
Replying to @gorkhekukri
OH I remember that too! A little fucked up now that I think about it. 

Brendon @fisherh00k
Ok, so Professor Drake is the baseball bat guy and Professor Dowd is the sunglasses guy? 

Robyn read these posts out loud.

“I knew Prof. Drake seemed familiar,” Lucille laments, slamming their coffee on the table. “I can’t believe I spent all these years in the American Education system and failed to recognize him.”

“To be fair,” says Anya, “he’s like fifteen years older.”

“And he has that hideous slick back now,” Robyn giggles. “Our class has been trying to get him to ditch it.”

Lucille perks up. “Hey. Is it just me or does his hair look weirdly similar to Dowd’s high school abomination?”

Robyn pulls up a side-to-side comparison. “Huh. You’re right. Do you think it’s some subconscious thing based on an old friend he’s forgotten about?”

“What?”

“You can’t seriously think they don’t recognize each other,” says Anya. “Their beef is probably related to the whole thing.”

Lola slides into the seat next to Anya. “Nope. I just asked him about his dislike for Professor Drake.”

“Why the fuck would you do that?” Lucille yells.

Robyn shushes her friend. “What’d he say?”

“He went on a whole rant about teaching methods. I stopped listening halfway.”

Anya stares at Lola wide-eyed. “So you’re telling me they went through all of that and didn’t stay in touch at all?”

“Hey, people have weird coping mechanisms,” Lucille furrows their eyebrows. 

Robyn scoffs as she scrolls on her phone. “Yeah, and one of them is joining a cult, apparently.”

Her friends turn to face her, confused. She puts her phone in the middle of the table and the group crowds around it. It depicts a news report from 2009 detailing the downfall of a Gotham cult- the most striking thing on the screen is the picture of Professor Dowd. 

He still looks like a teenager, but his hair is different in the picture. That and also the fact that he’s shirtless and covered in blood- and scars. Dowd is looking at his hands, sitting in what appears to be a first aid tent as a medic looks him over. 

Bernard Dowd, a teenage victim of the Cult of Dionysus. He was found on an altar surrounded by dead cultists. We assume they had indoctrinated him with the intent to groom him to be the main sacrifice. 

Lola leans back on her chair. “Well. At least we know which one of our teachers has the cooler lore.” 

Lucille frowns. “Being in a cult doesn’t make him cooler than Professor Drake.”

“Yeah. Weren’t you complaining about his teaching two days ago?” Robyn demands.”

“That was before I knew it was graded on effort. Anya, we have the more interesting teacher,” she goes to high-five her friend.

Robyn blocks the girls’ high-five with her plate. “Being in a cult isn’t that interesting, we’re in Gotham. Professor Drake has that mysterious spleen plot. Our teacher is more interesting and he’s mysterious.”

Anya rolls her eyes. “He wasn’t just in a cult, he was the cult sacrifice. That doesn’t just happen to someone- even in Gotham. As for the missing organ… well I think like 39% of the city population has a missing one.”

“You pulled that statistic out of your ass!” Robyn slams her hand on the table.

Anya raises her voice. “The point is that Professor Dowd’s lore is so much more interesting! Didn’t you read the article? He was found on an altar surrounded by dead people.” 

Lola gasps, “Shit, do you think something possessed him and killed all the sacrifices?” 

“We’ll never know the answer to that,” Lucille tactfully ignores Anya’s whispered promise of I could find the answers if I look hard enough . “But, we could find Professor Drake’s missing spleen.”

Robyn jumps up, “What if some secret society stole it?”

“We could return it to him for extra credit!” The two begin smiling at least other like a pair of weirdos.

The people from the table next to them jump into the conversation. “You two do realize that he probably just had medical complications and had to get it removed, right?”

“Were you all eavesdropping the whole time?” Lola asks. 

The first guy rubs his neck. “I wouldn’t call it eavesdropping…” 

The girl next to him shows him out of the way to face them. Anya recognizes her as one of Lucille and Robyn’s classmates. “Ignore Derek. I’m Tanya. We were totally eavesdropping. And I totally think the mystery of the stolen spleen is more interesting than whatever cult thing your guy has going on.” Robyn and Lucille let out a cheer.

“Never thought I’d see the day where the language kids were more interested in organs than the biology kids,” the guy sitting across Tanya remarks.

The others ignore him.

“Our teacher started a hand-holding movement,” Lola starts.

“Ours went into a shootout with a baseball bat as a teenager,” Tanya looks smug.

Derek looks at his friend, “That’s not cool, it’s just stupid!”

“Shut the hell up, Derek!”

It goes like that for a while. The now-rivals (mostly Lola and Tanya) go back and forth bragging about their own teacher and belittling the other. They argue about everything from organs to cults to baseball bats to looks. They go at it for 8 minutes, attracting the attention of most of the people in the dining hall, before the guy sitting across Tanya steps in again.

He shoves the rest of his fries into the girls’ mouths. A muffled “Trevor!” escapes Tanya as she glares at the guy. 

“What if-” he starts. “What if we made a website for this argument– by we, I mean I, because the rest of you are shit with coding– where you guys compile the lore? We can tally the lore points.”

“Why can’t we just use Google Docs?” Anya looks unimpressed.

“It’s too easy to hack.”

“Who the hell would hack–” Derek lets out a gasp and points at Trevor accusingly. “You just want to exploit us for your final project.” 

Trevor smiles. “Not exploit, it’s a mutually beneficial relationship. A symbiotic one.”

“I guess it would be kinda fun,” Robyn shrugs. 

“Great! I’ll make it super exclusive too and send you guys the password.”

A random voice calls out from the other end of the dining hall. “Send it to me too!” Dozens of other voices join in.

In a city full of nosy people, there is no shame in eavesdropping. 

Chapter Text

Two weeks later, Gotham University had its own secret society- with their own website and everything!

DrakevDowd.com (DvD for short) was an instant hit in Gotham University. It was exclusive to the school and only available to students with their individual passwords that were delegated by the moderators.

The website read like an early 2000’s blog. The main page was a compiled list of every point the professors’ defendants made in favor of their chosen professors. As of now, they were tied with Drake having 1. Mysterious Missing Spleen 2. Louis Grieve: Baseball Bat Boy and Dowd having 1. Mysterious Cult Sacrifice 2. Louis Grieve: Handholding Trauma.

There was a scoreboard right underneath. Despite them having the same number of events, Dowd was winning with five points. Drake was not far behind with only three points.

The next two held the details and proofs. The Drake page had two linked videos, one of the fateful exchange earlier this year and one of the scenes from the documentary that showed the teenage Drake beating people up with bats. The former had a link underneath for an application form to join the Secret Spleen Spotters, who had their own hidden blog.

The Dowd page was formatted like a research paper. It presented a thorough explanation of the cult: its history, its inner workings, its goals, etcetra, as well as an explanation of Dowd’s involvement. There were footnotes and sources cited as well as a seperate section for relevant reprise. Under the research paper was the portion of the Documentary depicting Darla and Professor Dowd’s final moments together. Next to that was a video essay describing the impact of that clip.

Those were the only coherent pages on the website. The rest of it was chaos, which was blamed on the laziness of Trevor and his computer science groupmates. There were four public discord-style servers that stayed active morning, noon, and night. Some say students have stayed awake 3 days straight arguing on the main forum.

Three months later, the topic died down. All of the discussions were just recycled arguments with recycled points. Everyone had gotten bored. That is, until someone found a new source of speculation.

thechosenone: I still can’t believe none of you found the spleen. Smartest students in the nation my ass.

robynDaVinci: smd we’re working on it

DrakonDefendor: if we’re the smartest students in the nation, imagine how smart our profs are

thechosenone: @DrakonDefendor All I’m hearing is excuses

True_Criminal: So I think I found something

thechosenone: Is it the spleen?

lolala: is it info on the cult?

True_Criminal: @thechosenone @lolala No and No. Have you guys ever heard of the Alvin Draper case?

DvDplayer369: that’s some nerd shit. whats it gotta do with the guy?

True_Criminal: Wait I’ll make a seperate post

True_Criminal: Okay, so August of 2008, there were a series of robberies that occured within very small timeframes all over Europe. And by small timeframes, I mean small. Like, there were at least fifteen spanning across four countries in just one week. Which would be crazy in of itself, but authorities soon put together that this was all done by One Man: Alvin Draper. Eventually, a museum in Berlin called for a Global Guardian for extra security.

Draper was caught by the Guardian and extra policers, but escaped with the help of some armed assialants. That was when Interpol got involved. They were pretty much useless, though. Draper went on to perform a few other Art Heists before disappearing completely. No one ever found him.

Why is this relevant? Well, Interpol opened the case to the public two years later. This is the clearest picture next to a picture of Professor Drake:

[Two photos: 1.) Alvin Draper, a white male with pale skin and black hair, stepping into a taxi. Only his side profile is shown. 2.) A picture of young Tim Drake taken from the official Grieves yearbook in which he only his side profile is shown, as he is listening to whoever is speaking.]

battybat: no fcking way.

thechosenone: someone get a moderator here, I think Drake just surpassed Dowd forever

cultboy: You guys can’t seriously think this is real. They just have the same hair color and skin color smh.

spleensearcher: @cultboy and the same jaw, the same forehead shape, the same nose, the same posture??? If the guy isn’t Drake, I’ll sell my own spleen.

robynDaVinci: shit i bet this is how he lost his spleen

TaMere: This is at sleast 3 points on the scoreboard! L Dowders.

DeadRick: @TaMere I feel like international art theft really shouldn’t be celebrated? Neither should running into a war zone?

TaMere: @DeadRick joining a cult shouldn;t be celebrated either, but you still support yr precious blond man

TanYUH: @TaMere Ignore Derek, he’s a Star City transplant. He doesn’t even support either of them, hes js here to ruin our fun

YOUROVERLORD⭐: Mod here! Please dm me!

[Thread Frozen]

YOUROVERLORD⭐: After a lot of examining (multiple pictures and a face recognizing software), we’ve concluded that @True_Criminal’s theory about Professor Drake’s past is pretty viable. If any of you leak this, I will personally scour through your internet history and expose something so shameful, you build a time machine to ensure you never made the mistake of being a snitch. I know natives don’t need to hear this, but @transplants we have our eyes on you. The new information will be collected and put into the main pages in a day or so.

robynDaVinci: damn trevor

Robin3Supremacy: Fuck yo umean you’ll scour my history?

Mike: Bruh did you collect our data through this website or smth? China final boss

GreenArrow: you cant expose our internet history wtf

fanya: @Robin3Supremacy, @Mike, @GreenArrow you’re all true Gothamites now 😈

IvyLuvr: @Robin3Supremacy, @Mike, @GreenArrow no escape 😈

Spleenectemy: @Robin3Supremacy, @Mike, @GreenArrow NO NARCS IN GOTHAM 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

robynDaVinci: @transplants I think you should all be aware that Poison Ivy owes me a favor, so if you snitch, best believe you’re getting dunked in face-melting acid

MoonFoot: Kiler Croc owes me a favor as well! So after Ivy’s done with ur face, Croc’ll eat the rest of u

robynDaVinci: @MoonFoot what the fuck? how????

MoonFoot: @robynDaVinci my parents work in the sewers ^-^

Flash: maybe i shouoldnt’ve cime ehre what the hell is wring with yall

DeadRick: mood

Drapple: the toxic fumes got to them

lolala: Just dont be a narc

DrakonDefendor: @lolala aren’t you on Dowd’s side?

lolala: @DrakonDefendor Professor Dowd would disown me if I even thought about narcing on anyone, even if it is his sworn enemy. Also, ur name is corny asf

DrakonDefendor: @lolala as if yours is any better.

DooDoo: So is Drake some sort of Catwoman apprentice or what?

TanYUH: omg do you think he’s her son?

Smoothercriminal: @TanYUHI bet that’s why almost everything he stole had a black haired, blue eyed man in it. Do you think he was looking for his father?

TanYUH: @Smoothercriminal but why wuodl he be looking for his faher in museums?

robynDaVinci: @TanYUH WHAT IF HIS DADS A TIME TRAVELER???

TanYUH: come over rn we’ve got to get to the bottom of this

Smoothercriminal: @TanYUH Girl let me come too I made the idea in the first place

smoothcreaminal: I js saw some rando drag a whole murderboard to the West dormhouse. Idk what he was on but i bet it has smth to do with this damned website

TanYUH: AFTER ONE WEEK OF ENDLESS REASEARCH, WE’VE FINALLY CONNECTED THE DOCS!!!!!!!!!!!

Alvin Draper mostly took paintings or artifacts that consisted of one of two things: a tall man with dark hair (and often blue eyes) or a symbol of a bat.

Taking Draper’s (Drake’s) professionalism into account, there is only one explanation for all of this.

Professor Drake is the love child between Catwoman and Batman.

What other justification would there be for a highly trained stealthmaster to perform art heists so frantically while looking for bat symbols or a tall man? And everyone knows that in this time frame, Nightwing was filling in for Batman, so Batman was missing. Where was he? Time traveling. He was probably at the middle age crisis phase.

It is likely that the whole Batfamily knew about this, but didn’t tell Drake. Maybe it was because he’s estranged. Maybe it was because they didn’t know about his existence. Whatever. But Drake did not know what happened to his birth father. And as much as they hated each other, his mother loved the man dearly, so he went on a quest to find him again.

We’ve connected the dots.

lolala: You haven’t connected shit ☠️

THEOVERLORD⭐: Yeah, you haven’t connected shit

babygirl: all that yap did proved nothing but the fact that ur all crazy

Birdeth: Holy Fanfiction, Batman!

ST4BBER: yeah so this is just fanfiction? i think I saw this exact plot a few times over the past years

spl33nsn4tcher: Thought this was supposed to be an academic research website 🙄

pyggy: What I’m getting from this is that Prof Dowd has the sidequest lore and Prof Drake has the dad lore

smoothcreaminal: no, they both have lore. Dowd just has the supernatural lore and drake as the sherloc holmes lore

pyggy: @smoothcreaminal Wait, so like they’re two different genres. Dowd is supernatural horror and Drake is art heist

pspspspherekitty: A brave individual asked Drake how old he was when he lost his spleen. He was 17. Do with that what you will.

TanYUH: SO IT WAS DURING HIS ART THEIF ERA!? @spleenfinder COLLABORATE WITH ME PLS PLS PLS

spleenfinder: @TanYUH i wouldve said yes an hour ago, but looking at your recent post…im gonna have to pass.

TanYUH: @spleenfinder It’s a theory a you know it.

DowDowBird: Reverse searched Dowd’s pictures on the old goonion app and found this:

[Two screenshots. One was a post of a blond boy with sunglasses on the drivers seat of an beaten down car. The post was captioned, “Is he a legacy goon? Never met a rookie with such unhinged driving skills.” The next screenshot was of the comment section:

robbie: Oh hey, he was the getaway driver for our bank heist last week. Seemed like a good kid, if a bit insane.

Gaston: @robbie Hey was in ours too! Drove like a damn maniac, I swear I saw my dead grandmother htat day. Good to see he’s going places.

binky: @Gaston I wouldn’t say illegal getaway driving is ‘going places,’ but its definitely an upgrade from the cult he was in… and the illegal drag racing group.

robinsbabysiter: @binky i hate to say it, but kids theez days our out of control

rightarmman: @binky Nah, I think hes back at the drag race team. Kid’s prolly working two jobs.

binky: @rightarmman Again, these things arent real jobs]

StacysMom: so is the university just full of ex-criminals?

DeadRick: @StacysMom Well, it’s Gotham. Everyone is an ex-criminal

Scoreboard:

Professor Dowd: 7 points

1. Part of one of the most mysterious cults in Gotham

2. Sacrifical Lamb for said Cult

3. Potential suspect for the brutal murder of his sacrificers (has no memory of this event)

4. Famous Grieve Student

5. Started a hand-holding movement

6. Drag Racer

7. Getaway Driver

Professor Drake: 5 points

1. Mysterious Spleen Shortage

2. Grieve Student

3. Ran into shootout with just a baseball bat and stayed alive

4. International Art Theft

5. Wanted by Interpol, Never Found

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theInfant: Can yall stop Tryna act like a measley getway guy is more impressive then a guy wanted by interpole 💀

Theboy: you’re clearly not prof dowd’s student and, judging from the 4 misspellings in your sentence, so i suggest you mind your own business

Flash: i refuse to believe they just picked out a random high schooler to sacrice. theres’ gotta be something more to the story

sandel: Transplant

hOODLum: transplant

BBfan: Transpant

Davd: either a transplant or a Delusional Dowder. ur precious prof isnt gonna climb that scoreboard dwag

Serena: you guys are always hating on us transplants but is Professor Dowd even a native? i mean i’ve never seen a gotham native so sunny and happy

[picture of Bernard, taken from the Grieve yearbook, where he is smiling brightly amid a group of frowning kids]

like he even dresses like a transplant. no real gothamite would be caught dead wearing neon.

fanya: ur clearly a transplant too if you think gothamites don’t dress like that

cvm037: typical transplant stereotyping all gothamites as goths

TeaLover378: Don’t let them silence you, pooksie! You’re right and you should speak your truth!

DrakonDefendor: @TeaLover378 I’m not even a Dowder, but not all gothamites have the same color pallet. That is common sense, I fear.

Serena: @DrakonDefendor really? then go out on the street and show me ONE person who dresses like this. I’ll wait.

MoonFoot: @Serena Since u asked so nicely: [A collage of Gothamites dressing in bright colors]

Serena: …those are all rogues?

MoonFoot: Are you saying rogues aren’t human?

Serena: @MoonFoot one of them is literally a fucking murderous crocodile

MoonFoot: @Serena Hey! Waylon isn’t murderous anymore! He just has different dietary needs. AND HE’S NOT AN ACTUAL CROCODILE I HATE TRANSPLANTS

robynDaVinci: @MoonFoot what the fuck????

DeadRick: Are you implying that Dowd could be a rogue?

MoonFoot: @DeadRick Well, that wasn’t my intention, but…he fits the profile

lolala: I wonder where all that brightness went…

sodamite: probably to Dionysus or whoever he got sacrificed to

lolala: @sodamite Oh shit ur right. Do you think his essence got sucked out of him and that’s why he’s such a grouch nowadays?

sodamite: @lolala well, i think the person we know is the summoned demon or god or whatever. theres no way he’s the same person. He was body snatched

lolala: @sodamite Wait that makes so much sense! It explains why the cultists were all dead omg the GUILT

GreenArrow: @sodamite, @lolala you guys do realize he went through a traumatic ass incident, right? I doubt anyone would be able to smile brightly after that

lolala: @GreenArrow No, he was seen smiling likke that a couple times after the shootung but never after the cult

GreenArrow: @lolala I was talking about the cult??? Thats a pretty traumatic thing to hv lived through???

lolala: @GreenArrow transplant

sodamite: @GreenArrow transplant

openlegs: I talked to my friend candice (she has a hyperfixation on gotham rogues). There are 7 unidentified rogues that had/have a bright color pallet 

pussyslayer078: is Candice’s last name deeznuts and can they fit in ur mouth?

SporkStabbed: Guys, I don’t think he’s a rogue. I’d be disappointed if he was. I mean, weouldnt it be cooler if he is the one guy in gotham that hit all the reirements of a rogue but isn’t?

babygroot: Dowders trying to steal the wanted criminal title with no evidence at all 💀

littleWolfy: Can yall stop Tryna act like a measly getaway guy is more impressive than a guy wanted by interpole

Theboy: can you be any less original?

Miso_Amane: What if he’s part of a family of rogues? I just researched and found a Nina Dowd who got in an archeology accident in 2006 and came back as the supervillain “Mighty Endowed.” She was embarrassingly incompetent even with her powers, but she had a colorful outfit? Not sure if they’re related tho.

labibli: I did some diggingb after seeing @Miso_Amane’s post. Theri relaitnsup didn’t sho wup in databases, but i found an old post from someone that had the Dowd family in the corner of their family tree. Nina Dowd is Professor Dowd’s dad’s sister, btu someone tried to bury the rrelationship

Jelsa4ever: lmao do you think they disowned her for being a supervillain

Miso_Amane: @Jelsa4ever this is Gotham, everyone has a supervillain in the family. I bet they disowned her for being a failed supervillain

Jelsa4ever: @Miso_Amane oh ur right. I can def imagine Dowd going “if ur gonna be a villain at least do it right.” bet its a family thing

fanya: @Jelsa4ever he actually did say something like that! “If you’re gonna cheat, at least have the dencency to do it properly.”

Seenu: I know hes probably not a rogue, but isn’t it weird that his family apparently had the ability to completely erase Nina Dowd from the internet?

Bimbakaash: i reel like its way more impressive that dowd hasn’t turned into a rogue by now. he checks literally all the boxes, so ik that man is hanging on by a thread

EDRW: if Dowd isn’t secretly a rogue yet, I think his hatred for Drake will push him to the career

UrImmortal: oh come on, they knew each other in high school. theresno way they actuakkg hate each other. prolly js an inside joke or smth

EDRW: @UrImmortal Inside joke my ass, you’ve never seen the way they look at each other. Not even my parents looked at each other with that much hate

Davd: @EDRW Fr the room gets hot when they make eye conatavy

Heomo: @Davd that could be sexual tension. there’s a thin line between hate and love 🧙 

Davd: @hoemo can you not :/

spleenfinder: while the dowders were grasping at straws to make their guy more interesting, we were doing actual research on Professor Drake’s lore. 

So, Grieve happened and he went in to fight them with a baseball bat. That same day was the first appearance of the Batman on television that sparked many debates about the effect of vigilantes in the city. A few months later, the og Batman goes missing. There are reports of infighting amongst the Robins and then Nightwing takes over as Batman, incites a new Robin, and the 3rd Robin disappears. A week after that, Alvin Draper steals his first artifact.

On the heist where he was assisted by armed accomplices, the witnesses described one of the accomplices that stood out from the rest: a man wearing a red garment with a black cape and a tight black hat on his head. Sound familiar? Yes, the description matches Red Robin’s first costume to a T. And everyone knows that Red Robin was formally the 3rd Robin.

Which means that, unfortunately, while he may not be Catwoman and Batman’s secret lovechild, Professor Drake has a weird connection to the Bats.

Birdeth: yk I called TanYUH’s lovechild theory a fanfiction when she first posted it… but i’m starting to think it might not be fanfiction after all

DeadRick: i still think ur reaching

True_Criminal: Maybe Drake and RR had to team up to find batman? It would explain the bat artifacts they were searching.

sp33nsatch3r: @True_Criminal but why would RR work with murderers?

ViOlyn: Hear Me Out: Professor Drake is Batman

MEOWDERATOR⭐: This is supposed to be an academic forum. Please do not troll on here

YOUROVERLORD⭐: dont listen to tony. Im willing to hear you out

ViOlyn: @YOUROVERLORD⭐Well, the original Batman went missing and Red Robin also went missing. Usually, this meant that they were on a diplomatic mission of some sort. Maybe the art heists weer part of the mission and Drake couldnt find his batfit 🤷

TaMere: Not to be delulu, but my theory is that there was some family drama regarding inheritance and thats why RR graduated from Robin and left Gotham for a while. And if he and Draper were searching for historical Bat artifacts and BlueEyedBlackHaired portraits, maybe TanYUH was right about the time travel. I hate to feed into her delusions

enchantix: but why would they work together tho? what was drake’s goal?

Con-Spicy: @enchantix He originally started stealmig the portraits until he moved to bat stuff. What if the portraits were of his missing family member or smth?

TanYUH: @Con-Spicy maybe they’re half brothers?

tikkitikkitembo: Am i the only one getting hardcore Batman and Catman vibes from the whole Red Robin and Alvin Draper thing? Yall are going miles to connect them as a family, but what if Draper was just a thief and RR was just a vigilante trying to catch the thief?

Mike: what and rr switched to the dark side for a bit to get some dick?

tikkitikkitembo: @Mike We all have our phases. Maybe RR was feeling rebellious?

Drapple: @tikkitikkitembo ur srly not suggesting theyre lovers rite

atwtvtmvftv: No bc these ppl r reaching for the stars. Draper was a criminal, so like no shit RR was seen near him

wtfRichard: Ok I was curious to see if Red Robin has had any civilian relationships (iykyk) and I found this: [A blurry picture of Red Robin in a deep kiss with a blond. Red Robin’s back is to the camera and is hiding a majority of the blond’s frame.]

wtfRichard: Wait

CharlieBitMyFinger: wait

sunrose: WAIT 

abracaDAVRA: THATS FUCKING PROFESSOR DOWD

HickDickDuck: so you’re telling me Red Robin dated both of the professors and then dipped? whore.

BatLore: like father like son ig. at least these two aren’t rogues

HickDickDuck: @BatLore i mean, one is an internationally wanted thief and the other was a getaway driver + has the prerequisites for rogue-hood

BatLore: @HickDickDuck tf??? i need to catch up on the lore wth

Drapple: Wait is that why they beef?

DrakonDefendor: Not the dowders trying to claim our Bat with only a grainy ass image as proof

Blair: fr. first the crime thing and nnow this. as if rr would pick that grump over professor drake anyway

thechosenone: I cannot give any less shits about whatever love triangle bs you freaks dug up. Someone find the damn spleen or I’ll go insane from sleepless nights

spleenfinder: join the spleen club, we have spleen-shaped cookies

lolala: Everyone is clowning on us for “picking any blond man and claiming it to be dowd” but the picture was taken at a college graduation party that Professor Dowd attended (ik this because I scoured the pictures of that night for him or any blonds: link). The kissed man is wearing the same colored shirt

pyggy: You realize that this isnt helping you beat the crazy allegations

lolala: @pyggy It’s gotham, we;re all crazy here

pwykits: dowders try to find original content challenge: impossible

iwthsfy: drakers try not to get butthurt over coincidences: impossible

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Soondar: I’m so sick of yall’s shit. ITS NOT THAT SERIOUS.  ITS NEVER THAT SERIOUS.

brooky: WORD

EisenHowler: fr theyre doing tm now

cultboy: If only they’d use the knowledge to unlock joint lore

WWlover: i cannot believe the country’s best forum fell to shipwars

ChronicallyOnline: It’s like tumblr all over again

5149: no bc why are we having fandom wars instead of collaborating to find more crazy lore 😭

hereforthetea: yall pmo, so DvD enemies to lovers in 10k coming out soon

ihategaypeople: LMAO I’LL WRITE ONE TOO

QuackvBlab: DvD week?

ChronicallyOnline: Ok no why is this site turning into GU tumblr

hereforthetea: @ChronicallyOnline the college kids yearn for fandom

ihategaypeople: Um. Guys? There’s already a Bernard Dowd x Tim Drake fic on FanFiction.net??? It’s from 2008???

Lovebug: WHAT!???

ihategaypeople: I have reason to believe it was revenge fanfic written by Darla Aquista…

EDRW: damn, they werent lying [Screenshot of an ff.net comment section: 

TD (Guest) : there is something deeply wrong with you
Sun 04 Apr 2008 03:34AM EST

Bern (Guest): ur dead to me
Sun 04 Apr 2008 04:00AM EST

     DarkCrowPrincess070: steal my smoothie again and ill write you pregnant ]

Altan: This was like a month before the shooting

PrezShoelace: cant believe professor dowd was the first victim of teenage male pregancy 💔

Scoreboard:

Professor Dowd: 8 points

1. Part of one of the most mysterious cults in Gotham
2. Sacrifical Lamb for said Cult
3. Potential suspect for the brutal murder of his sacrificers (has no memory of this event)
4. Famous Grieve Student
5. Started a hand-holding movement
6. Drag Racer
7. Getaway Driver
8. Kissed Red Robin

Professor Drake: 6 points

1. Mysterious Spleen Shortage
2. Famous Grieve Student
3. Ran into shootout with just a baseball bat and stayed alive
4. International Art Theft
5. Wanted by Interpol, Never Found
6. Worked with(?) Red Robin

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Mike: idk why we’re bringing ts to the discussion board. like why is everyone so obsessed with two men fucking

madarchord: idk why is your mom obsessed with me fucking her?

AlvnDrape: I don’t get it either but they unearthed Professor Drake’s identities so they’re welcome to do whatever they want

meowmewo: shipping tow fictional men is one thing but shipping YOUR PROFESSORS????? are either of them even queer?

redber4ever: Well Prof Dowd was caught kissing Red Robin so 

pyggy: Why is no one talking about the title of Aquista’s fic? Tim Drake and the Scheming, Thieving, Bitch-Hippo??? What did Professor Doed do to incur such wrath?

Altan: he ate her

pyggy: @Altan …yk that’s a very plausible theory. Dionysus bannacals had cannibalism involved and with Dowd’s cult history…

Altan: @pyggy I acusentlayy backspaced “smoothie” before posting that but like you have a point 

SMC: How did that fic even survive the ff.net Purge?

Drapple: why is everyone just glossing over rhe red robin mutual connection thing? why did the entire internet forget abt that too? isn’t that a pretty significant thing fir all parties?

DrakonDefendor: Fr like re is the most anrisocial out of all the bags but downer dowd mananaged to seduve him? what guves?

DrakonDefenor: Also, what the hell was the connection between RR and Drake?

blurby: Might do my journalism project on this chat (the bats and their relationships)

Drapple: @blurby doesn’t prof drake help with that class tho

blurby: @Drapple Yeah so?

Drapple: @blurby how would he feel if he had to read abt his ex kising his arch nemesis?

blurby: @Drapple I know about the kissing thing but wdym “ex”? Theres no proof of that. Stop making headcanons for our professors

TaMere: @Drapple , @blurby I maintain that they are adoptive half-brothers

ChronicallyOnline: As of now there are 8 DxD fics on ao3 (yes that is the ship name). 1 poly ship with DxDxRR (that one is just stupid). 

Soondar: imagine looking up your name on google and this comes up

dndfan: @Soondar Well, when I search them up, I get a shit ton of stuff abt their accompishments and studies. Nerds.

cutecumber: @dndfan wait. thats what came up for me too, but im in space rn (luthor internship. dont ask.) and this comes up [Screenshot of Lex Luthor’s Web Browser: displays Timothy Drake Wayne, CEO of DI and former major shareholder of Wayne Enterprises]

dndfan: @cutecumber WHHAT THE FUCK”???

Birdeth: @cutecumber youre joking

ChronicallyOnline: @cutecumber The fic ideas just keep piling up…

meowser: @ChronicallyOnline THAT SHOULD NOT BE UR CONCERN RN??

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YOUROVERLORD⭐: Well. Um. [Screenshot of the Google profile of Timothy Drake Wayne]. I guess we know who won the war. But half of you guys care more about their sexual tension than who has the better lore, so this doesn’t really matter. Hopefully. Please by civil.

Noah: I thoughtgotham was supposed to be full of woke commies. Where are the ‘Eat the Rich’ comments?

TanYUH: who even are you?

lolala: do you even go here?

MoonFoot: You realize that going to GU is basically supporting communism right?

DeadRick: im a transplant and even ik the Wayne lore

Dark$ide: so prof drake (accomplished linguist w/ a Nobel Peace Prize) is also Alvin Draper (international thief with connections to the Bats) and Tim Drake Wayne (nepo baby x2 + CEO + philanthropist + majority shareholder of a multibillion dollar company)??? Its giving 2018 gacha life.

alphademoncat: not to mention the spleen thing. like that probably needed another identity too

5149: when my creative writing prof says my protag is too mary sue but my linguistics prof literally exists

yjhscollar: next time that old hag says my mc is too unrealistic, i’ll tell show her to drake

fanya: Dowders, we def lost, but this isn’t even out fault. What kind of freak has 3(+?) identities?

robynDaVinci: glad to see yal have finally accepted it

fanya: @robynDaVinci Honestly im done with the DvD thing. DxD is so much more fun

robynDaVinci: @fanya what?

TheInfant: we won DvD but it doesnt even mean anything now that everyone just wants them to bone. Yall cant commit. What happened to competitiveness?

TheBoy: we can’t have anything nowadays

ImminentThreat: This feels like outperforming all the kids but they all get participation trophies anyway

themonsterawrrawrrawr: Wait if he’s a Wayne, then his father is Bruce Wayne, who is a black haired blye-eyed man. He fits the profile of the mysterious painting man Alvin Draper was collecting.

PowerPuff: thats also half of gotham tho

TanYUH: ooo what if Batman and Bruce Wayne were dating and both of them got taken into the past? Their children (RR and Drake) banded together to get them back. 

ihategaypeople: @TanYUH thanks for the fic idea

TanYUH: @ihategaypeople np! will it have dxd?

ihategaypeople: @TanYUH obviously 🙄

Sexaphone: My mom had a shrine of him when I was younger. And then he disappeared. My mom thought he died and didn’t wanna attract his ghost.

Smoothercriminal: ASK FOR THE LORE

Kachhan: I just had the horrible realization that he was the face claim for a basically all of my old Wattpad CEO reads

yumyuminmytumtum: Holy shit he’s the silloette guy

Whyen: PROFESSOR DRAKE STARTED THE CEO TROPE!?

broski: i will never read an ceo romance ever again

Kachhan: @broski buddy you cant even read a regular office romance. his dad started the trope of the meddling ceo who wants to get the mcs together.

broski: @Kachhan well ig im never reading anything abt rich people ever again

Kachhan: @broski I asked some old people… i fear the waynes have influenced almost every fanfic trope: ceo and office shit, a bunch of fantasy tropes, rags to riches, riches to rags, adopted found family, insomnia, accidental baby aqquisition, skater boys… theres more

broski: @Kachhan ok why would oyou tell me this? I couldve lived on in an ignorant bliss.

Blair: Im having so much fun reading these old TDW wattpad stories

Serena: omg i js found out 50 shades od gay was inspired by a tdw fic

Lovebug: @Serena haha gay

Sk8erboy: why is everyone freaking out about prof drake? Can we talk about his dilf of a father? Or his hot brothers? One of which who is technically a zombie? The doctor one? HIS HOT SISTERR???

esther: I think professor drake should win the war just for having vruce wayne as a father

ViOlyn: Honestly, the only thing ik about TDW is that his ex gf left him for his hotter sister

believix: wait i thought this sister and him were known for being identical?

ViOlyn: @believix exactly.

Akusfang: Everyone is freaking out over the Wayne reveal but doesn’t anyone find it suspicious that it didnt happen sooner? I mean Tim Drake is basically Timothy Drake Wayne with a frew missing letters. Theres no way google wouldnt show tdw when we searhced prof up

nini: yeah, i found that weird too. could it just be because prof has accomplished sm without the wayne last name that it overshadows tdw when we search just td up?

Birth: Maybe he regustared himself on google as two different people

TanYUH: or maybe…theres a secret society hes part of that hides it for him

Akusfang: @TanYUH I cant even ridicule you bc your theories have bene so close to the truth

DebbyDowder: I dont care what anyone says.. Being rich does not give Drake more points. In fact,he should lose points bc some of the things are just normal rich ppl things

SporkStabbed: Wait ur right. Only a rich person woold steal from museums. They’re usually more subtle abt it but Drake was like the richest teen on earth so no shit hed be more upfront

DebbyDowder: EXACTLY! And losing a spleen? H probably sold it to the devil for wealth

SporkStabbed: @DebbyDowder ok, you lost me 

DrakonDefendor: crazy cope (you had a point b4 you went all illuminati)

Sammy: since this is such a cypted website, i think i can reveal this info here. i keep seing theories about drake maybe belonging to a secret society. hes not. im from a rich family. yes, there are multiple secret society for gotham elites. no, neither drake nor any of the wayne are in them. in fact, they are notorious for being too daft to accept the invitations. but. the drakes were secret society members. or at least janet drake was. she was so fucking scary the entirity of gotham elites partied when she died. people think she faked her death it was a whole thing. 

wozer: Woah thats crazy

Testicals: I refuse to believe Prof. Drake is too daft to join. Theres gotta be something deeper. Did he refuse to join? Did his mom put him with the Waynes for protection?

spleenfinder: omg maybe they took his spleen bc he refused to join

spl33nEATER: @spleenfinder wait.

thechosenone: @spleenfinder Ur a genius imm gonna kiss you

Sammy: the thing is… the dowds are in a secret society too. i dont have much information about that, but i know they’re known for some reason

labibli: does this have anything to do with Nina Dowd? 

Seenu: My theory is they are a family is secret supervillains and Nina was the only one who got caught so they removed her from the family tree

Harlequin: @labibli, @Seenu im taking a supervillainy course rn. i might make her my case study just to ask her about this stuff

labibli: @Harlequin Where the hell does GU get all these resources man

Seenu: @Harlequin OOo let us know what she says if you do her

EkuEku: Let me just organize this bc the mods are useless and refuse to update the scoreboard. Dowd had 8 points. Add the secret society. Add Nina Dowd. Add the possible rogue thing. Thats 11 points. Drake had 6 points. Add the Wayne thing. Add the not in a secret society thing. Add the birth of fanfiction tropes thing. He has 9 points. Drake is catching up, but he hasn’t won the thing yet. Idk why you guys are acting like this war is over. 

DrakonDefendor: COPEEEEEE

EkuEku: @DrakonDefendor being rihc doesnt gave you infinite points

twinkerbelle: @EkuEku Its not about him being rich. Its about him being the richest guy in his family AND having 3 different secret identities AND managing to keep that a secret despite having the same naema s his alter ego. So. Add 2 more points to your board and now: 11v11. Tehy’re tied.

EkuEku: @twinkerbelle Ok i think ur just farming for points now. I feel like some of those things go hand in hand?

YOUROVERLORD⭐: @EkuEku , @twinkerbelle Now do you see why it’s taking us so long to update the scoreboard?

hereforthetea: Bla bla bla.I want a fic where Dowd discovers that Drake got adopted and forgot abt him. God the angst.

KI$$me: miss tumblrina these are real people.

hereforthetea: @KI44me ur right. i should just interview the source material and use that to write the fic myself 

KI$$me: @hereforthetea …

YOUROVERLORD⭐: They’re trending on Twitter again.

YOUROVERLORD⭐: Why the fuck are they trending on twitter again? WHY IS OUR STUDENT BODY ACCOUNT GETTING MASS TAGS??

YOUROVERLORD⭐: Which one of you fuckers leaked us to the internet.

MEOWDERATOR⭐: IT WAS THE DAMN SHIPPERS!

Chapter Text

Barbara Gordon never claimed to know everything. That would be narcissistic and she has enough experience to refrain from testing fate.

However, she still knew a whole lot. Whatever she didn’t know, she could easily find out. That was how she earned her name. That was how she secured the title of the best hacker in the world– a title she hadn’t lost in nearly 20 years.

Oracle, having been active for so long, was not surprised easily. Nothing on the internet was safe from her eyes.

So, she knew there was a secret forum made only for Gotham U. students. But when she first looked into it, it seemed like nothing but a fun little Battle Royale thing with Tim and his blond guy. 

She thought it would lose traction– GU students can argue about missing spleens and mysterious cults for so long. And it did lose traction! She checked a month later, found less than 5 people still arguing, and forgot about the whole site.

That is, until Tim and the blond guy were trending on Twitter again, along with Gotham University. None of the students revealed the existence of DrakevDowd.com online, but Barbara knew in her gut that it had something to do with that website. 

When she tried to get into the site again, it had far better security than before. It wasn’t enough to deter her, obviously, but it took her a few minutes to make sense of the code. Figuring it out was much like trying to clean up a carpet after a bunch of toddlers just made a mess of it. 

(She was quite proud of the coders at GU for having come too far.)

Once she got in, Barbara was smacked in the face with a bunch of college kids panicking over the sudden Twitter attention. There were accusations being thrown (mostly at the shippers), fingers being pointed (mostly at the shippers), and overall chaos. 

She went to the main pages and nearly choked on air as she read everything. They found out about Alvin Draper. How did they find out about Alvin Draper? Even she didn’t know about him until six years after it happened! And they figured out a connection between the Bats and Tim?? Tim Drake Wayne???

Barbara was going to have an aneurysm, thinking their identities were shot.

Thankfully, she came across thousands of posts arguing whether Red Robin and Drake were siblings or dating before her body decided to explode from the stress. 

She didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. These kids knew information that supervillains would die for… and they were using it to fuel ship wars.

This was like the thing with Bruce and Clark all over again.

After scrolling through a few more posts mentioning Red Robin, Barbara decided the secret was safe enough to allow the site to stay on. Also, this whole situation was objectively hilarious. 

Like any good sister figure, Barbara began screenshotting all of the hilarity to send to everyone at an appropriate time.

Fanthey @retiredfangirl
Um I was looking through my old bookmarks and accidentally clicked on the TDW tag… why the hell is there a sudden influx of fics where he’s being shipped with some random?
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Morgana @onomonopia
Replying to @amore_santini
ur joking.
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emmie @leeabaneelia
Replying to @amore_santini
TDW REVIVAL EVERYONE

Mrs. DW @mrsdrakewayne
[Mean Girls meme: “Get in losers, we’re going shopping” but it’s “Get in losers, we’re reviving TDW”]

i, carlyan @huzzeir
I read a bunch of them and it looks like they’re written by some college kdis?
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terimeri @ meriteri
Replying to @huzzeir
im confused. is this for a creative writing project or…?
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Save a horse ride a catboy @gojoscumsock
Replying to @huzzeir
yeah no shit what other age group would write all that

hotcheeto @il0veflaming
id usually blame tumblr but theyre just as confused over there
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evelyn (taylor’s version) @eveyp0ststingz
Replying to @eveyp0ststingz
Yeah tiktok too

Left Boob @wrightb00b
Ok so about half of the fics are set in GCU where this Dowd guy and TDW are professor and the other half are set in…?????? idek how to describe it
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Television @itsjsmeeco
Replying to @wrightb00b
it’s some weird cult fantasy thing with TDW as Catwoman?
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Kai @pinkplasticphallus
Replying to @itjsmeeco
There’s some F1 shit there too–

KillUA @coinkydick
is dowd like an oc?
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kachhan @bakugon75
Replying to @coinkydick
That’s a dumbass name for an OC 

gege @huaslosteyeball
Fomo got to me 😞heres a link for my dxd hob au

i hate bald bitches @lexiisbald
guys the Bernard Dowd guy is one of the professors that was trending like a month ago

Angle @unidentifiedwaynechild648
Wait so is the other professor TDW?
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Gwenchana @NingNIngINng
Replying to @unidentifiedwaynechild648
LMAO THAT GREASY CREATURE?? 😭 NO WAY
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charlie @d1ckgraysonson
Replying to @unidentifiedwaynechild648
Timothy Drake-Wayne would never be caught lacking

Angle @unidentifiedwaynechild648
[An old picture of Tim Drake-Wayne wearing a suit. Only, the suit is a combination of three different suits with the jacket, tie, and pants having wildy different colors and fabrics. His hair is greasy and eyebags are wide. Drake-Wayne is pouring different energy drinks into a large thermos.]

charlie @d1ckgraysonson
Timothy Drake-Wayne would never be caught lacking
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See this thread

charlie @d1ckgraysonson
Replying to @unidentifiedwaynechild648
Ok he would be caught lacking but NOT AS BAD AS THE PROF
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I see Tree @tdwlefteyebag
Replying to @unidentifiedwaynechild648
when he was caught lacking, it was an aesthetic. the mangled creature cosplaying a prof is NOT aesthetic
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Red Wine @notrealsupernova
Idk man i see a resemblance. [A picture of “Professor Drake” next to a picture of TDW]

Trending in United States
TDW
     trending with THATS NOT HIM and old

Trending in Gotham
TDW
     trending with mutant rat

Trending in United States
Bernard Dowd
     trending with who and GU

Alexia @kookieswirlc
You guys need to stop being mean to that poor old man
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black canary i can treat you sm better @greenarrowhater1
Replying to @kookieswirlc
he looks like he’s in his 30’s?
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Alexia @kookieswirlc
Replying to @greenarrowhater1
Yeah?
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black canary i can treat you sm better @greenarrowhater1
Replying to @kookieswirlc
if u think 30 is old, ur too young to be on twitter 😭

Hey UA! @bakugokatsukiisnotamonster
bro created the fluffy hair pandemic, no way in hell he would abuse hair gel like that

Detective @Batthey
TDW was a high school dropout. If he hated school that much, why would he go back to teach?

Wreck x Nice is literally canon @iseeyoup33
Everyone’s yapping about the new fics on ao3 but what about the fic on FF.net from 16 years ago?
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Mississississippi @onlymisswhosp33isippy
Replying to @iseeyoup33
WHAT
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Syclla @peniscyllin
Replying to @iseeyoup33
BRO IS DOWD SOME INTERNET CRYPID 😭??? (also wtf r ur usernames)
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Antonias @jaylovsbugs
Replying to @peniscyllin
New gotham crypid was not on my bingo list this year

Batkid @Batmanhuggedmeonce
What’s the Bernard Dowd lore? He’s been sipped with tdw for nearly two decades and none of us knew abt him?

Batwoman is a GILF @imnotacreepiswear
Is he an ex? A friend? A business partner?

BBL DRIZZY @bbldrizzyyyy
Bernard Dowd has only been internet famous for three things: Louis Greive, The Children of Dionysus, and the Professors thing
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Impulse food victim @plsfeedthesp33dsters
Replying to @bbldrizzyyyy
oh is that middle one some kind of band? Sick name
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BBL DRIZZY @bbldrizzyyyy
Replying to @plsfeedthesp33dsters
It’s a cult.
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Impulse food victim @plsfeedthesp33dsters
Replying to @bbldrizzyyyy
…of course it is. Id expect nothing less from gotham

Man In My Skin @coralina
yk i tuink i recogjize him from a bar performamce(?)
[A picture of Bernard Dowd, in his early twenties, strumming an electric guitar and humming something.]
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Andy @andyunderscorewhorehall
Replying to @coralina
WHAT
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Lola @lolaughingoutloud
Replying to @coralina
what
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anya @childofloidandyormom
Replying to @coralina
OH MG GOD @DedR1cky
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Derick @DedR1cky
Replying to @coralina
No fucking way. @tr3v3r_xx
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I HAD BUILT THAT WEDDING BED WITH @bl00dsw3atnt3ars
GSHIWIW DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE PICTURE?
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i hate gotham @captainshazamplssaveme
Replying to @coralina
man at least attach a video tf
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STORRRRM @euryisapussy
Replying to @coralina
more? more please?
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Man In My Skin @coralina
yeah so the first 50 replies of my last post are from GU students asking for more… @GUStudentBody explain?
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Gotham Uni. Students @GUStudentBody
Replying to @coralina
No comment. 

Zyan @lexlutherisanalien
I dont even go here but the lore is so interesting so heres a 20k dxd friends to strangers to lovers band au 

maanin @theyellowhat
@GCUStudentBody let us in on the joke man cmon
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Gotham Uni. Students @GUStudentBody
Replying to @theyellowhat
For legal reasons, no.
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maanin @theyellowhat
Replying to @GUStudentBody
the fuck is that supposed to mean
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Gotham Uni. Students @GUStudentBody
Replying to @theyellowhat
No comment. 

lonnie @monkeyspider
Im frm gotham. This man was my gay awakening.
[DigiCam photo of a young Bernard Dowd. His side profile is shown and he is glaring at something off the camera. He is next to a car and his holding a helmet.]
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Chrystal @anklenibbler
Replying to @monkeyspider
HOT DAMN
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Daniel @temple_run2
Replying to @monkeyspider
he might be my gay awakening too jesus
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Joshua @bikerguy05
Replying to @monkeyspider
How does he pull off that helmet head
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bruoli @billionarebfs
Replying to @monkeyspider
whys he wearing a helmet in the car tho? 💀the driving in gotham cannot be that bad
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odypen @wyfilwmaiykaid
Replying to @monkeyspider
This was the only drag racing group in gotham that required helmets (the third robin tried to participate and got a concussion once. batman yelled at them)

George @curiusgreg
I hope all gu students know that the biker guy community r trying to contact ur prof for helmet hacks

Confused Chameleon @shedoesntevengohere2654
Bernard Dowd Timeline:
Louis Grieve > bar singer > drag racer > phd haver > gotham prof? What even is his life
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Lola @lolaughingoutloud
Replying to @shedoesntevengohere2654
Oh there is so much nore I wish i could tell you
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Confused Chameleon @shedoesntevengohere2654
Replying to @lolaughingoutloud
I am so close to transferring to GU just to gte the lore

Cassidy Cambridge @cassiecam
Tim Drake-Wayne was actually in the yearbook class in Louis Grieve. Our final project was supposed to be a compilation of random footage we took of our lives. Heres a file of all his unedited clips: tdrake.mov
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dont take ap chem @nyaichineesan
Replying to @cassiecam
I should be studying rn  but fuck it. 2 hour movie marathon in the tdw discord server!

anjali @ninakebetee
They spent 60% of their junior year together but dont recognize each other? i call bull. They’re messing with their students.
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Stephanie Brown @steffi_b
Replying to @ninakebetee
Lmao idk about dowd but, trust me, Tim def does NOT know
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anjali @steffi_b
Replying to steffi_b
What could this possibly mean? Mrs Brown-Cain please tell us more

Hungry girl @eurydice
If you put all their last names together, it spells DAD. For daddy issues lmao
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laaaalalalalalalaaaa @orpheus
Replying to @eurydice
how does tdw have daddy issues?
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Hungry girl @eurydice
Replying to @orpheus
His bio dad is dead and he got adopted by bruce fucking wayne
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Perse @phoney
Replying to @eurydice
How do u know Bernard Dowd has daddy issues?
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Hungry girl @eurydice
Replying to @phoney
Look at him.

Elizabeth @nvrsatisfied
Awee dowd’s crush on darla is so cute

Boy Savior @tttimeB0MB
Darla’s crush on Tim 🥹

bugaboo  @chatamiblanch
i forgot how messy hs friend groups were

Akira @leaveMEALONNE
Wait lmao is that the incident that made Dowd pregnant?
[Video clip of Bernard swiping Darla’s milkshake, earning a terrifying glare from the girl]
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Impulse food victim @plsfeedthesp33dsters
Replying to @leaveMEALONNE
oh hes trans?
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Akira @leaveMEALONNE
Replying to @plsfeedthesp33dsters
Oh. Here’s the context lmao: ff.net/tim-drake-and-the-th…

Candice Knuts @fitinyomouth
rip darla aquista u wouldve loved the omegaverse

no beta we die like jtw @waynegirl34
Rip Darla Aquista you would have loved drawing your opps as cat boys

Trending in United States
Louis Grieve Trio
      trending with mpreg and DAD

Trending in Gotham
Darla Aquista
      trending with darling child

A few months ago, when Detective Chimp told her she was trending on Twitter, Laura didn’t blink an eye. She had written it off as another spike in gun violence discourse—her old name had apparently become the face of some organization with a corny name some years ago.

Now, she’s starting to think she should’ve looked into it.

“My fanfiction account? They dug up my fucking fanfiction.net account!?” she yells.

D.C. giggles to himself. “Don’t worry. No one’s talked about your self-insert fanfictions yet.”

“Give me that,” Laura snatches the phone out of Chimp’s hands and takes a seat, which was a good idea because what the fuck?

Her fic and her government name were trending all over social media. Tumblr, Twitter, TikTok— what the fuck is wrong with these people? How did they even find the damn account? How did they know it was hers? Who did she piss off so bad that her deepest darkest secret was being revealed to the whole world?

The more she looked, the more pissed off she got. Out of all of her fics, this was the one getting recognition? Because those two idiots suddenly had face blindness? Laura is going to return to Gotham just to bang their heads together.

…and what’s this about Bernard joining a cult? 

Chapter Text

“So,” Laura says. “How’s life?”

Bernard smiles awkwardly. “It’s okay. I’m a professor now.”

Laura tries to pretend she didn’t already know that. “Wow. That’s…unexpected. How the hell did you end up doing that?”

“Well, I went to college for fun. Dual majored in physics and biology. Then I got my EMT certification, but I got fired after my first week because I kept having panic attacks when people got shot. So, I went back to get a PhD. But the only jobs I found were for villains, so I asked for a job at the university and I’ve been here ever since. It’s kind of fun.”

Holy oversharing.

“How’d you end up a superhero after everything?”

“Um. They put me in some dimensional prison for a year and then picked me up and let me join the team. They felt bad because I felt bad, I guess.”

Bernard furrows his eyebrows. “They put you in prison for a year!? But you were sixteen and didn’t even kill anyone.”

Laura shrugs, sipping on her strawberry milkshake.

“You should’ve made me your supervillain manager. I would’ve gotten you a lawyer,” Bernard snorts.

“It’s no big deal. I had a lot of fun with Shadowpact afterwards. I met an alternate version of Batman and Superman, you know. Batman tried to kill me.”

Bernard looks at her with wide eyes. They’re not as bright as they were when they were younger, but entering your thirties has the ability to steal your light, Laura supposes.

“You know who else I met?” Laura grins.

“Who?”

She tries not to look smug as she crosses her amrs and leans against the booth. “My future lover. He’s a total cutie and I’m supposed to meet for the first time in five years.”

Bernard barks out a laugh. “You’re pulling my leg.”

“No, I’m serious. He gave a love confession as he died in my arms, you know.”

That gets Bernard to top laughing immediately. Theres silence before– “You didn’t give me a love confession while you died.” It’s clear that was supposed to be a joke, but Bernard’s tone was a little too serious for comfort.

Laura forces a laugh. “I wouldn’t go out saying something so corny. So how’s professor-hood treating you?” Smooth, Laura.

“Like I said, it’s fun. My students are interesting– even if they ask weird questions sometimes– and my colleagues are nice to be around. Except for the new linguistics professor. He’s a jerk.”

Her interest is piqued. “Oh?”

“His name is Jim Crepe and Laura, let me just say, this man is the most infuriating shithead to ever live. He doesn’t take his job seriously at all!”

Laura suppresses her huge grin as she leans in. “Tell me more.”

writerdansledark: Is it immoral to look through a dead girl’s old fanfictions? Bc Darla Aquista was a bomb writer

Effie: was she a bomb writer or was she just Y/N?

writerdansledark: @Effie She only had 1 y/n fic?

Effie: @writerdansledark yeah but all her fics were mafia/mob romances.

writerdansledark: @Effie I don’t get it

Effie: @writerdansledark her writing was bomb because she based it on her real life– she was projecting and it worked well bc she is y/n

ChronicallyOnline: …All the love interests post September 2008 were fallen rich boys—

sapphiresaffic: …… the couple was always accompanied by a silly jester character (usually blond)

writerdansledark: No way

gus: u guys r making this such a big deal like tell me ur not a fanfic writer without telling me ur not a fanfic writer

Biolunn: Her yness just makes her stories more accurate 🤷

GayBoy: RIGHT? Like the whole fun of being a writer is projecting on your characters

ChronicallyOnline: No it’s more the fact that Aquista clearly had a crush on Drake… who is being shipped with Dowd now

gus: @ChronicallyOnlineo ur right that’s tragic

gus: Imagine dying and 20 years later, the world ships your crush with the annoying guy that had a crush on you

cvm370: i would come back just ti haunt them wrf

lolala: Why I Think Darla Aquista is Not Dead:

Ok honestly, I don’t have much proof other than this one thing but it’s gotham and the world is full of fucking aliens so

I was looking into Professor Dowd’s criminal record. There’s obviously the cult thing, a few speeding tickets, and one for underage drinking. But what stood out to me was his very first charge (where he was deemed innocent). It was hidden under John Doe, but I cross referenced some of the pictures with Professor Dowd’s senior year pictures and the car and license plate match.

So basically: They found a car in the middle of the Gotham Bridge, totally totaled. Witnesses said a Red-Wearing Girl seemed to be flying and levitating the car with it. The car fell and was fucked up, but the owner wasn’t there. They followed witness statements and eventually found John Doe (Dowd) in a cafe, stranded. He was sitting in a booth with two milkshakes. One was his– banana– and the one across him was strawberry. The flavors are important because every yearbook picture and even some classmates showed/said that Strawberry Milkshake was always Darla Aquista’s go-to.

Anyways. Dowd claimed he didn’t remember how he got to the cafe. The cafe worker said something about Dowd going in with a goth-looking girl. The worker said the girl looked too pale. (Do you see where I’m going with this?)

Dowd was just entering the cult in this time period, if his statement where he gave the timeline was accurate. Which means that he sold himself to the cult in return for Darla’s life back. He probably wanted to reunite or something, but THERE’S MORE.

The worker was liveblogging on tumblr while the two were there (Yes, I tracked down their IP address. No, that doesn’t mean I’m switching to CS.) These were their posts (July 27, 2008. 8: 58pm to 9:47pm):

[“These two teenagers just walked into my diner and started talking about the recent gang war at that high school. It’s really such a shame that the law enforcement and security at our schools is so shitty that arms men can break into a school and murder these babies.”]

[“Ok, so these kids are now talking about becoming superheroes? The guy wants to be her superhero manager??? The girl blew up his car!??? What the hell is going on in his goddamn city get me out.”]

[“The girl is going full hot topic emo on him… poor blondie.”]

So, clearly something went wrong with Darla’s resurrection. She came back with powers and did not want them? And then she left? It’s giving Frankenstein. But yeah.

TLDR: Professor Dowd resurrected Darla Aquista through the cult somehow, but they lost touch for whatever reason.

spleenfinder: every time i think you can’t get more delusional

TanYUH: jobs, people. jobs.

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PhotosRPhun: Im afraid dowd might be taken. [Picture of Bernard in a cafe with a woman.]

theInfant: welp. wrap it up, shippers.

hereforthetea: This is the worst thing thats ever happened what do you mean that man is taken

archie: wait she has a lesbian ring [Screenshot of the previous picture zoomed into Darla’s finger. On her pinky is a ring with two scissors facing each other.]

Mike: @archie How the hell is that a lesbian ring

archie: @Mike oh my sweet summer child

Jinu: who is that lady

romance: Maybe the ring is a fashion statement. I think she’s his girlfriend.

PisStory: This is the worst thin to happen to the fanfic comuntiy since 2023

lolala: thats not his girlfriend you dumb fucks that Darla fucking Aquista

lolala: IM NOT INSANE LOOK AT HER FUCKING FACE [Picture of a side-by-side of the lady from the cafe and Darla Aquista].

meowmeowmeow: Oh my god it is her

Claire: why is she alive

DeadRick: you can’t be fucking serious HOW IS SHE ALIVE?

spleenfinder: I apologize, Lola. I wasn’t aware of your omnipotence.

TanYUH: ok, tbf, thi still doesnt confirm anything about the cult stuff

lolala: @TanYUH just admit it. I’m right and you’re wrong.

Noah: If i wasnt so invested in dowd and drake’s beef i would transfer to fucking metropolis. What the fuck is worng with this city

DeadRick: fuckass city with its fuckass population

cryptk33per: Ig that confirms that Gothamites are immortal

Serena: [Gif from Mean Girls: “Mom, can you pick me up? I’m scared.”]

S0UP: Didn’t superman come back from life at some point too? And superboy/supernova (what does he go by?)

lexie: right? they’re acting like this is unique to gotham (he had an identity crisis over his name until someone made him listen to red wine supernova and so he just goes by that now)

Crystal: bitch is darla squista a fucking superhero?

S0UP: @Crystal Good point

pootytangtang: this website is like Gotham purgatory

MotoMoto: I hate it when yall pull theories out of your asses and they end up being true. It’s like having conversations with an imaginary monster under your bed only to find out that the monster wasn’t imaginary after all.

TanYUH: arebyou speaking from experience or…

kikidylm: can someone test lolala for prophetic dream syndrom

Dark$ide: horrible day to be a draker

CatDistrupubter: Theres no way he actually resurrected her tho. Maybe she resurrected herself. Why do women always need a man to save them anyway?

Max: dont pmo

madarchod: maybe shes a generational sorceress and her dying caused her powers to awaken

thedildo: You idiots. It had to have been Prof. Dowd who resurrected her. Dionysus had the ability to go to the underworld in some myths. Maybe Dowd went through a psychosis episode and researched it and found the closest association to a Dionysis Temple to perform some ritual that would bring her back…

robynDaVinci: OOO REMEBER HOW HE WAS FOUND BY THE POLICE??? Maybe he and the cult did the ritual but something went wrong, so Darla came back but with powers. And so the payment was increased bc of that. So a;l the dead cultists were the sacrificeees to make up for hre powers

spleenfinder: @robynDaVinci TRAITOR 🫵

robynDaVinci: @spleenfinder STOP

thedildo: @robynDaVinci this sounds so fanfic-ey but anything is possible in gotham so

robynDaVinci: the fact that he boring science guy is the one with the cool greek myth lore ise so ufnair

baldiegle: doesnt she kinda look like one of the Shadowpact heroes? the red socerer lady…

cultboy: Wait she heped save my mom from this magic creep. She was called “War-something’s Daughter”

UwU: Warlord? Warcrime? War-torn? War Dog? War General?

Aurora: um. Try warlock…

cultboy: @Aurora YES!

cultboy: New Theory: Professor Dowd did not resurrect her, she was resurrected by her second dad (adopted or otherwise). She looks just like Warlock’s Daughter from Shadowpact. They usually handle outerdimension stuff, but she made her first appearance in either 2009 to help fight against Doctor Gotham. So clearly she has a paternal figure who has magic and he resurrected her.

Rujinu: I tracked her father’s last appearances… he was in the background of a family airport photo. He looked dishevled and had some guys carrying a fucking coffin. I can’t find anything else

Drapple: @Rujinu I FOUND HIM. HE CHECKED INTO S HOTEL IN ISTANBUL. Jonathan Warren was checked into the same one– as in Johnny Warlock, the villain in Joshua Coldrake's tower.

Rujinu: @Drapple So…is this like a doomed yaoi situation or

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HomovHobo: Johnny Warlock actually worked for the Aquista gang before Robin (the third one) accidentally blew his arm off, according to GCPD records. And I did some digging and found out that he actually gets his powers from a sphere thats shoved into his chest so the likely story is that Warlock wanted revenge on Robin and had Mr. Aquista help him with it. But then Darla died, so Mr. Aquista asked him to fix it. Mr. Aquista sacrificed him life to resurrect his daughter. And since Johnny was the one to give her a new life, she called herself Warlock’s Daughter

ihategaypeople: um actually. I think Warlock amd Mr Aquista were in love. And Warlock claimed her as his daughter to honor his lover’s last wish. Thats probably not what happened, but im writin a fic about it anyways

Maxwell: bfo get a job

BBfan: @Maxwell Max-swell… what if i draw you pregnant

Maxwell: @BBfan what i fim into that

lolala: idk I still think the Children of Dionysus had something to do with it. I mean why else would she return right as Prof. Dowd entered the cult? And why did she explode his car?

lolala: OMG EI CUHFNSLKE CH KJ BEN AR

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lolala: PROFESSOR DWOD IS ROBIn

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Chapter Text

bidendeeznutz: bla bla bla I don’t care. Prof Dowd as robin is my personal canon now

Blair: bitch we’re talking about a real life grown ass man wdym “personal canon”

bidendeeznutz: You don’t get it

sasuke_DYETAM: @lolala I’d say ur are tweaking but the last two times I said that, u ended up being right so…

smd: Ok but that makes perfect sense tho. He was in a cult where he was a pretty important figure for a while and, when he got kicked out, he craved that type of connection again, so he found a cult to join.

ViOlyn: ywah this makes snese if we were in a fictional novel. but it doesn’t make sense timeline-wise. the robin when Dowd was Robin aged was Black Haired (and then a girl for a bit)

smd: @ViOlyn weren’t you the one that said Drake was Batman? You have no room to speak.

AnimeMan: Maybe he was the girl robin. No one would ever put together his identity if he disguised himself as a girl. They’re both blind too.

smd: @AnimeMan …fuck ur ribht 

wyfilwm: Call me Penelope the way I’ve been waiting for you all to put this together

redber4ever: you already knew??? and you didn’t say anything??? i call billshit

wyfilwm: @redber4ever You know damn well I would’ve been laughed out of this website if I said anything 

openlegs: I thought we agreed Dr. Dwod was in his pre-rogue era? Why is he robin?

joKURRR: why is anyone robin

TonyStark: I don’t like the robin thing. Can he be like a rogue or something?

pewDIEpie: WE ARE UNCOVERING DECADE LONG MYSTERIES AND YOURE MAD BECAUSE THEY DONT FIT UR HEADCANON???

TonyStark: @pewDIEpie hell yes I am. I didn’t spend hours decoding Dowd’s habits to try and dihre out when he’d go insane just for yall to turn around and declare him Robin of all things. you know what ruck you. he’s the blond batgirl.

TanYUH: @TonyStark The blond batgirl and the blond robin are the same person you dimwit 

TonyStark: @TanYUH let me guess. spoiler is batgirl too then?

TanYUH: @TonyStark YES??? Oh my god you’re a fucking transplant. That explains everything.

TonyStark: @TanYUH Im sorry the heroes at home dont have identity crisises every three months???

sitonmyface: I’m ngl I was thinking Mr Drake was the Robin in this relationship. Black hair blue eyes and weird knowledge yk yk?

mewotow: Ok if Dowd was Robin, it would be funny if he became a rogue. Quick, someone make a plan to speed up the phd to rogue process

MisaMisa: don’t piss me off

hannagram: if someone pushes Dowd into roguehood before i graduate i’m gonna become his sidekick and hunt you down

chyangba: only a transplant business major would say something so fucking evil. oink oink capitalist pig

houseonMD: smbb 

mewotow: @houseonMD What does that even mean? Spoiler maims Black Bat?

houseonMD: @mewotow suck my beautiful balls

mewotow: @houseonMD Ew weirdo. Mods get him

houseonMD: @mewotow god ur so stupid. stay away from my balls actually

mewotow: @houseonMD ???

Drapple: I was gonna cuss you out for this but it seems yall already got it.

mewotow: I don’t get why everyone’s so mad.

houseonMD: because ur wishing harm on a real ass person?

mewotow: @houseonMD You hunted me down on campus and threatened to gut me and feed my intestines to my family and the family fish (which I didn’t know existed)

houseonMD: @mewotow ur a business major u don’t count as a person

fmstupidbakalife: so mks what id je joined the cult in an undercover mission but got drqgged in 

True_Criminal: I hate to ruin the fun but like. Dr Dowd is NOT Robin. Bats have confined that Red Robin and Spoiler were the 3rd and 4th Robin. Those two operated as the only robins all through Dowd’s adolescence and the 5th only arrived after he’d already gotten into the cult. And he kissed rr on film so

k1LLua: this was fun while it lasted. if the mods weren’t threatening to leak my ao3 history rn, I would use this for my essay on mass hysteria 

Serena: I was banned from tjos site for a week and j came back to yall losing your minds. Was it the Gotham fumes or the insanity of the DvD lore that did it?

Mat: LMAO ME TOO. They’re alw yapping about how dowdsginna be an insane rogue but the call is coming from inside tje hiuse

banta: what did yall do to be banned from this hellhole

IvyLuvr: Lola you failed us,

cultboy: ig a broken clock really is only right two times

lolala: Sorry for causing mass hysteria guys. I was bored.

TanYUH: you know damn well

spl33nfinder: me backtracking in an argument when i realize im wrong 

DeadRick: My ass

lolala: To clarify. I was sleep deprived and going insane when I made that post. Yall ran with it for a whole week without researching and I didn’t say anything cus it was funny.

Gojogo_lovechild: But if anyone found an actual answer to my question (why Darla exploded Prof’s car), please reveal it now.

thechosenone: are you sure your not turning into a rogue? because your boughts of insanity are very mush giving rogue with a dvd gimmick

robynDaVinci: @thechosenone mad hatter except she hunts down blond boys and black haired boys to get lore telepathically

Peepee: do you guys think tim drake shifted into this universe. I mean his life is a little too ictional yk…

DooDoo: professor drake– or should i say Alvin Draper did the louvre heist

TdBkDk: Cna someonew rite a Hanahaki Au wher e Dowd has it rn. Bc we knw Drake for sue doesn’ remember dowd (steohanie brown confirmed) but what abt Dowd? Maybe hes just hurt and pretending nit to know him.

MEOWDERATOR⭐: Guys, we are getting so sidetracked here. There have been no discoveries of substance since Darla Aquista’s random revival, so as your Moderator, I have assigned each and every single one of you (yes.) to research a specific part of The Lore and post your findings on here ASAP. Check your dms for your niche and who you’ll be working with. I’m too invested and too nosy to let you all get distracted from the mission (getting answers and picking a lore winner). 

esther: damn ok batman.

DrakonDefendor: WHY THE FUCK AM I ON CULT DUTY YOU SICK FUCK!??

lolala: you didn’t send me anything…

True_Criminal: hey i found the alvin draper connection. can i retire -_–

HoHoeHo: Didnt we already get the Darla lore down?

beoMoj: Now how the fuck are we gonna find that man’s damn spleen

spleenfinder: @beoMoj hi. Please join the our club.

ChronicallyOnline: Is this your attempt to shut the shippers up?

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Niches:

1. Children of Dionysus: Why did Dowd enter? Why was Dowd sacrificed? How did his sacrificers all die?
2. The Spleen: Where is it? Why is it gone? Whose jar is it in?
3. Alvin Draper: Why’d he do allthat? Why did he collect paintings?
4. Darla Aquista: Why is she alive? How is she alive? How long has she been alive?
5. Red Robin: What is his connection to Alvin Draper (Timothy Drake)? What is his relationship with Bernard Dowd?
6. Side-Quests: What was Dowd up to between 2008 and 2010 outside of the cult?
7. Why don’t Dowd and Drake recognize each other?

Scoreboard:

Professor Dowd: 9 points

1. Part of one of the most mysterious cults in Gotham
2. Sacrificial Lamb for said Cult
3. Potential suspect for the brutal murder of his sacrificers (has no memory of this event)
4. Famous Grieve Student
5. Started a hand-holding movement
6. Drag Racer + Respected Getaway Driver
7. Kissed Red Robin
8. Potential Rogue
9. Possibly Necromanced Darla Aquista
10. Nina Dowd + Family Secrets

Professor Drake: 7 points

1. Mysterious Spleen Shortage
2. Famous Grieve Student
3. Ran into shootout with just a baseball bat and stayed alive
4. International Art Theft
5. Wanted by Interpol, Never Found
6. Worked with(?) Red Robin
7. Tim Drake Wayne (rich people antics will not count towards the scoreboard)
8. Janet Drake