Numbers 151-200 are here!
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151. Alfred was the one who offered to teach Dick how to drive. After the first lesson, he insisted that Bruce would be the boy's instructor and never even got in a car with any of the others. To this day Bruce has never seen him more terrified.
152. After an attack by the Joker and his goons, the Red Hood was angered that although the psychopath only just managed to escape with his life, he would make a full recovery. He was also amused that the one who put the criminal into that state was not him, but Batman; he likes to think that it was an honest attempt at revenge even though the rational part of himself knows that the Bat's moral code would never allow him to kill.
153. One might think that the blood they share would make it easier for Bruce to accept Damian as his son. In reality, it made it that much harder.
154. When Tim finds out that somebody threatened Conner to stay away from him except for strictly hero business, he was livid. Naturally he assumes that it has something to do with Bruce. Conner doesn't know if it's really a good idea to tell him that, actually, it was Jason.
155. When he was in town for business, Superman once showed up when Commissioner Gordon summoned Batman. Gordon found it almost amusing; Batman was just annoyed.
156. After Bruce's return from 'the dead', Dick spends more time than before with Jason. He tries not to think of their meetings as compensation for the time and closeness he has lost with Tim, who still feels betrayed.
157. Some of Jason's best memories come from his early days in the manor when Bruce spent hours teaching him the essential skill of swimming since he had never learned. Even now he finds swimming relaxing.
158. Nightwing once posed a question to Damian: which identity would he rather take up, Red Hood or Red Robin? Damian could have answered immediately but instead chose to say neither. He knows that Dick could never understand his reasoning and he wasn't willing to explain.
159. Bruce never liked Conner Kent's visits to the manor but they were infinitely better than when Roy Harper visited.
160. During the time when Bruce was believed to be dead, there was always at least one night a week in which all four of his sons would cry themselves to sleep; the reasons for their tears were all different but the common denominator was always Bruce.
161. The boys still remember the time they got into the long lasting 'Coke Versus Pepsi' argument; Tim has a scar from that day and they never did reach an agreement.
162. Bruce has always been proud of Dick, but the thing he's most proud of about his eldest son is that when faced with such a similar childhood tragedy, Dick found a way to go through life smiling.
163. Alfred sometimes finds communicating with Damian very difficult. Not because of the child's personality but because of his appearance; Damian resembles his father so much and Alfred finds it hard to believe that they could be simultaneously so similar and yet so different.
164. Jason never wants to spend a night at the manor again. The last time he did, somebody put a massive fake spider on the pillow next to him while he was sleeping. When he woke up, he screamed so loud that Bruce, still dressed as Batman, came running all the way from the cave. He hadn't seen Bruce laugh so much in a very long time.
165. Dick can barely bring himself to fight Ra's al Ghul. In a strange way, he feels like he owes the man something for returning his brother to him.
166. Every family member reacts differently to being ill. Bruce will pretend that everything is alright and work himself through it with lemon and honey tea from his faithful butler. Dick, despite being a naturally sociable person, likes to be left alone to sleep it off. Jason tends to work through it himself but what he really likes is to fall asleep on someone's shoulder; in his childhood years that shoulder belonged to Bruce. Tim wants to be left alone to quietly read a book but he takes great comfort in having somebody check in on him every so often. Damian will pretend he's fine and not admit to being sick - unless Dick is around because Dick is the exception to the rule; then Damian likes to be cuddled. As for Alfred, nobody ever knows that he's ill. Alfred can hide things even from Batman when he really wants to.
167. Jason didn't realise he had become, in his own way, part of the family until he found himself answering the call of the Bat-signal.
168. After he's soothed the boy after terrible nightmares, Dick was always pretend to fall asleep before his youngest brother. Damian will kiss him goodnight but only when he thinks Dick is already sleeping.
169. Following the death of Tim's father, it was not Bruce who soothed the child and cared for him in those early days, nor was it Dick, as most would expect. It was in fact Alfred, who understood that the boy needed someone who didn't know what he was going through - he needed somebody to sympathise with him, just for a few minutes, so that he could know his sorrow wasn't equal to weakness.
170. Oddly enough, the one who suffered the most from bullying at school was Damian.
171. On a rare day when all four of Bruce's sons were together in the same room in the manor, Dick had a music channel playing on the television and randomly remarked that the four of them should form a band. Tim laughed while Jason and Damian scowled but all four of them spent the night coming up with the perfect name for their fictional band.
172. The Joker might be crazy but even he's thought twice about messing with Robin with both Batman and Nightwing in the room.
173. Alfred is the only truly honest-with-himself member of the family. Everybody else is in denial about something.
174. Although none of them actually realise it, all four boys shared a childhood dislike of the Easter Bunny. Dick never believed, Jason thought it was stupid, Tim wouldn't eat candy from a stranger and Damian thought that world hunger would be stopped if they could only catch and breed giant rabbits like that.
175. Tim occasionally thinks that he should retire the identity of Red Robin and come up with a new persona; one that has no ties to Batman. But he always decides against it in the end - the name Robin just holds too much meaning for him to give up.
176. Jason can say no to Bruce all he likes but even he knows that he can't refuse the kind but firm requests of the family butler.
177. Bruce sometimes wonders what it would have been like to have daughters instead of sons, but he prefers reality to his imagination. As females, Dick would have had a teenage pregnancy and Tim would have an eating disorder. Jason would be unbearable at 'that time of the month' and Damian would be exactly the same but with the ability to seduce more villains.
178. Nobody in the family ever liked it when Dick grew his hair too long. In fact, three out of the other five have attempted to cut it while he was sleeping. Only one of them ever succeeded.
179. Hot dogs are a peculiar favourite of the family but they can't eat them very often; it's far too hard to sneak them past Alfred.
180. Dick once accompanied Tim and Damian to a circus that was travelling through Gotham City. He was fine until the acrobats performed but then he criticised their simple routine and left. That was the same day that Damian found out the whole truth about his oldest brother's childhood.
181. Ironically, the one who most easily accepted Bruce as his father during his childhood years was Jason.
182. At eleven years old, Damian already knows who he wants his first kiss to be with. He will never tell anybody who that person is.
183. Tim once went to check on Jason after the Red Hood failed to meet him at the agreed time and place to bust up a trafficking shipment. After finding his brother passed out and bleeding in his apartment, Tim patched him up and then cared for him. Jason woke up an hour before he let Tim become aware of this - having the brother whom he had nearly killed hold his hand and stroke his hair was just too nice to give up.
184. All the boys can play a musical instrument. Dick can play the acoustic guitar, Jason can play the piano, Tim can play the cello and Damian can play the flute. Bruce sometimes wonders how his four energetic and lively boys manage to play such calm, beautiful music.
185. Jason hates Bruce. He also loves him. Most of all, he hates that, after everything that happened, he still loves him.
186. They say that mothers can lift cars off their children. As is happens, younger brothers can do the same to save their older siblings.
187. Bruce is never pleased to have practically the entire Justice League in his home, but watching Damian attempt to look entirely unimpressed with the lot of them is too amusing for him to stop it happening again.
188. Dick wants to help Tim with his insecurity issues but he's too afraid to try; deep down, he knows that this is because his own actions caused many of them.
189. One Halloween, the boys, minus Jason, decorated Wayne Manor as a haunted house and proceeded to spend the evening trying to frighten one another. Halfway through the night with nothing happening, Damian got bored and crept out to go on patrol as he thought the other two must have already done the same. He still doesn't realise that the reason for the absence of his brothers is that they had stumbled into each other's traps - Dick was trapped in the basement with the spiders and Tim was caught in a net suspended from the high ceiling with no means of escape.
190. Dick spends too much time with Wally West; Jason spends too much time with Roy Harper; Tim spends too much time with Conner Kent. Bruce wonders who will be the equivalent annoyance for Damian.
191. Batman fears the influence that the Red Hood has over Robin, but even he can't deny that the two make a near unstoppable team.
192. Few people know that, when Tim finally decided to learn how to cook, the one who taught him was not Alfred. In was, in fact, Martha Kent, during one of Tim's many visits to Smallville.
193. There are some - just a few - videos that were illegally filmed during performances of the Flying Graysons which have been uploaded to the internet. When he finds himself missing his parents more than ever, Dick likes to watch them just to remember the clear definition of his father's face or the way the circus lights caught his mother's smile. There is only one performance that he can't bring himself to watch, and he has to avoid the most popular video.
194. He doesn't like to admit to it, but one of Damian's favourite things about living with his father and Alfred was that he got to decorate the manor for Christmas. He also loved that he got to do this before Dick arrived for the holidays; the look on his face was good for a laugh every year.
195. Jason is the only member of the family who likes strawberry pop-tarts. Alfred keeps a supply of them in the cupboard for whenever he visits.
196. Dick, Tim and Damian once visited the zoo and now they are all banned for life. Damian had a fight with an 'obnoxious' goat and Tim got stuck in a cage with a lion, and Bruce doesn't even want to know what Dick did that left him covered in flamingo feathers and with a permanent grudge against penguins.
197. Eventually all kids have to grow up and leave home; some miss it more than others. In Bruce's family, the one who truly missed life in the manor was the one who was ripped away from it and knew, upon his restoration, that there was no longer a place for him there.
198. While very drunk, Dick was dared to 'bring all the boys to the yard'. The sad thing wasn't that he tried but that he succeeded.
199. Tim loves it when Damian gets injured on patrol. Not because he enjoys seeing the boy hurt - he hates seeing anybody hurt - but because they are some of the only times when he can have a pleasant conversation with his little brother without fear of attack. Damian is surprisingly amiable when he's being patched up after a nasty fight.
200. Bruce can sympathise with Jason, Tim and Damian but the only one he could ever really empathise with was Dick.
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