Batfamily Method Acting Days

cinnamoncinallen:

They had to be trained to do undercover work when necessary and had to be able to slip into a part at a moment’s notice, so sometimes they have days where they all get assigned a part and have to keep in character for the entire day.

Dick is the reigning champ. The boy was born to perform and does it so easily they have to wonder if he’s ever fooled them sometimes. Drunk police officer, angry pregnant mother, “Brucie” Wayne. He’s even played Alfred once and had the mannerisms and dry humor down to the point that he and Alfred spoke in unison.

Tim is close behind him. Just let him get into the style and mindset and he’s on a roll. He’s the type to plan out everything about his persona, from childhood memories to values to friends and favorite slang. The only thing that stops him from being as good as Dick is that when he’s worn down he can be caught off guard. Sometimes he can cover it up and move on like nothing happen, but the others love to get on him when he makes a slip up and try to catch him as much as possible.

Cass is definitely the most improved out of all of them. At the beginning, it was easy to break her character just by calling out her name and seeing her respond. However, her best skill is mimicking and analyzing, and once she got the hang of it she quickly surpassed majority of the family. Her entire body language changes to match that of her character, and sometimes she blends it so that they can’t tell if it’s in-character or a Cass thing. She rarely ever gets caught off guard the same way twice, so everyone keeps trying to make new ways of getting her to crack.

Stephanie is the queen of debuts and for the first few hours she’s untouchable. She has never been the first to lose. However, the longer the game goes on the more people start to gang up on her, the more tired she gets of the role and sometimes even gets bored. Watch out though because causing her to lose will make her come back with a vengeance and absolutely will be petty as long as it gets the others out.

Babs is one of the most likely ones to lose because other things keep grabbing her attention and she has to say or do something. Especially when she gets goaded into making a smart comeback whenever someone does something stupid. Her best roles are the nerdy ones. However, she is the best at forcing others to break character and so tries to get them out of the game before she snaps.

Duke is just forgetful that he’s supposed to be in character and the most common way is to just call out his name and he’ll react to it. However, when he gets into character he commits and will go all-out with the full shebang. He does not half-ass his role.

Jason is very hard to predict because sometimes he can outlast Dick but sometimes he’s the first to go. It all depends on the role he’s playing. Of course, piss him off enough and he’ll break character, though sometimes he gets angry while still playing a persona and after that no one is safe. He has a dramatic flare that practically outshines the rest.

Damian is nearly always the first to go. He’s easy to aggravate and it’s not hard to put him into a situation where he either does something he doesn’t like or stay in character. He almost always chooses the latter. However, he is amazing at voice imitations and has sparked numerous arguments as to whether doing something out of character while speaking with the perfect voice counts or not.

With Bruce it’s never a matter of whether he can pull it off but will he pull it off. He has the voice, brings out the clothes and does the whole thing but like his son if he doesn’t want to do something he will break character and leave. Of course when the family started to call him out on it Bruce stayed in his role for three days just to prove that he can. His best character is always the emo or angry boys.

Alfred only played once. He left for most of the day and when he came back into the manor after everyone had finished he was sporting a hawaiian shirt and sunglasses. When asked where he went he said he went on vacation because his role was ‘a sane person’.

liviedoodles:

Coloured it a bit hastily, may rework on it in the future. Hope you still like it!

[Image shows an ask from timbdrake saying: Are you still doing these requests? If so could you maybe do a younger Jason as red X (headcanon that when Jason first came back from the dead he became red x to fuck with the family.)

Liviedoodles responds with line art and a coloured image of Jason flopped on a couch. He has a tiny smile. His feet are up on a coffee table that has a glass of water on it. The glass has a Batman image. Jason is in a gray full body costume. The soles of his feet, belt, and gloves are all white or very pale gray. His mask is wrapped around a cushion beside him, and is a stylized white skull. Skull, back of gloves, and chest all have bright red, slash-like, Xes on them. The Xes are the same shape as a scar on Jason’s forehead. 

End ID.]

PLEASE, can I get the writing meme commentary for “The thing about being really rich is that it means I’m capable of things that no one else is. For instance: at any time, if I want to, I can kick Lex Luthor in the balls. […] The point is, from this point forward, Luthor is going to spend the rest of his life worried that I’m going to kick him in the balls and completely unable to do anything about it. That doesn’t work if I give my money away.”

unpretty:

this is the closest bruce wayne can possibly get to admitting he’s batman and when lois rereads this later and realizes what he did she’s gonna kick him in the balls

bruce would never actually kick lex in the balls when he could kick him in the head instead, but lex doesn’t know that and by making these statements publicly bruce has put lex luthor in the position of either having to avoid bruce at events, or else pointedly not avoiding bruce, but the thing is that lex is a coward and if bruce looks like he might kick him lex will abso-fucking-lutely flinch and because the article is public everyone will know exactly why he flinched and bruce won’t have to say a goddamn thing

they don’t even run into each other all that often but it’s just often enough that lex will never truly be free from the vague, nagging concern that this dude who famously enjoys shit like riding motorcycles off cliffs and kickboxing might decide on a whim to kick him and he wouldn’t even have to do it hard and lex has no options that won’t result in people making fun of him, aside from maybe wearing a reinforced cup at all times so any kicks won’t incapacitate him, but at that point he’s putting himself through a lot of discomfort just on the off-chance that a billionaire everyone likes more than him might kick him and he will always, always be putting a lot more thought into this than bruce ever will

@phirephox666

Another Glyph Friend!

This was one of my favourites, because I LOVE THE FOX GLYPH. Look at that fox! Also, I got to translate 666 into base 20, which was fun.

Glyph Says:

(UPPERCASE means that the glyph stands for a word, not a syllable. Click on symbols you don’t recognize to hear them pronounced.)

  1. Juunpik Oxlajuunk’al Wax K’ak’ Ch’amak
  2. (χūn pik oʃlɑχūn k’ɑl waʃ k’ɑhk’ tʃ’ɑmɑk)
  3. 1×400 13×20 6 K’AK’ [ch’a]CH’AMAK (read three numbers down the left side, then top, then main sign [with symbol on nose to help with pronunciation])
  4. 1-13-6 fire fox
  5. 666 Fire Fox

@inktail

Another Glyph Friend! I don’t think we’ve ever spoke, but I enjoy your presence! (Also, it was nice to have a name easy to translate. Thank you for your good name choosing.)

Glyph Says:

(UPPERCASE means that the glyph stands for a word, not a syllable. Click on symbols you don’t recognize to hear them pronounced.)

  1. Sabak Neh
  2. (saɓak neh)
  3. SABAK NEH
  4. Ink Tail

Glyph Friends

I’m starting a thing where I draw Tumblr names in Maya glyphs. It’s fun!

Here’s a list of people I’m hoping to do, but first I want to go a bit more in depth about how I’m doing things.

First, I’m translating the name into Classical Mayan the best I can. If there’s no classical term, I go to Ch’olti, then Yukatecan, than any dialect I can find a match. Religious/spiritual terms are NOT getting translated, because that gets – icky and disrespectful. So ‘haunted,’ ‘angel,’ ‘hell,’ etc. are being transliterated into syllablics (written using characters that are close to the English sounds). So are names, and possibly words I can’t find translations for. I’m trying to use Mayan grammar, but I’m not very good yet. Plus, most Classical texts are in the past tense, and your names mostly – aren’t.

On to my list!

  • afairladyofquality
  • afewnovelideas
  • alexalexalex
  • alloverthegaf
  • allumetterouge
  • angelgidget
  • aniseandspearmint
  • astrologista – crossed out means ‘done but possibly not posted yet’
  • audreycritter
  • blithefool
  • blurryyou
  • bunny_loverxiv
  • buriedinsatin
  • caramelmachete
  • cosmosqueen
  • dickgraysen/ohroses/maladictive/doe
  • floppergostic
  • galaxysoup/stew
  • greetings-from-the-suffer-puppet
  • hauntedlittledoll
  • helpcuziminshippinghell
  • hulklinging
  • iamjasonssmirkingrevenge
  • incogneat-oh
  • inktail
  • inkydandy
  • itispossibleihaveissues
  • jedierenjaeger/ryssabeth
  • jester1291
  • jhaernyl
  • justsayins
  • kittymccoy
  • knightofspite
  • Lady Guinea Pig
  • lvupmushroom
  • mooitstimdrake
  • namiofthesea
  • pastthetreesandstars
  • periodicpumpkin
  • phirefox666
  • respeculativefrictions
  • shefellofftheworld
  • shmoo92
  • sixelamarr
  • starfata
  • starryeyedastronaut
  • stellatheuniversecat
  • sunshineandsuperheroes
  • swimmingbird
  • tabithian
  • thefaustaesthetic
  • theisb
  • tuesdayisfordancing
  • unpretty
  • urcrookedneighbor
  • whetstonefires
  • wolveroonie/refusals

Please note that this list is based on if I recognized your name and had a warm fuzzy feeling while browsing my following and followers lists. Also, if I thought you knew of my existence. HOWEVER, I am so bad at names that my husband and sister don’t expect me to get theirs right. Some online names I pick up immediately, but a few I still need to double check every time after 3 years. 

If we’ve talked several times online, or one of us has been following the other for over a year, and you want to get on the list – TELL ME. There’s at least one person I’m worried isn’t on the list, because my brain insists that their name is the same as someone else’s. I WANT YOU ON THE LIST, but I’m too embarrassed to double check with a bunch of people about their identities. I should know your name by now 😥

@tuesdayisfordancing

I’ve started a thing where I’m writing some of the cool Tumblr people I like’s names in Maya glyphs. I need practice constructing Maya phrases, and I always want to thank you guys for being awesome.

I’ll post the list of people I’m considering doing soon. Names are being constructed in order of ‘can I find translations?’

Starting with Tuesday!

Glyph Says:

(UPPERCASE means that the glyph stands for a word, not a syllable. Click on symbols you don’t recognize to hear them pronounced.)

  1. Ti Ak’talaj Ak’ab
  2. (ti ɑk’tɑlɑχ ɑk’ɑɓ)
  3. ti-AK’-TAL-ja AK’AB (read – left, top, bottom, centre, right)
  4. For dancing [Third day of the ‘week’]
  5. Ak’ab is for Dancing

You’re great, Tuesday!