margoshkas:

lysical-secondary:

GOTHAM WAS BUILT BY US. THE COURT OF OWLS. AND NOW WE HAVE A PARLIAMENT BECAUSE PUNS AND CAW CAW MOTHER FUCKER. 

idk my guy i’m climbing a volcano tomorrow. 

i hate how the entire talon thing in canon was and @margoshkas can in five minutes devise a way better way to do that entire story line and history of that organization

talon? how about edgelord steampunk 3000 okay. 

ok, one stop calling me out for liking the idea of the court of owls ok. i am young and impressionable, scusi por favor, leave me be. alora, the court of owls is fantastic in theory—

once their entire backstory is removed, forgotten, and thrown in the garbage chute.

first of all, the court of owls is basically how dc’s writers failure of a parallelism metaphor for the illuminati. which ok, fuckin’ ace, but also, fuck no. please. so here’s a quick fix-it.

• there is no three hundred year history; the court did not come with the mayflower. the court did not build gotham. there is no secret society controlling the socio-political and economic standing of one of the oldest, most corrupt, and highly visible cities of the united states.
• batman knows. batman always knows. more importantly, bruce wayne knows. ( he ignores it. )
• the thing about the rich is that they have an odd way of processing their self preservation. the thing about the powerful is that they like control and they hate being duped. 
• living in gotham, kind of nullifies those thus, the creation of the court.
• the court of owls was created as a safety measure by the rich and powerful for the rich and powerful. ( of course, bruce wayne knows. he was invited. he was there when it was jokingly proposed. he was there when it was just in hypotheticals. when it was just a theory. he ignores it. just the way he ignored the final clubs in princeton. the fraternities and societies he got invited into as a wayne. he ignores it. )
• gotham’s high society is sick and tired of the gotham rogues; they are sick and tired of being kidnapped and tortured and robbed and used as guinea pigs by the tug of war that the batman has started when he put on the cape twenty years ago. they are done. 
• but they won’t leave gotham; they have roots here. reputations. strongholds. they know how it functions. they won’t leave. 
• the court is created. the parliament voted upon. their talon is a former black bag operative; reprogrammed and indoctrinated with the court’s beliefs. ( screw that gray son narrative; but also yaaas on that gray son narrative. gotham’s high society may not know who the bat family is, but they know the waynes and they know dick grayson, they know the fall out between him and bruce. they know dick was a cop in the bludhaven police force. they know he quit that and did a stint as a museum curator. they know that he disappeared and died and appeared in the other side of the world as an unknown operative under the codename agent 37. they want one of their own to do their dirty work; one that they saw grow up. one that they don’t need to indoctrinate because he already grew up knowing their doctrine. )
• the waynes are not involved. but the kanes are. ( the court wants bruce wayne, by extension they also want damian al ghul. )
• the court is not a problem until it is. ( bruce underestimates his peers; bruce underestimates how much gotham has been warped by batman and his rogues. bruce forgets how the vanguard operates. bruce forgets. bruce ignores. bruce is caught off guard until the treat becomes too big to ignore and by then he ca longer contain the court. )
• cue, a new fucking storyline that makes sense and provides relevant social commentary; also a great meta analysis on how bruce wayne and batman is a stop gap and how it needs to change, or at least, evolve.