Ibn, my Ibn.

[shankie]

Um. I guess some of this could be construed as spoilers. But not really, since it's been all over everywhere and I really don't have any sort of details on the latest storyarc of Batman to spoil anything. It's mostly just me speculating and going on.

I posted some of Ibn's childhood from The Kingdom, and cmer posted some of the boy-child in question from Batman #655.

I'm wicked freakin' excited, I have to say. I know canon changes never go over smoothly... you know, ones like this... but I'm for it. After all, Bruce & Ibn were ten kinds of awesome in Kingdom Come, as illustrated by this page, and it opens up a whole can of worms.

Bruce has lamented that his line will end with him. He's seen his ancestry, and despite the boys he's adopted... he does regret that he doesn't see himself ever having children. It's a strongly felt but not often explored element of Bruce Wayne.

Just think of all the things a writer like Morrison could do with this scenario.

I feel a kind of irony in all this, since writing Bruce a son was a recent thing I've done, that I'd been thinking about doing since before paying any attention to the rumourmill. I like the idea of Batman with a son. A son that, unlike his wards, sees his father from afar, sees him in an almost godlike light. All the fealty of a son for a father, compounded by Bruce Wayne's pure force of personality and power and the idealized view he's been given.

I don't actually know if he's Ibn, or even Talia's son, or what his story is at all yet.

::goes off to write Ibn::

Edit: Ibn is Arabic for "son of" and not actually a name. But it's used as his name, and I like it. So yeah.