Comments | amarin_rose: Fic: Familial Duties, Batverse, Jason, Tim, PG-13, 1/1

amarin_rose

Fic: Familial Duties, Batverse, Jason, Tim, PG-13, 1/1

Dec 25, 2007 21:21

Tim wants to leave the family - permanently. That gives Jason a reason to rejoin it - partially.
Note: Talk of suicide. Angst galore. Spoilers for Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13

( Jay may have been an evil son-of-a-bitch (according to Dick), a sewer rat (according to Bruce), and a waste of potential (according to Babs), but there were some things even he didn’t do. )

timothy drake, au, jason todd, gen, fanfiction, batverse, dcu

Comments 23

greeneyelove December 26 2007, 03:48:43 UTC

This was great! I love Jason being protective and determined to be there for his family.

Just wonderful!!!

museofspeed December 26 2007, 04:31:16 UTC

Sometimes, this icon is completely perfect.

Poor Tim. And hooray for Jason not being an asshole!

Also: Bart! For some reason, everyone seems to forget Bart when they list the people Tim's known that die. It bothers me.

amarin_rose December 27 2007, 02:37:27 UTC

It's still so new. Also, I can't beleive anyone as loveable as Bart could die. :(

museofspeed December 27 2007, 04:29:31 UTC

My hope is that he's actually hanging out with Mom and Jenni in the Thirtieth Century.

Even if Jenni doesn't seem to exist anymore. I'm sure it'll...somehow...work out?

saavikam77 December 26 2007, 04:41:42 UTC

Oh, Tim! Damn, that's effed up.

I love what you did with this, showing how much Jason does, indeed, still care about his family.

*hugs them both*

kirke_novak December 26 2007, 12:11:12 UTC

This was awesome - in character, with just the right amount of angst and good written.

cosmicastaway December 26 2007, 15:43:06 UTC

OMG! You're awful and scary and you own my soul!

*laughs* This was dark and twisted and beautiful. You took my "Tim would NEVER" and made me cry and freak and wail. And your words are just lovely. I won't even start to point out all the lines I like. It was one win after another after another...

You wrote something sharp and jagged, and still soft.
Too awesome!

amarin_rose December 27 2007, 02:58:28 UTC

All these stories lately with Tim trying (and failing, mostly) to commit suicide got me to thinking. I am glad you liked it, and that you think I wrote it well. This is a tough topic, even if the characters are ficitional.

cosmicastaway December 27 2007, 03:02:35 UTC

I don't think the "let's have them emo/suicidal" works for all characters. Sometimes, I just want to tell writers "leave it alone" because they're trying TOO HARD.

But what you did master here is your capture of the echo. Because all of us have asked "DC, WHY ARE YOU PUTTING TIM THROUGH SO MUCH CRAP?!?!!!?" and secretly, we've each wondered why he hasn't cracked.

In your story, he has.

It works. :]

I also think it's wicked-cool (hah, I'm in grade ten again) that you used this to bring about a solution in the DC universe, too. Jason never had a bridge or a reason or anything to connect him to DOING anything beneficial for the Bat-family.

You give him a broken Tim, and Jay will make sure that family holds. I don't think very much else would do that.

amarin_rose December 27 2007, 14:59:51 UTC

Ahh, well, I tried. Thanks for your kind words. :)

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