[fanfiction] Everybody Goes To Harry's

[belphegor1982]

Chapter three :o)
Story: Everybody Goes To Harry's
Chapter three: Walking On The Moon
Rating: PG13
Characters: Trickster, Flash
Pairing: none
Genre: drama/humour
'Verse: DCAU
Summary: James Jesse sits on the top of a building, thinking of trying out his air-walker shoes for the first time, and the Flash stops by for a chat.

Man, Trickster was hard to write

Comments

[shann1]

This managed to have a near perfect balance between cutesy 'aaaawwww' type fiction and the more serious, psychological type of fiction. Not an easy thing to do, but you pulled it off well. Admittedly, my first introduction to the Flash was through the live action T.V. series and later the DCAU so I didn't realize how very different the comics' version of him is. OOC as it was, Mark Hamill's Trickster episodes were by far the best of the live action show. I love comics' Trickster (James) the best, but all his incarnations are pretty fun. I also like how you addressed in-universe how people tend to mix up Trickster with the Joker. My one little qualm is that you implied the Trickster had been around longer than the Joker, which isn't the case of any incarnation (or even the actual history of the comics). The Trickster wasn't at all influenced by the Joker's career, and he came up with the idea totally separately, but he's still newer and younger than the Joker. Otherwise, it was a really great look at the mind of DCAU Tricks

[belphegor1982]

Thank you very much for the comment, and thanks too for the explanation on "snorgle" - my guess is that, even if I got the general gist of it, I wouldn't have found it in any dictionary :D Re Trickster and Joker seniority, I'll probably tweak it before I post it on FF dot net, because that wasn't the impression I wanted to give. The "way before the Joker had made the whole thing all fashionable" thing was because, in my mind, the Joker did begin before the Trickster (whom I see as rather young, 30/35-ish, at the most) but "fashionable" here means that the whole US of A know him and have nightmares about him, not just Gotham. Since he (almost) never tries (as far as I know) his bloody shenanigans outside his own city, I'm guessing it might have taken a little while till a teenage aerialist heard of him :o)

A huge thanks also on the "near-balance" thing. It means a lot. Went straight to that warm little place in my guts where I keep the good feelings for a rainy day :o)

[shann1]

Ohhh OK I see what you were going for with the Joker/ Trickster comment now. I think (and I could be wrong because I'm used to Canadian news where every major crime is reported nation wide) but I think since the Joker was one of the very first costumed villains his first few escapades would've been reported nationwide relatively quickly. However, once more costumed criminals started coming out then it would've died down to more local news. Your view of JJ's age is pretty much where I'd place him too. I'd love to read the comic where Cold and Trickster team up for the first time. I think they'd have a great big brother/ little brother dynamic. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that's why Cold puts up with Axel, because he misses having a Trickster around

[belphegor1982]

I'm not familiar with that website - these days, though, a lot of expressions I use seem to come from the TV Tropes site, so I know about words that pop up naturally from browsing the Web :o) I'm French, and while every really major crime or tragedy is also reported nation wide here, I figured that since the US are a federal country, the news would be first about state and only THEN about the States. If that makes sense. Sometimes being an outsider really means lacking in insight... although I'm always trying to work on that to close the gap. Especially language-wise. Ah well

[shann1]

OMG this website is like the greatest gift ever! I love the artist for this one, James looks so adorable. It's subtle, but I noticed even before they teamed together, Captain Cold was willing to help JJ out against the heroes (while JJ at first only helped for his own sake). I did find Barry's priorities a bit ridiculous though- he didn't help Jay Garrick at first because he thought chasing Cold and Trickster was more important than saving Jay's ENTIRE WORLD? The worst the criminals would've done is commit a robbery, kinda insignificant compared to the lives of BILLIONS of PEOPLE. Oh Barry, you silly man you

[belphegor1982]

The artist was Carmine Infantino, who created Barry Allen and his Rogues with writer Gardner Fox :o) Yes, the issue was rather adorable, with Barry being his ever dorkish self. (but we love him for it, sweet silly man :D)

By all means, write the fic! That way I can claim credit for giving you the idea :D To be fair, this business with the Top revealing that he'd mess with their heads always bothered me a bit. I think that he did not use mental powers to make them go over to the side of angels, but that he was making them believe he did only to, well, screw with their heads at that particular point. The question is, were James and Mick really happy at the FBI? Do you think they rejoined the Rogues because the Top "fixed" something in their heads, or because they took that opportunity to finally accept that they had had enough? Hmm...

[shann1]

The Top basically admitted to Captain Cold that he wasn't able to change all the Rogues minds, which in my opinion suggests that JJ, Hartley and Mick already had the desire to change within them which is why the Top's powers worked on them and not the others. JJ has admitted multiple times that he fears for his soul and Neron, so he had a really good reason to want to go straight. Mick wants very badly to overcome his pyromania, and Hart wanted to make up for his crimes. I think it was less about them being good, then HOW they went about it. When James was a free lance con-artist working for the side of the angels (as he himself put it) he seemed to be perfectly happy, and more importantly, true to himself. I think the Top's influence began to really show when James and the others started working for the FBI. James was the exact opposite of who he used to be, abandoned all his fun and seemed to have lost the loyalty he once had for his friends. The very moment that the Top released him, James is eager to make it up to his friends and