[fic] Knowledge of the Hand (Tina Drake, PG: Daddy Sharp-Ears, for MMoM)

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Title: Knowledge of the Hand
Media: Daddy Sharp-Ears (Uber/fusion of DC Comics [Gotham] and Jean Webster's Daddy Long-Legs)
Characters: Tina Drake and Jane Todd
Rating: PG, if that.
Length: 1700 words
Disclaimer: I am neither DC nor Miss Webster.
Notes: For jubilancy, without whom Dickie would be impossible, with much love. thete1 a while ago suggested Jane's

Comments

[solvent90]

Ohmygod. I mean. I'm only vaguely familiar with this particular book, but this still feels like one of those stories I've been waiting for forever. I read so many of those Wholesome Stories For Girls when I was younger, and found them so frustrating and fascinating at the same time, and this just. *flails* It's so perfect, with the class issues, and Tina's incredible voice, and the imagery, wow. This, especially:

Behind her, diminishing with each moment, lay the campus with her cruel roommates and idiot professors, uncouth stablehands and essays to be written. Before her lay only the sky and the water, twinned and silvered expanses of possibilities.

I don't know, it captures and multiplies something about the feel of those stories, breathlessness and nostalgia. And that's not even mentioning the Batverse characterisations, Tina and Jane and Dickie OMG; and riding as kind of Robin-ing on a meta level, and aaaaaaaaaaaa. Aaaa. I love this universe so much, and I can't understand how you managed to realise it so completely in under 2000 words.

[glossing]

I'm only vaguely familiar with this particular book, but this still feels like one of those stories I've been waiting for forever.
Oh, my, thank you. When I reread the book, after Jube compared it to Bruce/Dick, I couldn't not see every single parallel, but the "orphan and guardian hopelessly enthralled with each other" was, naturally, the key. There's just something about the quasi-historical setting and genderswitch that made this even more fun to write, even if I felt like L.M. Montgomery on acid at times.

with the class issues, and Tina's incredible voice
Somehow, making the class issues front and center, concretizing them in a way, made it easier/more fun? I don't know, I'm still pondering that. And Tina owns me; when Jube & I write Dickie's POV, she's convinced Tina dislikes her. LITTLE DOES SHE KNOW. *g*

I'm especially happy to hear that the imagery and style worked all right for you - I tried to let myself go, but I was alternately wincing and cackling madly as I typed, you know?

The *one* parallel I hadn't been able to establish was what a Robin is in this universe, beyond a ward-in-some-sense of Bruce Wayne, so riding-as-flying was the best I could do.

Thank you, sweetness, so much. This feedback has filled me with pure joy.