[fic] Dick/Tim novella

[glossing]

Is that it? Am I done?

Title: From your memory to this instant; Or, Forensics
Spoilers/setting: OYL + a year or so.

Comments

[unholyglee]

I just. TENTACLES? WHAT? Clearly I need to read more on one Jason Todd. And yes, hates them all. Would never do anything to actually help them with their privilege and all. Like they'd need his help, anyway. Buncha paranoid rich Daddy's boys. Also? That detail about how he'd hunched his shoulders like a dog that expects to be kicked (or something to that effect) when he was all "stay and watch porn, dickie" was just. OH JASON. C'MON HOME.

You were a bit hard on Dick, but only because out of all of them, he IS the one who would get a package like that and NOT TALK TO TIM FIRST HOMG. Him being all "Have to protect him. He's got enough shit going on, I won't bother him with this" and Barbara and Alfred being all "TALK TO HIM, YOU GOOBER" about broke my heart. But not as much as the thought that Bruce would disapprove of the gay so strongly that Tim moved out.

Oh, god. If there's ever an undercover thing at a stereotypical gay club? And Tim goes as one of his alts that doesn't really fit in but still gets hit on because he is such a cute, tense little thing. And then Dick shows up in an even tighter shirt than before and pants that should be illegal and his hair SO SHINY and he's got boys falling over themselves trying to get at him but he acts all clueless and "I just came to dance, you know?" and pulls several of them on the floor but ends up dancing most of the time with Tim, who is halfway to mortified. Jay? Actually shows up in camp, feather boa included and makes nice with all the queens while they all oogle the twinky older thing with the nice ass.

Pete. Hmmm. I definitely got his frustration and rage, both at society and at Tim and at himself for loving Tim despite his representing everything Pete hates. I didn't really get more off of him except that I liked how he and Dick interacted, even if it was draining. I felt tired by the end of that scene, but that's probably because I was strongly identifying with Dick by that point.

[glossing]

TENTACLES. In the first arc of Nightwing OYL (an arc of which I AM THE ONLY FAN, EVER, OMG), Jay got...tentacles. And then he left. It was very moving. *cracks up*

You were a bit hard on Dick,
*dies again* The jokes just never get unfunny. And, yeah, I was. Poor guy. He's ALSO the only one who'd bounce back, I think that's how I justified being so mean to him.

he acts all clueless and "I just came to dance, you know?" and pulls several of them on the floor but ends up dancing most of the time with Tim
YES PLEASE OMG. And drag!Jason is both horrifying and *entrancing*, I can't help myself.

I felt tired by the end of that scene, but that's probably because I was strongly identifying with Dick by that point.
*pats* Thanks very much for answering my question - since you've read the other Pete stuff, I wanted to see if he worked as a minor character. And, yes, that scene drained me *so hard*. I avoided writing it, then I had to, and I wanted to curl up and cry afterward.

[unholyglee]

...[bumps more Nightwing up on the list]

SHUT UP YOU ARE TWELVE HOMG. And yeah. Dick's the hardiest out of the bunch. You knock him down and he bounces back.

Drag!Jason would be the cattiest thing ever. And he'd either be the least convincing drag queen ever or the most convincing. I can't decide. Knowing Jay, he'd be as gawdy glam as possible. Purple wigs and fake lashes out to THERE and all of it. Or, he'd go the other route and be scary-realistic drag and keep making jabs about how this should be like time at the old folks' home for Dick and Tim, or should he say Caroline? Since he borrowed her pearls, he hopes she won't mind.

And Tim's still less embarrassed by Jason than he is by Dick. Because Jason's crazy as a tree full of cracked out monkeys and just gonna do weird-ass shit and some days Tim really wishes they did use guns because he'd just shoot Jason and put them all out of his misery. Dick being entirely too good at being a twink? Sometimes makes Tim yearn for Bruce's mass and size so he could growl at the men showing just too much interest in his boyfriend's ass, thank you very much. He'd also "convince" Dick that he needs to keep his shirt on in public. Jay tells him to zip his trap and enjoy the show, toots.

Dick, sensing that something is up, suggests that he could go leather scene instead if his outfit really bothers Tim, he just needs to find a harness to go with his pants and maybe some chaps and then he's thumping Tim on the back and reminding him that human beings can't inhale water, no matter how much they train.