Fic: The Smell of Smoke [DCU: Teen Titans v.1]

Mar 01, 2007 23:53

Title: The Smell of Smoke
Author: lady_sarai
Fandom/Continuity: DCU, Teen Titans v.1
Length: ~1,900 words
Characters: Roy Harper, Dick Grayson; cameos by Donna, Wally and Garth
Warnings: Potentially disturbing references to dead bodies
Disclaimer: I so own nothing.
Author's Note: Thanks to zoe_chan for letting me flail and corrupt her share the Roy love, ( Read more... )

dcu fic, fic, teen titans v.1, dick grayson, roy harper, xenokattz broke my lj

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 06:37:05 UTC
Dude, got it in one. He's got a daughter whose mother is an assassin who nuked a country. And she's the cutest damned thing EVER. Witness the cute that kills me. PENGUINS. And he has background checks done on her friends' parents. ::loves::

Never mind that there is no canonical mention of his mother, his father died in a forest fire when he was 2, he was raised by a Navajo medicine man until he was 12 or 13, then he was taken in by Green Arrow (aka Oliver Queen, billionaire) and became "Speedy." Except Ollie's kind of negligent and Speedy was a member of the Teen Titans but they broke up and Ollie was gone more than he was there and so Roy got addicted to heroin and when Ollie found he kicked him out and then Roy wound up kicking the habit, and he was a drummer in a band called "Great Frog" and he worked for the government for a while which is how met Lian's mom and guh. ::flail:: Seriously. zoe_chan hasn't heard anything but RoyRoyROY from me for two weeks now. =P I have a few really good Roy fic recs here.

Canonically, he's roughly 25.

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 06:45:28 UTC
*flails*

Okay, he's TOTALLY invited to The Pub That somehow Never Burns Down.

Any particular issues/trades you want to suggest? Y'know, just in case that one post at scans_daily didn't quite fill me up?

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 06:57:45 UTC
::is bouncing OFF her chair::

Dude, he's got the snark, too. He and Remy would have AT it.

I'm totally new to the Roy love myself, but I've checked out just about everything tagged "Roy Harper" or "Arsenal" at scans_daily--everything tagged for Lian, too, btw. And there's arrows_daily which is similar but themed for the Green Arrow family and I'm not sure if it's there or scans_daily that has it, but one of them has the famous Roy's-a-junkie storyline from the 1970s. And I'm pretty sure it's scans that has the story where Dick and Roy go to get Lian from her mother when she's a redhaired baby--because what with the ASIAN mother it's gotta be obvious who her father is? I bought the trade Green Arrow: The Archer's Quest this week and OMG I LOVE IT--wherein Ollie is back from the dead and he and Roy go on a roadtrip to get his prized possessions. Also, I spent a lot of time at wikipedia. =P Oh, and I have Nightwing 114 but it kind of hurts because Dick and Roy are best friends and Dick's a pretty big ass. =P Also, this is hysterical--Roy's costume changes through the years. HA. And oh, I *love* this, wherein the original Teen Titans get stranded on an island and are trapped in a dreamworld where they are 13 and Roy accidentally saves the day.

When I have money, I am SO spending money at my comic store.

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 07:09:02 UTC
Speedy/Arsenal's PAINFUL purple costume is how I know of him although really, on a scale of 1 to 10, it's not as bad as some of Rogue's costume changes.

One day, I will learn figure out what the heck is wrong with my internet connection and I will download torrents and this stuff because superheroes on crack = love.

I think Clark just sprouted a headache.

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 17:33:06 UTC
Yeah, don't you just love comics? It's a lesson in how anatomy does not work. ;) ::squishes her comics::

Dude, torrents confuse the hell out of me and one day I will also figure them out, but it will not be today. =P Cause I tried that last week and got a headache.

It's saying something if Clark has a headache. What'd Remy do now?

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 18:12:13 UTC
I think the headache was a reaction to the idea that Remy now has a BFF in the pub who'd help bug Bruce. 'Cause really, Remy does NOT need a cheering squad for Bruce-baiting at this point.

I was torrenting like mad a month ago and then al of a sudden, it says my connection doesn't work but that doesn't make sense 'cause I'm surfing & chatting and all so WTF?

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 18:45:55 UTC
HA! Yeah, he would, too. Take this icon for instance--it comes from this. Oh, Roy, you silly boy. ♥

I really need to add a "hee!" to this icon, because that's so what Roy's saying.

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 20:03:39 UTC
That's TOTALLY what hes saying!

Oh, ROY!

Poor Bruce.

Poor, poor, POOR Clark.

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 20:33:22 UTC
We really are trying to turn Richard into an alcoholic, aren't we?

It's never a good sign when he's under the table.

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 20:37:47 UTC
It's quite unfair, really. He's not even a canon comic character who'd be used to all these convolutions.

*throws a bottle of Stoli under the table*

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 21:24:46 UTC
You know, it's true. Poor man. Can't blame him for preferring to go through these encounters with a little blood in his alcohol stream.

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 21:44:40 UTC
He should really be commended to sticking t alcohol. I'd've moved onto hard drugs by now.

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 22:41:08 UTC
Yes, only Roy would totally kick his ass.

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xenokattz March 2 2007, 22:54:14 UTC
Look at us talking as if he's a regular already.

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lady_sarai March 2 2007, 23:50:48 UTC
I know. The only problem is that he's Dick's age, and Dick is (by my estimation) roughly Jason's age.

Which isn't a problem if the boys are old enough to be in The Bar That Doesn't Blow Up. ;)

I keep wanting to stick Jason and Batman-Beginsmovieverse!Dick together in a room and see what happens. Except for how I don't know what would happen. ;)

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xenokattz March 3 2007, 02:17:13 UTC
Maybe the Pub That Doesn't Blow Up is like the Subreality Cafe.

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