Fic: Past Tense

[katzedecimal]

Sick-Katze is sick, feels ick, brings fic.

Title: Past Tense
Author: Katzedecimal
Rating: T
Characters: Giovanni Ricardo, Chase Williams, brief appearances by Kid Flash, Aqualad
Summary: What makes people tick

Comments

[neotoma]

I'm buying myself free -- He'll be a free dwarf if it kills him ;D

Well, Jerrie wanted Hartley for himself, but that's not anywhere near the same thing.

And I love that a) Trickster and Piper are trying to protect Dick Grayson by asking *Robin* of all people to look in on the situation, b) that Wally is *still* oblivious [seriously, he's going to think that Trickster is gay before he thinks Piper is...], and c) that Garth is oblivious in an entirely different way.

[katzedecimal]

Well, when you're constantly hearing "Do you know how much those degrees cost us? How could you flunk out so badly? Are you listening to me? You should be, after all those operations! Those weren't cheap, young man! Put that flute down and GENTLY!! - that's an antique, I spent twenty-five thousand dollars on that, don't you dare just drop it! Now about these grades, thank heavens that professor was open to persuasion, that's another twenty-five thousand and do you ever say thank you?"

As someone (you?) observed, there's those fun little moments where we know something that the characters don't, ie the secret identities of the other characters XD Re: Garth -- oh you have no idea XDDD Garth is from Atlantis, where customs and social mores are very different XDDD

[neotoma]

How could you flunk out so badly?

Quite simply, I think Piper *hates* conventional (or what he thinks of as 'conventional') schools. If he was taught with oralist methods before his operation, it would have been beyond frustrating for him.

that's an antique, I spent twenty-five thousand dollars on that,

I'm pretty sure a *brand-new* concert-quality flute is about that much, let alone an antique.

Garth is the one who is going to say something he *thinks* is innocuous and self-evident and winds up making Wally's head explode, isn't he?

[katzedecimal]

I dropped a few hints about Piper's post-secondary education in this fic. Early canon painted the Rathaways as golden "our child can be anything he wants to be" parents (it was the 60s); later canon darkened it with the (frankly more realistic) amendment "--as long as it's within what we want him to be." So I'm working within that to present Piper's post-secondary education and what he'll do once he's paid off his debt.

Yeah, very probably. I think Piper knows a lot more about his flutes than his parents do, and knows which ones are *truly* valuable XD

You are so going to love Garth in the next fic XDDD

[katzedecimal]

Hee thanks ^_^

Trickster's past here is... not so nice. Yet strangely, the life he's had is a lot better than it could have been, had he not made the choices he made.

Glad you enjoyed ^_^

[shiny_glor_chan]

<3 Loving this immensely. Haha, Robin has to protect himself from Bruce, lol. Aww, poor Tricks and his insecurities. Very nicely written.

[katzedecimal]

Thanks :)

[hermine_ichigo]

So it's me again (again ;D)
This was really cute.
Really really cute.

Trickster's concern for Dick Grayson is touching and I often thought "Why did anyone let Wayne adopt a kid beside the fact he got money?" and the conclusion that Trickster drew is quite (very quite) realistic.
(and who knows maybe bad little Grayson started it all when he was older... *giggles* Ooooh my first comicslashlove ^.^ *whistles innocently*)

Oooh and again TeenTitans...^^ (everytime they are in the Character list Lakonnia keeps demanding to hear the story ;D Yeeeeah she's finally Katze-happyverse-addicted ;D)

BTW: the last story was brilliant. We still laugh our asses off when we throw a 'Sicko!Pervert!' at each other XD (plus a imitation of Trickster's sentence before in an italian accent ;)) <--another btw: the stories are read out as I said before but now Trickster speaks with an italian accent all the time XD (Lakonnia: Yeah, and everybody else does it too....*grins

[katzedecimal]

Hee! I are glad you liked ^__^ (bad grammar because I'm being silly.)

Titans (or two of them, at least) appearing again next fic ^__^ Also, Gambi! ^_^

An unfortunate Canadian trait is our tendency to absorb accents without thinking about it. I say unfortunate because it offends people sometimes, when a Canadian is talking to them and gradually begins to pick up their accent. They get mad and think that the Canuck is making fun of them and the poor Canuck is all "blink-blink what'd I do?" I once spent an afternoon chatting with a Scottish co-worker then a Welsh friend, then a Texan acquaintance -- yeah you can imagine what I sounded like when I got home! *LOL*

I do not like onions and will not touch the onion juice cure XDDD Fortunately a bad cough is not among my symptoms ^__~ Which is good because that cure sounds worse than Buckley's Mixture (and honey, there is not much in this world that is worse than Buckley's Mixture, it is like drinking Tiger Balm %-P )

[ziarenete13x]

Oh god, I do that too! I'm American though. I work in a fabric shop, which means [in America] I get a.) all the bored housewives and crafters, b.) the poor and lower-to-mid middle-class folks [like myself] trying to make their stuff last longer, c.) the budding home-decorators looking for a [much!] less costly alternative, d.) lots and lots of foreigners, whether visiting or naturalized. Many of all four groups have some sort of accent, whether its a heavy Brooklyn one, a Southern drawl, Trenton ebonics, British, Polish, Spanish, Indian...And I have a horrible habit of picking up the speech patterns of anyone I talk to for more than a few minutes, which I usually have to do to explain such-and-such a fabric and this-and-that technique. I get so many dirty looks

[katzedecimal]

Oh boy, back when I was working as a resident manager in apartment buildings, we had some deaf tenants in one. They were lovely people. I know very little ASL ('how are you' was about it) and my fingerspelling is gross and slow, lacking in dexterity, but I did my best. They always wanted to deal with me over the other managers (three of us) because the others slurred their words or didn't look at them when talking, so they were hard to communicate with (hard to read someone's lips when they won't look at you :-P ) They were more than happy to expand my signed vocabulary, and by the time they gave their notice to vacate, we were conducting business mostly in ASL with a few written notes. Alas, I've since forgotten most of the vocabulary XD

[amarin_rose]

Virtual chicken soup for your sickness and virtual chocolate chip cookies for this fic! I love the laughing rats and Tricks wanting to look after Dick. And I can't wait to see what you have planned with Garth.

[katzedecimal]

Rats really do laugh ^_^

And Garth? Is hilarious. I've been writing him all day and just having a blast with him.