Watchmen fic: Last Days of an Unreal City, chapter 10 - Jus in Bello

[scarlet_carsons]

Title: Last Days of an Unreal City - Chapter 10 - Jus in Bello
Characters: Rorschach/Nite Owl II
Rating: PG-13
Word count (this section): 5406
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Alan Moore.
Summary: AU. The Cold War reaches its ultimate conclusion, and Rorschach and Daniel are among the survivors when the East Coast is attacked.

Many thanks to runriggers for

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[okypete_harpy]

"Oh. Just wondering," Daniel said. "You have a, uh, slight accent. Sometimes."
Rorschach canted his head to one side. "Do not."
"It's not obvious. It only really shows when you're angry. You'd have to listen really closely in order to hear it, though."
I imagine Dan would have paid close attention to that, trying to glean as much about his mysterious and secretive partner as he can.

The first time Daniel had seen a human corpse, he had mistaken it for an abandoned shop mannequin
I love that. That actually does happen.

Some asshole had planted a rosebush on the other side of the fence. They endured it stoically.
I laughed at that.

"Was that really necessary?" Daniel asked.
Rorschach shrugged. "He's fine."
"How can you tell?"
"Practice."
Oh Rorschach.

"It does. It will have to be investigated in due time; obviously, I'm very busy, and I'd rather worry about the survivors right now. Any luck finding Hollis?"
WAY TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT, ADRIAN. >:|

Occupational hazard of being a Nice Jewish Boy. Is that a reference to the calendar

[scarlet_carsons]

'Is that a reference to the calendar that was linked to/the inspiration for Mr. November on the Kink Meme?'

lol, oh wow, I never even saw that until you mentioned it. (And I'm glad you did!) I'd just been reading about Jewish stereotypes of masculinity because the subject of Jewish nerds came up in this blog post, and I was like, 'oh, Dan fits the nerdy Jewish guy trope, I seeeee.' (I'm Captain Oblivious when it comes to race and religion tropes, sometimes.)

'I'm really enjoying this! I look forward to the time when they find out Adrian is behind Jon leaving.'

Thank you! (Adrian is a minx.)

[okypete_harpy]

Cool. That blog post is interesting. (And yeah, I never thought of Dan as Jewish at all until some authors wrote him that way.)

He is. I envy the way he's able to control all the situations and conversations he finds himself in, how he always puts the focus on the other person.

[scarlet_carsons]

I didn't consider him to be Jewish at all until someone pointed out that Dreiberg is a Jewish surname; it was another one of those things what whooshed right over my head when I first read the comic. I was pretty unaware of the stereotypes surrounding nerdy Jewish intellectuals, too.

[okypete_harpy]

Yeah, I just thought it was a German name. And a lot of the stereotypes go over my head too.