Le sigh -- Batman and Robin
So...I never really write Robin, or the batfamily, really, other than Alfred. I just have no reading background in the Batman comics and don't know enough about all the ancillary characters to make the notion of a bunch of kids running around fighting dangerous criminals under the auspices of an obsessive-compulsive make enough sense for me to want to novelize it.
Yet, I've just plotted out two whole stories for my S/B fanzine that feature Dick Grayson. I can't even tell if what I want to do sounds interesting, because I'm so skeptical about whether I can pull off using Dick without falling into a kiddie trope and gagging myself on the tripe. lol
Do you want to help me brainstorm? If I give you two summaries, can you give me uses of Dick within that scenario that would be interesting to you? I'm sort of hoping that I will learn a bunch of little idiosyncrasies about Dick that I didn't know about that will make my writing of him more authentic, without me having to go read a bunch of source material.
So, if you are not doing anything today and Dick is your favorite character -- if you read these scenarios, how would you like to see him handled:
Summary 1:
Dick Grayson forms a plan to prove to Batman that he is ready to fight at his side by solving the mystery of the Metropolis Red-Blue Blur. He figures the best place to start his investigation is by following Lois Lane. (As an aside, I was going to try to hook Dick up with SV version of Impulse -- do Dick and the incarnation of Flash after Wally have a relationship in comics?)
Summary 2:
It seems to Dick Grayson that he has always wanted Clark Kent, since the first time, 10 years ago, when Superman showed him what it felt like to fly without the benefit of a swing or a net. Yet, Clark has never wanted anyone but Bruce. Dick loves his guardian, but he knows better than anyone that Bruce is incapable of loving Clark the way he deserves. He knows just as well that Clark will never love anyone but Bruce. Then, one day, a possibility presents itself. What if Dick could go back--back before there was a Bruce and a Clark. Back to when there was just...Clark, and his heart was free to find someone else to love? Someone who could love him like he deserved. Someone like himself, who would be old enough to compete with Bruce on his own level.
Soo...insight and ideas would be welcome. :)
Yet, I've just plotted out two whole stories for my S/B fanzine that feature Dick Grayson. I can't even tell if what I want to do sounds interesting, because I'm so skeptical about whether I can pull off using Dick without falling into a kiddie trope and gagging myself on the tripe. lol
Do you want to help me brainstorm? If I give you two summaries, can you give me uses of Dick within that scenario that would be interesting to you? I'm sort of hoping that I will learn a bunch of little idiosyncrasies about Dick that I didn't know about that will make my writing of him more authentic, without me having to go read a bunch of source material.
So, if you are not doing anything today and Dick is your favorite character -- if you read these scenarios, how would you like to see him handled:
Summary 1:
Dick Grayson forms a plan to prove to Batman that he is ready to fight at his side by solving the mystery of the Metropolis Red-Blue Blur. He figures the best place to start his investigation is by following Lois Lane. (As an aside, I was going to try to hook Dick up with SV version of Impulse -- do Dick and the incarnation of Flash after Wally have a relationship in comics?)
Summary 2:
It seems to Dick Grayson that he has always wanted Clark Kent, since the first time, 10 years ago, when Superman showed him what it felt like to fly without the benefit of a swing or a net. Yet, Clark has never wanted anyone but Bruce. Dick loves his guardian, but he knows better than anyone that Bruce is incapable of loving Clark the way he deserves. He knows just as well that Clark will never love anyone but Bruce. Then, one day, a possibility presents itself. What if Dick could go back--back before there was a Bruce and a Clark. Back to when there was just...Clark, and his heart was free to find someone else to love? Someone who could love him like he deserved. Someone like himself, who would be old enough to compete with Bruce on his own level.
Soo...insight and ideas would be welcome. :)