Comments | __marcelo: Fic: 398.2 (Oracle, PG13, Prompt #7: Both Sides)

__marcelo

Fic: 398.2 (Oracle, PG13, Prompt #7: Both Sides)

Apr 10, 2007 11:19

Title: 398.2
Fandom: DC Comics
Prompt: #7, Both Sides
Word Count: About two hundred.
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: DC Comics owns all characters involved. Not that Oracle pays too much attention to things like that.
Summary: There are hackers at Babs' level.

( Before 'O' was a callsign in Batman's channels. Before Dinah received an invitation too weird not to look into. Before a new legend was told among those who hear all secrets and tell none. Before Oracle, there was a young woman, a computer cluster, and a silent genius walking undetected through her alarms, approaching her chair from behind. )

philosophy_20 challenge, fic, oracle, prompt #7: both sides, oracle fic

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jarodrussell April 10 2007, 14:40:02 UTC

*Tch* *Tch* *Tch*

Very sloppy, Mister Hacker Man.

__marcelo April 10 2007, 17:06:15 UTC

Tunnel vision, I think. Spend all your life mastering electronic/information warfare, and you risk losing sight of the fact that you are still vulnerable to physical attacks.

jarodrussell April 10 2007, 17:21:04 UTC

Yup, which is a pity, because the fact he got that close to Oracle (not Barbara Gordon) is damned impressive. It's a good thing she knows how to use escrima sticks, because Oracle's kung-fu is pretty weak. (Which isn't a reflection on your story, just my general grouchiness when it comes to the Big-O.)

__marcelo April 10 2007, 17:33:25 UTC

*nods* For these fics I'm practically ignoring all of Oracle's unfanwankeable tech gaffes and mostly un-techie approach to things (e.g., 623.1 is a very un-DC story, I think), but even with those caveats, I do think Oracle isn't the DCU's best hacker - just the only one among the few at the top who works in the capes' world. (I'd love to read something about the DCU's hidden technophilic subculture, a la your fic series, or Hypervelocity's mecha subculture).

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darkdanc3r April 10 2007, 14:47:08 UTC

*snerk* what an idiot. Honestly, dude, did you think that just because she was a cripple she was an idiot? *shakes head*

very nice, _marcelo

__marcelo April 10 2007, 17:06:46 UTC

Thanks!

caiusmajor April 10 2007, 15:43:31 UTC

Nice! I like it when Oracle gets physical.

__marcelo April 10 2007, 17:07:51 UTC

*g* She was Batgirl. And *then* she was trained by Richard Dragon. People forget that at their own peril.

katarik April 10 2007, 16:28:50 UTC

Oracle pwns you, little foolish human. Oracle is *Oracle*, and you're only... well. You're only you.

__marcelo April 10 2007, 17:08:23 UTC

*beams* And that would be Rule #1.

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__marcelo April 10 2007, 19:26:51 UTC

Villain school *hearts a lot*