[fanfiction] Everybody Goes To Harry's

[belphegor1982]

Chapter three :o)
Story: Everybody Goes To Harry's
Chapter three: Walking On The Moon
Rating: PG13
Characters: Trickster, Flash
Pairing: none
Genre: drama/humour
'Verse: DCAU
Summary: James Jesse sits on the top of a building, thinking of trying out his air-walker shoes for the first time, and the Flash stops by for a chat.

Man, Trickster was hard to write

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

Oh...I really like the insight that JJ's afraid that he'll turn into the Joker. (If you haven't seen the live action Flash tv series with Mark Hamill as the Trickster, you should try to track it down. His DCAU Joker is based on that performance, really OOC for Trickster.)

[belphegor1982]

I've seen a few episodes (okay, three :o) on YouTube - my fiancé watched it when he was a kid, but I missed it, so I was curious. I loved Hamill in this. Okay, it's more a proto-Joker than a real Trickster, but boy was he fun. I loved the costume :D And I know his DCAU characterisation is completely non-comics-compliant, but I can't help it - Comics-James is awesome, but I love the DCAU Trickster, he's cute in a (insert adjective here, 'cause my brain's leaking out of my ears due to too much work exams...) kind of way :D

[runenklinge]

maybe keeping the balance of the universe between absolute order and absolute chaos too.
awesome!

Infuriating people was his life goal, darnit
he´s an ambitious one, isn´t he?^^

“Mick and Sam asked after me? They’re concerned?”

“You’d be surprised. I mean, even Captain Cold dropped a word when the cops weren’t listening.”

“What?”
Awwwwww, his family´s worried

It’s a funny feeling when you’re a villain, realising you could depend on a hero.
awwwwww^^

astonished Harry, the only remaining person in the pub due to a lot of patrons running out in a panic when the Flash walked in.
Flash must be hell for business^^

Gotta run - got a pesky 5-hour exam ahead of me. Ooh, joy :S
good luck!

[belphegor1982]

Aw, thank you!! :o) Yes, James is a bit ambitious, but the way I figure, when you go into the business you've got to have ambition :D

Awww, his family´s worried
Yep. They don't get him (nobody does :D), he says things that could qualify as wallbangers (that "Bilateral symmetry!" one always makes me roll on the floor) but they care, in their own way. That's what a family is all about, really.

Flash must be hell for business^^
Fortunately he doesn't visit very often :D

[joasakura]

The "bilateral symmetry" line is still one of my all-time favourite lines in a cartoon :D

[flight_wo_wings]

Loved this! DCAU!James is such a sweetheart; it's always a pleasure to see him get some attention. And this was really well put together, as well. Do you think you'll ever write about him again?

[belphegor1982]

Oh, definitely, in at least two chapters more for this fic - he's too fun and so darn sweet that it'd be a shame :D Thanks very much!

[flight_wo_wings]

You mean this is a multi-parter? :D That may be the best news I've heard all day!

[belphegor1982]

Well, no, not really - each chapter sort of stands on its own, but is part of the same 'verse and they all go at some point to the same pub :o) But I'm definitely planning to get Trickster to pop up in future chapters!

[ivybramble]

Absolutely fantastic! I can hear the voice actors saying those lines.(And you were so much nicer than me. In my sadly unfinished and unposted DCAU!Tricks fic Wally wasn't there when he tried the shoes...although the roof was much lower.) And it was so adorable how happy it made him that his partners in crime actually care.

With regards to your music of choice - I'm torn between reacting with <3! and 'See what I have to put up with?' ;)

[belphegor1982]

You know what, Ivy? Your Wild Wild Rogues sparked an interest in Gold Rush banjo music :D Seriously, sometimes it just hits me that Internet is so great - I'd never have been able to listen to this music if I hadn't had a connection. Then again, I'd have missed your Justice Riders 'verse fics, and that wouldn't do at all! D'you have some more in store for us? :o) What's great now about that little song is that when I hear it (often in my head, 'cause I'm rarely without music in there) I instantly think of your Night of the Stand-off in Mexico and Hartley distracting the soldiers and taking care of James while Len Snart and his boys disappear into the night, whistling :o)

You threw DCAU-James off a roof with no working Trickster shoes?! Oh, you big meanie :P I hope someone goes to pick up him and offer him mushroom soup! Or possibly chicken soup. Or tea. But something! Can't wait to read it, by the way.

Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :o]

[ivybramble]

Aww shucks, you're making me blush. [There may be a couple more on my journal ;) I generally post them to Pipster 'cause James and Hartley are always there while Lenny and Co. are reoccurring guest stars.]

With regards to the music, fact of the matter is that between a good friend's efforts to turn me to the country side of music, Rune's prompts over on the Pipster Comm and watching a campy Western television show all in the same summer...I have a lot of twangy music on my 'Most Recently Played' List. (Including 'Oh Susanna' for Len and his boys, 'Buffalo Gal' for James (m'boy) and an anachronistic tune that shall remain anonymous for the time being for Hartley.)

You threw DCAU-James off a roof with no working Trickster shoes?! Oh, you big meanie :P
Now you know ;)

Can't wait to read it, by the way.
Thanks!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou! :o]
Nonono.Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

[belphegor1982]

Yay! Found 'em! And one of these days I'll read all of 'em, too, but not tonight because a 10-hour-long exam (okay, five hours yesterday and five more today) is a really long, brain-killing thing, and I'm just a little bit asleep now. Mixing up letters as I type and everything :P

"Campy"? What d'ya mean, "campy"? :D Man, I loved that show. It showed for a while in France after the movie came out waay back 11 years ago, and I liked the film, but once I saw an episode or two I was hooked, line and sinker - and possibly a little bit in love with Artemus Gordon :o) I loved his eyes. I also loved the voice of the French actor who dubbed him, because it matched him perfectly, but the thing was, it made him instantly recognisable in most of his disguises, so it was a bit of a shame there. Haven't watched it in years, but boy your WWR stories reminded me of wonderful afternoons :o) Incidentally, can you give me a hint to Hartley's "anachronistic" tune? I have no idea why, but I'm thinking Bowie - or possibly Queen :D

[shann1]

This managed to have a near perfect balance between cutesy 'aaaawwww' type fiction and the more serious, psychological type of fiction. Not an easy thing to do, but you pulled it off well. Admittedly, my first introduction to the Flash was through the live action T.V. series and later the DCAU so I didn't realize how very different the comics' version of him is. OOC as it was, Mark Hamill's Trickster episodes were by far the best of the live action show. I love comics' Trickster (James) the best, but all his incarnations are pretty fun. I also like how you addressed in-universe how people tend to mix up Trickster with the Joker. My one little qualm is that you implied the Trickster had been around longer than the Joker, which isn't the case of any incarnation (or even the actual history of the comics). The Trickster wasn't at all influenced by the Joker's career, and he came up with the idea totally separately, but he's still newer and younger than the Joker. Otherwise, it was a really great look at the mind of DCAU Tricks

[belphegor1982]

Thank you very much for the comment, and thanks too for the explanation on "snorgle" - my guess is that, even if I got the general gist of it, I wouldn't have found it in any dictionary :D Re Trickster and Joker seniority, I'll probably tweak it before I post it on FF dot net, because that wasn't the impression I wanted to give. The "way before the Joker had made the whole thing all fashionable" thing was because, in my mind, the Joker did begin before the Trickster (whom I see as rather young, 30/35-ish, at the most) but "fashionable" here means that the whole US of A know him and have nightmares about him, not just Gotham. Since he (almost) never tries (as far as I know) his bloody shenanigans outside his own city, I'm guessing it might have taken a little while till a teenage aerialist heard of him :o)

A huge thanks also on the "near-balance" thing. It means a lot. Went straight to that warm little place in my guts where I keep the good feelings for a rainy day :o)

[shann1]

Ohhh OK I see what you were going for with the Joker/ Trickster comment now. I think (and I could be wrong because I'm used to Canadian news where every major crime is reported nation wide) but I think since the Joker was one of the very first costumed villains his first few escapades would've been reported nationwide relatively quickly. However, once more costumed criminals started coming out then it would've died down to more local news. Your view of JJ's age is pretty much where I'd place him too. I'd love to read the comic where Cold and Trickster team up for the first time. I think they'd have a great big brother/ little brother dynamic. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that's why Cold puts up with Axel, because he misses having a Trickster around

[belphegor1982]

I'm not familiar with that website - these days, though, a lot of expressions I use seem to come from the TV Tropes site, so I know about words that pop up naturally from browsing the Web :o) I'm French, and while every really major crime or tragedy is also reported nation wide here, I figured that since the US are a federal country, the news would be first about state and only THEN about the States. If that makes sense. Sometimes being an outsider really means lacking in insight... although I'm always trying to work on that to close the gap. Especially language-wise. Ah well