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fishnets September 25 2011, 18:25:27 UTC

Original pull point was early Blackest Night because it was current canon and her own series wasn't around yet and... Robinson did surprisingly good things for her characterization and getting over the one millionth loss of her father, as close as it was to the point where she also lost David. I think Giffen did an excellent job and managed to write Hell the way it's meant to be in the DCU this time around, rather than a gag and I pull a lot from that part, as well, since it's less than "three months ago" from where I canon updated her to.

When I canon updated her, it was from her own series... which I'd never wanted to update to, but it was too tempting to have her port back in wearing a wedding dress. Poor Lassiter. :(

I think if I were to do it all over again, I might do it before Identity Crisis or just after Seven Soldiers. Maybe early 2007 or so. The entirety of her canon's pretty straightforward at that point and everything fits in its place, even though I loathe Identity Crisis and all it stands for. It didn't have Dini ( ... )

terra September 25 2011, 19:57:59 UTC

I can see why wedding dress temptation would be hard to resist.

fishnets September 25 2011, 20:27:18 UTC

Making Lassiter uncomfortable is her favorite, even if she has no choice in the matter.

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manlytear September 25 2011, 21:40:40 UTC

spoiler alert: vampire!Daniel gets weird.

I was honestly considering pulling Armand from the end of Blood and Gold just because it would be interesting to have him be like "okay I'm not so sure if I want to turn you into a vampire because I know that you'll probably end up sitting around Marius' house doing nothing but building model towns. :|"

But then I realized that I don't want to deal with the stuff he goes through in Memnoch the Devil/the end of The Vampire Armand, mainly because I don't want him to be all whiny about Benji and Sybyll not being in the City because I don't... care about those characters. ಠ_ಠ
So I'll probably be pulling him from the end of Queen of the Damned/beginning of Tale of the Body Thief.

girlyboywonder September 25 2011, 18:26:53 UTC

what the hell man i love your questions so much

CARRIE. I wanted her juuuust slightly less totally dependent on Batman than she is throughout her canon, so I usually pick her from like... 6 months to a year after canon ends. (Which, for the record, ends on a "new beginning" type note, so I feel pretty safe between that and the sequel WHICH DOESN'T EXIST knowing where it was headed and what they would have been doing.) So by this time she's very familiar with being Robin, and has had some useful (uh terrorist-type) training. I do let the sequel influence me in terms of admitting that Batman's next goal is taking down the government, but I try not to... put too much stock into it... because it's horrible. IT'S A FINE LINE I WALK.]
And I will definitely never canon update her, because that would mean making her Catgirl. NO THANKS. She's finally starting to grow up to that point anyway, with the costume change and being almost sequel-age, without having to have some horrible new costume and awful icons. (that said, I do actually like ( ... )

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girlyboywonder September 25 2011, 18:31:32 UTC

so... so awful... miller why would you ever

AND I LIKE THAT THERE'S NO EXPLANATION FOR THE SWAP EVER, TOO. once Batman slips and calls her Robin and she goes IT'S CATGIRL NOW, GET A CLUE and that's the only reference to the fact that she wasn't always Japanese businessman fetish material.

sob.

/uses terrible icons just because

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dontknowgray September 25 2011, 18:35:57 UTC

Severus Snape: Snape really had to come from the end of the books, because otherwise if you take him from earlier points he's in the dark as much as the other characters, and B, hasn't been slapped with Albus' death and told by the world, "time to man up and grow up". He still has to play a death eater role, but as you look at how he acts-- desperation building (begging Voldemort to let him go find Harry Potter, etc) so he can keep his promises to so many...well, dead people ( ... )