Batman Beyond!drabble: would you tell me I'm not old?

[karanguni]

Bat!drabble is breeding into an Arc, much like the Bat!family itself. Takes off right after if I told you I felt ageless:

would you tell me I'm not old?

Rating: PG
Characters: Bruce, Terry
Warnings: Me n00b. Terry silly. Bruce caveman. Caveman steal prey and bring back into cave. P.s. Ted Leo I'm really (not) sorry for stealing your lyrics.

Comments

[zhiverny6]

*grins*

(First a quick typo, because I'm a freak. I'll delete when you see it. Bruce makes a noise like he's considering it. Running permutations through his head, faster than anything)

You know, I don't even want to say anything. If this is a series, I just want to see what you're going to do with this.

If this is all you do, I love it. These are nice: Gait, but Terry believes that word really only applies to dogs...taking a third bite (and a fourth, and a fifth, and this has to be a sort of test, right?... 'Loneliness I was used to,' Bruce shrugs. 'Household chores, not so much.'

Terry's fascination with the Robins, and his determination not to be one of the set. The competitiveness, the testing and pushing each other, it's all good. You capture characters well.

(I saw both of these just now, and with the first part had the thought that Bruce might find more productive things to do with his week than torture Terry. And that I am a dirty, dirty old woman.)

[karanguni]

Ooh, thanks for catching that typo! *edits!*

I want to know where my brain is going with this - it sure as hell isn't telling me! 50% of it is background writing mysterious Terry Fights for Backstory, and 50% of it is holding up placards screaming JUMP HIM, BRUCE, JUMP HIM BRUCE.

AJklsjflajf DC is so difficult to write for - the guys are all so dialogue-centric, and I'm terrified of messing Bruce up to the point of probably messing him up. *g* I guess I have to go get my feet wet first.

(Bruce is very productive. Very, very productive.)

[zhiverny6]

(Oh, damn, I thought you could edit comments. Did they change that?)

Yeah, DC verse is intimidating. It's... huge. I really only know the animated versions, and what I've seen around. I wouldn't know where to start with comic verse. How do you catch up on 70 years of backstory?

Maybe that's another reason I loved this show. It's such an original universe, you can just jump in, but there are all these references you kind of recognize, and you're following a character who knows there's all this ominous history, and doesn't know what it is.

So, yes, Terry/Bruce = good.
Terry Fights For Bruce To Stop being So Damned Mysterious And Answer A Simple Question = also good.
What the dog makes of it all = hey, why not
Fannish joy and creativity unsmothered by crazy commenters = much better.

I know, I know, I'm spamming you. Sorry. Sleep is good, too.

[karanguni]

(You can edit comments - but not after people've replied to 'em, just in case. xD)

Yeah. I'm happily donning my Pick and Choose hat, for the DCU. xD It's a fun pick and choose session, at least. He he he he he.

Crazy commentors are my favourite part of writing. We've created entire communities for crazy commenting, just because it's really fun to do. 8D

NOW I WANT TO WRITE ACE-POINT-OF-VIEW FIC. Every single line will start with, They're doing it again.

[scheherezhad]

Wow, and it only took me, what, an hour? to realize you also had this story up. Heh.

This one hits my domesticity kink from an odd angle that is patently awesome. I love Terry having to change his own massively huge sheets, and that Bruce cooks functionally but not well, and that he talks about Alfred more than anyone. And I possibly made flaily arms at this: Bruce stops, turns, raises an eyebrow, and says, 'Would you rather sleep in mine? and at the last few lines.

I do believe I need to friend you. ;)

[karanguni]

*friends back, with glee*

I think I'm in love with Baticons now. This is bordering on unhealthy. 8D 8D 8D

This arc is going to turn into some nightmare drabble graveyard. I'm too chickenshit just right now to write real!fic, but Bruce and Terry, they are forces of nature, they will not be stopped! They will not be tamed! They will kick the shit out of each other, too!

Alfred is possibly the least screwed up Batfamily member, ergo the easiest to talk about.*

*let's ignore the fact that he brought up a vigilante, let really unhealthy lifestyle habits go, helped five or more kids get more involved with Bruce Wayne instead of less, and the fact that he keeps a shotgun close to hand for when people drop by to visit, yes?

[beatrice_otter]

Please, please, please, continue this. Because no, there isn't any conversation Terry can have with Bruce without three layers of history he's not aware of, and you write that so well.

[karanguni]

Ask and ye shall receive... 8D

[ranger_girl0301]

I so miss this show! This was really good.

[karanguni]

Icon! *dies*

Thank you! ♥ Batman Beyond is full of tasty Terry. 8D

[miravisu]

Terry clears up his utensils and looks across the table. Okay, time to put the foot down (or in his mouth, or something). 'Is there any conversation I can have with you that doesn't involve, like, three layers of history that I'm not aware of?'

*grinsgiggles*

What a lovely finish. I like your Batman Beyond stories, they sure are layered themselves and yet straight to the point.

And I also find myself grinning over the fact that you have a tag titled "i have too many batman tags" :D