Comments | nokomis305: Fic: Like Flowers on an Empty Grave (Jason/Steph, PG-13)

nokomis305

Fic: Like Flowers on an Empty Grave (Jason/Steph, PG-13)

Feb 17, 2007 11:23

Title: Like Flowers on an Empty Grave
Characters: Jason Todd/Stephanie Brown
Summary: Kids like them weren’t good enough to be Robin. Not for long, anyway.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1143
AN: For Katarik, who requested Steph and Jason on my Valentine's drabble offer. Since it is my admittedly elementary understanding that Jason was whammied back into the ( Read more... )

fic, dc: stephanie brown, dc: jason todd, dc: jason/steph, het

Comments 16

petronelle February 17 2007, 16:53:23 UTC

This makes entirely too much sense. They should have passed like ships in the night, and I don't blame Jason at all for running away. Nicely done.

nokomis305 February 20 2007, 20:16:04 UTC

It just seems right that they should have met. Thank you!

bellonablack February 18 2007, 06:44:58 UTC

OMG, you like Arcade Fire (looking at music tag)

"As long as the ‘R’ on her breast was out of sight, it wasn’t a torment at all."

Loved that line.

You know, there is such a similarity between these two, and I did feel as if there was some projection on Jason's part. Especially the car line ;-). I loved how well he read her like a book. :-)

Good job!

-BB

nokomis305 February 20 2007, 20:23:21 UTC

I picked up Funeral entirely at random a while back and have been transfixed by its gorgeousness. Yay music love!!

I'm glad that line worked, I spent an embarrassing amount of time on it. :)

*grins* My favorite part of getting into character's heads is that they can project whatever they want onto the situation, like overidentification and jealousy and resentment and lust. And Jason has so much of all of that. <3 Thank you so much!

rainpuddle13 February 19 2007, 03:24:18 UTC

Ooh Jason! Once again, you're spot on with your characterizations - you make these characters come to life in a way they don't quite do so on the DC page. I think you're ability to turn a lovely phrase with with a well timed comment/observation.

nokomis305 February 21 2007, 01:08:41 UTC

Oh, kitten, you give me too much credit! *hugs* But thank you very much. I'm glad I got the characters right. *beams*

katarik February 19 2007, 16:20:05 UTC

Darn it, I knew when I asked for this that you'd make me cry.

Just... oh, *them*. Jason. Honey. You weren't forgotten, I swear, and oh *Steph*.

The line about her accent, his being gone, made me shriek. ROBIN. He's so clearly fascinated by her, worried for her, and *furious* about what she represents.

Baby boy, *honey*, she stepped right into the you-shaped hole in Bruce's universe. He didn't forget you, he learned from you, he just. He misses you so *much*.

Oh, yipes, oh please don't give me Bruce/Steph images. *hides*

Her mouth is the same shape as Talia's. Oh, *eek*.

I just. I want to hug both of them.

And how did you feel when you heard she died, Jason?

nokomis305 February 21 2007, 15:31:38 UTC

Jason is such a lovely broken boy, and he can't see what's right in front of his face. Especially when it involves Robins and Bruce and his own jealousy. And Steph herself is someone he'd get along with so well if they managed to bypass the big bat-shaped issues.

Um. The Bruce/Steph imagery was just sublimated Jason/Bruce? That totally makes it better.

And, dude, Jason on Steph's death... that's a thorny mess. I don't know if it would vindicate Jason or Bruce. Maybe both.

I'm thrilled that you liked this! <3 Thank you!

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nokomis305 February 21 2007, 15:36:21 UTC

*beams* Thank you so much!

They're so much fun because they're so similar, except for how they're different, and because they both have that attitude that Dick and Tim never will. *snuggles Even Robins*

I can never decide if Jason and Steph, upon meeting knowing each other's identity, would have kicked each other's asses or made out first. I suspect it would have been a little of both.