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runespoor7

[DC] Delusions

Sep 06, 2010 14:57

Title: Delusions
Fandom: DC
Rating: PG
Summary: Bruce and Tim never saw the same thing in the Case.
Notes: Terrific Table of Robins, Tim to Jason. Title from the Black & White story in Gotham Knights #34, the Delusions of Alfred Pennyworth.

( For a long while, when Batman was training him as Robin, Tim considered Jason his best friend. )

ch: tim, fandom: dc comics, batfamily, gen, ch: bruce, fic, terrific table of robins, shippy parading as gen, ship: bruce/jason

Comments 17

saavikam77 September 6 2010, 13:37:56 UTC

*wibble*

This was perfectly bittersweet. I just love the stark contrast between what Bruce might see and what Tim sees or imagines in regards to the Case.

runespoor7 September 9 2010, 07:47:57 UTC

Ah, the more innocent time of-- oh no, wait, they were still being perfectly angsty. Nevermind then.

Glad you like! :D

stalinglim September 6 2010, 13:56:10 UTC

This. I really would love to see a rewrite of the universe in which Jason actually took to Tim.

runespoor7 September 9 2010, 07:49:15 UTC

To be honest I'm not sure I could take that. Fics about it tend to involve more Bats being okay with killing people than I'm good with.

iesika September 6 2010, 14:16:12 UTC

Aw, this is just lovely.

That case is a hell of a thing to have looming over you.

runespoor7 September 9 2010, 07:50:42 UTC

Isn't it just? That's one of the things I'm glad DC never forgot about. Tim's delicious Jason issues.

kirax2 September 6 2010, 16:35:40 UTC

This is lovely.

For a long while, when Batman was training him as Robin, Tim considered Jason his best friend.

That's totally my head-canon, right there.

Thank you for sharing!

runespoor7 September 9 2010, 07:53:03 UTC

I think that's pretty much canon for the time period, actually. It's a shame that's a bit of characterization that got lost since then, I'd love to read Tim telling someone that he used to consider Jason as a heroic role-model.

Thank you for telling me you liked!

kirax2 September 9 2010, 12:39:21 UTC

*nods* Oh, I totally agree with you - like when Tim imagines that Dick and Jason are there, telling him to fight off the effects of Scarecrow's fear gas on his first mission.

Actually, I see it quite a bit in fanfiction, too. Pretty much any Tim/Jay story seems to assume it by default, but not enough of them deal with the fallout from the fact that Jason canonically tried to kill Tim multiple times...

runespoor7 September 9 2010, 12:49:21 UTC

Well, I guess that depends on how sincerely Jason wanted to kill Tim. I mostly remember him beating the crap out of Tim - and, really, contemplated murder is like foreplay for Jason.

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dariclone September 6 2010, 21:15:46 UTC

Aww, I love the way Tim has his own version of Jason in his mind.

runespoor7 September 9 2010, 07:56:52 UTC

I guess it was that or be perpetually an outsider in the Bat relationship between Bruce and his Altar of Guilt. ;)