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  1. Valkirin on Chapter 1 Fri 30 Jul 2021 12:14AM UTC

    Stephanie Brown, Professional Chaos-maker

    I have so many feelings about this entire era of canon and then I added Red Hood, because Reasons.

    Tim trying to talk about his kind-of-abusive dad would be so hard because I'm (mostly) going off of canon here. (Canon Jack loses his temper, destroys Tim's things while in a fit of temper, and refuses to listen to his son. Jack also blames Tim for things that Tim absolutely did not do.) Then I got all kinds of feelings about just what COULD work to change canon. Kicking Jack into Bruce's house for a week or so is the first step because hey look now you have to go cohabit with the guy that you threatened with a gun. (Canon, Jack pulled a gun on Bruce.)

    It's also canon that Jack Drake can be kind and understanding.

    So trying to figure out where I was going with Jack was a challenge and the reason that I wrote the first chapter three months ago and just felt confident about the ending today.

    From Jason's perspective, Tim has been hiding for a long time (he was planning to attack at Titans Tower but Robin hasn't been there in a long time) and then a liar (Jason knows that Robin was just out the night before, and that's made clear next chapter). Jason might have tried to attack Robin in Gotham, but Batman hasn't been letting Robin anywhere out of sight for a bit (because Stephanie very recently started as Robin).

    This is the saddest chapter, it gets better from here! But yes, this chapter was sadness and it took a bit to figure out how to turn this into hurt/comfort

    Thank you so much for your comment! <3 It is so great to know which parts of a chapter worked

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    1. vase on Chapter 1 Thu 05 Aug 2021 06:53AM UTC

      Honestly dealing with Jack based on what I've seen/read is made trickier cos the writers often have very different ideas on that constitutes abuse, IE, they have Batman slap his kids at times and treat it as, at most, him being upset and that's it? So when the writers aren't explicitly saying a character s abusive, like Cain or Arthur, (And even then they mess it up a lot) it can be tricky to parse what the intended meaning ism and how it should be interpreted.

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