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  1. DancingPlague on Chapter 1 Fri 30 Jul 2021 12:40AM UTC

    Today has seriously sucked so I was thrilled to see you posted this, I genuinely just got more and more psyched like

    Email alert that Valkirin posted! -> tagged Tim Drake & Jason Todd <3 -> oh god it's tagged h/c, whump, AND miscommunication?? -> part 1/5!!

    And that's before I even started reading. Like genuinely made my night.

    Love your Tim voice here so much. Poor boy is suffering on all sides here. <3

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    1. Valkirin on Chapter 1 Fri 30 Jul 2021 12:56AM UTC

      Stephanie Brown, Professional Chaos-maker

      You just made MY night!! Thank you so much!!!

      I wrote the first chapter three months ago and it took me this long to figure out where on earth to go from here. I like hurt/COMFORT, which means I had to take all of these sad feelings and then turn something around from there. (Jack Drake is fascinating in canon because I've seen awful and great moments out of him. I am so interested in what could have happened in a different era of comics and that is part of why this ended up as a five-part story)

      Tim is a very sad bean here. It has got to be awkward when so many of your family/friends never dealt with their own biological father as a teenager. (It's also awkward when Jason assumed that Tim was being cowardly and a liar, when neither one of those are true, but that comes up next chapter).

      (Some of the miscommunication happened because I realized mid-writing 'wait, Tim has no idea who this is and of course he's going to assume that Jason's threatening his dad Jack Drake, not that this has something to do with Batman,' and that is the other reason this story has five chapters. I couldn't resolve that level of misunderstanding in a one-shot.)

      <3 <3 <3

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