GAH. Fic love for disposable teens!
Jul. 29th, 2006 03:06 pmDisposable Teens.
Go read it. Batman fic. Gen. Revolves mostly around Bruce, Jason, Dick and Tim. It's actually a series and it is so fucking good that I was actually whimpering when I reached the last (it's a WIP, alas) chapter. Long chapters, packed with action and plot progression but really easy to keep track of.
It's got some original villains in there as well including an assassin -- which made me squee because yay, assassins! -- and a crime ring in Russia. Why am I using this one entry to rec it?
It has snarky!Jason. It has snarky Jason and conflicted Bruce and angry Tim and slightly not-sure-what's-happening Dick. It has Bart and Kon being good friends and Cass being useful. It has Jason being a cheerful sociopath but unable to stomach watching a woman being tortured. It has the Joker being obsessive.
Setting-wise, it's got Jason as Red Hood but none of the Nightwing junk (I hope like crazy the Wiki page on Jason is inaccurate about what's happening to him), so basically, think about the fight with Tim. It starts from that fight but takes it differently so that it didn't end the same. It also makes what happened to Jason in Ethopia a little darker.
Originally, I was pretty worried about the original male villain guy that's the assassin mostly in case he turned out to be a gay Marty Sue but nope. He's cool. Cold, snarky, ruthless but not inhuman. He's got his weaknesses, he's got his fears and he and Jason interact perfectly to create the kind of dialogue that has me quietly snickering.
Read it. Go. I command you to. *happy little fangirl*
Go read it. Batman fic. Gen. Revolves mostly around Bruce, Jason, Dick and Tim. It's actually a series and it is so fucking good that I was actually whimpering when I reached the last (it's a WIP, alas) chapter. Long chapters, packed with action and plot progression but really easy to keep track of.
It's got some original villains in there as well including an assassin -- which made me squee because yay, assassins! -- and a crime ring in Russia. Why am I using this one entry to rec it?
It has snarky!Jason. It has snarky Jason and conflicted Bruce and angry Tim and slightly not-sure-what's-happening Dick. It has Bart and Kon being good friends and Cass being useful. It has Jason being a cheerful sociopath but unable to stomach watching a woman being tortured. It has the Joker being obsessive.
Setting-wise, it's got Jason as Red Hood but none of the Nightwing junk (I hope like crazy the Wiki page on Jason is inaccurate about what's happening to him), so basically, think about the fight with Tim. It starts from that fight but takes it differently so that it didn't end the same. It also makes what happened to Jason in Ethopia a little darker.
Originally, I was pretty worried about the original male villain guy that's the assassin mostly in case he turned out to be a gay Marty Sue but nope. He's cool. Cold, snarky, ruthless but not inhuman. He's got his weaknesses, he's got his fears and he and Jason interact perfectly to create the kind of dialogue that has me quietly snickering.
Read it. Go. I command you to. *happy little fangirl*
